I was always observing my siblings and hearing stories about their lives that turned out to be helpful as an actress.
BLAKE LIVELYI’ll never forget the time my mother showed up with her best friend and two daughters, and all four of us dressed up in matching clothes, shoes and hats to go pick up my brother from school.
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I grew up with the mindset that when you get home from work, you go to dinner and watch a movie. I don’t want to be going to a club and taking off my panties.
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Creating something I can use is the best stress reliever.
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I love to have my hair down; I love to have my hair full… there’s something romantic about it.
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I need good friends who can say, ‘I love you to death, but you look terrible in that, and you need to change right now.’
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I tend to like to make my statements more in fashion than in beauty, because what I normally respond to is when someone looks really effortless and deconstructed, beauty-wise, and they’re fashion is really grand. Someone like Kate Moss is a great example.
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I have to learn to knit.
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I think I became my own stylist by not knowing any better.
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I always want to wear clothes that my children will one day look back on and say, ‘Oh, you looked amazing – why didn’t you keep that?’ Not, ‘Oh my God – I can’t believe you wore that.’
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I love being at home and cooking and baking.
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If I could pass along anything that my mother or my sisters taught me, I feel like my kids would be very well off.
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Often you see people on the red carpet with tight up-dos, but that makes me feel stiff.
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I was in a show choir. I can’t sing or dance to save my life, but I was very passionate. People said my parents paid the choir director to let me in. It was actually the parents who started that one!
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When I see old movies with women in floor-length dressing gowns, or when they’re going to the store and they’ve got a pillbox hat with a net over the eyes and white gloves,
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I’m no editor, no artisan, no expert. And certainly no arbiter of what you should buy, wear, or eat.
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I have a tight-knit Southern family.
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My dream as a passionate cook has been to go to Le Cordon Bleu. Never could my most incredible dream have lived up to the experience.
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I was class president, on the cheerleading squad, in a competitive show choir, and in, like, six different clubs.
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Christmas for me is all about spending time with my family. I cherish any chance we have to spend all day together making gingerbread houses, baking cookies, or sitting around and watching movies.
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Ngila Dixon is such an incredible costume designer. She’s such a cool, stylish woman. She has such an understanding of character.
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I want babies. Lots of babies. Of course!
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I have smuggled so many ingredients across so many borders, like shallot confit from Thailand, or a new sauce from New Orleans not approved by the FDA.
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If I wasn’t an actress, I’d be a chef. I’d love to open a restaurant.
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So, it’s cool that, yes, Hal Jordan is a superhero, but my character is a real-world hero in her own life.
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Soy lattes get me through my day!
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Honestly, I’m so sick of myself.
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My mom would have different fragrances for different times of the year. They were a part of her identity.
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