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  • But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.

  • I'm opening up my heart to the idea of dating. It's funny - my friends would always come to me for romantic advice. I know nothing, and things have changed since I was dating in high school! I'm really trying hard to spend this time working on myself.

  • If I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.

  • You're going to change as you grow older, and that messes up a lot of relationships.

  • The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy.

  • I trust work, directors - I don't live in fear. All good experiences have come from trusting the universe. There is no other way to live or love. Otherwise, you create your own prison.

  • I remember walking into drugstores when I was younger and seeing all the hair color boxes on the shelves and just being so in awe. Having the control to dye your hair and change your look is such a part of self-expression.

  • I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.

  • In 2012, I see the potential for people to come together, huge moments of political and social engagement where elections are part of the strategy for change, but not the end goal and not the only thing that matters.

  • A lot of people assume that women of a certain age who are not unattractive have no excuse for not having a perfect life. But you can have emotional baggage that is dragging you down like cement blocks tied to your feet.

  • I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?

  • When I have really blonde hair, I usually go for a more natural look, wearing way less makeup.

  • I used to experiment all the time with my hair color.

  • I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like, 'But, Daddy, he's a musician!'.

  • I love eye makeup. I really like doing a cat eye, playing with liquid liners and different colors of liners, like emerald and deep blues, combining them with black.

  • When you're a working actor and you're happy to be one, you can't focus all your energy on acting because you will go crazy. You have to focus as much energy as you can away from yourself.

  • Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition.

  • When I kiss a girl for a part, people think it's sexy. But if two guys kiss, suddenly there's a backlash. It's a double standard.

  • Believe it or not, I'm a big fan of patchouli oil. I know it's not a universally liked fragrance. I usually combine it with other essential oils - I have many mixtures I like.

  • I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.

  • You really just have to love the process. I can't tell you the amount of film sets I've been on where people are talking about Oscars in the middle of the production. It happens all the time.

  • I use the PhotoReady Foundation almost every day, and their lip glosses are fantastic.

  • Fear of carbs, of gluten, of everything - we've distanced ourselves from the beauty of food, the art of it. It makes me sad when people say, 'Oh, I don't eat gluten. I don't eat cheese. I don't eat this. So I eat cardboard.'

  • When you a darker brunette and have pale skin like I do, it can wash you out a bit, so learning to contour is really helpful. I think you can be a bit more bold with eye makeup to define your eyes, and the same with lip colors - you can go for dark wine colors, which I love.

  • At one point I thought changing my name might help with privacy, but that was before the Internet.

  • I actually think the subject of young divorce is pretty funny; I'd like to write a movie about it.

  • I think what ruins relationships and causes most fights is insecurity.

  • I think that women are more sensitive to emotional infidelity than men. I think men are more scared of physical infidelity.

  • What happens so often as an actor is that you retain the information about the scenes that you yourself shot and you obsess over certain scenes that you found the most challenging or interesting. The rest of the film kind of falls away in your memory or it fades a little bit.

  • Weakness is something we don't like to admit we have. We hold it against people, until we experience it, and then we feel more compassion for it.

  • I actually happened to be in Haiti right before the earthquake in 2010. I was there already with the organization I work with now, Artists for Peace and Justice, visiting the primary school that I had adopted, the Academy for Peace and Justice in Port-au-Prince. I came back, and within days, the earthquake happened.

  • I have very high standards for every part of life - my work, my relationships, food, love. I can't just pretend.

  • I've always been a fan of science fiction. My family, we all used to watch 'Star Trek' together, which is kind of a nerdy family activity.

  • All actors should experience public failure.

  • Power tends to get confused with repression.

  • I was a tomboy and I didn't have a bunch of brothers but I always wanted them and so I sort of adopted a few of my great friends to be my brother.

  • I have a great pack of female friends, but I also have a lot of guy friends. I believe that platonic relationship is entirely possible.

  • I grew up being told by my parents each time they went off to war that they may explode, so I needed to know how things like the gadgets in the kitchen worked.

  • I do not tweeze my eyebrows. I've been letting them grow out for years. I try to fill them in wherever nature has abandoned me.

  • In my work in Haiti, I've seen the hugely positive effects that happen when people come together to build something in the middle of the most desperate situations.

  • A good litmus test is that you should be comfortable with your significant other being present when you hang out with your friend.

  • In a relationship I'm a very loving person, emotional and sensitive.

  • From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.

  • I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to be shocked, when I was blond, that I wasn't stupid.

  • My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.

  • I feel like fashion should not happen in the morning.

  • So many people have said that to me, that what they really like about Alex is what she brings out in Marissa, and what this situation brings out in her, a hint of happiness and another side to her character.

  • I shaved the back of my head once and did the asymmetrical hair.

  • If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.

  • Cleanses and products don't make you look more beautiful. They certainly help, but if you reach contentment, you're set. My makeup artist, Melanie Iglesias, couldn't figure out why my skin looks so good. I think it's because I'm happy!

  • I enjoy getting gussied up for an event or date night.

  • I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.

  • As you get older, you start to really ask questions like, 'Is this the road I should be walking down?,' because every decision seems more final, as you get older.

  • Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.

  • I'm pretty low-key; you'll often find me in jeans, a T-shirt and sweatshirt.

  • It would be so depressing to be a model and not get to say a word. There's no personality involved.

  • Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.

  • When you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds.

  • I also discovered Pilates when I got pregnant, as people kept saying it's a great way to stay in shape, and now I can't get enough - it's amazing. It helps with aches and pain and, even for non-pregnant people, it's a great way of getting those lean muscles.

  • Trying to find this industry's tendency to celebrate the physical is a waste of time. So I'm happy to play the game. But I am also thirsty for input. I'm not a dunce whose only skill is knowing how to take a photograph, you know? And at the end of the day, I think it makes me slightly less replaceable.

  • Enjoy the pregnancy, not racing ahead and relishing the moment. I think people see pregnancy as something to get over with, but every stage of becoming a mother is really special.

  • The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority.

  • The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority. The gift of motherhood is the selflessness that it introduces you to, and I think that's really freeing... I think it allows you to put yourself in other people's shoes...the empathy that it slugs you with, being a mother. And I think it makes you a better storyteller.

  • I loved being pregnant. I felt unapologetically curvy, sexy, and intensely feminine. After giving birth I joined the ranks of millions of new mothers when I moaned, 'Why do I still look pregnant?'

  • I don't think anyone should apologize for being sexy if it comes from a genuine place, if they're not being forced into an objectifying situation.

  • I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.

  • Beyond my desire to boycott the torture factories, I am also way happier when I eat a plant-based diet, and I feel about a thousand times more energetic... I am really honored, and very inspired to continue living the vegan lifestyle that has been so good to my body, my animal friends, and the world we live in.

  • So are all the kids on the East Coast repeating school next year? Get ready to see a lot of hairy eighth graders. Storm brain drain.

  • Documentaries are a powerful and effective way of bridging the gap between worlds, breaking through to new audiences that wouldn't otherwise be engaged - in essence, not preaching to the choir.

  • I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette.

  • I could find David Beckham naked in a cardboard box on my doorstep and I would drop him off at the pound.

  • I got an internship with the casting director of The Girl Next Door. I would hold the clipboard and help them in their casting sessions and get them lunch.

  • Writers get to know me very well. It always serves me in the end because I feel I have a deeper understanding of the character and sometimes they really like my ideas and they use them.

  • It seems like a dangerous concept to have someone who's just your drinking buddy. Someone you have nothing in common with, if you're sober, is probably not a good, healthy friendship.

  • I was a handful growing up.

  • Many casting directors won't hire aspiring actors because you might be burning some chick's headshot under the table so she doesn't get the part.

  • In fact, I'm softer than I've ever been, including that unfortunate semester in high school when I simultaneously discovered Krispy Kreme and pot,

  • We need to remind ourselves of the beauty of human connection and of nature and pull ourselves out of devices for a moment and appreciate what it is just to be human beings.

  • I think there was no other profession for me. I was either going into an insane asylum or to be an actor.

  • I love kids with a passion I usually reserve for hot cheese, miniature chairs, and Prince concerts, but I feel no stress to reproduce simply because of a fear of withering eggs.

  • My life is about politics, a lot of about music, and a lot about things other than acting. I like traveling the world. But, what makes me want to stay in this business and keep doing this are movies when it's a true labor of love.

  • Ladies and gentlemen, Otis Alexander Sudeikis has LEFT the building! (I'm the building)

  • [We] have sex like Kenyan marathon runners.

  • It's really hard to get stories made that are about women. Not just women being obsessed with men, or supporting men. And it's really hard to get men to be a part of films that are about women in a leading role. I'm really interested in how we can adjust that.

  • Anything that becomes an obstacle in life is only an opportunity to learn and it's the same in any profession I think.

  • Not eating meat really keeps me trim....meat, and what's usually served with it, is a big calorie packer.

  • When you're in a romantic relationship, of course, there is a lot more compromise and you have to be a lot more unselfish.

  • Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks.

  • You're 30: You know stuff now. Your 20s were for 'ducking up,' as my auto-correct would say, and learning from those mistakes. (For instance, never again will I convince myself that sleep is for sissies and go straight from a party to the airport. You will not 'sleep on the plane'; you'll vomit in the security line. Go to bed.)

  • I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'

  • In a thousand years, archeologists will dig up tanning beds and think we fried people as punishment.

  • People have nervous tics they don't know about, and I would advise asking around. Ask the casting director, 'Is there something I'm doing?' I would see people unconsciously rocking back and forth. I roll my lips. I bite my lips and roll them.

  • The difference between romantic love and friendship love is that romantic love involves a lot of compromise. It is a very giving type of love. With friendship, you can be a little bit more autonomous. You are not expected to compromise, in the same way. Maybe that's why friendships tend to last longer.

  • I believe in a world where mothers are not expected to shed any physical evidence of their child-bearing experience. In that same world I believe there is space for exercise to be as much a gift to your brain as it is your body. I don't want to waste my time striving for some subjective definition of perfection. I'd rather rebuild my strength while dancing my ass off...literally .

  • Friends, haters, it's Twitter poll time. What do you think most holds back justice and equality for women? All thoughts welcome!

  • I love the writing process. It's something that I'm interested in personally and something I always do on every movie.

  • If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.

  • It was helpful to have the confidence of youth that came from a lack of desperation. I thought, 'If I don't succeed, I'll go back to school and study.'

  • I am a big music nerd.

  • People think that young people don't care about things, but I think they do care; they just aren't super interested in conforming to what older people think are the right way to do things.

  • I tend to go with a daytime look, pretty natural, but I always fill in my eyebrows - I hate if I leave the gym and my eyebrows aren't done; I'm just very uncomfortable with myself.

  • Oh God, to think that you only fall in love once in your entire life is such a depressing thought.

  • It's so important to have that independence. You know it yourself: Everyone needs evenings of their own.

  • If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.

  • I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.

  • I'm still a student of fashion, but I like hooking up with the people that really know how to make cool clothes.

  • I guess for my skin, I clean it and moisturize and try to drink water. How boring is this though? I'm convinced that it comes from within. If you're happy and healthy, it shows.

  • People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.

  • I feel like the luckiest child in the world because I got to grow up in Ireland. In summer is when you really grow up. During the year, I would go back to the States, and all year long really couldn't wait to get back to Ardmore.

  • We fall in love with one version of someone and we expect them to stay that way, but they never do.

  • It was so fascinating to be a part of this, because as the women took on these central roles that had all the good lines, therefore all the good laughs, all the great moments- the men, who had joined us to sit on stage, started squirming rather uncomfortably. And got really bored. Because they weren't used to being the supporting cast. It was fascinating to feel their discomfort, to discuss it with them afterwards when they said, 'It's boring to play the girl role.' And I said, 'Yeah. Yeah, ya think? Welcome to our world.'

  • Inspiration is the key to everything.

  • My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times.

  • Do some yoga. I never feel more beautiful than after I've really spent some time breathing.

  • I was just learning to be by myself. He seemed to really see me, see through the bullshit...He was so handsome, and he could dance. I thought, 'He won't be interested in me; I'm not a contender. He was so cool, so funny - I was such a fan of his and had always fancied his speed and his intelligence. I thought, 'I'm not beautiful enough or his type.'

  • As a woman who works in a male-dominated business - Hollywood, definitely, being one of them - I instinctually knew what that is like. You have to be strong and take care of yourself.

  • I think my confidence has developed over the years, in terms of the speed at which I will reveal how collaborative I want to be.

  • A real feminist doesn't apologize for her beauty. You can be a sexy, beautiful woman and be the smartest person in the room.

  • If a woman feels anchored to a man's plans, she may start to resent him for the fun she's worried she's missing.

  • Let's redefine scandal. Scandal is not who's dating who. Scandal is 1.2 million people living in tents in Haiti.

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