It's how you look at beauty. Is it only an outward appearance with hair and makeup and a hot body, or is it something deeper than that?
I had teachers who I could tell didn't want to be there. And I just couldn't get inspired by someone who didn't want to be there.
It's something that you have to experience in your life, but I think my first kiss, I was 7 and it was really yucky.
There's so much more to life than looking a certain way.
I love to travel. I'm a curious person.
I think about how I'm spending my money, and I like to spend on my family.
Learning how to fly, for me, was so euphoric.
I’m always scared to death that I won’t do a role justice. But fear can be a great motivator.
You're always going to make mistakes. That's life. You just want to grow from them and try to make as few as possible. That's why you do reach out and ask people for help, where needed.
I believe in talent, and you believe in who you cast and help them go the distance.
Making a movie is you're really only as good as your weakest link, so when everyone's working at their best and it actually comes together, it's an extraordinary thing because it doesn't always.
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I'm very glad that [the death penalty] hasn't existed for many years in the U.K.
I wake up so full of life and feeling so alive and so full of joy when I get to go to a set and tell a story. I just - I couldn't imagine not having that, and what a gift it's been in my life.
As a producer, you really have - you're able to hand-pick all the talent that you want to be surrounded with.
As a performer, I don't like to play the same thing over and over. I like to play it and let it go and move on. That's also why television hasn't really been something that I've done.
The idea of playing a character for even two years, to me feels claustrophobic - only because I want to play a lot of different people.
I don't believe in the death penalty. I believe that there are other people as we speak right now in prison, wrongfully accused, who could serve such a fate. That is injustice at its greatest.
It's give-and-take and back-and-forth, that constantly allows you to grow as an artist and as a human being.
What I love about making movies is that it's a collaboration. It's one of the most rewarding things, to create something and have someone show you something that you didn't see, and vice versa.
I feel like I've had a really great intense relationship with every single Director I've ever worked with. I can't say there's one that hasn't been deep and profound in its own way.
I think what's great about that relationship between an actor and a Director is you have to really blow away all your thing, the safety things that you put up.
I pretty much have made a career out of playing real life people.
I haven't tucked a sock in my pants for three years.
All you have to remember is 'audition' is synonymous with 'opportunity. I mean, if you absolutely hate auditioning, do you also hate opportunities? That wouldn't make much sense.
I bring my dogs on set with me, and my little dog Karoo is smart as a whip. She knows where the craft-services food tables are, so anytime I can't find her, I know she has found her way to that area. She's a funny dog.
One thing I've learned: You never know where life is taking you, but it's taking you.
I cut coupons, love specials and believe in buying toilet paper and toothpaste in bulk. It's just who I am.
I'm certainly not very book smart, but I started traveling at 16, and it has enriched me in ways I could never begin to explain.
You have to be precisely in the moment in order to box. And I just love that. I just love the idea of right now we're here, be here.
I think we have a choice every single day in how we want to live our life. You wake up and you make your choice of what you want to do with your day that's going to help you achieve your dream.
