135 Quotes by Bryce Dallas Howard

It's just that the characters are speaking their mind. As opposed to it just being an expression, they're actually saying what's on their mind, and that's something that Tennessee Williams is really famous for. Shakespeare does that and Tennessee Williams does that. You crave that, when you're an actor, for sure.

But, working with directors whose history is in performance, I feel like there's a different kind of focus, as opposed to directors who are more prone to being really technically proficient or visual. I feel like there are two schools of both, and a director needs to have both.

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.

I drive my husband crazy because I don’t browse books – I buy books. And he’s always giving me these ultimatums like, ‘If you don’t finish all the books you’ve bought, you’re not allowed to buy more.

The greatest sci-fis, in my mind, are two things: They’re what-ifs – what if this happened, and you get to see it – but they’re also these philosophical cautionary tales. They deal with the underlying themes beneath the what-if.

I have nothing nice to say about Chris Pratt, of course. He’s probably the greatest hero of our time in real life, honestly.

I’m a huge fan of the animated film ‘The Land Before Time’ and that was one of my favourite animated films when I was growing up.

My dad’s more three-dimensional than Opie Taylor or Richie Cunningham. He even has a temper! He’s a real person. But some people are disappointed by that.