Bryce Dallas Howard
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.Collection: Age
You can't raise kids alone, you can't heal alone... you really need a community.Collection: Alone
My dad made a film called 'Willow' when he was a young filmmaker, which screened at the Cannes film festival, and people were booing afterwards.Collection: Dad
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.Collection: Amazing
I found out I was pregnant seven days after my wedding. I was on honeymoon with my family.Collection: Wedding
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.Collection: Failure
I created a fitness club with five friends. We have weekly check-ins and a reward system - and group penalties if one of us slacks off.Collection: Fitness
My dad is the most humble man on the planet.Collection: Dad
When I work on a film, I always tend to relate to the crew.
While 'The Help' is in so many ways a celebration of these women's friendships and what they overcome, it's also very truthful and very painful, and it was intense for my mom to read that.
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.
It's, like, sort of a dream thing for an actor when they're told to gain weight.
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.
Sometimes people are like, 'Do you want to play strong women?' I don't have to play strong women in order to feel like a strong woman myself, but I do feel it's important to play characters that are complex and interesting and believable.
My first pregnancy, I gained 75 pounds.
I've always been, with acting, very hesitant to get myself into situations where I would be accused of nepotism.
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!
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.
Creativity is all around us, and some of the funniest, most beautiful, and touching moments happen when you least expect it.
Everyone in Hollywood has a screenplay.
I did karate for years and years and years.
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.
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.
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.
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 struggle immensely with celebrities of all kinds. I get clammy hands and turn a little purple.
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 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 don't have any friends who are actors through my dad.
When I started working, I just had my name be 'Bryce Dallas.'
I did a play in New York at the public theater, a Shakespeare play, and M. Night Shyamalan, who is the writer/director of 'The Village,' came and saw me in the play and asked to go to lunch afterwards.
There's something really freeing about playing a character that isn't even, like, remotely likeable whatsoever.
I never really dyed my hair anything significant from my natural hair color.
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.
Actors are always nervous about not only hurting each other, but maybe perhaps hitting each other's face and ending one's career.
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.
As far as what is the line between human and machine? That's a great question.
Yeah, I'm a little weird. I'm definitely a little eccentric.
I'm always looking at my brother and sisters, thinking - do we look inbred, maybe? Maybe a tiny bit.
I think what's exciting about playing a villain - particularly a villain who's totally unapologetic about their evil intentions - is that it's not anything remotely like what you get to do in real life. You're never allowed to be evil and not feel bad about it afterwards, let alone be evil, period.
Getting on a popular, long-running show like 'Happy Days' is the actor's equivalent of winning the lottery.
Actors create a fantastic lifestyle thinking they're going to be able to maintain it. Then they can't get work or have to start taking work that doesn't suit them.
My sister can walk down the street and just know what's going on with people. She'll say, 'Oh, they're going through a divorce' or, 'Their kid just went off to college' or, 'He just got a great job.'