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Quotes by Actress
"Before I do a movie, I watch Meryl Streep movies over and over. It's not to mimic her. It's to remind myself to be more committed."
"When you face your fears, you are free of them. There's nothing in the world I need to hide from again."
6
"When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons!"
3
"One out of six women are toxic with mercury. Mercury comes out of coal plants and chlorine plants. I am toxic, I deal with symptoms, children are born with, you know, autism - there is an epidemic in this country. This is like, the air that we breath."
1
"People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening."
3
"Wanting to be in a Western film won't get me very far. Unless the opportunity arose, it doesn't matter how much I want to be in one. But if an opportunity did arise, no actor would pass it up."
1
"You don't have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that's where the beauty comes from."
1
"I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination."
"Tim Robbins had real confidence in college. He literally stole actors from the theater department at UCLA to be in his plays. The department heads got so mad at him."
"Writing is mentally stimulating; it's like a puzzle that makes you think all the time."
"I'm not the sexiest thing in the world, I feel actors who have to 'play' sexy lose all their sex appeal. When they start with the tongue and the heavy lids, it looks so ridiculous. I think you just have to be yourself."
"Men are different. When they are in love they may also have other girlfriends."
1
"When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved."
37
"Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles - poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that."
1
"There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent."
1
"The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it."
1
"That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me."
1
"Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of."
1
"Most people spend their whole lives looking for the right job. There are others who never get an opportunity to do work that fulfils them."
1
"We're still working out the details, but I'd be delighted to do the film. The problem at the moment is my busy schedule. Shooting on this film has been extended by a month, but I need to be in the U.S. by Dec. 20."
Film,
"When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better."
"After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films."
2
"Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so utterly rare."
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