It's, like, sort of a dream thing for an actor when they're told to gain weight.
— Bryce Dallas Howard
I don't know how many roles I can ask my dad to play in my life, but so far, father, best friend, role model, mentor and grandfather to my children are working out quite well.
Creativity is all around us, and some of the funniest, most beautiful, and touching moments happen when you least expect it.
I can only really speak for myself and what I've noticed in my kids and the people in my life, but because dinosaurs were real, and yet they seem so fantastical, is why they held such a huge fascination for me as a child. They're so different from human beings.
I try to focus moment to moment on being an aware, responsible, contributive member of society. You see trash on the ground, pick it up!
It is an honor for me to take part in Canon's Project Imagin8ion, partnering with a brand that is empowering young filmmakers and is at the forefront of technology.
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.
I'm always looking at my brother and sisters, thinking - do we look inbred, maybe? Maybe a tiny bit.
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.
I never really dyed my hair anything significant from my natural hair color.
I'm a night owl.
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!
Ours was a loving, nurturing household, but, at the same time, my parents' goal was to make all their children self-sufficient.
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.
I'm not an NRA member, but that doesn't mean I didn't appreciate shooting blanks out of a machine gun.
When I work on a film, I always tend to relate to the crew.
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.
I'm a little superstitious.
My greatest dream is to work with my dad someday as an actress.
I found out I was pregnant seven days after my wedding. I was on honeymoon with my family.
There's not a higher stake than someone having to face their own death.
Everything about doing 'Jurassic World' was a dream come true.
As a teenager, I was perpetually grounded. I was stubborn rather than rebellious.
Getting on a popular, long-running show like 'Happy Days' is the actor's equivalent of winning the lottery.
Yeah, I'm a little weird. I'm definitely a little eccentric.
Actors are always nervous about not only hurting each other, but maybe perhaps hitting each other's face and ending one's career.
There's something really freeing about playing a character that isn't even, like, remotely likeable whatsoever.
When I started working, I just had my name be 'Bryce Dallas.'
I don't have any friends who are actors through my dad.
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.
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.
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'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.
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.
My first pregnancy, I gained 75 pounds.
What keeps me sane the most is, honestly, the Serenity Prayer.
The thing that every parent hopes for is that the baby's healthy, I'm healthy. No matter how you feel, that's the most important thing.
I think the success of the 'Twilight' movies, not just the books, comes down to Stephenie Meyer.
Directing 'When You Find Me' was one of the most creatively rewarding endeavors of my career.
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.'
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.
As far as what is the line between human and machine? That's a great question.
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.
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.
I've always been, with acting, very hesitant to get myself into situations where I would be accused of nepotism.
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.
My dad is the most humble man on the planet.
I'm not going to lie. I rarely wear sunblock.
I struggle immensely with celebrities of all kinds. I get clammy hands and turn a little purple.
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.
