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The more you live, the better an actor you are, but maybe I'd like to do something else on the side. Something to pay the bills as well.
I don't mind getting old except for the pain. I have two new knees, so going downstairs is not perfect. Nobody tells you about the pain.
There are a lot of movies I feel good about. It was a great experience that I was lucky enough to be there in it. That's the way I feel.
I can change my mind and can learn other things. And anything I don't know, I'm capable of learning if I so desire or if it's necessary.
I thought, 'If I'm going to die, I'm going to videotape it.' So I got out my little video recorder and was taping goodbyes to my family.
The Eva Longoria who worked at Wendy's flipping burgers - she needed a tax break. But the Eva Longoria who works on movie sets does not.
My home is my castle, and I spend a lot of time nurturing it, redecorating - moving this and adjusting that, adding flowers and candles.
I have these huge, pointed ears. They're like three times the size of Orlando Bloom's ears. And I think he has ear envy, I love my ears.
I come from a very naked family, so that's just something that's not a big deal for me. I don't think it means anything other than that.
I think we've probably all read a word that we've never heard pronounced out loud, and we try it out in a sentence and fall on our face.
People think that the ocean is big enough to sustain anything we throw at it - its hard to get into your head that it's actually finite.
I was lucky that my mother had a very well-adjusted perspective of the world, and never pressured me to do anything I didn't want to do.
The things that prey on my mind in London seem to disappear as soon as I find myself in a different environment. Survival mode kicks in.
I dropped off my kids from 10 to 2, went to the library, and just wrote. This is my second career - I'm 41 - and I'm a terrible speller.
All the female characters in 'The Gifted' are stronger than the men. We're not waiting around to be saved but spearheading the missions.
I understand the joy of having a female actress like Charlotte [Gainsbourg] and watching her give everything, and be able to capture it.
I use Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream, £12, on my lips, and my arms if they're sunburned. I'm past caring that sunbathing is dangerous.
We're all complaining about diversity in Hollywood, but we've got to address the colorism within the black community of Hollywood first.
Steve Laurence is the only person that was on the first 'Tonight Show,' right to the end. He was a little high school boy, 14 years old.
Fostering is the most worthwhile and selfless act of love you can ever imagine. The children will teach you so much about your own life.
I didn't expect to win the Oscar. You grow up watching the Oscars on TV and you think it happens to fancy people. It was really surreal.
Way too high maintenance to be in a relationship with an actor. I don't need a man who spends as much time in front of the mirror as me.
If you don't fully take every moment and love every moment and every person that you're with, your life will be over before you realise.
I can understand the dilemma of growing up in a bubble, and then not knowing what to do when unemployment beckons and reality bursts in.
I dont know what the secret to longevity as an actress is. Its more than talent and beauty. Maybe its the audience seeing itself in you.
I do an international beauty pageant called Queen of the Universe for UNESCO, and what we do is we build kindergartens around the world.
When I first started acting, and we would all sit down and talk about Shakespeare and how great it was. I thought well, I suppose it is.
Don't you get a swollen head. There's always someone who could come and do what you do, maybe even better, so be grateful and work hard.
You just don't know in life. Life knocks you about and pushes you over boundaries. But be ready. Do your homework; that's all I can say.
Because of the wealth of fine music spread through the film, working on it held all the fun and excitement of attending a great concert.
On 'Sunny,' the main actors are adults, and we're all friends, and we all have the same sense of humor, so there's a lot of improvising.
I always look at things half full and definitely see a change in how things are going as far as black actresses and their opportunities.
I think that there are many different ways of getting and staying sober. Like religion, I just don't think that one way is the only way.
When I had my daughter, Louisanna, two and a half years ago, I started recording every funny or sweet thing she said or did on my phone.
I was being honest - I have nothing to hide. All I do, all the time, with everybody, is tell them what I am thinking, what I am feeling.
The Twenties outfits are all about freedom and loose, flowing lines, whereas in 'Cinderella,' I had to wear corsets and big huge skirts.
When I was 17 I interned at a school, and it was the most exhausting, difficult thing I've ever done, with all these screaming children.
It's great to have something to dress up for. You know, I spent three years in slacks at drama school, so now I like putting a dress on.
How you choose to present yourself to the world shows what's meaningful to you - and what you want others to think is meaningful to you.
I just think 'Broad City' - Comedy Central's answer to 'Girls' - is the best thing that's been put on television in years. It's amazing.
It's great to have female characters that have depth that you can explore instead of being the decoration or the girlfriend or the wife.
The kind of acting I love is when you watch and you discover what you think perhaps you weren't supposed to see: the chink in the armor.
I'm beginning to appreciate the value of naps. Naps are wonderful, aren't they? Sometimes now I have to take a nap to get ready for bed.
It's not common for a woman on television, especially if she's the mom of the family, to be funny. She's usually a straight man or foil.
If there's something really, really bothering me about a script, then I'll say something, but otherwise I find my answers in the script.
When I was a child, I went to stage school three times a week in the evenings - singing, ballet, tap, modern and acting, and I loved it.
The Asia and the Pacific region is facing an epidemic of road death and injury, but we also have innovative Asian road safety solutions.
If you chose to be with an abusive man, a powerful, abusive man, it reflects something about who you are and what you want for yourself.
When you play a real person, you feel a sense of responsibility that obviously you don't feel when you're playing a fictional character.
Isn't it lovely to know that even the great Sherlock Holmes, the quirky and genius Sherlock Holmes, is vulnerable to love as we all are?