Top 158 Quotes & Sayings by Bryce Dallas Howard - Page 2

Yeah, I'm a little weird. I'm definitely a little eccentric.

I've always been, with acting, very hesitant to get myself into situations where I would be accused of nepotism.

I'm not a strong cook. I can do the crockpot; that's about it.

It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters.

I've done a lot of weird, otherworldly characters, and I think I'm at my best when I'm kind of in the woods running around screaming or depressed.

As far as what is the line between human and machine? That's a great question.

As far as I'm concerned: Chris Pratt for president! He'd save us.

My first pregnancy, I gained 75 pounds.

I created a fitness club with five friends. We have weekly check-ins and a reward system - and group penalties if one of us slacks off.

My parents have been together since they were 16 years old.

I'm obsessed with my parents.

When I was coming of age, I remembered reading and studying the initial ideas within the feminist movement. There was this idea with my parents' generation that in order to find equality, a woman would need to behave like a man.

Getting to have an opportunity to tell a story that is about mental illness and how it affects one's self and one's community was really something that really meant a lot to me.

I was raised in Connecticut. And I honestly wasn't aware that my dad was a celebrity until I moved to Los Angeles a year ago.

I loved being pregnant.

Actors create a fantastic lifestyle thinking they're going to be able to maintain it. Then they can't get work or have to start taking work that doesn't suit them.

Ours was a loving, nurturing household, but, at the same time, my parents' goal was to make all their children self-sufficient.

Of course any kind of film process has ups and downs and days where you're stuck and have breakthroughs.

My first time I directed a play was 'No Exit,' a play set in a subway.

When I started working, I just had my name be 'Bryce Dallas.'

As a teenager, I was perpetually grounded. I was stubborn rather than rebellious.

It's, like, sort of a dream thing for an actor when they're told to gain weight.

I don't know how many roles I can ask my dad to play in my life, but so far, father, best friend, role model, mentor and grandfather to my children are working out quite well.

I'm always trying to figure out what my taste is, what my likes and dislikes are.

When I was seven, I was allowed to be an extra in 'Parenthood,' which was amazing. But then I kind of got addicted to it, and my parents didn't want me to want to act. They felt that would be putting your kid in an adult world.

I think the success of the 'Twilight' movies, not just the books, comes down to Stephenie Meyer.

There's not a higher stake than someone having to face their own death.

My friends knew I was obsessed with these 'Twilight' boys because I love a dangerous love story.

Using the word 'bossy' for girls can be quite harmful. What is that saying - that being focused, being assertive, being the boss has a negative attribute? And I have heard that term associated more with women than with men. 'He's so bossy' - you don't hear that. It's a very subtle thing.

After I did 'Orchids,' I enrolled back in film school and did a million and a half workshops and worked with great professors and people, trying to hopefully get better.

I'm drawn toward filmmakers who have a very distinctive voice. I really appreciate people who push themselves and, therefore, push the medium forward.

If I was producing something, it wouldn't make sense to me to cast somebody because of who their father is because that doesn't put anyone in the seats in the theatre. I wouldn't go to a movie because that person's father is so and so.

Getting on a popular, long-running show like 'Happy Days' is the actor's equivalent of winning the lottery.

It's not that I'm a serious person; I'm playful and stuff like that, but I take characters very seriously and the work very seriously.

My parents taught me many of the things that people need in life to feel confident: practical things, such as managing finances, mucking out the goat barn, cleaning a house, doing repairs, mending a broken roof or a toilet.

Tom Hanks is fantastic - he is one of my dad's good friends, and he's very warm and funny.

You have to see, kid by kid, what their needs are and what kind of parent you need to be for them.

Actors are always nervous about not only hurting each other, but maybe perhaps hitting each other's face and ending one's career.

Kevin Kline is an honorary Brit.

Everything about doing 'Jurassic World' was a dream come true.

I don't have any friends who are actors through my dad.

I'm not an NRA member, but that doesn't mean I didn't appreciate shooting blanks out of a machine gun.

When I was grounded, I wouldn't be allowed to go on set. That's how much I loved it.

When folks get to the best of their profession, people are like, "Who am I to give a critique to this individual who's reached mastery?".

When people just become numbers, and we stop relating to each other as human beings. And we don't have the agency to make choices that can positively affect another human being. I was watching something yesterday where Justin Timberlake took a picture of himself voting, and he might get thirty days in jail because it's a new law or something.

I'm definitely not very insecure, but I have perfectionist tendencies, and I'll want things to be a certain way.

If someone down-votes you, or you don't get a like, or someone says something not cool, you project onto it the person or the people who have hurt you the most in life.

I'm sure there's a range, but I think everyone can pretend.

You can't become another person if you're not self-aware.

I feel like it's a subversive thing [a certain body type to admire] which keeps women preoccupied with something that doesn't matter, and takes up a lot of space, and prevents people from what they're meant to be doing.

What I wasn't used to was being in front of the camera.

You go on Instagram, and it's just not a real reflection of what people do, and how much pain people are in every day. So that's my mental change.

The Village did a lot for me, of course, because it was my first movie.

I've never, ever, in my entire life, been upset at a casting choice.

It's really about connecting to your own humanity and your own behaviors, and getting to a level of self-awareness so that you can have perspective and step outside of yourself and transform and become another person.

To be perfectly honest, Christ Pratt is one of the greatest human beings I've ever met in my entire life. He really is. Everything about him was my favourite thing. I also really love how tall he is, 'cuz I'm kind of a tall girl and often times when I'm doing a movie I need to slouch, but I could stand tall and proud next to Chris Pratt.

Girls can do anything, for sure. Even running in the mud in heels.

That is one of the hardest things I have ever had to do in my life, running through the jungle in heels. Because also, mud was often times three feet deep, and that was full on for sure.

I have very vivid dreams and nightmares, and my biggest fear is of some kind of dystopian future where we're advanced in every way except in our humanity.

Social media is a performance like any other form of entertainment, and acknowledging that is important.