Bryce Dallas Howard Quotes

When I was in high school, my parents had this power over me - if I ever lied or got caught doing something that I shouldn't be doing, then I would no longer be able to go to L.A. and continue to pursue the acting thing.

There is nothing I feel that connected or passionate about that would take me away from acting.

My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.

Doing what you want to do is easy. Doing what you have to do is hard.

I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal.

I don't want to give up acting - it's what I am.

My mom was very strict. She didn't let me watch anything rated R or anything with cussing.

One of the main rules with my mom was if I broke a club, she was going to take it and I wouldn't get it back. So I made sure I kept all my clubs.

I love acting and I have a need to do it, even when the business is down.

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

He will punish you as a father punishes his disobedient child, unless you do as he desires.

If my parents ever had to ground me, they didn't really know what that would mean, because I was inside most of the time anyway.

I treat my acting career with a lot of respect.

I follow the roles.

If I learned one thing by playing professional hockey for thirty-two years, it's that you have to love what you do. And that's not just true for sports.

As captain, I want us to be ambitious; I want us to be winners - but above all, I hope we will show how much we love the game by passing the ball and achieving success through our technical and tactical approach.

If you don't show up, you lose.

I have a track record of accepting my party's decisions. I do whatever work is given to me with determination. That's all.

We learned at a young age, with our dad, that even if you weren't doing something, you had to look like you were, or some hard labor was coming your way. That's the reason I started practicing music - when I was practicing, Pops left me alone.

My dad told me, 'Whatever you do, don't dance. Do something else. Do anything else.' He knew how much hard work you have to put in, how hard it is to make a living, and he didn't want me to do it.

Rules that are not stringently upheld are more likely to get broken.

My parents were very strict and had rules for me and, if ever I was playing outside, I always had a set time to come back in.

I didn't care how much work it would take, and I didn't see the time invested as a waste or like I was missing out on anything. Ballet became my ultimate passion.

The sport is my first priority because it has given me everything.

Acting is everything to me; it's what I've always wanted to do. I may never have this chance to do what I'm doing right now. So I guess right now I'm going to do as much as I can with it.