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I think people couldn’t really put me in [one race]. I wasn’t Mexican, I wasn’t white, I wasn’t black, I wasn’t Asian… I wasn’t anything, and I didn’t really fit into anybody’s group. My dad is Mexican, and my mom is French and Danish.

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I don’t think it serves any minority or underrepresented group to be coddled. Because the world won’t coddle you. So I actually believe in tough love, hard truths, black and white.
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Just being a mother is making me a big, weepy mess.
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Big Mom Myself
It’s really, really, really difficult to have the same occupation as the person you’re with – especially when you’re both actors.
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I bizarrely think that this [Sin City] is the perfect date movie. If a guy took me on a date to see this movie, I would marry him, for sure. It’s bad-ass chicks and rad dudes, who are sexy, all over the place, and there’s so much cool action.
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It’s been liberating to be able to play someone who’s a bada– or promiscuous, because that’s the opposite of who I am … It’s like a drug.
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I can seriously spend five hours making one dinner.
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I don’t need to be famous. I’m not that ambitious. At this point, if I’m not sucked in, I’m never going to get sucked in. Being the so-called hot girl, I disconnect from that. It’s not that deep.
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I’ve always been attracted to guys with big brains.
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Attraction Brain Myself
It’s not always so great to be objectified, but I don’t feel I have much of a choice right now. I’m young in my career. I know I have to strike when the iron is hot.
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As a girl, I was always told I was nasty or dirty if I was sexual in any way. Americans are such prudes.
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Myself Thinking Woman
I really like older British guys – I don’t think any of them would ever have a problem with crying in front of a woman or saying “I love you” or “You hurt me” or emotional stuff like that.
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I get all these screenplays that start ‘Tawnya is in the shower. The water streams down her naked, perky breasts’. I don’t think this is happening to Natalie Portman.
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I love acting because it’s this space where dreams can be realized, fantasy comes to life, and there are no limitations on what’s possible.
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When I work out, I have energy and feel good about myself.
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I don’t hang out with the Hollywood cool people. I’m not out trying to make friends with people because they’re famous.
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I can’t tell you how great it is to get away with a girlfriend for four days shopping in Paris. Now that’s what I call a vacation.
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Honor has to say “please” and “thank you.” Manners are really important.
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I’m much more of a risk taker. I’m more fearless now than when I was 18. I was much more self-aware and I cared too much about what people thought of me and now I really don’t. I probably should.
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Being perfect is being flawed, accepting it, and never letting it make you feel less than your best.
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I wish I could speak Spanish, because it would be a lot easier to play more interesting roles.
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Easy Interest Myself Play Talk
I never fit in with my peer group. I never hung out with kids my age – I always wanted to hang out with my mom and her girlfriends.
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In Eastern culture, people see ghosts, people talk about ghosts, it’s just accepted. And in Western culture it’s just not.
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I’m not one of those women with a really thin body. I have body fat.
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Body Myself Woman
I’m really good at being sarcastic with guys. That’s the best way to hang out with them, because that’s what guys . They don’t want the quiet, prissy little things.
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I thought it was my job to give all the boys their first kiss.
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I had severe asthma and kidney problems and would get 105-degree fevers. I actually almost had to go on dialysis for my kidneys. I was also in the hospital for pneumonia.
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You have to be tenacious, you have to be focused, you have to have a real vision, and be extremely passionate about it.
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I think people couldn’t really put me in [one race]. I wasn’t Mexican, I wasn’t white, I wasn’t black, I wasn’t Asian… I wasn’t anything, and I didn’t really fit into anybody’s group. My dad is Mexican, and my mom is French and Danish.

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I think people couldn’t really put me in [one race]. I wasn’t Mexican, I wasn’t white, I wasn’t black, I wasn’t Asian… I wasn’t anything, and I didn’t really fit into anybody’s group. My dad is Mexican, and my mom is French and Danish.

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