Quotes from Mila Kunis

You want to be honest with a character and play it truthfully, and you want to be genuine with your character.

Detroit was really fun, FYI, in case anybody wants to go to Detroit. I love it. I did.

I actually live a very mediocre lifestyle. So I decided to step back and do things not just for the sake of doing them, but because I believe in them and I want to do them.

I think that when a person is insecure about who they are or who they want to be, then it translates on screen, and the choices they make are all about perception.

When it's a comedy or drama or horror or romance, it's all the same. You want to be honest with the character. You want to play truthfully and you want to be genuine with your character.

I grew up in the Ukraine 'til I was about 7, and then I moved to L.A.

People have interpretations of what you're supposed to be like. If you're unattractive and overweight, you must have a great personality. If you're attractive, then you must not be the nicest person. People are always taken aback that I'm easygoing but not necessarily stupid.

I wanted to quit the industry when I was eighteen and finish '70s', finish my contract on the show and go to college because I was pretty convinced that after '70s' and after being on a show for eight years that I would be very much pigeonholed for something specific that I didn't want to be a part of anymore.

In a marriage, you and your partner come first.

I think playing coy is silly. Speak your mind. If a man gets turned off, he's the wrong man.

I think there will always be a double standard between males and females, so I think that an actress is more likely to protect her public persona, so to speak, than an actor would be.

I commend women who wake up 30, 40 minutes early to put on eyeliner. I think it's ­beautiful. I'm just not that person.

Women innately have this weird thing where they try to have a perfect persona - to look perfect, be perfect, act perfect, have their kids look a certain way. Women put so much pressure on themselves.

Women get scrutinized all the time for the way they look. So if I can learn to deal with that, then I do believe I can learn to deal with people's criticisms of my film choices.

"Well, we knew it. Women can't sell movies". That's what it used to be like. "Well, this movie did well, but it's a fluke."

I had a normal upbringing and went to public school. If I ever, even for a second, started getting a big head, I was brought back to reality pretty quickly. I was working full time and still had to fight for a cell phone.

I grew up incredibly poor and went to school and had a very average upbringing.

I have an older brother who is 21 and attends UC Berkley.

The school was very supportive. The only class that I had to attend every day was biology when we were doing dissections. I would take an 8 a.m. bio class, dissect my animal, and then run to work.

Sadly, in any industry and in any work-related environment, females always strive to achieve a certain amount of perfection, whether that be skinny or pretty. It's a constant, in our society.

I've always been a big proponent of not working for the sake of working, because I don't want to work for the rest of my life - I want to live.

It's fun working on the set... I usually work about 10 and a half hours a day, and I also study about five of those hours. It can be tiring, but it's fun!

I decided to do a comedy. It's a good mind-set to go into work and be happy every day instead of being in a dark place.

[Oz the Great] it's not like I had to imagine things, and as far as wire work goes, I had fun with it.