I love New Orleans I love the way it looks. I love the way it feels.
I don’t think there’s ever what could be called a "chilled state" in my head.
No one understands the shift in priorities about having a child in your life... until you have a child in your life.
My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.
The Hollywood I know has allowed me the opportunity after opportunity to keep doing new things and not send me out to pasture. I don't want to go to pasture. It's cold. I'm allergic to grass. And the cows are mean.
You hear sounds and orchestration, it's ... the fastest way, I think, to your emotions, even if you don't understand the language of the song.
If a film is not a success, then that's just the way things are. Nothing I can do can make a difference. I have stopped worrying about it.
I'd rather take risks than make something that's cookie cutter.
I love fashion. I love couture. I'm going to erect a shelf in my bedroom with an art light to be the spot for the shoes of the month.
I have no desire to maintain a lifestyle. I am a horrible celebrity. If I am out in public I dress like a pig.
I'm controlling, and I want everything orderly, and I need lists. My mind goes a mile a minute. I'm difficult on every single level.
I love thongs. The day they were invented, sunshine broke through the clouds.
I didn't watch any films. This film, The Proposal, had it all in the script. Once all the pieces, once I met Anne Fletcher and I knew what she wanted and that we wanted the same things, and once they said Ryan Reynolds was on board and once the casting came together, you saw what it wanted to be.
Having to be nice all the time is exhausting and boring, but to play someone who just has that under layer of unhappiness, you know that it comes from someplace.
My job is not to talk smack about anything. This is why I dislike strongly doing magazine articles: My personality does not translate to print. People don't read it as sarcasm, and it just comes off badly.
Don't corral me, and I'll always come home. Just let me go out and play during the day.
I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom. That was my way of being a bad girl.
I've always been very skeptical about marriage, because I only want to do it once; I want to do it the right way.
I have these big piano-playing hands. I feel like I should be picking potatoes.
I don't think we spend enough time in silence, just realizing what's floating around in our noggin.
I don't understand women who try to be glamour queens.
I was rejected in school because I didn't look like the big-breasted, beautiful girls. I was awkward and sad. My mother always said, "Be original!" but I didn't understand until I changed to be like everyone else.
I love raw cookie dough, right out of the tube. The other thing I eat is marshmallow fluff.
It's the rare happening when actors get together and you have chemistry, connection, just something that works, that's bigger than what's on the page.
I was never the kind of girl who said, "One day, I am going to be a beautiful bride, and I am going to have a family." I wanted to work and support myself and make my parents proud. All I did was work. I did three or four films a year, and felt like I was on a treadmill. Finally I said, "Nothing is exciting to me anymore." So I took six months off, which turned into a year, and said, "God, I don't miss it." That's when all kinds of interesting things crossed my path.
