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  • Sadly, in any industry and in any work-related environment, females always strive to achieve a certain amount of perfection, whether that be skinny or pretty. It's a constant, in our society.

  • I enjoy living life and I enjoy going to different restaurants and eating my way through a country and going to different museums and learning about different cultures.

  • Always have a backup plan.

  • Family Guy's got a strong fanbase, man, like no other. It's great. Everywhere around the world, it's pretty amazing. It's amazing that people love 'Family Guy' as much as they do. It's great.

  • I had a normal upbringing and went to public school. If I ever, even for a second, started getting a big head, I was brought back to reality pretty quickly. I was working full time and still had to fight for a cell phone.

  • It's amazing that people love 'Family Guy' as much as they do. It's great.

  • I love swimming, tennis, and I am taking up golf. I am not serious about it, I just go to the range and practice. Other than that, I enjoy going to the movies and hanging out with my friends.

  • I think there will always be a double standard between males and females, so I think that an actress is more likely to protect her public persona, so to speak, than an actor would be.

  • Confidence, not cockiness. Knowing who you are is confidence. Cockiness is knowing who you are and pushing it down everyone's throat.

  • I had a snowboarding accident. I fell off a horse. I've had a concussion, a fractured rib... I walk into walls. I'm always bruised up.

  • I think I have a good sense of humor, but I'm not, like, a joke-teller. I get the jokes, which is sometimes half the battle. Believe me, I have no idea why anyone hires me....

  • People criticize a woman for everything - like, I get criticized for how my hair looks when I go grocery shopping or the fact that I don't wear makeup when I get my nails done.

  • Teens are dealing with the same problems now in the '90s as they did back in the '70s, the only real difference is the clothes we wear!

  • People have interpretations of what you're supposed to be like. If you're unattractive and overweight, you must have a great personality. If you're attractive, then you must not be the nicest person. People are always taken aback that I'm easygoing but not necessarily stupid.

  • I definitely hope to attend UCLA in a year, and major in business.

  • I'd rather be in love and have a baby than have a movie.

  • I have an older brother who is 21 and attends UC Berkley.

  • Though she doesn't remember any trauma, she said that her parents told her she cried on a daily basis and her grandmother resorted to passing out candy so the kids would play with her. Though it was a humorous moment, Mila said, "I know, God bless her. She's an amazing, amazing woman."

  • I stand by every movie that I did. I don't regret any decision I made.

  • I honestly think being single's great. Being in a relationship's great. It's all about the timing.

  • The thing about ballet that I never knew about is that it's one of the most excruciating sports that I've ever been a part of. I say sports because they train constantly, every single day.

  • I've never dated. I can say this honestly: I don't know what it's like to date. But also, how am I going to date? I'm not in one state long enough.

  • The school was very supportive. The only class that I had to attend every day was biology when we were doing dissections. I would take an 8 a.m. bio class, dissect my animal, and then run to work.

  • Family Guy''s got a strong fanbase, man, like no other. It's great. Everywhere around the world, it's pretty amazing. It's amazing that people love 'Family Guy' as much as they do. It's great.

  • I am very much a creature of habit, and I have no life consistency. None.

  • Very rarely am I attracted to characters that are 'woe is me.' I'm not a big fan of women that have to be the victim and need to be saved, at all times. I don't necessarily think that's how it is, in real life, and I don't think that's how it should be in films.

  • Listen, I am such a nerd. I'm not one of those girls that goes, 'Ha, ha, hee, hee. I'm a nerd.' No, no, no - my brain mentality is the same as a 12-year-old little boy. The video games that I play, the things that I like to watch - I'm a Trekkie.

  • My mom and my dad wanted my brother and I to have a better life, you know, better education, better jobs. It was probably harder, much, much harder, for my parents. When you're a kid, you can learn a language much more easily; I learned English in less than a year.

  • I think that an actor is more likely to be forgiven in the public's eye than an actress.

  • I think that when a person is insecure about who they are or who they want to be, then it translates on screen, and the choices they make are all about perception.

  • I really, truly believe in learning from other people's mistakes.

  • Christian Louboutins are uncomfortable, but I screamed the first time I put on a Pointe Shoe.

  • I didn't get the Russian Jew part because they didn't think I looked Russian or Jewish enough - and, mind you, I am both Russian and Jewish - so I was cast as the racist Mexican.

  • It's not the most normal life in the world, but I screw up plenty of times to be a normal teenager.

  • I do not play games, but always just say what's on my mind. Ostentatious modesty - for fools. If a man afraid of your honesty, it means that he is not the one you need.

  • It's very possible that I could look like a kleptomaniac and a pathological liar and that's why I keep getting hired.

  • If you do put yourself out there and do things that are not safe, then you run the risk of being criticized for it.

  • You want to be honest with a character and play it truthfully, and you want to be genuine with your character.

  • I feel like every role you take, there's a part of you that obviously feels like you can do it. I don't know if perfect is the right word because I don't believe in perfection. I don't think it exists.

  • I am... stubborn, and I admit it, so it's OK.

  • I think playing coy is silly. Speak your mind. If a man gets turned off, he's the wrong man.

  • I grew up in the Ukraine 'til I was about 7, and then I moved to L.A.

  • I wanted to quit the industry when I was eighteen and finish '70s', finish my contract on the show and go to college because I was pretty convinced that after '70s' and after being on a show for eight years that I would be very much pigeonholed for something specific that I didn't want to be a part of anymore.

  • I don't even have Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. Why would I ever want to be viral when I'm not even on the Internet?

  • I think sadly in any industry and in any work related environments females always strive to achieve a certain amount of perfection whether they be skinny or pretty. It's constant in our society.

  • That is the biggest form of bullying ever, the paparazzi. Printing lies, making accusations, it's just bullying.

  • I don't live lavishly, so it's not like I have 20 assistants and travel privately and shop every day.

  • I don't think it's true that blondes have more fun... Trust me, it is not true!

  • I've always been a fan of Kate Winslet. She's very classy and a sexy little thing, too.

  • I love playing different characters and I love doing fun things and I love to entertain people, whether that be in a comedy or a drama. If I get you to laugh or I get you to cry I'm super stoked, as morbid as that might sound.

  • Whether you know who Denzel Washington is or you don't, when he walks into the room, you're going to pay attention, because he's just such a powerful man.

  • I wanted to just surround myself with people who I think are better than I am, whether they're actors or directors or producers, so that I could learn from them.

  • I'm a huge, huge, huge fan of Steve Carrell and Tina Fey for years.

  • It's fun working on the set... I usually work about 10 and a half hours a day, and I also study about five of those hours. It can be tiring, but it's fun!

  • I've definitely grown apart from a lot of my friends. Some of them don't understand the schedule, and it's not that I don't want to talk to them, it's that sometimes I am really busy and can't get back to them.

  • My goal in life is to enjoy what I do, and never to look back and say I wish I would have done that, and to go to UCLA, and to become someone great in life!

  • I'm not boring to be around. Something will always happen.

  • "Well, we knew it. Women can't sell movies".That's what it used to be like. "Well, this movie did well, but it's a fluke."

  • [Oz the Great] it's not like I had to imagine things, and as far as wire work goes, I had fun with it.

  • An actor goes crazy in a hotel room, gets trashed, throws a bench, breaks a window, and he is considered a rock star. An actress does that and she's sent to rehab and is thought to have problems and issues and can't get a job.

  • Another important thing to learn is that kids have a personality that has nothing to do with you.

  • Any man that has had a mother, has a sister, wants to be a father will find this [movie Bad Moms] incredibly eye opening and hysterical and funny.

  • As an actor, you travel so much. It isn't great for a marriage.

  • Children are f - king crazy. They're also suicidal.

  • Chivalry is not dead and you should be a gentleman. But if you are going to buy a girl a drink, buy it. Don't just offer it. Follow through.

  • Dads - and people in general - should keep in mind that we as mothers put enough pressure on ourselves. We don't need outside pressure put on us.

  • Detroit was really fun, FYI, in case anybody wants to go to Detroit. I love it. I did.

  • 'Family Guy''s got a strong fanbase, man, like no other. It's great. Everywhere around the world, it's pretty amazing. It's amazing that people love 'Family Guy' as much as they do. It's great.

  • Five inches of snow in five inch heels, you can't look sexy and you can't look like you know what you're doing because you're fall.

  • For me, my lack of patience in real life - I have always had very little patience. It's been very much my downfall in life. But having a child puts it in perspective. Very quickly you're like, "Oh, I need to learn what patience is."

  • Growing up poor, I never missed out on anything. My parents did a beautiful job of not making me feel like I was lesser than any other kids.

  • Have a baby, and you realize: The second you think you got sh-t figured out, you don't. It's the greatest wake-up call.

  • Having a newborn you have to teach yourself what patience is or you'll go crazy.

  • Honestly, after doing a TV show for eight years and a cartoon for more than a decade, you are, financially speaking, in a very lucky position where you don't have to work for the sake of working. And I decided to take advantage of that.

  • I actually live a very mediocre lifestyle. So I decided to step back and do things not just for the sake of doing them, but because I believe in them and I want to do them.

  • I am not a person of nature. I love to think of myself as one, but I've never even gone camping.

  • I came to America when I was seven and a half in 91. I think the first full length book in English that I read was Return to Oz when I was nine years old.

  • I can't imagine loving somebody more than I love Wyatt [my son]. I can't. I just don't know how that's possible.

  • I come from television where I feel like I'm in people's living rooms every day so it's not crazy for me to think that like a ten year old would know, but, I don't know.

  • I commend women who wake up 30, 40 minutes early to put on eyeliner. I think it's beautiful. I'm just not that person.

  • I decided to do a comedy. It's a good mind-set to go into work and be happy every day instead of being in a dark place.

  • I don't believe in perfection. I don't think it exists.

  • I don't know what it's like to not work; my family embedded that in me.

  • I don't necessarily put on an act when I go on Jay Leno or dress differently in public than I do in private. I'd like to think I'm the same person, more or less.

  • I don't wear makeup. I don't wash my hair every day. It's not something that I associate with myself.

  • I feel like every role that you take there's a part of you that obviously feels like you can do it. I don't know if perfect is the right word because I don't believe in perfection and I don't think it exists but I think striving to do something well is in every single part.

  • I feel like every role you take, there's a part of you that obviously feels like you can do it.

  • I grew up incredibly poor and went to school and had a very average upbringing.

  • I have a really sweet daughter. She wants to hug all the other kids. I didn't teach her to be sweet. It has nothing to do with me.

  • I have this odd tendency to be really sarcastic when I'm uncomfortable and I don't really know why but it just comes out and it's come out since I was a child.

  • I make myself laugh all the time. I think I'm really funny. I do.

  • I mean I think people prepared me for like a lot of green screen [in Oz the Great]. I didn't have a lot of green screen. They build most sets. When this castle was tangible, Emerald City was tangible, the forest, the woods was tangible, the cemetery, everything was there.

  • I showed sideboob. I don't need to show ass. You get one or the other. You don't get both.

  • I started teaching myself, taking a breath or a moment that's not overreacting or having an explosion. It made me such a better person. Let alone a better mother, but also just a better human.

  • I think all presidents should have teenage girls before they become presidents. If you can handle those hormones, you can handle anything.

  • I think it's important to just be a good, honest person and be true to who you are.

  • I think parenthood is just ripe for comedy. This just happens to be told from the perspective of women.

  • I think that certain things are funny and certain things are okay to make fun of - including myself.

  • I think that there are a lot of reasons to be insecure as an actress . . . But I don't really have a perception issue. I've been pretty good about being who I am in the public's eye.

  • I think that what kids watch now a days is different than what kids watch when I was young so I don't know. I think that it's up to the parents to decide. That's the truth. I'm not a parent. I have no idea, but I think some parents let a ten year old watch it and some parents wouldn't.

  • I think that you have to restrain yourself from googling your name and have other hobbies and desires and wants. You do a million things. You go to school, you write, you read, you blog.

  • I think the second you think that you're funny is when you stop being funny.

  • I think you can get away with so much more offensiveness when you're operating behind a stuffed teddy bear or a cartoon or something that's not real, because it's forgiven. It's like having a little kid in a movie curse - it's funny because it's not natural.

  • I very rarely get actually sad when ending a movie.

  • I was actually a pretty good student. My problem was that I didn't know what I wanted to study.

  • I was exhausted from fake partying. I was like, "I just danced for nine hours. Goodnight, ladies!"

  • I was really good at saying no. I decided I was just going to say yes to any opportunity that came, no matter how crazy. And it changed my life.

  • I went to college because I felt like I was supposed to. I graduated from public high school and I did all the things that I was supposed to do.

  • I will say this, though, in regards to laundry. I'll say, "Do you need to wear a new pair of jeans every day?" We've worked on this for the past year and he [Ashton Kutcher] now doesn't need to wear a clean pair of jeans every day. My laundry has gotten cut down immensely.

  • I'd rather work to live than live to work.

  • If I could go back to my younger self, I'd be like, "Not everything's permanent."

  • If I'm not comfortable in my own skin or confident in who I am, then I'm going to pick parts based on how people are going to view them, not based on what I find challenging or entertaining.

  • If the bear were to make a racial comment, it would be more likely to get a laugh than if a person on stage were to make a racial comment.

  • If you imagine whipping your skin every day, that's what it does and it's a full prosthetic piece.

  • I'm not out there screaming that women are drinking bourbon, but I think it's a great beverage as an option. I've got nothing against drinking a Cosmo or Martini. It's not like one is judging the other. It's just delicious and slow and steady, and there's something about sipping a bourbon that to me is very relaxing.

  • I'm still a 'Star Trek' fan. You never stop being one.

  • I'm such an exposed and aware person.

  • I'm very lucky, I do have an amazing husband.

  • In a marriage, you and your partner come first.

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