Emmy Rossum
It's the best feeling when you wake up and it's warm and cozy, and you don't have to go to work.Collection: Best
I've never had siblings, I didn't grow up in a big family; it was just me and my single mom. And hectic family dysfunction was actually something that I craved.Collection: Mom
I hope that I'm sexy in a different kind of way than I think that a lot of girls are right now. I think a lot of girls in the public eye, especially musical artists, are just kind of objectified a little bit and wearing super-skimpy outfits and leaving nothing to the imagination.Collection: Imagination
I can put my legs behind my head and sing 'Happy Birthday.' Because that's something that me and my friends used to do when we were in gymnastics class as kids, and I can still do it. I was doing it since I was 8 and 9. They used to call me Gumby. Very bendy.Collection: Birthday
Being yourself is one of the hardest things because it's scary. You always wonder whether you'll be accepted for who you really are. I decided to call my record 'Inside Out' because that's my motto about life. I don't think you ever succeed at trying to be anyone else but who you truly are.
I started singing at the Met when I was seven, and the competition was so fierce that it really prepared me.
I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though.
Too many times you come across lyrics that sound like you've heard them before or you can't really relate to them. And I think that I write songs that sound fresh and sensual in kind of a layered, lush way. But I also think that they are real, and that's why I wanted to call the record 'Inside Out.'
I try to keep myself as sane and as grounded as possible by surrounding myself with normal people, such as all the friends that I've had from when I was little.
Everyone messes up in relationships and has peaks and valleys in their personal lives. When I realized it wasn't the end of the world and I would keep on standing, I knew it was going to be OK.
There's something safe about playing a character, but then it's like, 'Who am I underneath it all?'
I started working when I was seven and I was working for five dollars a night at the Met.
I've learned to take jobs as an actress that is meaningful to me because I've never taken a job for the money.
I know that I am my worst critic. I know that if I can walk away from the set at the end of the day and feel that I did the best job I could and feel proud, that's what will satisfy me.
I've been in the studio experimenting on making a CD of my own. I'm trying out different producers, styles, sounds. With music, as opposed to acting, you are not playing a character. You are showing people who you are. I really want to have my spirit in it.
Here we spent so much time together - eight months of our lives almost - and it was so great because we all got so close and that really made us not afraid to improve with each other.
She's lonely and wounded and very vulnerable and it really is a story about people at the heart of it all.
It is very grand and sumptuous and awesome to look at but it was really about the characters for me.
I feel like I've come out of this grown up, maybe because I live through the character vicariously and she grows up so much during the course of this story.
It wasn't my intention in going after this part but I suppose now I do. The adult roles are a lot meatier - you're not always just the daughter or the girlfriend or whatever.
Guys usually like a very natural look. I think it's bad idea to wear a strong lip on a first date - or for the first few dates. I'm always too nervous he'll kiss it off - if I'm lucky enough to get a kiss! I also think soft, sexy hair is important.
I've never had my brows done - I tweeze them myself. I used to watch my mom pluck her brows, that's how I learned.
If I can't find a project that I'm really interested in, I'll just go back to college where I've been studying art history and French. I'm also going to study English and philosophy - the whole curriculum!
Music is also a part of who I am so I'm thinking about recording an album.
I'd say that my musical influences are anywhere from pop-rock electronica, new age and classical. But I think that specifically, bands - I love Jem, I love Sigur Ross, I love David Gray, I love Elliot Smith... a lot of different people. But I don't find lyrical inspiration from anybody.
I never walk into the studio and say, I'm going to write a song called... 'X' or called 'Slow Me Down.' I write a ton of lyrics, often the title is somewhere in those 10 pages of... I call it brain vomit. It's kind of like whatever comes out of my head and I'm unabashedly just writing it down.
I don't really live my life in the media spotlight. People don't know that much really about me or what I think.
I think we're all a lot more like our parents than we want to admit.
When I was in school, I got there on the first day and everyone had long, blonde, straight hair, and I had short, dark, curly hair. I immediately felt I didn't fit in and started growing my hair. But I've learned that I'm only happy when I am truly me and feel comfortable and confident in myself.
People who take risks like Amy Winehouse and Norah Jones take a second to catch on, but eventually they do because they're different and honest in a musical landscape that's not always like that.
Being yourself is one of the hardest thing because it's scary you always wonder whether you'll be accepted for who you really are.Collection: Being Yourself
When something looks too good to be true, it usually is.Collection: Looks
Life can be very funny and very tragic. Everyone has stuff that they've been through that makes up whatever fire it is that they have in their gut, but nobody goes around wearing that as their outmost exterior, all the time.Collection: Fire
I just really gravitate towards a nostalgia for a time when things were simpler. When beauty was more classical and glamorous.Collection: Nostalgia
In terms of the characters, I definitely do look for somebody that I think people can learn from and I can learn from too. In one way or another, by the fact that they are a role or by that fact that they aren't a role model. I feel like I was attracted to the past few characters that I've played, because they have an element that really touched my heart.Collection: Heart
I suppose that it doesn't matter whether a song is written or sung by a man or a woman. If the sentiment is there, it captures the audience.Collection: Song
I've never been a person who focused on trends. I'm influenced and inspired by trends, but I don't always subscribe to them.Collection: Trends
I think of Gisele Bundchen to get myself on the treadmillCollection: Thinking
We like it to be realistic but not real, but I wear something I call the 'vag pad,' it's kind of a little triangular panty liner that you stick to you.Collection: Real
A friend of mine is in a long-distance relationship. They have dates on Skype. They'll both watch the same movie and...play.Collection: Long Distance Relationship
I went to school on the Internet. I was not a cheerleader.Collection: School
With social media and advertising and filters and FaceTune-ing it's hard to even to know what's real and what's not. So to see an image of a woman where you can actually see her face and her skin texture and she's still polished and beautiful or even glamorous with a nighttime look, but it still feels like a real person. I feel like that's the kind of beauty I want to applaud and align myself with.Collection: Beautiful
A lot of my hair and makeup, and everything I pull for inspiration, is [drawn] from old photographs.Collection: Inspiration
Uncommon things that are attractive in women: a gap between the teeth... a unique fashion sense.... In MEN... a unique nose... or accents.Collection: Fashion
I can be naked with the lights on.Collection: Light
All the Hollywood bullshit and accolades and money really doesn't matter. It just gives you a slightly nicer house and slightly nicer food and slightly shinier hair.Collection: Hair
As an actor, you always look for things that will stretch you and that are different than you are, so that you can surprise yourself, and you want to surround yourself with the highest caliber of people that will make you look good.Collection: People
I always think I could do better. I always think that something could be more perfect, but I think that that's just within my nature. I think I want to please a director, I want to give my everything and find every which way I could have burrowed further into a character.Collection: Character
Sometimes I vocalize in the car. It's a good way to multitask. Although fellow drivers on the road think I'm craaaazy.Collection: Thinking
I've always loved the fashion of the '30s and everything that came with the Art Deco era - the jewelry and the glamour.Collection: Fashion