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You may build walls in my path, but I will knock them down. then all your hard work only made me stronger, and all you have is gravel.
It's good to be on the edge, but I have never followed my mind. I have always followed my heart. And it has yielded the right results.
As an actor, I am only excited about doing good work - be it in mainstream Hindi cinema, Hollywood, a French film, or a Marathi movie.
It doesn't matter how your child comes to you. I've never felt such joy and such love. It's the most beautiful delicious little thing.
Have you ever noticed when you start getting happy, you say, uh-uh, I'd better watch out. I feel too good. Something's going to happen
Charlestoning is hard. People were fit in the '20s to be able to do that. I guess they didn't sit in front of their computers all day.
It is hard to date anywhere... I think you just get a little older and hopefully a clearer idea of who you - I don't know. It is hard.
I'm a big fan of being scared I like being scared. I like being involved in a film that will make audiences scared, that intrigues me.
I can't just react on the strength of an email and three pages of synopsis, and say I'm going to take off for three months of my life.
When you have confidence, that's what becomes attractive to other people and makes them want to work with you and spend time with you.
Hunting is a family thing for me, and it's a Texas thing. We have a lot of land in Texas that's been in our family for 12 generations.
Sometimes the most incredible shows don't do well because they're ahead of their time or people just don't get into it quickly enough.
Even though I don't necessarily believe in everything that's supernatural, I like being scared and I like things that are suspenseful.
I always want to do something I haven't done before and get to work with other actors, writers, or directors that I want to work with.
I enjoy classics, but classics are classics for a reason. I prefer to focus on the future. There are a lot of new stories to be heard.
I think the more experience I have working on films, the more I can shed that character rather than carrying around that heavy weight.
I'd like to be a weak, boring housewife. Because then it would involve more acting. It would be challenging to do something like that.
When you can stand over the clouds and watch them roll through the mountains below you, it shifts absolutely everything in your brain.
I'm hoping to do more with my music. I did the stage musical 'Spring Awakening' recently and it reignited the love I have for singing.
When I buy something from Raven & Lily, I know that it is good, it is not harming anything, and the people making it are being helped.
I'm hoping to have a huge future in voice-overs. For years, people have said, 'I recognized your voice before I recognized your face!'
I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food.
Children accept their world as the world. I grew up like kids that I went to school with. Their parents were either shrinks or actors.
I'm not taking jobs anymore where I'm getting paid a quarter of what the male co-star is being paid. I'm not allowing that in my life.
That's the way it is: you have to show your initiative, you have to show talent and availability, and still have an awful lot of luck.
I would have been a nightmare in any kind of office, because I wouldn't have had any friends in any environment other than performing.
I love my garden. I love my privacy. I'm very fierce about it. I try not to let too many people into my home. That's my private place.
You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.
Life continues to be difficult. It always will be because that's just life. But I am so glad I have put some happiness into the world.
The Quaker upbringing was not strict, but it was frugal. Extremely frugal. One was always encouraged to give away one's worldly goods.
I know how to tell a story to a thousand people. Sometimes I don't know how to tell a story to a piece of tape on a wall and a camera.
I think it's always nice to have a film where the underdog comes out on top, doing their best, and surpasses everybody's expectations.
The 'Housewives' has helped me find my voice. I was always a people-pleaser, and coming into a show like this, you end up losing that.
The more famous an actress becomes, the less she's allowed to eat. Unless she wants to play people's mothers. And in bad clothes, yet.
Being a black woman, there's so many different sides of us. We are funny, silly, romantic, professional, smart, and we have good jobs.
I live in New York and it's the greatest city, but sometimes I want to move to the place with the porch and the lemonade and the farm.
Human beings have to create hope. They have to. You have to have something you hold onto as being a possibility. Otherwise, why go on?
Coming eyeball to eyeball with a hummingbird on my terrace is as exciting to me as any celebrity Ive met as a result of Downton Abbey.
When it comes to the work, I'm excited to see what people think. When it comes to the private life, that's when I don't pay attention.
I was still making movies so it wasn't as if I were working in a bar, but they were independent films that couldn't find distributors.
If you don't like your wrinkles and you think Botox or surgery is going to fix it, do it and shut up. But don't keep talking about it.
I'm happy to work in the States because there are so many different and interesting projects. I'll go wherever people want me to work.
The most memorable night of The Judy Garland Show for me was the night my mother pulled me out of the audience and sang to me onstage.
The truth in acting is that we are all hired help. We are a commodity. There is no difference between being an actor and pork bellies.
I remember once Robert Taylor invited me to lunch. I asked him, 'What is your ambition?' He said, 'I want to have 10 very good suits.'
I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it.
I know 'Vikings' isn't really based in magic, but it goes back to Old World spirituality and different religions, and a lot of voodoo.
I have my own past and my own personality. I'm going to relate to the material in a completely different way than somebody else might.
a diplomat ... is not worthy of the name unless he can say 'no' and make the other person like it - or at least not be offended by it.
Usually, I end up being the frumpy or mentally challenged or in 'Reasons to Be Pretty', regular. Or a weirdo. I play a lot of weirdos.