My maternal granddad, Leonard, was full of amazing stories. He was an orphan, with 11 or 12 brothers and sisters, and he used to tell us about growing up near the Irrawaddy river and how one brother was eaten by a crocodile.
When we're on set, we kind of joke around, and when we're rehearsing, we change up the scenes and make each other laugh. We lighten up the mood. The blooper reel is going to be amazing on 'New Moon.'
I have a personal trainer who I work out with. She's amazing and as well as making sure I do loads of sit-ups and press-ups, she also keeps an eye on what I eat.
I grew up in a house my parents built together on a mountain in Tennessee. When we moved in, the walls were still going up, we didn't have hot water, and we turned it into an amazing adventure.
These things have a life of there own and never existed when I was growing up certainly worrying when one would get made. It's kind of amazing how that one movie kept living through all these years.
I think we want our kids to grow up to be people who can think outside of the box, be creative and innovators, sort of the forward-thinkers of our future. I think a way to inspire that is through art and music.
Whatever happens in my life, whether I stand up or I fall down, whatever the case, I'm going to use it in my art. Why? Because I'm an artist and I have to.
I made it about a three-day weekend so people wouldn't have to change their clothes a lot. We didn't have an art department; we didn't have a make-up department.
Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.
The essence of courage is timing. Take me, for example. I’ll show up to fight anybody, anywhere. I’ll just show up a day late.
Men were just like sheep, and nothing was easier than for women to set up as shepherds and pen them up in a field.
Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?
I'll never wake up in a good mood again. I'm tired of these stinky boots
Why the hell do women always have to bring back up? It's not as if I'm going to molest her at the opera.
A photocopier is a camera in its own right. I was fortunate to grow up in the time and culture that I did. I was allowed to develop an awareness that the art that really moves me is actually based on an original image.
Dancing takes a certain lightness, a spring in the step, an elasticity in the calves; a kind of , or alternatively a leavening element of self-proclaiming stupidity in one’s make-up.
O rose, you look sick. O rose, wake up and sing.
And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.
I sit back up and try to banish such thoughts from my mind. They're stickier than I expect.
Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.
I'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up.
