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Quotes by Actress


"I tend to spiral out of control if I'm not working. I get panicked and don't know what to do with myself."

"You make sacrifices to become a mother, but you really find yourself and your soul."

"The sexy moments for me, I wasn't thinking of them as sexy. I was thinking of them as more specific to my character. So it was necessary for my character's development in the movie, so that's how I played it."

"It comes down to something really simple: Can I visualize myself playing those scenes? If that happens, then I know that I will probably end up doing it."

"I am an actress and acting is my passion... period!"


"If somebody wants to have plastic surgery, more power to them. I think there's a point where you go overboard."

"PETA has a proven track record of success. Each victory PETA wins for the animals is a stepping stone upon which we build a more compassionate world for all beings - and we will never give up our fight until all animals are treated with respect and kindness."

"Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has come neatly wrapped up in its penalties."

"But unfortunately, when you have a kid, you sometimes eat everything they leave behind. So far today I've had some of her leftover pancakes with peanut butter."

"We all have a common goal, and we know it's all for our future good."

"My mother had taken me to photographer Paul Hesse, who used some of my pictures on magazine covers."

"When I start a movie, the first day, I feel like a duck."


"The only two men I have time for are Barack Obama and my trainer."


"I prefer film and that's what I think I'm gonna put my focus on."

"Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology."


"It's great that I don't have to apologize about being over 26."

"I had just done what she does in the story just about a year earlier - I moved from New Jersey and came to New York and was working at a bar, and you know, trying to make it."

"Women are an eternal subject, which is a lot like being subjected, or subjugated, or a subject nation, even. There are comparatively few articles about whether men are happy or why their marriages also fail or how nice or not their bodies are, even the movie-star bodies. They are the gender that commits the great majority of crime, particularly violent crime, and they are the majority of suicides as well. American men are falling behind women in attending college, and have fallen farther in the current economic depression than women, which you'd think would make them interesting subjects of inquiry."


"I'd be more interested in doing a smaller, character driven thing, rather than another action picture."

"You want the best for your kid, but everybody's career is completely different in this industry."

"Money doesn't matter on a deeply personal level. It doesn't make you feel any happier. But of course I am very aware that I don't have to worry about earning a living or about those very important practical things that most people have to worry about on a very real level."

"No, I didn't quite know to what extent the football might be, but it was quite a bonus for me to try to learn new skills and to keep fit at the same time."


"You know what you are best at, and writing is just not my thing, but I like it."


"As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand it and would try to talk him out of it."

"Playing a fashion designer could be the bane of my existence because I am married to a fashion designer."

"David is 13 years my senior and has much more experience."

"Acting is really only part of my life. I'm addicted to it."


"I created the characters from what I read in the script. I decided how I should talk, accent, no accent, my own voice, or a created voice. Then, I visualize what I should look like."
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