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A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.
It is frustrating when in an interview people say: 'Give us your make-up tips' and 'How do you stay skinny?' I think: 'Do you ask a guy that?'
In my family, I would never dare to think of being Paris Hilton! And to me, that doesn't look like a happy existence - it's just not who I am.
I can’t tell you what a pleasure it is to just put my hair under a wig cap and slap on a wig that’s already done. It’s dress up for your hair!
I can't tell you what a pleasure it is to just put my hair under a wig cap and slap on a wig that's already done. It's dress up for your hair!
Everybody I grew up with has incredible self-confidence and self-assurance. We were all loud, outspoken, wild kids and were celebrated for it.
I didn't even realize that I was interested in film until I was in college, and since then, I've had a very uncertain and sort of lost decade.
I think mental illness is a slippery slope to talk about these days because people are overly diagnosed, overly prescribed, overly everything.
I feel like so often I'm just, like, running around and eating in the car, which is, like, not good, or eating as I'm walking down the street.
'The New Yorker's fiction podcast I like a lot, where they have authors pick short stories by other authors that appeared in 'The New Yorker.'
It's a challenge to work a character's arc into a format in which you only have a very limited amount of time to grow and develop a character.
How can one change one's entire life and build a new one on one moment of love? And yet, that's what you make me want to close my eyes and do.
It could be so beautiful here if the Americans themselves had not made it so ugly with their big buildings, their millions of cars, and noise.
I love to go hiking. There's a lot of concrete in L.A., and I come from the Shires, so it's important for me to get back in touch with nature.
Neither my husband nor I am interested in mincing words. If I break something, for example, I have to announce it. I'm a compulsive confessor.
I always try to do something for my husband that's completely selfless, and something that I hope will rock his world in some form or fashion.
When I'm not working in a professional capacity, I'm writing, and when I'm at home, it's a way of having contact with people or communicating.
I've never been mugged, never really experienced street fear. In fact, I'm the one who gets into arguments because I don't keep my mouth shut.
This might be the first generation where kids are dying at a younger age than their parents and it's related primarily to the obesity problem.
The world is full of magical places, and the library has always been one of them for me. A library can be that special place for our children.
It's always the gay people, the outliers, who are the cutting edge, and god bless these people! And to everyone else, wake up. See what's new!
Carol Burnett, Gilda Radner, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus are my comedic influences. I like a lot of dudes, too, like Bill Murray and Will Ferrell.
I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.
I think it's a luxury when you love the thing you're promoting, and then you don't have to try to think of something, try and find some angle.
I think Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they don't sell out to the new ones
One of the things I liked about my character in 'Run' is that she can just disappear into the background if she wants, which is what I'm like.
I can read and speak Hindi quite well now and that's quite an achievement considering I didn't know the language at all when I came down here.
I strongly believe that whenever there's failure or you feel like you've failed, it's only just the beginning, and you can only learn from it.
To be a good actor, you have to be very smart. But to be a great actor, you also have to have a streak of, 'I'm an idiot, a complete lunatic.'
I think people have always liked in me the combination of being the underdog because I'm a tiny woman but I have enormous authority in myself.
My job as an actor is to cover and expose in varying allowance that - so that the audience can peek through the window to the people I create.
I'm a really good dinner party guest. I am always so appreciative, impressed that anyone has even managed to turn on the oven and cook for me.
I want you to be with someone who really, really loves you. A wild love! A crazy love! I want yours to be the greatest love story of all time!
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.
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 think there is no mantra for success. One just has to be positive and keep doing good work. One must keep moving forward and not think much.
I had never dreamt I'd become an actress. It was destiny that put me in the right place at the right time and gave me the right opportunities.
I don't look at myself as a Scream Queen, and I don't plan on continuing on this genre route. If anything, I want to go very different places.
I was supposed to direct a film on Gautam Buddha. That didn't work out. A pity, because the entire script had been written. It was in English.
Letting journalism be from the perspective of the journalist. It's usually a no-no, and journalists are encouraged to be completely objective.
It's lucky that my life outside of work is so mellow; I'm really a homebody and a hermit, so I don't have to worry about blowing my voice out.
I feel that we live in an age where everyone's trying to reduce, and soundbite, and cut it down to140 characters, and that's not what life is.
I don't want to sound like too much of a drama queen! But I'm not going to tell you, 'Oh, it's just so much fun.' It's work [working on film].
Cursing is heavily used in the Irish language. It's not a stretch for me, and I have no qualms about it. It doesn't fall far from the real me.
The thing about being an actor is that you turn into other people. You have to hide yourself a bit in order to let that other person come out.
I wasn't even prepared to be an actress. I was 17 when I came out of high school, and suddenly became Miss World and then I became an actress.
I don't think Bond does too much; he's just suave and sexy. He rolls out with his martini and fancy cars. Wow, it sounds like my life already.
I don't think that there's been one example in history where somebody has openly talked about their personal life and it's done them any good.
I can work inside the boundaries of Erika Murphy, or whoever the character is. It's fun to create somebody that's not you, that doesn't exist.
I don't ever read chat rooms, because if you've got sixteen nice things, number seventeen is always the person that just wants to be contrary.