Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Actresses - Page 4

I love being outdoors - hiking, biking, and swimming.

Sexuality is who you want to be with. Gender identity is who you want to be in the world.

Obviously, I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.

If your life were a book and you were the author, how would you want your story to go? That's the question that changed my life forever.

I live my life exactly the way I want to. Nothing stops me from going out or being anywhere that I want to be. I am doing whatever I want to do. I do not live my life according to any restrictions whatsoever!

I am a dreamer. Seriously, I'm living on another planet.

We need to bring awareness to how great of a pet cats are.

Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person.

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

I have the best roommates in the world! It creates a fun sense of family... and that's really important to me. Things can get so lonely without it.

I see the world through my eyes. It's sometimes a strange world.

Fusion fashion - that's what I'm inspired by, taking all these different cultures and then trying to put it together that a girl here would love to wear.

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.

You know if we were to look back and how we were in 1955 living in Jim Crow, living in segregation, living in segregated schools, it's hard to believe that it was America, but it really was.

I like food. I like eating. And I don't want to deprive myself of good food.

I like to embrace natural beauty. I try to get at least 8 hours of sleep, drinking a lot of water and exercising.

What's wrong with being angry? There's a lot of stuff to be angry about. If you're angry, anger covers pain. I don't know if you can truly deal with pain.

Swimming gives me immense satisfaction.

A real man doesn't need to drag a woman through the mud for the sake of appeasing his wife.

I became a vegetarian for about maybe a year. It was more of a little detox for me. I tend to do a lot of detoxes. I was on the Body Ecology Diet before I got pregnant, which I believe is one of the reasons I was able to get pregnant.

I've been so lucky to work with such great people: people that are such hard workers and have such a respect and appreciation for one another.

When I was 15, I worked at a dry cleaner because I wanted Abercrombie & Fitch jeans. My mom told me I could have $20 jeans, not $70 jeans, unless I was willing to work for them. So I did!

I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.

Just because a situation is grim doesn't mean you don't have every right to smile.

I literally pass out when I see blood.

Sometimes people think they know you and they go, 'Hey!' and then they realize that they've just seen you on the television. That's kind of funny sometimes.

Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

Exercise is amazing, from the inside out. I feel so alive and have more energy.

You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you're in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don't fall in love with people because they're fun. It just happens.

I have people who love me and people that I love and a man that I love. So in that sense, I feel that I'm pretty well rounded.

Dubai's a pretty powerful place.

Kindness is really important to me in finding my own prince - so are patience and a sense of humor. Without those qualities he's no Prince Charming!

I feel that being an actor is a front-row seat into seeing how everybody else makes their movies. Basically, being in the trenches for ten years is like a college-level course in filmmaking if not more. It feels like every director I work with and every set that I visit as an actor, I see someone else's definition of filmmaking.

I love acting, but it's much more fun taking the kids to the zoo.

When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.

I would love to go into an animal's dream - like a lion's or a cat's. I'm sure that's pretty awesome.

I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.

I was always Missy, never Melissa. I went to college, and I thought it was so much more interesting to go by a different name, and then it just kind of stuck.

I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.

Every mistake that you make, or every thing that you might regret, you don't need to necessarily regret it, because it can be a step forward. You just move forward and let them go because there will be a lot of bad auditions, and there will be a lot of negative responses. But that won't last forever.

I was with somebody else at the time, who I left - one, because I didn't really want to be with that person, and two, because I felt I'd had so much tragedy I needed to go off, go crazy, and maybe live on the outside for a while.

I don't like being the center of attention.

My mom, well, she's half Greek, half German-Italian; born in England. She's just a nomad. She loves Middle Eastern style, Indian style, so much so that she ended up having Indian babies.

Weddings are important because they celebrate life and possibility.

Paparazzi need more flattering lenses.

Hair extensions and wigs are not the same thing. Wigs are for old ladies and drag queens. Extensions are for women who want longer hair. To be safe, never bring it up if you think a woman is wearing either. No good comes of it.

I think love is a really hard thing to define. I think it's multifaceted.

I've a problem with the word charity because I think that NGOs, as I prefer calling them, really do take the work of moral and social responsibilities that ought to be taken on by governments.

Our perception of celebrities in Hollywood is not the reality. The reality of our lives is so much like everyone else's life. We have family members we love, everyone gets up in the morning, they have three meals a day and they go about their business.

I have a very large shoebox overflowing with lyrics I've been writing and collecting since my teen years and into my late 20s, with lyrics from all walks of my life. Darkness, being in love, being heartbroken, finding yourself... and lyrics that I've been sitting on for, like, seven years, that I haven't done anything with.

I say really stupid things sometimes. When I go back and watch some of my old interviews from when I was younger, I just cringe.

I think Latin guys are really sexy. They generally fit into that whole tall, dark, and handsome thing.

It's always disappointing when your work is not received as you hope it would be.

I'm a hopeless romantic. I love love. My middle name is Love. Valentine's Day is my favorite holiday. I want to have a family and children. I am a sucker for every romantic comedy that comes out.

There's got to be a voice deep within you that is untouched by definitions. And it is there that you become divinely who you are.

I'm very proud of being a woman, and as a woman, I don't even like the word 'feminism' because when I hear that word, I associate it with women trying to pretend to be men, and I'm not interested in trying to pretend to be a man. I don't want to embrace manhood; I want to embrace my womanhood.

Interviewing someone is very similar to preparing a character, isn't it? You're just asking questions: 'Who is this person? Why did they make that choice? Why are they doing that?' You're being Sherlock Holmes.