My dad is the most humble man on the planet.
Bryce Dallas Howard
What keeps me sane the most is, honestly, the Serenity Prayer.
I did karate for years and years and years.
I never really dyed my hair anything significant from my natural hair color.
I'm always looking at my brother and sisters, thinking - do we look inbred, maybe? Maybe a tiny bit.
I struggle immensely with celebrities of all kinds. I get clammy hands and turn a little purple.
I want to be the best actor that I can be; I want to be working in this business absolutely, and if that means being a movie star, then OK, that's fine. But to me, movie star, celebrity, all that stuff means something very different than being an actor.
I stepped in for Nicole Kidman in 'Dogville' when she left that film.
When I work on a film, I always tend to relate to the crew.
I think the success of the 'Twilight' movies, not just the books, comes down to Stephenie Meyer.
I'm drawn toward filmmakers who have a very distinctive voice. I really appreciate people who push themselves and, therefore, push the medium forward.
My dad's more three-dimensional than Opie Taylor or Richie Cunningham. He even has a temper! He's a real person. But some people are disappointed by that.
I try to focus moment to moment on being an aware, responsible, contributive member of society. You see trash on the ground, pick it up!
I'm always trying to figure out what my taste is, what my likes and dislikes are.
I found out I was pregnant seven days after my wedding. I was on honeymoon with my family.
It's, like, sort of a dream thing for an actor when they're told to gain weight.
I feel like I almost didn't grow up in the business, because my parents worked so hard at sheltering us from that. I was raised in Connecticut. And I honestly wasn't aware that my dad was a celebrity until I moved to Los Angeles a year ago.
I've always had the perspective that roles come into my life when I need them most and sort of teach me lessons. The same can be true of films, films are released into society to aid in a lesson, inspire people, comfort people.
As a teenager, I was perpetually grounded. I was stubborn rather than rebellious.
I'm a little superstitious.
For me, breastfeeding was even more painful than giving birth. And despite a lactation consultant, I felt incompetent. I forged on, barely sleeping, always either breastfeeding or pumping and never getting the hang of it.
Do I wish I had never endured postpartum depression? Absolutely. But to deny the experience is to deny who I am.
I would amputate my toes to work with Lars von Trier again.
When I was seven, I was allowed to be an extra in 'Parenthood,' which was amazing. But then I kind of got addicted to it, and my parents didn't want me to want to act. They felt that would be putting your kid in an adult world.
Actors are always nervous about not only hurting each other, but maybe perhaps hitting each other's face and ending one's career.
Telling everyone I wanted to go into forensic anthropology was my form of rebellion.
I've admired Anthony Hopkins for so long, and when I finally got to meet him in person, I became totally immobile and speechless! I stood there looking at him and couldn't say a word.
I don't have any friends who are actors through my dad.
I was raised in Connecticut. And I honestly wasn't aware that my dad was a celebrity until I moved to Los Angeles a year ago.
Of course any kind of film process has ups and downs and days where you're stuck and have breakthroughs.
Directing 'When You Find Me' was one of the most creatively rewarding endeavors of my career.
When I was coming of age, I remembered reading and studying the initial ideas within the feminist movement. There was this idea with my parents' generation that in order to find equality, a woman would need to behave like a man.
I'm a little Type A, and I have this really thick binder whenever I do a movie where I make a million notes, and in between takes, I'm checking it out.
'50/50' is a comedy. I shouldn't say it's a buddy comedy because it's not farcical, and it's based on a true story, but it's viewing that experience through a very truthful lens of humour.
It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters.
Right now as an artist, what I want to do is be a part of works that are unignorable. I couldn't be less interested in how people receive it, honestly. As long as it's unignorable.
I didn't always want to act. My passion was writing, and it still is one of my primary passions to this day, but it wasn't until high school when I started acting in plays that it became a thought of something I might want to do. And when I applied to colleges, at NYU, I was able to study both writing and acting.
I definitely managed to do different kinds of things. My focus is usually who the director is, because at the end of the day the director is the storyteller, what the movie is all about. I don't want to participate in something that I don't think is constructive storytelling.
I've learned to think in terms of having a long career. Actors can have very long careers that last until the day we die, but there will be moments when you'll feel like you're a failure or when you're disappointed in yourself.
I'm really into sci-fi. I always have been. In addition to that, I've always had a tremendous fascination with the lure of the Apocalypse or Judgment Day or the Mayan calendar, etc., etc.
I'm not an NRA member, but that doesn't mean I didn't appreciate shooting blanks out of a machine gun.
I'm not going to lie. I rarely wear sunblock.
What I do is not go outside. My hobby is that I write, so if I'm not acting or being a mom, I'm writing.
My parents taught me many of the things that people need in life to feel confident: practical things, such as managing finances, mucking out the goat barn, cleaning a house, doing repairs, mending a broken roof or a toilet.
My parents would never throw the kids in first class for the flights; they'd be up front, and we'd be economy - we knew we were lucky just to be travelling.
Ours was a loving, nurturing household, but, at the same time, my parents' goal was to make all their children self-sufficient.
I want to be a good example for my son. That's the best way to parent - to be the example of what you want to see in them. That's definitely how my parents parented and how my grandparents parented. And it works.
I shouldn't have acted. I didn't exhibit any ability. I was one of the kids in the school play who was just mouthing words, and they weren't the actual words of the song. I was pretty lame!
I've always been, with acting, very hesitant to get myself into situations where I would be accused of nepotism.
When I started working, I just had my name be 'Bryce Dallas.'
