Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.
An interesting thing that I've learned is that "no" doesn't always really mean "no," it just simply means "not now. "
Keep doing what you're doing no matter what anyone says. Defy your own doubt.
It's why I fell in love with movies. You can sit in a movie theater and be transported to a place that you never get to go and be a person who you never in your life would get to be and feel something and have empathy for people and see things from another point of view.
I knew that I wanted to live in a city, but had never really been to New York. But I was begging my parents as a kid to move to New York, so it was just something that I sort of knew from a young age.
From as early as I can remember, I wanted to have something to do with the acting business. I was a TV junkie as a kid and I think, because I grew up in a small town where I couldn't imagine myself staying there and couldn't see myself being any of the people that I was surrounded by in this town, I just knew that I wanted a different kind of a life, but I didn't know what that meant and I didn't know how.
Some of my favorite all-time movies - Wong Kar-wai is just amazing. In the Mood for Love is probably my favorite film ever. Those lyrical montages are so stunning.
I'm a lot happier in people's living rooms weekly than I think I would be if I was really, really relying on a movie career to keep me fulfilled and excited.
'Let's Move!' is not about having government tell people what to do, because government doesn't have all the answers.
I shouldn't have done that," I said. That was when I kissed him again. May God forgive me for this and all these things I've done.
In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc. , would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized.