Everyone is usually screwed up in some way and that is usually where the work comes in - figuring out how to make it believable and make it real to present someone's problems that you don't necessarily actually know anything about.
Junk food drags you down.
I read The Bell Jar, and then I read her memoir and her diaries, and a third book, an outside opinion. Just the way she made the pillows so neat on the oven door. It just seems to be the opposite of, if you're going to take your life, in a horrible rage it happens.
If you compare my character to the others, they were sexy with designer clothes. I had the nerdy outfit.
I'm picky, very picky. I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old, and I figured that was only one way to ever have any longevity, and that's to be careful about what kind of work you do.
Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you can handle, and if you come out the other end with some wisdom, then it's not such a bad thing.
What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.
To somehow shrink so that you might be more comfortable is a foreign language to me. It's a trait that I've never had. And that I hope I never, ever have.
I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker, and you have to stop all that to write a novel.
It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.
In performance, you don't always feel that sort of family bond right off the top. It sort of develops and grows over time.
You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
You may be a redneck if... you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education.
Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
When you think back to your first kiss, your hair is perfect and she was wearing a cool outfit. We remember it with restraint and we remember it with style. We remember it as idealistically as you can think.
I have not changed with the accomplishments. I've remained the same. If I had changed, great. You know, but I haven't.
I won $100,000 in Vegas, which buys furniture for my beach house. That takes nerves. You can't think if I'm wrong I'll blow $30,000.
One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full.
I have always followed exactly what interests me and never really worried about the money. And when you think about it, to be able to travel the world... on an expense account and do exactly what interests you, it just doesn't get much better than that.
I'd love to learn how to foxtrot and cha cha. Believe it or not, I have terrible dancing skills. I can do everything on the ice, but as soon as you put me on the ground, I'm that person that falls down walking off a curb.
There's so much of it you can't control. There is no handbook for how to conduct yourself in the public world.
The thing early on that you think is 'wrong' with you, that makes you not fit in with everyone else, becomes the key to your career as an actor. Start embracing it.
The key to staying together is making sure you guys like each other and need each other.
I'm having so much fun, because you know what? They cast a Star Wars fan in a Star Wars movie. Biiiiiig mistake!
If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you.
You have to have a lifestyle if you live in LA, otherwise it's deadly.
Many kids can tell you about drugs but do not know what celery or courgettes taste like.
You lose power in Britain and you are just Joe Public again.
A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
All that I can tell you is, that I used my humble powers to the uttermost, and raised my voice in behalf of Human Rights in general, and the elevation and Rights of Woman in particular, nearly all my life.
When you are finished with it, put it back in the first place that you looked for it.
You learn after losing quite a bit, year after year, that you have to continue to work hard, stay tough, and endure to the end before it's going to work out.
I sometimes think it's like a weird elastic band. The more tragic your work is, the quicker you snap back. There's a catharsis in telling a miserable old tale; you get rid of demons.
Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent.
I think, in politics, half the people are gonna like you, and half the people are not gonna like you, no matter what you do or what you say... It's like there are no right answers. If there were, everyone would choose the right answers. They're all opinions.
These few dollars you lose here today are going to buy you stories to tell your children and great-grandchildren. This could be one of the big moments in your life; don't make it your last!
