Salman ensures that everyone grows along with him. He is not someone who will step on your shoulder to move ahead; he makes sure that everyone with him grows together. That is the best quality about...

I think I've always had a disconnect from what I'm supposed to be like.

I went to college in Pittsburgh at Carnegie Mellon University... studied acting there. Then I went to New York for about five years. I moved out here about 10 years ago.

My husband and I went to Japan for our honeymoon, and you look at, like, the presentation of the food, and it's ridiculous. It looks like a Mondrian painting or something. Everything looks like a...

Three cigarettes in, your body already craves it. It is that addictive.

I think being an actress is more how to cope with the fact that you can't do anything else than to express a talent. It's a way of being untalented for anything.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.

If someone has been bad to me, I believe in being good to that person. It's my way of getting back. Because that person is going to feel guilty about it.

In 1962 I was diagnosed with this incurable disease.

Though I technically come from a film family, my father had stopped making films even before my brother and I were born. So I did not really grow up in a filmi environment. And when I was growing up,...

I love horror because you can never just sit back in your seat. You always have to be on the edge of it.

I want to go to Denmark and Scandinavia. We've been inundated with their telly recently, and I've never been to any of those countries. I really want to get to know the people. I quite fancy living...

I am a fosterer of animals.

I'm not as careful as I appear, which is why I choose not to do social media. It's really because I don't trust myself. I'm also very easily influenced by my feelings and will impulsively act on my...

I've loved musical theater ever since I was a kid. My mother's a pianist, and my grandfather was an amateur theater director and stand-up comic. And I was an only child. And I loved attention. So from...

I'm always envious of the actors who get to come to work every day and really grow deep roots there, but it is really fun playing lots of different characters.

I came from the musical stage. My first show was '110 In The Shade.' I started as a ballet dancer and then sort of gravitated toward musical theater, so any time I got asked to sing or dance, it was a...

I don't come from a well-off family. We're very middle-class, lower-middle-class, so that's something I cherish.

The critics mostly review the budgets when they go to see a big-budget movie. They are out to get a big-budget movie. On the other hand, if they review a picture that is done as a graduate thesis by...

Whenever someone asks me to name a dream hero or pair, I always end up getting Bollywood names in my mind.

You have to lift your head up out of the mud and just do it.

A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.

I never wanted to be an actor. It was something I found a passion for; it wasn't there immediately.

There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.

It's going to be very interesting to see somebody playing me.

There is an epidemic right now of girls dumbing themselves down... in middle school because they think it makes them attractive.

My biggest concern is people misunderstanding me.

Actually being able to exercise your own choice can bring about greater opportunity.

I hate running. I know I'm curvier - I know I'm small, but I'm not ripped. But I make a choice to be that way. I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.