We rarely grow when we're happy, we grow when we hurt.
We've all, at some point in our lives, been in a position where we have felt powerless.
Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children’s children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
As women, I think it helps that we are complex creatures by nature so just being a woman helps to understand a woman's journey.
I love film, very, very much, and I always want to go back to it.
I know young people are all going to have different passions, but I would say that if you happen to have a heart for animals, never forget that without your voice, there is no channel for them.
I don't do anything but sleep, when I'm not working. I have no life. I'm no fun. All I want to do is sleep and get ready for the next day. It's awesome.
I'm bringing what I've always wanted: film quality work on television. That's the way it should be.
Sometimes you're famous before you're good.
People always ask how there are female priests, but in this world there are.
What could be more unjust than hurting an animal or a child? When you've been gifted dominion over something, that responsibility is real.
I don't know how people box for a living. I don't know how they can just hurt people for a living and be OK with it.
I like the physical challenge. It's fun for me.
Our life on earth cannot sustain without healthy oceans - and because of that, the beings who inhabit and allow that eco system to work need our help. Let's start with our wonderment, and go from there. Allow that, and it becomes easy.
My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?” What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.
Obviously, you have to be lucky enough for people to want you to be in films, but that is the plan, definitely.
When you come to America, it's a very serious thing. It's not like you arrive and they say, 'Hey, come on! Do movies!' I can't just be hopping around. I have to focus and be still and make sure that I put the time and effort in. Because if I don't, I could lose it like that.
There is nothing cooler than having lines like, 'Batman, the fate of the world is upon us.' Who gets to say that? And who gets to say that in a deep, earnest, amazingly sexy way?
I'm half Asian, so people immediately go, "Oh, you do kung fu," like that's what we do. We wake up, we do kung fu, we brush our teeth. It's just assumed that you're not working your ass off to make this believable and make this something great, and we absolutely are.
There was a time where I thought I could only date vegans. I was wrong because I was missing the fact that somebody should be right for me first, instead of just having similar values.
Here's my goal: I want to make a seriously dark show, and not on a network that has ever done that.
Every action project you take, whether it be a movie or TV series, is always different and a lot of people don't really know how big a difference it is. It's a different style of fighting, a different tempo and all of that.
When I was young, I remember having a particular pain about injustice. Suffering hurt me.
I'd left Hawaii twice in my life, so I'd been on an island my whole life. I had no clue. I didn't know how to live in a city.
The 1970s 'Wonder Woman' was sort of a kitsch thing. It was a very specific time for that, and it's hard to modernize something like that.
