Jun 4, 1975 - Present
Her role in HBO biopic \'Gia\' (1998)
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The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?
Cause a little trouble. It's good for you.
If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you're solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion
No, no, no, I've just grown up too much to be hurt by what people's opinion of my love life is.
My kids will be needing me a lot when they hit their teens. If I know anything about being a teenager. I need to be braced to be spending a lot of time with all six of them and making sure I can be there for when they go through everything.
The life changing moment for me what the first time I went to a war zone and that was Sierra Leone. I took two weeks, eleven years ago and I went. I wasn't an Ambassador or anything I just asked to go and I was allowed to go. It was like someone smacked me in the face.
Violence against women and lack of intervention and man's inhumanity to man and this kind of atrocities are going on. These are big issues of our times, we must speak about them, we must learn how to better understand how these things happen so we can address them.
I think doing anything having to do with war, you walk away so very grateful for everything you have and the safety that you have.
I remember the days of auditioning and being nervous and so I really didn't want to make people have to jump through hoops to do auditions and be nervous and make them more nervous. I kind of wanted to hire everybody and find something for everybody.
As a director, I hoped that I was able to help the actors by giving them the space and the respect they need and the trust. I gave them what I always felt I needed when I was working.
I think I was probably able to flip characters in my head as if I was playing different roles in order to write the different people because you kind of have to be one person, and inhabit him and write from his voice and be her and write her voice. So I think that helped.
I 've been married so much in my life that I never really had lovers, so it's been a fun time. Hopefully the men are enjoying it as well.
Acting is not pretending or lying. It's finding a side of yourself that's the character and ignoring your other sides. And there's a side of me that wonders what's wrong with being completely honest.
You can seek advice, learn about the options and make choices that are right for you. Knowledge is power.
Don't fit in. Don't sit still. Don't ever try to do less than you are.
People will always say all sorts of stuff. Let them. I'm enjoying my life
I think every teenager is a hero. When we are young we feel so much pain. Go to school is like going to war, people let you down all the time. Sometimes it's very, very difficult to stay strong, but you have to.
It is wonderful to hear of the relief efforts that are finally coming to New Orleans and the rest of the region, but as well all know, it is simply not going to be enough.
There was a time when I was really going to give up acting-- right after Foxfire. I was trying to find characters with a certain strength and things going on, but I was always disappointed. Wallace was the first thing I did where I felt their ideas were better than mine.
I felt beautiful when I was in Cambodia for Tomb Raider. I was sweaty, and my hair was matted and all over the place. And I was happy and hot and accomplishing a lot and running around, and I could feel my heart beating, and I felt beautiful.
The cost of testing for BRCA1 and BRCA2, at more than $3,000 in the United States, remains an obstacle for many women.
I can tell my children that they don't need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer,
If anybody comes into my home and tries to hurt my kids, I've no problem shooting them,
The sun doesn't lose its beauty when covered by the clouds. The same way your beauty doesn't fade when being covered by Hijab
This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.
Every day we choose who we are by how we define ourselves.
A Single journey can change the course of a life.
If you become aware of a public self, you're in danger of becoming a very artificial person.
For any woman reading this, I hope it helps you to know you have options. I want to encourage every woman, especially if you have a family history of breast or ovarian cancer, to seek out the information and medical experts who can help you through this aspect of your life, and to make your own informed choices.
Arabs and Mulims are not terrorists.The world should unite against Israel.