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Quotes by Actress
"So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and they're very upset because you didn't like it. I went through that for seven years."
72
"Nobody ever seems to want my advice about serious stuff. People will be like: 'Who made that sweater?' Or 'How did you get your hair so straight?' They don't to come to me for the relationship advice or deep stuff. In fact, my little sister actually hides from me."
72
"I grew up on food stamps. I come from a very humble background. And I've had many friends that have been destitute - you know, running into trouble - and places like The Midnight Mission have given them hope and have fed them and gotten them back on the right path."
72
"None of the European girls, including Anita Ekberg, has anything not found on American girls as well."
72
"Today, all patients accepted for treatment at St. Jude's are treated without regard for the family's ability to pay. Everything beyond what is covered by insurance is taken care of, and for those without insurance, all of the medical costs are absorbed by the hospital."
72
"To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time."
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"To make a movie is very grueling at times. Long, long hours and cold weather."
72
"I still get really nervous, though, before each performance. It kind of hits about 15 minutes before we go onstage - sometimes I don't even want to go on. But once I'm onstage I'm fine."
71
"I prefer a kiss that is so much more than just a tongue in your mouth."
71
"Each one of us has to take responsibility for reality, and present it so that kids will grow up familiar with that and say, OK. I've seen that before. I'm not afraid of it."
71
"I'm definitely more attracted to chaos than to order."
71
"As I've gotten older, I've gotten more liberal, and my father is increasingly conservative. It's so shocking to me because I always thought we had the same politics. The day I realized we voted for different presidents, I practically fell out of my chair."
71
"There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I can't be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on."
71
"When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you."
71
"I'm a hopeless romantic. It's disgusting. It really is. I've seen 'While You Were Sleeping', like, twenty times, and I still believe in the whole Prince Charming thing."
71
"I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity."
71
"Cinema is a director's medium, so you're saying, "What do you want?" Being an actor is about adapting - physically and emotionally. If that means you have to look great for it and they can make you look great, then thank you. And if you have to have everything washed away, then I'm willing to do that too."
71
"It's lonely and cold on the top... lonely and cold."
71
"But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds."
71
"I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done."
71
"I always wanted to get married with just candles! I think candlelight is the most beautiful light there is and there's something very spiritual about it."
71
"Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing."
71
"When something is troubling me, people know about it."
71
"A good margarita, a good red wine, I like expensive alcohol, but not a lot of it. I don't like to throw up."
71
"The main concern was making sure the kids didn't get caught in the middle."
71
"If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere."
71
"Maybe subconsciously I've kept activism separate from acting because it's important to me in a more profound way."
71
"You take a plug and put it in a socket, and that's what the theatre is-it lights up right away. You speak, and they respond immediately."
71
"I knew the term Stepford Wife, and I knew what that meant. I never read the book, and I think before I started filming I watched the movie. I thought it was very dated."
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