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Quotes
I just want pieces of the world - in reference
to her career.
A Virgo is a perfectionist. For a Virgo,
everything is planned and structured a certain way, and if it doesn't go
that way, then it's a problem. So I've had to really learn to flow so that
I don't bring in unnecessary anxieties into my life with the illusion that
I'm actually controlling something, because it's just not possible. Things
are what they are, and they're going to be what they're going to be. And
you just pray that it goes your way. Because problems are going to come.
Don't create them for yourself.
With Will, my life is full of laughter.
Women, you can have it all - a loving man, devoted husband, loving children, a fabulous career.
I'm extremely ambitious. I don't know why people are afraid to say that. I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.
I also had a very loving, supporting family:
my grandmother, who was very involved in my life, and my aunts and my
uncles. The attitude that I can do anything is from my grandmother. She
was like, "I am going to prepare you in a way that you cannot be
denied anything."
Will is a very interesting, unique man, and
I'll tell you why. He makes love like a woman. He loves to touch, massage
and feel. He makes love like he's in touch with himself, who he is. And
he's a very sensual, incredible lovemaker.
I look for those moments of discovery every
day of my life. Whether it's about myself or Will, or if I pick up a book
and flip through it.
When Willow was two months [old], I started
training. I had to lose weight. I had to strengthen my body up. The good
thing was that I had a lot of flexibility, 'cause while you're
breastfeeding I don't know if you know this yet, darling, but you
will in time, there's a chemical in your body, relaxin. And that makes you
very flexible.
"You think you're taking my kids to
Europe on a damn bus?" Once again it's just understanding the
necessity for your partner to live, like live, and reach their full
potential.
In Japan, he is God. -on Keanu Reeves.
Growing up in the neighborhoods that I grew up
in and having a mother who was addicted to heroin, I had to learn to be a
spiritual, emotional, intellectual, and physical fighter at a young age.
And it just prepared me for the struggle. Nobody was going to stop me. So
by the time I got to L.A., I was fearless. And I just kept that mentality,
like I'm going to get mine no matter what.
Yeah, you know, my breasts, that's a good thing.
I actually had an opportunity to meet with the
Wachowski brothers for the first movie, and so when I found out that they
had written Niobe for me, I was blown away.
learned early that the only thing you have in
this world is your integrity. You have to be able to get up in the morning
and look at yourself. So I knew that I wasn't going to put myself in a
compromising situation where I owed anybody anything. When I walked into a
room, either you like what you see as far as my talent's concerned, or
fuck it, somebody else will. People look at me as a hard ass, though, and
that's been hard for me.
I was nine months pregnant. They didn't know I was pregnant, but I was like, "Don't even worry about it. We're gonna handle all that."
[On the martial arts training for The Matrix
Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions] I saw Keanu (Reeves) sitting in a tub
of ice. And I'm looking at him like 'You're in that for...' and he's
looking at me like 'You'll know one day.'
So I got my kicks down, worked out in the gym,
put on about 15 pounds of muscle. I was in the gym about twice a day. It
was very intense training.
The Logos is the fastest ship out of the fleet
and that's my ship. ... I'm the best pilot in the fleet so, you know,
something needs to be done ... and I'm the one to handle it.
I don't know if I'm a rock star.
Nobody would believe the journey of my life. I
always say that if you look at life as a chessboard, I started without the
king and the queen.
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