She Quotes

I think my mom put it best. She said, 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts.'

The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre.

I am not quite sure where home is right now. I do have places in London and Milan, and a house in Spain. I guess I would say home is where my mother is, and she lives in Spain.

Natalie from the Dixie Chicks could have said what she said before 9-11 and no one would have cared.

I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property.'

Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be.

Meryl Streep's brilliant, just brilliant. I've been fortunate to do two movies with Meryl. And for an actor to go moment to moment like she does, there's no one better. And she dances between moments. Each take is different because she's riding instincts, she's riding impulses. And she trusts that.

We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared.

The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.

I googled 'Gabby Douglas,' and all these things popped up like 'Gabby Douglas makes history!' And 'She's the champion!'

If my Dad doesn't like you, you will know. My Mom is just too innocent to ever lie. She doesn't even cuss.

I should have known. The first tip I got was when she rarely showed up in court for the second trial.

My mom didn't want me to go to college. She didn't want me to read - when I read, I may as well have been holding a pineapple.

If, however, you have richer pursuits in mind and know that no woman should be judged by how she looks - that everything she brings to the party is more important than the size of her arse - then refuse to be sucked into the never ending whirligig of self-doubting, self-hating madness that is stop-start dieting and crazy new exercise regimes.

A diva is someone who pretends to know who she is and looks fabulous doing it.

She seems to be having a pretty good time despite her worrying. That's Lily.

I mean, Emily Harris was his wife. And she seemed to resent his leadership, but on the other hand, she felt like a good soldier, that he had to be the leader.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.

My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.

My sister wanted to be an actress, but she never made it. She does live in a trailer. She got halfway. She's an actress, she just never gets called to the set.

Oh, she didn't schlep me. I schlepped her, actually. I was the one who wanted to be an actress.

Without pay, no human being will work up to their ability if he or she is not cared for and respected.

She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.

One lady wrote me and told me how she wants to see me get beat up and near death and that kind of stuff.

For 'Iron Man' I had to improv with Robert Downey Jr., which is like going up against LeBron in basketball. At one point he stopped and said, 'Can we give a round of applause to Olivia, because she's rocking it right now.'

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

When people say to me, 'You're like the Anna Kournikova who wins,' I definitely take it as a compliment, because she's quite gorgeous.

There was something about Marilyn. She couldn't act her way out of a bag, but she became an icon because something happened between her and the lens, and no one knows what it is.

I remember I read this harsh review about my show, and one of my friends told me that this was the exact same stuff people said about Madonna. And it's like, she didn't care. Madonna just came out and was herself. I respect that a lot.

She goes on the set with headphones and gives you notes. She's terrific and I always run to her now, because she is just great to work with, as well as very good at different accents.