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Brad Got Me This Great Thing For Christmas. It's A Bookshelf That Has A Book On Every Religion. That's How We Plan To Raise Our Kids. Teach Them About All Religions. They Can Pick One Or Be A Student Of All Of Them. We'll Celebrate Kwanzaa For Our Girl. We'll Celebrate Moon And Water Festivals For Our Boys. We'll Take Them To Temples In Certain Countries. Also To Church.

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Brad Got Me This Great Thing For Christmas. It's A Bookshelf That Has A Book On Every Religion. That's How We Plan To Raise Our Kids. Teach Them About All Religions. They Can Pick One Or Be A Student Of All Of Them. We'll Celebrate Kwanzaa For Our Girl. We'll Celebrate Moon And Water Festivals For Our Boys. We'll Take Them To Temples In Certain Countries. Also To Church.

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It's Been A Lifetime Ambition Of Mine To Play An 007 Villain.

I Entered This Business Before I Had Focus And Purpose In My Life. I Was Very Unhappy, Very Unhealthy, And When I Sat Down For An Interview, I Didn't Know Why. I Felt Like I Didn't Have Anything To Share. It Was A Very Empty Time.

You'd Think, 'what If I Make A Mistake Today, I'll Regret It'. I Don’t Believe In Regret, I Feel Everything Leads Us To Where We Are And We Have To Just Jump Forward, Mean Well, Commit And Just See What Happens.

Everyone Can Help. We Can Educate Ourselves And Our Children About Other Countries And Cultures.

They Say It's Better Than Sex. It's So Much Better. It's Amazing.

I'm Always Doing Something. I Never Shut My Brain Off.

Like Most People, You Listen To Yourself On The Phone Or An Answering Machine And You're Like, 'ugh.' So To Do Something With Just Your Voice Is Hard.

I Always Hate Speculation On The News, So I Don't Want To Be Somebody Who Speculates.

I Like Everything. Boyish Girls, Girlish Boys, The Heavy And The Skinny. Which Is A Problem When I'm Walking Down The Street.

I Wonder Why Guys Mistreat And Disrespect Girls. But Then They Expect Life To Hand Them A Good Woman When They're Older And Ready To Settle Down?

I Do Not Feel Any Less Of A Woman. I Feel Empowered That I Made A Strong Choice That In No Way Diminishes My Femininity.

It's Very Important That People Understand That For Refugees To Come Into The Usa Is Very Difficult. What Upsets Me About The Whole Situation Is That People Don't Know The Difference Between A Migrant And A Refugee; They Don't Have Respect For What People Are Coming From - The People Who Against It - And They Have Completely Forgotten This Is What Built Our Country, The Diversity. When It Is Put Forward That Masses Of People Are Dangerous, And The Actual Numbers And The Situation Are Proven To Be Completely The Opposite Of The Way They're Presented Publicly, It's Horrible.

At The End Of The Day I'm Gonna Be Dead One Day, And What People Say About Me Is Going What I Accomplished And What I Did In My Life And How My Children Are. And I Don't Think It's Gonna Be What Was Printed In The Tabloids This Year.

I'm A Fairy. I'd Come And Hear, "how Was Your Day, Honey?" And I'd Be Like, "i Was A Fairy. I Don't Know."

To Do Something Good, It Has To Scare You.

I Think What Children Can Handle And What They're Interested In Is Much Deeper Than People Assume. It's Why Sometimes We Make Things Too Simple For Them.

Everyone Can Help. We Can Educate Ourselves And Our Children About Other Countries And Cultures. We Have A Responsibility To Be Aware Of Others And I Believe This Will Inspire The Individual Way Each Person Can Make Their Difference.

I Think Every Teenager Is A Hero. When We Are Young We Feel So Much Pain. Go To School Is Like Going To War, People Let You Down All The Time. Sometimes It's Very, Very Difficult To Stay Strong, But You Have To.

I Didn't Die Young. So I Am Very Lucky. There Are Other Artists And People That Didn't Survive Certain Things... People Can Imagine That I Did The Most Dangerous, And I Did The Worst... For Many Reasons, I Shouldn't Be Here.

Films That I Want To Do Are Few And Far Between.

An Off-screen Persona Of Globally Conscious Earth Mother And An Aggressive On-screen Embodiment Of Kali, Goddess Of Destruction.

Barefoot Or First Thing In The Morning, I Feel Beautiful. I Didn't Always Feel That Way, But I Feel That Way Now. When Somebody Loves You, And When You Make Somebody Else Happy, When Your Presence Seems To Make Them Happy, You Suddenly Feel Like The Most Beautiful Person In The World.

If You Ask People What They've Always Wanted To Do, Most People Haven't Done It. That Breaks My Heart.

I Usually Make Up Stories For My Kids.i Like To Tell Them Stories And Make Up Any Kind Of Crazy To Involve Them In Characters. The Kind Of Fairytales I Don't Like Are The Ones With Happy Endings, Where There's Just Good And Evil And Things Are Perfect. I Think When There's A Good Story For Children It Has A Moral Tale, So That's What I Try To Teach My Kids.

I Have So Many Children. Half Of Mine Are The Ones That Just Must Climb The Tree, Must Climb The Mountain, Must Get Dirty, Must Jump Off, Flip Into The Pool Sideways Because It's Just Who They Are. So You Try To Give Them As Much Guidance And Prepare Them But They Are Who They Are.

I Never Thought I'd Have Children; I Never Thought I'd Be In Love, I Never Thought I'd Meet The Right Person. Having Come From A Broken Home - You Kind Of Accept That Certain Things Feel Like A Fairy Tale, And You Just Don't Look For Them.

First And Foremost Comes My Family And My Life With Brad. We Have So Much Joy In Raising Our Children And Teaching Them About The World That Nothing Really Compares To That.

Actors Spend A Great Deal Of Their Time Making Films. And That Doesn't Mean That They're Not Educated. But We Haven't Gone To Law School And We're Not Experts On Policy. We're Just People With A Platform And An Opinion. But That Should Never Be Enough, In My Opinion, To Be Political.

Cause A Little Trouble. It’s Good For You.

Never Send A Boy To Do A Woman's Job.

Sometimes I Think My Husband Is So Amazing That I Don't Know Why He's With Me. I Don't Know Whether I'm Good Enough. But If I Make Him Happy, Then I'm Everything I Want To Be.

People Will Say What They Want To Say, And It's Okay. And My Life Will Go On, And I Need To Focus On My Life. So, Do I Need To Defend That I'm A Decent Woman? I Sure Hope I Don't. I Know I Am.

I've Started To Really Become Aware Of The World We Live In, What's Really Going On.

I Seem To Be Getting A Lot Of Things Pushed My Way That Are Strong Women. It's Like People See Hackers And They Send Me Offers To Play Tough Women With Guns, The Kind Who Wear No Bra And A Little Tank Top. I'd Like To Play Strong Women Who Are Also Very Feminine.

Acting Helped Me As I Was Growing Up. It Helped Me Learn About Myself, Helped Me Travel, Helped Me Understand Life, Express Myself, All Those Wonderful Things. So I'm Very, Very Grateful; It's A Fun Job. It's A Luxury.

Yeah, But Before Anything, I Think In 6 Years Somehow I've Grown Up To Have A Beautiful Home, 2 Beautiful Stepchildren, A Beautiful Husband, My Family Is Healthy And Happy. I'm Financially Ok And I Do What I Love For A Living. That's What I Think, And I Think God, How Did I Get So Lucky.

Apart From My Children, Spending Time With Refugees Was The Greatest Gift... The Greatest Life Lesson I Could Ever Receive.

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