Actress Quotes

I became famous almost before I had a craft.

I am proud of what I have got and I need an audience.

Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.

Everything has positive and negative consequences.

When you do bad things, bad things happen to you.

God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.

My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.

Women in Africa, generally a lot needs to be done for women. Women are not being educated, not only in Angola but my trip to Nigeria, one point I would make over and over again was that women need to be educated too.

There are people who are suffering beyond description. They are innocent people, they didn't bring this upon themselves. They are the victims of the sins of other people. And while it's hard to see, it's important to understand that these people exist.

I want a big career, a big man, and a big life. You have to think big - that's the only way to get it... I just couldn't stand being anonymous.

I get it now; I didn't get it then. That life is about losing and about doing it as gracefully as possible... and enjoying everything in between.

I love to be surprised.

I love Saturday nights with my best friend and a big bowl of pasta, wanting a good scare, something that will say, 'Listen, your life is not as bad as this. Your life can be so much worse.'

I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.

I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion; it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.

I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.

I have the best husband a wife could possibly have. He's the best father my children could have.

I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.

I hate being manipulated by song. Don't tell me what I should be feeling. I don't want cellos or violins to be telling me that I should be bawling right now.

I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.

I feel my fuller-bodied characters are all in the independent films I do, and in the studio productions, I have to work harder to dimensionalize the characters. And that's certainly part of the job description of an actor - that's what you're supposed to do - but you have to work harder at it in the

I don't necessarily need Hollywood.

I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.

I didn't grow up watching film but as a Ukrainian-American, music and stories and dance are crucial.

I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.

I chase after inspiring stories.

I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.

I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.

Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.

Faith is important to me.