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" 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. "

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" '50/50' is a comedy. I shouldn't say it's a buddy comedy because it's not farcical, and it's based on a true story, but it's viewing that experience through a very truthful lens of humour. "

Bryce Dallas Howard

Experience

True

Story

" Whenever I hear the word 'breakout,' I associate it with acne. "

" I found out I was pregnant seven days after my wedding. I was on honeymoon with my family. "

" I never really dyed my hair anything significant from my natural hair color. "

" Sometimes people are like, 'Do you want to play strong women?' I don't have to play strong women in order to feel like a strong woman myself, but I do feel it's important to play characters that are complex and interesting and believable. "

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

Bryce Dallas Howard

Most

Serenity

" I've done a lot of weird, otherworldly characters, and I think I'm at my best when I'm kind of in the woods running around screaming or depressed. "

" 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! "

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

Bryce Dallas Howard

Anthropology

Rebellion

" As a teenager, I was perpetually grounded. I was stubborn rather than rebellious. "

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

" 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. "

Bryce Dallas Howard

Broken

Parents

" 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! "

" It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters. "

" I loved being pregnant. "

" I try to go with the flow and have faith that everything is going to work out. "

" I've always been, with acting, very hesitant to get myself into situations where I would be accused of nepotism. "

" I've always had the perspective that roles come into my life when I need them most and sort of teach me lessons. The same can be true of films, films are released into society to aid in a lesson, inspire people, comfort people. "

" I feel like I almost didn't grow up in the business, because my parents worked so hard at sheltering us from that. I was raised in Connecticut. And I honestly wasn't aware that my dad was a celebrity until I moved to Los Angeles a year ago. "

" 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. "

Bryce Dallas Howard

Person

Seriously

" 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. "

" My body's my best friend. "

" My dad is the most humble man on the planet. "

" 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. "

Bryce Dallas Howard

Myself

People