I just want to use all of myself, for the rest of my life, in every facet of my life, as long as I live.
I'm a girl who loves fashion. I'm such a Cinderella - I love to put on a great dress and heels. It's fun!
There's usually not a lot of rehearsal when you do films.
![I never liked the whole idea of [creating your own] background, if it's not pertinent, where the character lived as a child, and who I was and how I was. That never helped me in any way, so I don't even do that.](https://quotes.thefamouspeople.com/images/quotes/maria-bello-122792.jpg)
I never liked the whole idea of [creating your own] background, if it's not pertinent, where the character lived as a child, and who I was and how I was. That never helped me in any way, so I don't even do that.
I'm interested in people who have lived, who are searching and questioning.
People tend to think when you're on dramatic films, that it's all so heavy, but it's really not when you're working with great actors.
I feel like, in a way, after doing it for so many years, you learn a certain concentration and how to turn it on and off.
You can be feminine and strong, at the same time. You can be a bad-ass and, at the same time, have a vulnerableness when you're hysterically crying, like most of us girls.
I just have a gut feeling about something, if I really want to do it, if I'm excited about it, if I want to explore it. And that goes across all different sorts of genres.
I'm not afraid to play my age. I never was. I've never been an ingenue. I like getting older.
Life goes so fast, and there is so much to do. But the moments that have enriched my life the most came when I slowed down and connected with the people I care about.
I think a lot of people are in relationships because they've been in them for a long time and they don't know how to end them.
Acting and emotionally expressing myself, seeing the world and being a mom are just all very exciting to me. I'm a real curious person.
I think my work as an actress is less about a director and more about a person. You feel you can trust them instinctively. I met my best friends that way, I knew in a second.
You serve the best by doing what you love the most.
I'm interested in people who have lived, who are searching and questioning.
I'm not afraid to play my age. I never was. I've never been an ingenue. I like getting older.
When I do Pilates, or when I do work out, I feel better all day. Yet I still struggle to keep it on my schedule.
I was really conflicted. I had always planned to help the world. Instead, I was going to become an actress? That seemed like such a selfish thing to do.
At first I didn't know if I wanted to do TV again. I can get bored quickly.
When you fall head over heels for someone, you're not falling in love with who they are as a person; you're falling in love with your idea of love.
There is always one person on the set who has a lot of anxiety, an actor who is really intense and has to stay in character and holds himself away from the rest of us.
I want to do more action adventures and more romantic comedies.
So many actors wear wigs nowadays. Besides, if someone is hiring me because of how I wear my hair, I don't want to work with them anyway.
I'm a girl who loves fashion. I'm such a Cinderella - I love to put on a great dress and heels. It's fun!
I always wanted the fairy tale, but now I want someone who is a great partner.
I remember listening to 'Maniac' and running around and thinking I'm going to be somebody someday.
My biggest dream since I was a kid was to be the woman sneaking on the pirate ship dressed like a man, who was this great sword fighter, and the captain fell in love with her.
My mother told me when I was a kid that each time we get to what feels like the edge of a cliff, we have two choices: to turn around and run, or to jump. I have learned over time to jump - and though it is scary, I know somewhere inside me that I will be caught.
I don't think you understand what levels or what fears until you have a child of your own. I mean, I've never loved someone so much and I've never been so afraid in my life. And the truth is I would kill someone, whoever tried to hurt him. I would. I have no doubt about it.
