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Quotes by Actress

"No matter what it is, pick yourself up and go on to the next project."

"Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life."

"I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own."

"You promote your films; it's part of your job. You do the magazine covers and stuff, and then I try to live a really normal life. I definitely don't try to make it into any more craziness than it is."

"Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade."

"My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunites."

"In a collaborative environment directors hire actors because they want their input, not just their bodies."

"If you want to say it with flowers, a single rose says: "I'm cheap!""

"Confidence is everything in this business."

"I wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older child. And it was also the kind of part I've been looking for my whole career, actually, in film. You know, just to play a femme fatale who's very smart, and wicked."

"I have this phobia: I don't like mirrors. And I don't watch myself on television. If anything comes on, I make them shut it off, or I leave the room."

"Cute is when your personality shines through your looks. Like, when you see someone's personality in the way they walk and you just feel like hugging them every time you see them."

"I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence."

"I'm not a risk taker. I don't do plunging necklines or really short skirts. I try to stay as classy as possible and provide a little mystery."

"The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is an oriental city. As long as you do that you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else you'll perish."

"They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum."

"I think everyone feels lost at times during their high school years."

"I didn't even know Michele before we started the show but we became great friends, and still are."

"The difficulty of IVF or of any fertility issues is the hope and the shattered hope, the dream that it might happen this time and then it doesn't happen."

"I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate."

"You know who helped me a lot? Jane Fonda. She said, Look at how many times I've been up and I've been down. So don't worry about anything."

"Look at any black-and-white movie; everybody is smoking."
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