Robin Wright quotes:

Now that my kids are out of the house, I'm finally able to get to the classics I never read: Emily Bronte, Dylan Thomas, Joseph Heller's 'Catch-22.' It's endless. They're all in this gigantic pile next to my bed.

You have to do the work in your marriage, but it has to be laid on a strong foundation of love.

I think the inception of my interest in arts was when I was around 9 or 10 and I started dancing. I was really convinced that I was going to go to New York and be onstage in 'A Chorus Line.'

I'm tired of biting my tongue.

It took me a long time to grow up.

My son graduated high school and went to Haiti to work for his dad's organization and then extended his stay. It's incredible what he's doing.

We really enjoy entertaining our children with characters. We'll act out all of The Wizard of Oz together.

I just pray I can keep working. I just pray I grow old gracefully.

I secretly want to skydive, even though it's my greatest fear!

With 'House of Cards,' you really get the heart and the meat of drama - and it's a thriller!

I can't stop moving. I'm like this weird insect. I can't sit still in real life.

You couldn't pay me enough money to go back to being 20. So many tears; what a nightmare it was. It's much better being older.

Dark chocolate-covered blueberries are my favorite sweet.

It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?

The seasoned woman is going to offer a more seasoned character.

I can't imagine going back to long hair. Cutting it was the greatest thing I ever did.

It makes me believe in fate. In most cases, the readings where I've been really bad have usually been the ones where I got the part.

D.C. is more corrupt than Hollywood. It really is.

I grew up very fast as a young girl, but I grew slowly into my womanhood.

I'm not a practice religion freak. I didn't grow up in a religious family, but I have a faith.

My mother liked to buy houses, fix them up, and turn them over. We'd live somewhere for a few months and then move to another house, sometimes just two blocks away.

I'm trying to do the paleo diet. No carbs.

Just lying in my big bed with Frette sheets. Oh my god, there's nothing better.

If there's nothing for me to do as an actress, then that's frustrating. I'd rather go work at a menial labour job, where I can actually get my hands dirty.

When I had money in the past, I would always travel rather than spend it on big apartments or cars. And I still feel exactly the same way.

If you're the head of a business, there's a protocol that people have to follow.

I'm worried that the audience is being conditioned. That's my real fear. Because if they don't want to see wrinkles on the screen, if they actually fear looking at them, then it's only going to get worse. Those of us who don't want to shoot up and cut and sew, we're just not going be cast.

The older you get, of course, the knowingness of the truth - the ownership of knowing - is louder.

Famous is celebrityism, and I don't want that... I know that I'm not that. Everybody knows who you are. I can't imagine living that life, but I don't think I consider myself famous.

Hollywood is difficult to navigate if you have integrity, so I opted not to work if there wasn't enough to do in a role, which doesn't have to do with the role's size.

Maybe I'm a control freak.

That character called 'Robin Wright' in the movie called 'The Congress' has nothing to do with me... I've never felt that way about life choices, career, etc.

I wouldn't be a good model for any designer's idea of what fashion is.

If you're happy, if you're feeling good, then nothing else matters.

From the time I was wee big, my mother was one of the first members of Mary Kay Cosmetics. Women going door-to-door and letting housewives have their own business - that was really a breakthrough. It was huge.

The best part of shooting 'House of Cards' in Baltimore is eating lots of soft-shell crab.

I hate everything I do. I hate my voice. I sound like a guy.

What I'm looking for in people now is kindness.

People buy box sets, and they sit for a whole weekend with a computer on their lap in bed, and they watch two seasons back-to-back of a show. They are invested in the person within that arc or the dynamics of those people - the relationships - and it doesn't matter to them if they're watching it on an iPhone or a cinema screen.

You're never going to be able to delve into the character traits of a Michelle Obama or Hillary Clinton.

A great life is to be able to ebb and flow.

Even the busboys at the restaurants have a script to give you. Everybody is in the business.

If you get enough sleep, cut back on cigarettes and red meat, you look better the next day

I can't imagine going back to long hair. Cutting it was the greatest thing I ever did

My favorite designers are Levi Strauss and Fruit of the Loom

I like the whole package to be good, It's a rarity that that happens, so I end up not working a lot.

The word 'demand' is a tricky word when used by our gender. When used by men, it's part of their vernacular.

I always wanted to get out of L.A., but time passes, and you find excuses to stay.

I have Spanx on. Always! I have to wear them all the time!

I met an agent through my modeling agency who encouraged me to go out and audition for sitcoms, and I was absolutely petrified because I had no desire to do it.

Sometimes I think they should set up an asylum for people like that... a whole slew of paparazzi defending their positions.

No nude scenes. No sex-symbol parts. I want people to recognize me for my work, not just for being pretty.

If you get enough sleep, cut back on cigarettes and red meat, you look better the next day.

I'm not up there with Kate Winslet and Julia Roberts. I don't sell tickets. I've known that for a long time.

Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it.

My favorite designers are Levi Strauss and Fruit of the Loom.

I've always been a T-shirt, Levi's, leather jacket, and combat boots kind of girl.

I always loved to dance and move. I probably should have been a mime or something like that.

I have always been a good mimic.

Electronics companies are purchasing the minerals that come out of the Eastern Congo, and they are illicit; they're dirty.

Most of my memories of Texas are of mosquitoes, watermelons, crickets, and my brother teasing me.

Would I marry again? No. But never say never. Why marry? It's a beautiful fortress, but I don't need it.

I remember calling directors numerous times and saying, 'Oh, you should cast so-and-so instead of me. They're much better for the role.'

I think we manifest the very thing we put out. If you're putting out negativity, then you're going to retrieve that same sentiment. If you emanate joy, it comes back to you.

Sean's a great, great writer.

I'm the homemaker, and that's fine with me because I really like that.

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.

Is that romantic fantasy real? Um, after kids, no. Take the kids away, I don't know. Depends.

I run, lift weights and do yoga to stay in shape.

I never used to want rehearsals, because I was like, 'Oh, no. I'm more spontaneous. I'm a natural. I'm a one-take person.' But that was because I didn't have any training. I was going off instinct.

Everyone has the answers.

Learning what you don't want is how you know what you do want.

After every movie, I always kick myself for the same things-didn't do enough, not enough variation, not enough interesting choices, too bland.

Divorce in and of itself, and with children, is devastating.

I was technically a Valley Girl, even though I absolutely dreaded being called that. I really hated the idea that I was a Valley Girl.

I just love getting dirty.

I can't imagine having long hair anymore; it's weird.

I don't know enough about politics. I am out of the loop.

I like movies that make you think.

I loved Europe so much.

I know what I don't want.

Everybody f-king does it. I suppose I can't say 'everybody' because I don't know for sure, but come on...It's just the tiniest sprinkle of Botox twice a year. I think most women do 10 units, but that freezes the face and you can't move it. This is just one unit, and it's just sprinkled here and there to take the edge off...Perhaps it's not wise to put that in a magazine? But I ain't hiding anything.

I am not successful, in terms of Hollywood.

I could not understand why Meryl Streep, for example, is allowed to work while pregnant and I'm not.

I have such a little face.

I think I've always been a follow-the-leader with my career, or maybe waiting for things to happen. Now I'm like, I'm OK-I know the direction, whoever's on board can go with me.

I turned down a lot of things that were so-called commercial. You're coming out of one film, and then they want you to be in the same one.

I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level.

I want to be perfect. I don't want to fail. And you always fail.

I was technically a Valley Girl, even though I absolutely dreaded being called that. I really hated the idea that I was a Valley Girl

I would have made a lousy stripper. I'm just not very comfortable exposing myself.

I'd rather attempt something I'm not sure I can do

It makes me believe in fate. In most cases, the readings where I've been really bad have usually been the ones where I got the part

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that

I've always wanted to be able to let myself go over the edge

Most of my memories of Texas are of mosquitoes, watermelons, crickets, and my brother teasing me

My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised