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"My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons."
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"To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible."
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"I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father."
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"I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me."
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"Dad made it to Gold Shield Detective, so he always busted Robin, my oldest brother, and me. Always got caught, whatever we were doing."
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"My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918."
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"I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude."
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"What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason."
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"The most significant piece of advice my father gave me early on about acting was, don't get caught acting. Really believe in what you're doing and then commit to it. Even if it feels uncomfortable, even if you feel that you're gonna look like an ass. It's all acting, but find the truth in a moment as opposed to just pretending you have and rather than trying to act your way out of it."
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"I would ask my dad what he did, and he'd say, 'I listen to people's problems.' In some way what he did for a living is in my genes."
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"My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you've been a difficult teenager."
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"When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture."
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"On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing."
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"I like men with some belly who are a little over the hill."
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"Acting is the work of two people-it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director."
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"The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked."
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"The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle."
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"I really wanted to work and become independent."
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"You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real."
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"Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me."
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"For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses."
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