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.
JESSICA ALBAThe time I’m not spending with my kid has to be worth it, so when I sat down with my agents after I was ready to go back to work, I told them: It’s all about the directors.
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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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The secret to using power is not to use it. Just having it is enough.
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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 like to cook. I would probably go to culinary school in France if I had time.
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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 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 do comedy, I lose all inhibition and introspection. I no longer care.
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Mike Adams, you are simply the sexiest man alive. You have my vote in .
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When I work out, I have energy and feel good about myself.
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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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Your husband or your wife is the only person you can really choose to be your family and to have unconditional love with them.
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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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The time I’m not spending with my kid has to be worth it.
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No one gives Cameron Diaz a hard time for not speaking Spanish.
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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 basically went out with any guy who asked me because hardly anyone ever asked me out.
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I actually wanted to be a producer because I like to run things.
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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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Love is ever evolving and it takes compromise, work and patience.
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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 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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My approach to acting now is so different — I’m fearless because I have nothing to lose. Before [children] my identity was wrapped up in every decision — now, I don’t care.
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Guys are stimulated easily. They are easy to manipulate. All you have to do is wear a sexy outfit.
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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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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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A parent knows better than any book or “expert” what their kid really needs.
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