Quotes from Bryce Dallas Howard

Everyone in Hollywood has a screenplay.

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.

You have to see, kid by kid, what their needs are and what kind of parent you need to be for them.

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.

I'm drawn toward filmmakers who have a very distinctive voice. I really appreciate people who push themselves and, therefore, push the medium forward.

I would amputate my toes to work with Lars von Trier again.

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.

Telling everyone I wanted to go into forensic anthropology was my form of rebellion.

Tom Hanks is fantastic - he is one of my dad's good friends, and he's very warm and funny.

As far as I'm concerned: Chris Pratt for president! He'd save us.

I'm a little superstitious.

I have very vivid dreams and nightmares, and my biggest fear is of some kind of dystopian future where we're advanced in every way except in our humanity.

My dad is the most humble man on the planet.

It's not that I'm a serious person; I'm playful and stuff like that, but I take characters very seriously and the work very seriously.

My mom always told me one of the reasons that she was really happy in her life was that, if Dad never worked again, she was confident that she could support the family.

Do I wish I had never endured postpartum depression? Absolutely. But to deny the experience is to deny who I am.

I'm very conventional compared to my parents.

I'm not a strong cook. I can do the crockpot; that's about it.

When I started working, I just had my name be 'Bryce Dallas.'

There was definitely a learning curve in terms of being on film, but being on a set was all good.

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.

It's, like, sort of a dream thing for an actor when they're told to gain weight.

What keeps me sane the most is, honestly, the Serenity Prayer.

My first pregnancy, I gained 75 pounds.