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I love Valentine's Day! I love it, I love it, I love it. I like having doors opened for me. My favorite romantic comedy is When Harry Met Sally...
I love Valentine's Day! I love it, I love it, I love it. I like having doors opened for me. My favorite romantic comedy is 'When Harry Met Sally.'
The shooting of the guns, that was kind of funny, because rolling a cigarette and shooting a gun aren't like normal things for a 13-year old girl!
I really love all types of music. I'm really open to that. I really love Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake and some James Taylor and Elton John stuff.
One of the nicest things about living in America is the fact that sooner or later you are practically bound to get an award of some sort or other.
Working is the best thing for me because I'm borderline ADHD, so I need some kind of focus or I go a bit extreme. I need work to keep me sensible.
I was disillusioned by Hollywood at the time, but now I've come to accept that's just the way things are: it's called show business, not show art.
I'm actually really excited to be off of 'General Hospital' because I know God orders my steps, and this only means He has a new adventure for me.
I feel like I had a great career in a way. Maybe not the most successful monetarily or in other ways, but creatively, I feel incredibly fortunate.
In L.A., I like to surf. I went through a phase - I was surfing four days a week. I'm still not good at it; I still spend most of my time falling.
Maybe that's because there are so few women lobbyists; if they're there, it's for something they strongly believe in, not just for financial gain.
A woman came up to me after one of the screenings with tears pouring down her face and sobbed, You've defined my entire life for me on the screen.
You want to be a citizen of the world, and then life happens, and you forget to be a citizen of the world; you're a citizen of your own existence.
There were different moments where I was like, "Okay, this is who I am today." But, when I'm kept on my toes, I'm having the best time of my life.
Cats are sleek, cats are fast. Cats are... well... they aren’t mean their just wiley. And they will grab your attention in the most seductive way.
I tell my daughter Nyssa, 'You should respect my work, and I will also respect yours when you grow up.' 'Work is worship' is what I have told her.
I am extremely proud of my rags-to-riches story. It's fun to be a misfit or an underdog if you acknowledge your gifts and befriend your obstacles.
I really love Alexa Chung's style. I really think she gets it right all the time. I've never seen a picture of her where I didn't love the outfit.
I think life is meant to be fun. You find work that you love and you surround yourself with people that you love. Life shouldn't be too difficult.
I definitely think that movies have the possibility to be something positive, and are really becoming teaching tools for a lot of kids growing up.
No, I don't like legend. I mean, I don't like the category. And to begin with, to me, a legend is something that is not on the Earth, that is dead
Snow White has always been one of my favorite fairy tales growing up. To be able to say, "I'm going to be Snow White" - it's crazy. It's an honor.
You want your kids to grow with the right culture and values, and the toughest part would be finding out how to instill those values in your kids.
I would say that, of course, it is wrong to objectify women. But at the same time, entertainment should not be inter-mingled with commodification.
I still have my agent back in Australia keeping an eye on things there, and we are trying to find the right job which will bring me home to shoot.
I have to keep explaining to people that screen kissing isn't quite the same; it's close, but it isn't quite the same as a normal, real-life kiss.
I'm quite surprised at how out of control I can be on stage because, actually, I find I like to be in control in life. It's quite freeing, really.
As actors, we are accustomed to moving around, and it's always great to live and work in a city - you feel like you are truly living a life there.
Sitting down for the actor read when you first get together, it's like the Last Supper because you don't know who will be there for the next read.
I carry music in my head, so I don't need more. It drives me nuts that, in hotels or on boats, people seem to think you need music 24 hours a day.
The way that being on the job works on your adrenaline highs and the crashes that come after the adrenaline highs. It really takes over your life.
Throughout my career, people have totally confused 'Laguna Beach' and 'The O.C.' I think, in people's minds, it all kind of got blurred over time.
Sci-fi always runs out a little bit ahead of reality, right? Automatic doors in 'Star Trek,' stuff like that. It all happened, didn't it, finally?
I play characters that are pretty; I play characters that are sort of intimidating and confident, but that doesn't necessarily mean that I'm that.
Some of my favorite pieces were my mom's, and most of those she actually hand made. I would say if my style reflects anyone or anything, it's her.
Not everybody is comfortable with my ethnicity. When I first came along in the business, they didn't really like the idea of my name being Raquel.
I've always dreamt of having some sort of undercover job. I think it's probably the coolest thing in the world, but ultimately a very lonely life.
You can't really invest in your looks as the only thing because it's a depreciating asset. It's like putting money into a stock that's going down.
Farm Aid was started in 1985 by Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews as a concert to support small local farms in the U.S.
I don't know how to play the guitar, so having to be on stage in front of people doing something you don't really know how to do, it's terrifying.
You just never know who's going to have chemistry. You can put two of the sexiest people in the world together, and they could be completely flat.
'Gods of Wheat Street' has been described as an Aboriginal 'Neighbours' or 'Home and Away.' But on set, we were calling it 'Black to the Rafters.'
But most of what I've learned about acting - and a lot of what I've learned about life in the past seven years - was taught to me by Robert Altman
Media is a powerful thing, and you see it with so many actors, where one role that brings them a lot of attention is sort of how they get defined.
I believe in binging once a week. This takes care of my cravings. I don't eat huge quantities when I binge, but I eat different varieties of food.
You have to be talentedly insecure in order to be a good actress. And then it's the director's job to make you more miserable and get a good take.
I think materialism has trumped a lot of stuff, but I don't think it has trumped the heart, especially when it comes to (a person's) last thought.
I feel I am lucky. I am grateful for this life that God has given me. I am happy, as I am getting to do work that I want to do and enjoy doing it.
It's unfortunate when people say you can't wear skirts or do item numbers, or a girl can't dress in a certain way. Are we going back to dark ages?
When someone pushes you down you must get up and stand on your own two feet even if your scared to do it. Only you can set limits to your success.