Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don’t care about fame, I don’t care about being a celebrity. I know that’s part of the job, but I don’t feed into anyone’s idea of who I should be.
JESSICA ALBAWhen it comes to diversity, women are still underrepresented in so many different places, but one place we’re not underrepresented is we hold a majority of the household income, and we control that.
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Sometimes I don’t like my thighs or stomach, but whenever I get caught up in that, I always focus on the fact that I’m healthy now.
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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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Love is ever evolving and it takes compromise, work and patience.
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You have to be the best of whatever you are, but successful, cool actresses come in all shapes and sizes.
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My mind is constantly in five different places, but golf is great because it forces you to focus completely and purely on what you’re doing.
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I like to organize. I have an opinion. I like to get stuff done.
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My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything – even if you have no clue what you’re doing.
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Movies are the shadiest business in the world.
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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’ve been getting my makeup done professionally since I was 12, I’ve never found a brand that could create that glowing look and flawless finish we all want from beauty products with ingredients that were effective and safe. So I had to create it.
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I always try to do something for my husband that’s completely selfless, and something that I hope will rock his world in some form or fashion.
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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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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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I think that people who don’t like animals tend to be selfish, but I’m biased.
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I loved my baby dolls when I was a kid. I used to pray with them and say good night to each and every one of them because I didn’t want their feelings to get hurt. I remember having that connection with my baby dolls.
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When I went from girl body to woman body and all of a sudden I had tits and hips and a little tummy and natural fat in places, I freaked out.
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No one gives Cameron Diaz a hard time for not speaking Spanish.
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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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I can seriously spend five hours making one dinner.
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I didn’t really [seriously] go out with any guys until I was 18 and met my ex-fiancé, Michael Weatherly.
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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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Just being a mother is making me a big, weepy mess.
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My parents were young and liberal and knew I was going to drink anyway, so they let me do it at home.
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I’m comfortable looking sexy. I don’t push it with poses, although I like the ironic part of it. That’s what makes it fun.
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Way too high maintenance to be in a relationship with an actor. I don’t need a man who spends as much time in front of the mirror as me.
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There’s no such thing as a perfect guy. I think it would be strange if somebody was absolutely everything you always wanted, because then there’d be no challenge. Also, you’d feel inferior.
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