It’s very hard to have ideas. It’s very hard to put yourself out there, it’s very hard to be vulnerable, but those people who do that are the dreamers, the thinkers and the creators. They are the magic people of the world.
Dreams never wear you down.
I was the daughter of teachers, so school was always very important. I liked it.
If you’re a good improviser, you improvise well enough that people think that you’re doing a sketch.
As an actor, you can certainly, at any moment and at any time, discover 400 people who think you’re stupid, fat and ugly.
Ang Lee’s been nominated for Best Director for Life of Pi, which is what I’m going to call the six weeks after I take this dress off!
I get worried for young girls sometimes; I want them to feel that they can be sassy and full and weird and geeky and smart and independent, and not so withered and shriveled.
I think chemistry is about not acting, but reacting, and not talking, but listening.
I ate two waffles, a banana and cereal with blueberries. And that whas between my two breakfasts.
There’s something so romantic about being broke in New York. You gotta do it. You have to live there once without any money, and then you have to live there when you have money. Let me tell you, of the two, the latter is far better.
I’ve said this before, that, when you’re in school and you’re the class clown, men are really good at making fun at other people and women are really good at making fun of themselves.
I really do believe that anything in life, any obstacle or challenge, can be made better with humor.
It’s very hard to watch comedy for me, when I’m doing a comedy show, because I either watch a show and I love it, and I’m jealous, or I watch a show and I see all the problems with it, and I’m angry that I watched it.
Only at the Golden Globes do the beautiful people of film rub shoulders with the rat-faced people in television.
Don’t start a scene where two people are talking about jumping out of a plane. Start the scene having already jumped. If you are scared, look into your partner’s eyes. You will feel better.
You deserve love and you’ll get it.
If boys say something that’s not funny, you don’t have to laugh.
Anyone who has the kind of inventive and inspired comic sensibility to be able to do that kind of work must be pretty talented.
Be yourself! And then tell us about it! And then let’s dance!
Vulnerable people are powerful people. Opening your heart and sharing it means you’re going to get so much love in your life. and it’s the way to true connection and real purpose and meaning in your life, in my opinion.