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" After 'The Matrix,' I cannot wear sunglasses. As soon as I put them on, people recognize me. "
People
Sunglasses
Them
" Eventually I want to be a full-time mother who works occasionally - and being an actor you have that freedom. "
You
Mother
Want
" Everyone has different issues, and I think for a great deal of women, those issues are self-esteem. And for me, I really wanted to understand it and get through it because I didn't want to be an actress afraid of getting older. I refuse to live that way. "
Think
Women
Getting Older
" For a while, I was feeling so creative in motherhood that I had no longing to work. I felt that my children needed me, that I couldn't leave them for a second. "
Children
Me
Motherhood
" For me, the biggest thing is someone who's kind. I'm not into the bad-boy thing. "
Biggest
Bad-Boy
Someone
" I don't believe in being typecast. If I believed it, it probably would have happened to me. You attract what you make. "
Attract
Believe
You
" I feel so lucky that I had so many opportunities. "
Lucky
I Feel
Opportunities
" I grew up in a very middle-class life. I'm grateful for it - it has given me a lot of stability. "
Life
Up
Stability
" I just can't stand the sound of my voice sometimes, or how my face looks. There are always a few times at every premiere when I just have to cover my eyes when I'm up there. "
Sometimes
Face
Voice
" I love to play women who are strong and unapologizing and kind of rough around the edges and don't care what anybody thinks about that. "
Play
Women
Strong
" I'm a very simple person. I don't use computers. "
Person
Computers
Simple
" In real life, I'm the kind of person that if I use Siri, I thank her afterwards. "
Her
Real
Real Life
" I remember, when I was modelling in Japan, the agency would tell us that some guy wanted to take all the girls out to dinner, and I would be the one girl who didn't go - I didn't want to go out with a stranger. "
Tell
Go
Girl
" I shoplifted. I was about five years old, and I took a candy from a store. We paid for three of them, but I took four, and I went home and cried. My mom took me back, and I paid for the missing piece. "
Back
Mom
Me
" I trained for months to figure out how to ride a motorcycle. I have kind of a major fear of them. I have a major fear of going at fast speeds without any kind of protection, no helmet, an actor on the back with no helmet. I felt very afraid to do it. I love that I did it and overcame the fear and was able to do that. "
Ride
Fear
Fast
" It's extremely difficult and very challenging to be a woman in film and television. Just showing up in this business forces you to know yourself. But I learned how to deal with rejection and get tough when I was working as a model - it taught me how to put myself out there. In a way, my time modelling was a preparation for life. "
Woman
Time
Myself
" I've never been interested in action movies. Definitely not interested in sci-fi. "
Movies
Action
Not Interested
" Modelling asks you to be conscious of your outer self, but with acting, you have to let that go. "
Conscious
Acting
Your
" My husband jokes that I'll invite people over for dinner and he won't know who they are or where I met them. But in my work world, I've never really been tempted to tell too much of my story. "
People
Dinner
Know
" Parenting takes a lot of creativity, and I embrace it fully. "
Creativity
Lot
Parenting
" People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life. "
Parents
Life
Religion
" Self-care is so much more than a beauty regimen or an external thing you do. It has to start within your heart to know what you need to navigate your life. A pedicure doesn't last, but meditating every day does. "
Know
Day
Heart
" Tell me that I can't do something, and I'll do it. "
Something
Tell
Me
" When you play a doctor, you have to look like you can do it but you don't actually go and do it. It's not like you learn how to cut open somebody and go do surgery. You have to think of a human being and not play the idea of what that would look like. "
You
Think
Look
" Where it gets clear for me about the privacy issue is with my kids because they didn't choose this kind of life. I'm an incredibly open person, though - I'll tell anyone anything. "
Choose
Life
Person
" Who could have imagined that a platform like - I'll use Netflix as a example - that it could be so good? "
Use
Good
Like
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