"I think that people are built the way that they’re built. There’s that Kate Moss quote that’s like ‘Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels’ and I can name a lot of things that taste better than skinny feels: bread, potatoes … a Philly cheesesteak and fries."
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"Being inappropriate comes easy to me."
"I think there was the studio mentality for a long time that women and girls can relate to a male hero, but boys and men can't relate to a female hero."
"In a short amount of time, I've lived so much, had so many experiences and met so many different types of people and even lived in so many countries. If I had been in school, I'd be learning about the world from books."
"I've never considered failure."
"My publicist told me that a magazine was going to say I was having a thing with either Sam Claflin or Bradley Cooper, and I got to choose. And I chose Bradley Cooper because I love Sam's fiancée so much. Sam is so sweet. So sweet that he's almost not hot anymore."
"There are actresses who build themselves, and then there are actresses who are built by others. I want to build myself."
"My breasts have a life of their own."
"You look how you look"
"When I'm not working, I am the laziest person. I can literally lie on a couch and watch television for 15 hours."
"Everyone's brain works in a different way. I didn't feel smart in school; I just didn't get it. I thought I was an idiot. Until I got out."
"Why can't I say anything normal?"
"I'm sorry, I just did a shot"
"I hate saying, 'I like exercising.' I want to punch people who say that in the face."
"I never play characters that are like me because I'm a boring person. I wouldn't want to see me in a movie."
"You ask if you look good and you know people are lying. It was a depressing thing to experience. I was going to these parties where I used to be ignored and then all of a sudden people are paying attention to me."
"I'm never going to starve myself for a part. I don't want little girls to be like, 'Oh, I want to look like Katniss, so I'm going to skip dinner.' That's something I was really conscious of during training, when you're trying to get your body to look exactly right. I was trying to get my body to look fit and strong-not thin and underfed."
"As hard as it is and as tired as I am, I force myself to get dinner at least once a week with my girlfriends, or have a sleepover. Otherwise my life is just work."
"Seeing what is wrong and how it could be made right propels us into action, but in that action we often leave other people behind and don't give ourselves enough time to be present, or to stop and reflect. Leaders have to get comfortable with pausing in that uncomfortable gap."
"I was having chest pains. Photoshop made it glamorous."