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It's fragile what we know. It's gone every time we forget. Then someone has to learn it all over again.
Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting. They only think of stardom
When we strip away the clothes, the jewelry, that's who we really are. I walk around naked in my house.
I've grown up knowing that you put as much of your private life out there as you feel comfortable with.
Boarding school in Tring was a bit of a bubble that burst when I went to Hackney to go to drama school.
I would love to have children, yes. Maybe even adopt them. I'm not sure that I should pass on my genes.
When you're Judy Garland and you want something, you just pick up the phone and call somebody. Anybody.
My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences
The Oscar is not a curse. The real curse is that once you have an Oscar they think you can do anything.
As an actress, I get plenty of drama in my professional life. When I'm at home, I want a peaceful life.
I refuse to be a doormat to any man. I will never allow anyone to push me around. I am my own mistress.
Back in the days of Barbara Stanwyck and Bette Davis, beauty wasn't the be-all and end-all it is today.
Audiences will get just as tired of people wrestling on a bed as they did of Tom Mix kissing his horse.
It's the modern world, so it's pretty much the same. Everyone follows America, from all over the world.
I'm taking a break from music... everyone was so mean about it and it was so hard that I wanted to die.
It's fascinating how much of our sense of attractiveness and feminine identity is bound up in our hair.
I think we all remember Emma Peel from 'The Avengers,' the feminist icon that she was in the late '60s.
I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make.
If I love the character, then that's all that matters to me. It doesn't really matter what genre it is.
My sister has decided to become an actress too. It has ruined the close-knittedness of our family life.
I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.
I have a brass bed that's very 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks.' I got it on eBay. It's from the early 1900s.
Sometimes I do yoga, sometimes it's kickboxing, sometimes it's weight training, sometimes it's Pilates.
I always said, 'A blind dog with three legs could get a standing ovation for singing 'I'm Still Here!''
I do think we all go through struggles in life. I do think we're all going to fall down, along the way.
I told my parents I wanted to move to New York City and be an actress when I was around seven or eight.
I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a better actor.
To choose to be silent in any scene sometimes has more notes in my script than when you chose to speak.
You don't come to see a Greek play and not want blood and gore and depth of feeling from your boots up.
I always tell other young actors to go to school, or at least watch movies to learn as much as you can.
I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it.
My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.
I've always been a positive, optimistic person who loves life, and I've got a lot to be positive about.
So it's conceivable I'll do something insane, or more insane than Dawn of the Dead. If that's possible.
I was obsessed with 'Jesus Christ Superstar,' and I used to reenact it in my room when no one was home.
I'm a terrible person for carrying things around. I carry everything around with me, it's like my home.
They say that Madison Avenue will only pay high dollars in advertising if they get the 18-35 age range.
Friendship is not linear. It moves in all directions, teaching us about ourselves and about each other.
I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.
There's nothing like not washing your teeth or washing your face or brushing your teeth in the morning.
We like to believe we are in control of our destinies, even though we never are and we never have been.
In terms of having to uphold something, I don't need any added pressure. I need to be free in the work.
I think when any one kind of film does well, it creates a precedent and paves the way for more like it.
You think your friends have good taste in fashion, until they ask you to wear an ugly bridesmaid dress!
I am comfortable with technology. I am a private person and would rather not be on Twitter or Facebook.
You are seeing me now, when I am old and ugly; you should have seen me then, when I was young and ugly.
Universal love is the standard-sized socket that everyone can plug into. No adapting mechanism required.
I went to a strict school. Even if a button was missing here and a clip missing there, we were punished.
'The Wire,' I was such a fan of that show the first season - I think that's the best-written show on TV.
Sometimes I can think of nothing more blissful than going to Berkeley and reading Byron for three years.