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I love to hand sew. I sometimes make clothing for my children, which of course they grow out of in a matter of minutes. I thoroughly love it.
When I go gray, I'm not going to be able to see it that much. I won't be salt and pepper: I'll be like salt and the white pepper you can buy.
I say no to photographs. When people take my picture, I feel like they've taken a piece of me, and I can't get that back. It's soul-draining.
My cats I have Luna who's just had kittens recently and we called one of them Dumbledore. They're nice but they're not like their characters.
One of my favorite comedies is 'Groundhog Day' and 'Scrooged.' I love Bill Murray, and I think he's a great example of an actor who is funny.
You can't make a rule about it. The minute you make a rule, it's like putting your wedding pictures in 'In Style' magazine - you're divorced.
Getting stuck in a plane for four hours on the tarmac on the hottest day of summer in Italy - it was like being trapped in a boiling tin can.
My mom always said fighting with me as a kid was like going to court. I'm trying to realize that being right is not the most important thing.
I usually just have one cat. It is difficult, but I have my one cat that he'll travel with me if it's appropriate, if I'm not going overseas.
But I love being scared. I think you're brave only when you do things that scare you. I've always used fear as a motivator. I'm not sure why.
Unfortunately, as obsessed as I am with all of those Grimm's slash Disney princesses, I do think women have evolved socially in so many ways.
I was always sad as a child, for as long as I can think back. I hated crowds of people, and used to sit in a corner by myself, just thinking.
There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.
Before Darwin, our world was very religious. People saw altruism as something given by God for us to be good so that we could go to Paradise.
We can't forbid women from going to the beach because of a costume, even if it is rightly seen as neo-fundamentalist, backward, and shocking.
The truth is that I love my baby to bits, but the rest of it sucked. Pregnancy was the biggest killer for me. I hated it - I hated being fat.
My husband calls me a ginger every single day of my life, so that I'm completely used to it, and I've come to see it as a term of endearment.
No, my husband Jason is the sweetest, kindest, most secure man I know. Jason knows he's had my heart for over 14 years, and it's his forever.
People used to always ask, and I would say I wanted to be an actress. When they would ask why, I would say because my mother has so much fun.
When I went from girl body to woman body and all of a sudden I had tits and hips and a little tummy and natural fat in places, I freaked out.
I don't know if there will ever be a day that I'm not wearing heels. I'm a very big personality, and I don't like to look up at other people.
I think we are able to keep active provided we approach our lives with creativity. I think the mere fact that we keep doing is self-creating.
One of the near-death experience truths is that each person integrates their near-death experience into their own pre-existing belief system.
I remember my mom being very scared the first few auditions. My parents are very supportive, but they're also very realistic, which is great.
I'd say just go with the flow. And I take my hat off to any mother out there who works full-time and raises a family as well. It's hard work.
I don't know where it's come from, but after many years of many different products, I feel like I can speak as an authority on a lot of them.
There's a book called The Women's Room by Marilyn French that was a really big part of my personal feminist awakening growing up that I read.
When I post anything at all on Instagram or Twitter, I get hundreds and hundreds of 'shut up' after I say anything. But it's all out of love.
When I was studying in London, I worked part-time as a waitress. I was teaching drama to kids. I did a lot of odd jobs to pay for my studies.
Below the 40th latitude there is no law; below the 50th no god; below the 60th no common sense and below the 70th no intelligence whatsoever.
A lot of films in Canada are subsidized by the government, and compared to a studio, the government really stays out of your face creatively.
Anyone that knows me knows that I get over things quickly and usually forget about it as well. Sometimes a good thing, sometimes not so much.
I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
If I could have lived as an actress in any period, it would have been the 1920s - I would have loved to have been part of that speakeasy era.
It was interesting to portray a character that was so far removed from today's world, but was also at the forefront of feminism at that time.
The actors I admire, like Ben Kingsley or Daniel Day-Lewis, they totally reinvent themselves in every part. I hope I get a chance to do that.
I don't believe in acting. I think that people in life act, but when you are on the stage, or in my case also on screen, you have to be true.
In my acting, I have tried to do this - to present to audiences a living creature in whom they can recognise themselves or someone they know.
I've been really lucky that I've been exposed to a lot of lovely, talented people who are not jerks and I would like to continue that streak.
I had never dreamt Id become an actress. It was destiny that put me in the right place at the right time and gave me the right opportunities.
If I met Jack Nicholson, I would probably get a little flustered. Not going to lie. I've watched his movies since I was so young. Such a fan.
I've had an amazing career and amazing blessings. But I'm an everyday person, and I have lived an everyday life, and I drive an everyday car.
You want people - I want people to relate to me as a character. I want them to go, 'That could have been me,' or, 'I know someone like that.'
My mother's family raised grains and crops. My father's grew sugarcane and mangos. So I knew more about the basics of farming than of acting.
For me, as an actress, one of the most essential things that I need to know is what do I want for and from the people around me in the story.
We stalk the truth as poets, sensualists, a duality, limited insanity. We labor in our muse, carving alphabets of experience into our hearts.
I think classes can be the most fun. And if you want to make it a social thing and you want to go with friends, then that's the way to do it.
I was really blessed with parents who never said I couldn't do anything. And now I reflect as an adult on that, 'Wow, they never told me no!'
Performers are the neediest people in the world. Unless you've been in that goldfish bowl - nobody can judge unless they've worn those shoes.
I would love to spend more time in Britain one day. In my heart, I still feel that I'm English, and when I think of home, I think of England.