Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Actresses - Page 16

I've been noticing gravity since I was very young.

I'm hoping one day to open my own shelter. I would be the person with the three-legged dog. I just love animals more than people; I really do.

Parenting takes a lot of creativity, and I embrace it fully.

You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.

Growth doesn't hurt. This is what I've learned. In the end, it doesn't hurt. It hurts while it's happening. But in the end, you know, for life, for parenting, and for the arts, it's not a bad - not a bad thing to try for.

I think everybody has the right to a private life.

I don't belong to anyone else but myself. I have to make my own decisions. Happiness is defined by me.

I want my children and my grandchildren to live in a world with clean air, pure drinking water, and an abundance of wildlife, so I've chosen to dedicate my life to wildlife conservation so I can make the world just a little bit better.

I like the way my own feet smell. I love to smell my sneakers when I take them off.

I really like where Tony Robbins says that we're all hypnotized to see beauty this one specific way, and it's true.

Maybe this is a way of gaslighting myself, but I think of it this way: In certain circles, my grandpa was considered to be one of the seminal directors of the 20th century. I'm never going to be that. So I might as well do whatever I want.

I really like grammar. And spelling. I was a spelling-bee kid. I'm hard-core about grammar.

You have to be OK with your own fears. If you're an honest person, you'll make mistakes, but that's when the most interesting things happen.

Women are half the population of the world, and yet there are so few female characters on-screen.

I can't tell you the number of people that are like, 'Has anyone ever told you you look like a blonde Liv Tyler?' And at this point, I'm like, 'Yes... yes, I've been told that.' I mean, she's beautiful. It's not like I'm not totally flattered by it, but then again, I think I look like myself.

If you ever want something badly, let it go. If it comes back to you, then it's yours forever. If it doesn't, then it was never yours to begin with.

It sounds like a cliche but I also learnt that you're not going to fall for the right person until you really love yourself and feel good about how you are.

I'm a combination between extreme insecurity and extreme confidence.

Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.

Animals don't lie. Animals don't criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.

I find it almost comforting to count calories, because it makes me conscious of what I'm eating. But on Super Bowl Sunday, I thought, 'Surrender to it. It's nacho time.' Then I ate nothing but Doritos all day.

Anytime I am around a male body part it is kind of exiting.

The things that make us different, those are our superpowers.

You can fix a lot of things, but you cannot fix stupidity.

I crave a cone of silence every once in while.

But my main thing that I would love to see as a fan of 'Glee,' like I said, is to really get into the character and who they are and what they do outside of school. I think that that's interesting. And then of course the themed stuff and the album episodes are all really cool too.

I feel ups and downs are a part of one's career, and this totally depends on how you take it. You can either be knocked down by the negative things, or you can take it in a positive way and learn from it.

I went to the University of Arizona. I stopped because I went there for two years and I felt like I experienced college or whatever. I'm over it. I like Hollywood better.

Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.

There was a three-year chunk as a teen where I should have been tranquilized and put in a cage.

I actually always had short hair as a kid, and it's really liberating. I recommend it. It's just very easy. I don't have to brush it.

I'm always like 'I'm too skinny, I can't gain weight, even when I try.' I'd like to try to not let that get to me.

You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes.

I think my least healthy habit is running around too much. And I think I'm getting better about it as I'm getting older.

I have always been interested in the paranormal and afterlife, everything from ghosts to angels. I think that everyone has that curiosity of the great unknown.

I am not a has-been. I am a will be.

Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good.

I think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That's how much I love Hello Kitty.

I love every aspect of being a woman. I believe you should celebrate who you are.

I have a couple freeloader friends, but it's okay. I know they're gonna come in with their arms flying in the air empty-handed.

It shouldn't be an issue that we have a black president. Gay marriage shouldn't be an issue. And women being funny shouldn't be an issue.

Music is really driving my whole life.

Anytime you see Beyonce, Jay Z, Kanye West. Anytime a young black person's doing good, that's motivation for everybody else. Anytime, anytime, it's motivation. Use that fuel to push you forward. That's what I did.

Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.

You learn to rise above a lot of bad things that happen in your life. And you have to keep going.

My upbringing has given me sympathy for the idea of isolation and what it is to be a new person in the room, where everyone else has some amount of familiarity and comfort.

I wish I was one of those cute pregnant girls who wear skinny jeans throughout their pregnancies. But I just gain weight.

Once you get over that peak of puberty, you hit a nice stride.

I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.

'The Unsinkable Molly Brown' was my favorite for me to be in because it was all dancing. There were other musicals that I made with Donald O'Connor and Gene Kelly that were wonderful pictures, and we had a lot of fun making them.

Crazy Jane is a complex individual who always has a lot brewing. She tries to hold things together on the surface, which is something that we all try to do. She uses these different personalities to try to cope with life.

Women have to write for each other; we have to hire each other.

I say, 'Be brave. Do it even if your ankles shake, because they will.'

I actually think that secrets are just a part of human nature and that everybody should have some.

I launched Little Lights of Mine because I was a young, 23-year-old new mom. I was home at the time and looking for direction. I started the blog as a place to just share everything. It quickly turned into a food-based blog where I would share all of my favorite recipes.

I don't look my age, I don't feel my age and I don't act my age. To me age is just a number.

If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything. You'd just ask for forgiveness and then you'd be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt.

You can be a thousand different women. It's your choice which one you want to be. It's about freedom and sovereignty. You celebrate who you are. You say, 'This is my kingdom.'

A crash diet never works. You lose weight one day and add it the next.

The most amazing set where I've shot 'Game of Thrones' is definitely Croatia, in Dubrovnik. It's such a stunning country with lots of good watersports there as well. Just a beautiful, beautiful place.