Actress Quotes

I'm a very good sleeper.

You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me. That's why films like Fight Club were so important to me because I think I confounded certain stereotypes and limited perceptions of what I could do as an actress.

It took me ages to grow into being a woman, into being happy with it.

When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't go to university. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't train. Then it gets tiring. And you do get bored of it.

I enjoy those small chats you have when people come up and talk to you about your work. It only involves a few seconds of effort to be nice to those people, and I am very grateful for the kind words that people have taken the trouble to express to me in person.

All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark.

I also get fed up with the fact that casting agents and directors have this impression of me as being frail and petite. I find it very patronizing. I'm quite beefy and strong. I was a gymnast in school and I have lots of muscles.

Life is a full meal.

It's definitely an exciting time to be an actress.

It helps if you really enjoy your jobs. If you don't, then just think about the money.

I'm unable to ignore the gift that God gave me, so I'm going to sing.

Finally, the complexities of black relationships are being portrayed in television and film.

I've spent about that amount of time trying to tell the public that there was purpose in... my business, my career and the roller coaster ride... how the people I associated with worked together.

I hope that there are no persons that would want to think ill of me in any direction or any behavior.

I have a line of clothing at J.C. Penney's... and I'm lucky to be affiliated.

I considered Nat King Cole to be a friend and, in many ways, a mentor. He always had words of profound advice.

You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning.

The reporter claimed he was going to write the article from my point of view. Instead, he made me sound like a little idiot. It made me never want to do another interview again.

The kids all knew me from Wayne's World. The grown-ups knew me after True Lies.

That's always at the heart and soul of Disney's features, the feeling of a family values.

People want me to do the strangest things. They want me to sign their arms or chests.

Jason Lee is the most famous actor from Hawaii I can think of.

If there's a Disney animated feature based in Hawaii, I knew I had to be part of it. I'm very proud to be from Hawaii. There was no question the role was mine.

I'm not really this rock'n'roll chick.

I was very young. I thought I knew a lot and I really didn't. I trusted the wrong people.

I wanted to be a part of the Disney history.

I slipped at a bus stop; I went one way and my hair went the other. That was the end of my wig.

I play a female Indiana Jones, a professor who hunts down precious objects, like a bowl that belonged to the Buddha. They tailored the role to me: I wanted to be smart, funny, and to kick some ass.

I love to sing, so I just figured that I was going to sing or something.

I like theme parks. The fastest roller coaster I've ever been on is at a casino in Nevada.