I saw an episode - the second episode [of Black Mirror], "Fifteen Million Merits" - and I completely flipped out: "This is what my nightmares are made of. This is the most terrifying thing I've ever seen."

Bryce Dallas Howard

Categorized in : Mirrors Black Fifteen

I'm definitely not very insecure, but I have perfectionist tendencies, and I'll want things to be a certain way.

Bryce Dallas Howard

insecure want way

You can't become another person if you're not self-aware.

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persons ifs self

Girls can do anything, for sure. Even running in the mud in heels.

Bryce Dallas Howard

mud girl running

Social media is a performance like any other form of entertainment, and acknowledging that is important.

Bryce Dallas Howard

entertainment media important

That is one of the hardest things I have ever had to do in my life, running through the jungle in heels. Because also, mud was often times three feet deep, and that was full on for sure.

Bryce Dallas Howard

three feet running

To be perfectly honest, Christ Pratt is one of the greatest human beings I've ever met in my entire life. He really is. Everything about him was my favourite thing. I also really love how tall he is, 'cuz I'm kind of a tall girl and often times when I'm doing a movie I need to slouch, but I could stand tall and proud next to Chris Pratt.

Bryce Dallas Howard

cuz girl needs

I have very vivid dreams and nightmares, and my biggest fear is of some kind of dystopian future where we're advanced in every way except in our humanity.

Bryce Dallas Howard

vivid humanity dream

I actually gained 30 pounds [for the episode], and I haven't lost all of it yet so I haven't been like "I gained 30 pounds!" Because I don't know if people can tell the difference.

Bryce Dallas Howard

differences pounds people

What I wasn't used to was being in front of the camera.

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fronts cameras used

I'm sure there's a range, but I think everyone can pretend.

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range thinking

It's really about connecting to your own humanity and your own behaviors, and getting to a level of self-awareness so that you can have perspective and step outside of yourself and transform and become another person.

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perspective humanity self

There was definitely a learning curve in terms of being on film, but being on a set was all good.

Bryce Dallas Howard

curves film term

I've never, ever, in my entire life, been upset at a casting choice.

Bryce Dallas Howard

casting upset choices

For me personally, I don't go onto Twitter or Facebook, my hubby helps me out because sometimes I'm concerned that I'll see something that will upset me, and I don't have a way to work it out with that person.

Bryce Dallas Howard

hubby upset way

You do your best [ on auditions] and sometimes you win 'em over and sometimes you don't.

Bryce Dallas Howard

auditions ems winning

The ability to play pretend is something that everyone has access to; you see little kids doing it.

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play littles kids

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

Bryce Dallas Howard

nice real hero

I feel like it's a subversive thing [a certain body type to admire] which keeps women preoccupied with something that doesn't matter, and takes up a lot of space, and prevents people from what they're meant to be doing.

Bryce Dallas Howard

body-types space people

I'll run through things over and over and over again in my head and think, "How could I have done that better?" Silly things like that.

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silly running thinking

On the spectrum of imagination, there are people who are more imaginative than others - I guess some kids are hardcore pretenders and have imaginary friends for years and other kids play and they have fun, but it's not quite as specific like that.

Bryce Dallas Howard

fun kids years