Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford.
I tend to come home and eat a bowl of cereal. I'm not thinking about baking a pie when I'm off work.
I'm naturally thin, so I don't have to work too hard at it. I love food, but I also love to work out. I think it makes everything work better.
Anything that opens you up emotionally is going to impact your acting. Parenthood, becoming a mom, certainly does that.
I love Cheryl [Hines] so much and had so much fun with her. Off set we got on so well and would tell stories.
Really, it [the Waitress] was a story about believing in yourself ultimately, and caring enough about yourself to change your life.
I think it's quite common and realistic. There are many stories like this [in Waitress]. [Jenna, my character] marriage looks really horrible up on the screen but I think there are a lot of people in bad relationships who wake up and think to themselves: "Wow, how did I end up here? Why am I still here and so unhappy and not satisfied with my life?"
As in roulette, same is true of the stock trader, who will find that the expense of trading weights the dice heavily against him.
The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.
Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.
Wisdom is a dreadful thing when it brings no knowledge to its possessor.