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I was a dance major at NYU, but it wasn't working out. I had friends in the drama department, so I switched.
Charles Laughton signed me to my first movie contract at 17. He later asked my parents if he could adopt me.
The great thing about film is you start and finish. It's a journey that lasts so long, TV lasts a long time.
Before you get into the mind, you have to inhabit the physicality. Body language is a great way of speaking.
I meditate but not regularly. I wish I did more meditation. It's always my New Year's resolution to do more.
I started writing it, because it was seven years ago. But yes, that is the genesis of why I started writing.
You’re adored and you’re talented and the world is waiting to see the results of hard work for the last year
I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.
I enjoy feeling physically strong, so maybe I'd like to be able to lift a building and launch it at someone.
I've been lucky enough to kiss three James Bonds on screen: Pierce Brosnan, George Lazenby and Daniel Craig.
I really liked playing a vampire. Their hunger is insatiable. Even when they eat someone, it's never enough.
When I did 'Guffman,' it was terrifying. I didn't know what to say. I started talking, and it just came out.
I believe there's fate, and then you have personal choice. I believe we have the ability to change our fate.
I don't leave things like recovery to chance! I have learned from the best, after all - my father and uncle!
Stardom should be a discovery. You don't hammer it onto people's heads. You don't demand it. You command it.
For me, playing a vampire isn't about the fact that they're a vampire, it's about who they are specifically.
Fail fast. Fail often... The most talented people in the world have bad ideas. That's a good thing to learn.
My activities tend to revolve around crossword puzzles, reading and playing piano and games with my friends.
I've never had a manager, and I've had various agents, and, fortunately or unfortunately, I've been blessed.
I'm really proud to have been in The Craft. I will always be that chick from The Craft, no matter what I do.
I grew up in a little cul-de-sac in the suburbs and went to public school. I went to Costco on the weekends.
I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase.
There's always that feeling of 'Oh, God! One day they'll find out that I really have no idea what I'm doing.
The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
We do have a distorted view of our fantasies in society, but that's because we don't talk about them enough.
I'm a working actress able to make choices based on characters rather than what I 'should' do for my career.
I had to have a complete liver transplant. I waited with a beeper for a year and 10 months to get that gift.
You know when you eat too many sweets and get diabetes? Paparazzi are the diabetes of materialistic culture.
I have one piece of advice for those of you who want to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award: Start early!
The loss of courtship in modern days - like, people don't court anybody anymore. There's no beauty about it.
I think that's one of the most important gifts we have in television - the ability to heal through laughter.
I have not grown up on movies. I didn't watch much films in my childhood, but I was fond of animation films.
Everyone tells me that I have a very sweet face! I'd like to change that. I wish I had a more flexible face!
I don't know how you can live on the planet and not care about the environment. It's our globe, we share it.
What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet.
Life becomes easier when we stop aping people. Which is on all fronts, be it looks, body shape, or anything.
Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
Even though you're married, you're still individuals. You still have to grow and nurture your individuality.
Asian males have not been appreciated for what they are. They have always been dissed for what they are not.
I feel like I've been fortunate enough that I've gotten to meet and work with some really passionate people.
I'm not fashionable, and I know nothing about fashion, but I have my individual style, and style is eternal.
My dad's a surfer-psychologist, and my mother's an actress-fitness instructor, and we all practice Buddhism.
Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.
What I do for a living is re-create human emotion, and that's a pretty weird thing to do from nine till five.
It's not like I don't have my own wants and dreams anymore - it's just that the kids come first. It's primal.
I remember, as a young Catholic girl in high school, seeing 'The Exorcist,' and it scared the wits out of me.
Nothing gives me more pleasure than acting. But I don't enjoy going for award functions or giving interviews.
I feel things are changing now. Actresses are working at same pace even after getting married or having kids.
It's unconscionable to breed with the number of children who are starving to death in impoverished countries.
I usually have a drink before a carpet because I find them really nerve-racking. Usually a tequila. An upper!