"I've been working on Barb for a while. I looked at her as a sort of every woman. She's incredibly strong; she's incredibly generous. She's seemingly insane because she is in the situation of a polygamous relationship, but she had definite reasons to do it."

Woman,

18

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"I've been working on Barb for a while. I looked at her as a sort of every woman. She's incredibly strong; she's incredibly generous. She's seemingly insane because she is in the situation of a polygamous relationship, but she had definite reasons to do it."

Exlpore more Woman quotes

"Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!"

Eleanor Roosevelt, American First Lady

Woman, Women, Strength

"There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile."

Honore De Balzac, French Novelist

Woman, Women, Pregnancy, Smile

"Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form."

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

Woman, Women, Work, Care, May

"Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers."

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

Woman, Women

"No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference."

George Eliot, British Author

Woman, Compliment, Expression, Indifference

"The real ornament of a woman is her character, her purity."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

Woman, Act, Character, Man, Men

"In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits."

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian Actor

Woman, Women, Society, Limits

"The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Woman, Women, Truth

"Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about."

Catherine Deneuve, French Actress

Woman, Women, People

"I hate women because they always know where things are."

Voltaire, French Writer

Woman, Women, Hate

Explore more quotes by Jeanne Tripplehorn

"But I don't think that it's a form of family that I would be comfortable in. I've found a way to this character and this family, but I still believe that a marriage is between two people and not seven or three."

Family

"Well, I think a lot of people only hear about the extreme, fundamentalist kind of polygamists, because they're always in the news being brought up on charges."

People

"It was really important in my relationship with James Caan that I understood the relationship between the family and the father."

Family

"The press seems to love pitting women against each other."

Love

"The government doesn't really prosecute for polygamy anymore, but a lot of the arrests are of groups supporting themselves through welfare scams or for child abuse. So that was all I'd really heard about polygamists."

Government

"It was difficult every ten days having a new director. I'm a real collaborator and, as an actor, I want to be directed. It's hard for me to shift gears."

Actor

"Finally, after a lot of searching and digging, it was simply the love of family that gave me a road into the character. Once I got into that, and we delved into what it would be like to survive cancer and the ability to see how precious life is, it became easier to play her."

Family

"But we're all so different, we're different ages; we're not vying for the same roles. There's no competition, there's really kind of a sisterhood, on and off the set, you know?"

Competition

"You hear about these shows where there are all these women are supposedly always in a catfight, and then you find out in reality that they're all getting along fine."

Woman

"The three of us acting was truly one of the best experiences I've ever had. I really look forward to the days when all three of us shoot together, because the sparks really fly."

Acting