If I'm going to do television, I wanted that 'North and South' experience. I wanted something that's going to challenge me on a constant basis.
I just don't believe you're capable of being an actor unless you have a desire to experience your emotions in a public way.
Show me someone who doesn't have some sort of experience that they would be uncomfortable for people to know about and I'll show you a dullard.
I never really had a teenage experience. I went from childhood to maturity, and in some ways, it short-circuited me emotionally.
We had a great time making 'Chennai Express.' It was a learning experience working with Shah Rukh... it was a positive experience.
The truth is the real Christian experience is truly about repenting every day because there is no Christian that doesn't sin.
Unfortunately, I think we've probably all had the experience that if we're in a relationship where one of the partners is doing it 'my' way, that relationship is not going to survive.
Our founding fathers could not have foreseen that freedom of the press might eventually be threatened just as much by media consolidation as by government.
The freedom that money gives you makes you... well, I wouldn't say happy, but I'd say it gives you diversity.
Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence.
I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.
The spirit of L.A. is untamed wilderness. It's earthquakes and wildfires and oceans and mountain lions and fog. There's great physical beauty.
Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.
I think we have become obsessed with beauty and personally I'm really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that.
You know when I feel inwardly beautiful? When I am with my girlfriends and we are having a 'goddess circle'.
When you really put your heart in the work, you don't think of how you look. And I think that's the beauty of it.
I never quite understood why Disney hadn't made a sincere fairy tale since 'Beauty and the Beast.'
I'm only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an actor and not a beauty pageant winner.
The beauty of doing film is that you construct whatever you do block by block and you can build something that will stay.
Maybe I'm old-fashioned. But I remember the beauty and thrill of being moved by Broadway musicals - particularly the endings of shows.
I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.
