Quotes from Bryce Dallas Howard

I'm definitely not very insecure, but I have perfectionist tendencies, and I'll want things to be a certain way.

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!

I'm not an NRA member, but that doesn't mean I didn't appreciate shooting blanks out of a machine gun.

Getting to have an opportunity to tell a story that is about mental illness and how it affects one's self and one's community was really something that really meant a lot to me.

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.

My friends knew I was obsessed with these 'Twilight' boys because I love a dangerous love story.

I have an amino acid missing that you can only get from certain kinds of eggs. So, I've been eating a few eggs.

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 think the success of the 'Twilight' movies, not just the books, comes down to Stephenie Meyer.

My mum told me, 'At that moment when you know you can't do both, the marriage and the kids, choose the marriage because you're going to be spending your whole lives together, so you have to put a lot of work and attention into the relationship.'

There's a lot of wisdom that my dad and my grandparents and my uncle have been able to impart on me, and what I've treasured the most is I've seen examples in my life of people embracing their creativity, not feeling insecure about their artistic inclinations.

There's not a higher stake than someone having to face their own death.

Actors are always nervous about not only hurting each other, but maybe perhaps hitting each other's face and ending one's career.

I stepped in for Nicole Kidman in 'Dogville' when she left that film.

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'm obsessed with my parents.

Of course any kind of film process has ups and downs and days where you're stuck and have breakthroughs.

When I work on a film, I always tend to relate to the crew.

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 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 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.

You meet your soulmate, and you're like, 'Well, this is it. This is the feeling of falling in love, and it's the most intense it can ever be.' Then you have a child, and it's like – it's huge!

Using the word 'bossy' for girls can be quite harmful. What is that saying - that being focused, being assertive, being the boss has a negative attribute? And I have heard that term associated more with women than with men. 'He's so bossy' - you don't hear that. It's a very subtle thing.

Joe Wright is incredible and I'm a huge admirer of his work in general, but specifically his aesthetics and poeticism.