Emmy Rossum Quotes

Everyone messes up in relationships and has peaks and valleys in their personal lives. When I realized it wasn't the end of the world and I would keep on standing, I knew it was going to be OK.

I think we're all a lot more like our parents than we want to admit.

When something looks too good to be true, it usually is.

It's the best feeling when you wake up and it's warm and cozy, and you don't have to go to work.

I've never had siblings, I didn't grow up in a big family; it was just me and my single mom. And hectic family dysfunction was actually something that I craved.

I don't really live my life in the media spotlight. People don't know that much really about me or what I think.

Being yourself is one of the hardest thing because it's scary you always wonder whether you'll be accepted for who you really are.

I think of Gisele Bundchen to get myself on the treadmill

We like it to be realistic but not real, but I wear something I call the 'vag pad,' it's kind of a little triangular panty liner that you stick to you.

I suppose that it doesn't matter whether a song is written or sung by a man or a woman. If the sentiment is there, it captures the audience.

I've always loved the fashion of the '30s and everything that came with the Art Deco era - the jewelry and the glamour.

I know that I am my worst critic. I know that if I can walk away from the set at the end of the day and feel that I did the best job I could and feel proud, that's what will satisfy me.

I went to school on the Internet. I was not a cheerleader.

All the Hollywood bullshit and accolades and money really doesn't matter. It just gives you a slightly nicer house and slightly nicer food and slightly shinier hair.

I've never had my brows done - I tweeze them myself. I used to watch my mom pluck her brows, that's how I learned.

It wasn't my intention in going after this part but I suppose now I do. The adult roles are a lot meatier - you're not always just the daughter or the girlfriend or whatever.

Here we spent so much time together - eight months of our lives almost - and it was so great because we all got so close and that really made us not afraid to improve with each other.

When a really cute dog shows up on your doorstep, you can't be like, Yeah, no. You're like, Oh, yay, puppy!

I started singing at the Met when I was seven, and the competition was so fierce that it really prepared me.

I try to keep myself as sane and as grounded as possible by surrounding myself with normal people, such as all the friends that I've had from when I was little.

I'm a very rational person but I pray every day.

I feel like, as an adult, a lot of how you feel about yourself and what your inner workings are can be revealed in a sexual situation.

I feel like I've come out of this grown up, maybe because I live through the character vicariously and she grows up so much during the course of this story.

A friend of mine is in a long-distance relationship. They have dates on Skype. They'll both watch the same movie and...play.

I think acting is a job where you're always unemployed. You're always looking for the next job, so I assume that it's like other jobs that are with that same kind of setup.

I just really gravitate towards a nostalgia for a time when things were simpler. When beauty was more classical and glamorous.

Never get your girlfriend a pet that she didn't know she was getting.

It is very grand and sumptuous and awesome to look at but it was really about the characters for me.

Hey @giseleofficial, I feel ya girl. #kidding #fakebaby #soymilk #shameless.

She's lonely and wounded and very vulnerable and it really is a story about people at the heart of it all.

I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though.

Ideal date is doing something new, either hiking a new place I've not been, or learning something weird and new like pottery.... and then a meal.

I've learned to take jobs as an actress that is meaningful to me because I've never taken a job for the money.

I love music. I'd love to go on Broadway and do a musical there. I just like to kind of go with whatever's inspiring at the moment, and kind of follow that as far as I can.

Uncommon things that are attractive in women: a gap between the teeth... a unique fashion sense.... In MEN... a unique nose... or accents.

Being on Twitter, live tweeting some of the episodes, I get direct feedback from people.

As an actor, and especially as a young woman, there's so much pressure to look good all the time and it really detracts from what our job really is about, which is portraying a different person.

A lot of my hair and makeup, and everything I pull for inspiration, is [drawn] from old photographs.

I love the silhouettes of the '50s that were feminine and womanly without being too revealing. I've always gravitated towards that kind of sense of style and fashion.

I love Judy Garland, I love Doris Day, I love Marilyn Monroe. I love everything that comes from that era. The music is just beautiful and powerful - and simple. That's what makes it so great.

I have a dog as well, and I'm not a vegan or anything. But I needlepoint and I have a cat, so it's not boding well.

That's my dream to be old enough and mature enough that I won't be considered an "old lady" if I have a house with a barn. Because I already do needlepoint.

I've never been a person who focused on trends. I'm influenced and inspired by trends, but I don't always subscribe to them.

A lot of people would wear anger, depression or aggravation as their first layer, and they don't. They very much understand what's really important in life.

When I read the scripts, I'm always so excited to see what's going to happen because it's unpredictable.

I always wanted an older brother. That was my thing. My mom would be like, "What do you want for your birthday?" I'd be like, "I want an older brother."

I loved getting to investigate the grey areas of morality.

I'm an actor, so I love to be degraded!

I hate cats. But this cancer cat made me feel bad, so I was like, Okay, I'll take her back to L. A. and give her her last six months of pain-free life.

My favorite episode is where the guy has a relationship with his car. An intimate and sexual and emotional relationship with his car.