Maria Menounos Quotes

The designer of my Emmy gown is donating my gown to the charity for an auction.

You have to take control of your own career.

I think people think we`re all sipping martinis by the pool.

You have your managers, your agents, your lawyers, your publicists, and your colleagues that you have to coordinate things with.

One of the first things I did was interview the President of the United States. Some people work their whole lives and can`t interview someone of that stature.

I know that producing will ultimately mean more longevity in the business, so when I`m tired of everything else and want to be behind the cameras, I know that I can produce.

A lot of people didn`t realize that I acted before I did anything else.

I am honored to be a Bond girl and be a part of the Bond legacy, To star in a video game with Connery, the original Bond, is incredible.

I love comic book movies, and Marvel Comics obviously are the best.

I`m really excited, because the character, Jules, is a really awesome character. I`m really excited to be playing her, and overall, I`m really excited to be getting back to my acting roots.

Back in the day after I won my first pageant there was an agency that was getting me work on the side.

So now, cut to ten years later, and I`m making this amazing contract with Pantene. It`s incredible.

Tim Story is a fantastic director, and I`m so excited to get to work with him.

Integrity is integrity. I don`t push it to the side because I`m talking to Julia Roberts.

There`s something about taking a film from concept to script, through production, and then to see the final thing happening in the edit phase. It`s almost like a miracle in the making.

So most of my acting experience came in college when I was living away from them. I acted in various independent films, and I got some commercial work and stuff like that.

I think Channel One was very integral in my career.

I was in choir my whole life. I`m hoping at some point to be able to explore singing again as well, because I still take singing lessons every week.

I always wanted to play hockey, and my parents wouldn`t let me. I swear, they`re not bad parents, they just wanted to protect me.

We had four different sets and built 38 flats to use as walls, so we had a major production going on. It`s so much fun when you`re controlling it, but it`s also so much pressure.

I saw Redeye, and I love being scared and on the edge of my seat.

Before this Bond thing came around, I grew up playing a lot of videogames. Obviously Nintendo, and all that. I still know all the codes!

The odd thing is, I don`t consider what I do work, because it`s what I love. But it is also an enormous amount of pressure, and you have to work an enormous amount of hours.

My parents were really against it. And that`s how I ended up getting into television and broadcasting, because my parents wouldn`t allow acting.

That`s why charity work is very selfish at the same time, because it makes you feel good.

So for me, anything that has to do with animals, and I`m a happy camper.

I`m happiest when I`m doing a million things. I don`t see my career going in any one direction. I see myself doing a potpourri of things.

If you take the more general role of going to local stations around the country in Montana or South Carolina or wherever, and start in the local news, it`s a lot more difficult to get to the stories that you want to really cover.