Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Actresses - Page 20

I don't have pet peeves; I have whole kennels of irritation.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

Poop humor is fun. If you do the toilet scenes well and commit to them, they can be really, really powerful.

It is really hard when you spend your life living out of a suitcase. But it really does weed out superficial people - if someone is still with you after the second movie, then they're probably a good one! I like to trust people in general - it's the southern girl in me.

Junior high is so much worse than high school because at least in high school different is more accepted, celebrated actually: all the girls with blue hair and gothic Hello Kitty backpacks.

I'm thankful for my family's health, that everybody's healthy. That's something that can be taken for granted, so I'm grateful for that.

When I was going through sad times, I'd watch 'Cheers' at the end of the day to make me feel better.

So often animals come into shelters where their owners have passed away. And they've been perfect pets for most of their lives. So there's an adult animal sitting in a cage that's completely trained, sleeps through the night, is past that puppy stage.

You get to choose what monsters you want to slay. I'm sorry to say this again, but let's face it - the Force is with you.

I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.

Every time I start feeling sexy I trip.

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

Ultimately, I believe the only secret to a happy marriage is choosing the right person. Life is a series of choices, right?

Just a touch of eyeliner and red lips is glamorous.

I think being boring is just the worst sin of all time.

I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it.

The discipline that ballet requires is obsessive. And only the ones who dedicate their whole lives are able to make it. Your toenails fall off and you peel them away and then you're asked to dance again and keep smiling. I wanted to become a professional ballet dancer.

I love my shape because I work really hard at it. I honor my body by working out and seeing what it can do.

The real terrorist threats are George W. Bush and his band of brown-shirted thugs.

Running through airports with pounds of luggage - that's a good workout.

My parents aren't married. And one of the reasons why they never got married is because they had been married before, and they liked it the way it was. They didn't feel like they needed a piece of paper to be committed. So for me, I know that marriage is not a golden ticket.

Love is suffering. One side always loves more.

I think my generation is obsessed with instant gratification. We want everything now, now, now.

That's what I love about dance. It makes you happy, fully happy.

I wanted to live in the suburbs and have a white picket fence and my own bedroom. And a staircase - I thought having a staircase meant that you were a normal family. I thought somehow if you could transplant us to the suburbs, we would become a normal family. But in retrospect, I'm so grateful I grew up in the Chelsea.

I love being busy, and I love having a lot going on; it's exciting.

My mom and my dad wanted my brother and I to have a better life, you know, better education, better jobs. It was probably harder, much, much harder, for my parents. When you're a kid, you can learn a language much more easily; I learned English in less than a year.

Behaving like a princess is work. It's not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It's more about how you are inside.

New York is who I am.

I think that ageism is a cultural illness; it's not a personal illness.

I think romance is anything honest. As long as it's honest, it's so disarming.

I don't always feel fierce and fearless, but I do feel like I'm a rock star at being human.

If you make the decision to send your kid to public school don't even look at private schools. Just shut the door. Just turn off the TV. And then you don't even have to worry about preschool. You have to worry about what's good for your kid, but you don't have to worry about how to position yourself.

The fact is that young people are going to have sex whether you like it or not.

Toni Collette has been a huge influence. She was my absolute number one idol, and then I got 'United States of Tara.' I was pinching myself. I couldn't believe the first day I was on set, and I got pages of dialogue of real stuff to do with her.

I love Ireland. I feel very at peace there. It's just magical and beautiful.

I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.

Don't ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It's too short, and you're too special.

Sometimes I want to bury myself in bed, and I don't want anyone to know anything about me, and I don't want anyone to judge me.

I have a great deal of respect for any women that will enter the world of little boys of sports.

I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I'm still a dork.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

I'm just an ordinary person who has an extraordinary job.

I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite.

I always look for contradiction in a character.

There's a part of me that will always believe that Angel is Buffy's true love. That there will be a piece of her heart that will always be with him for the rest of her life.

As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job.

The internet to me is kind of like a black hole, and I never really go on it.

If you act like you know what you're going, you can do anything you want - except neurosurgery.

I meditate. I breathe out what I can't control and focus on the positives.

I'm not gonna give anybody the power to control my life.

There have been so many people who have said to me, 'You can't do that,' but I've had an innate belief that they were wrong. Be unwavering and relentless in your approach.

I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.

Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.

I truly believe that the privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

I like to be stylish and edgy, but also low maintenance.

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

On a day when you're tired, it's important to just say good morning to everyone so they're kind of aware that it's gonna be a good day. Jamie Lee Curtis told me that.

It's okay', you know? It's okay to be you. It's okay to just not be okay. It's okay to not be okay.

I do like having my ears pierced, because there's a lot more choice in pierced earrings than there is with clip-ons, and they're a lot more comfortable to wear - Sometimes I completely forget I've got them in and end up going to sleep wearing them.