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I could never write. I would just be too lonely. What's great about acting is, it's so collaborative.
The lines on your face are your medals. You've earned them, so why shouldn't they be worn with honour?
Any woman who marries an Italian must accept the undeniable fact that she has also married his mother.
Yes, yes, theater in general is just going to always be my first love, performing for a live audience.
You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
The great thing about doing a series about the Broadway community is that the possibilities are endless.
What makes an actor, I think, is a combination of a deep curiosity about life and a case of the crazies.
When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary.
In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Even at parties.
The happiest days of my youth were when my brother and I would run through the woods and feel quite safe.
Whether it's a good thing or a bad thing, the higher your profile, the more castable you are in TV dramas.
There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors.
I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.
There's a hunger beyond food that's expressed in food, and that's why feeding is always a kind of miracle.
My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York.
All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form.
I can honestly say I love getting older. Then again, I never put my glasses on before looking in the mirror.
I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.
I talked with Brian Stokes Mitchell, who agreed with me that if you have a gift there is always stuff to do.
I think in small towns like this one, whether you're a man or a woman, you basically do what there is to do.
I'm a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters.
It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.
I think that in big-budget movies there's a lot of other stuff going on besides acting, like special effects.
'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices.
I get to work with people I love who challenge and inspire me. And I get to sing songs that do that same thing!
I would LOVE to be in the Star Trek sequel! Yeah! I would love to! I better write that letter to J.J.[Abrahams]
People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
I was an adventurer, and I got married a few times. I kept trying to find a relationship as good as my parents'.
The show tune I can never get out of my head is 'Oh, What A Beautiful Morning' from 'Oklahoma!' I don't know why.
I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
I've got an overactive, analytical brain. I get frustrated, impatient, angry with myself. I swear at myself a lot.
It's fun! Just fun...I don't think of it as a cabaret act per se, I call it more of a gig, if that makes any sense
We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings'.
We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
I think if you want to get to know me, you should come and see a show. A person might get to see more sides of me.
I have done so many love scenes in the past that I have learned how to pull off a sexy smoulder on the dance floor.
If you try to go for a laugh, it's death to the comedy. Personally, that's how I approach comedy. But I'm no expert.
You get perspective on things when you're away from your child, and in a way, your love for them becomes even deeper.
When you go to karaoke with a professional singer and they really start singing, there's no bigger buzzkill than that.
I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.
In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience.
I think that's why we're always so fascinated with criminal stories because there but for the grace of God it could be us.
People think that theater actors are too big for the camera. It's like, 'No, we're actors and we adjust for our audience.'
I don't know how to speak to celebrities. Every time I talk to Alan Menken, I say something stupid and I have to apologize.
The musical based on my life would most likely be called 'Something Fabulous.' 'Something Fabulous' - that's a great title!
I know that Philadelphians hate New York actors passing off New York accents as Philadelphian when they are quite different.
They call David O. Russell the actor whisperer because he can get stuff out of actors that maybe some other directors can't.
I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than, 'How do you do? Love you! Bye!'
I'm pretty good at getting things out of the way, especially paperwork. I hate it sitting about, as it somehow weighs me down.
Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies.