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Quotes by Actress

"All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent."

"I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being."


"Being an agent gave me a great sense of satisfaction."

"I don't like giving speeches - I enjoy sitting on my rump."

"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."

"Actually I did, because I saw the film like everyone else, ten years ago and I remembered some of it. I just wanted to see it, to kind of remember the tone a little bit."

"The imaginary world has always been the most fun place for me to be."


"I've become this sort of icon for the gay community. I don't like the position."

"He's my favorite! He wrote and produced, and starred in and cast all of his movies! Can you imagine? I get really excited when I talk about Charlie Chaplin."
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"I like friends who are honest and loyal. They also shouldn't be afraid to be a kid. I like having fun."


"I really enjoyed doing the voice of Nose Marie on the cartoon series Pound Puppies. Fun, FUN cast."

"I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art."


"I was an idiot in terms of career-building, but I had a great time."

"All girls hit that phase where they like the bad boy. I grew out of that really young and I have a wonderful guy in my life who's not a bad boy at all. I like the satiric, consistent nice guy."

"I was 23, and that was my first professional job. Anybody who has curly hair knows you don't want it to be brushed out because it becomes a never-ending tangle."

"We have a real role in how our own collective lives, our nation, and our world and society turn out. Seizing those opportunities is important, and disasters are sometimes one of those opportunities."

"We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios."


"The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle."

"The bigness of the world is redemption. Despair compresses you into a small space, and a depression is literally a hollow in the ground. To dig deeper into the self, to go underground, is sometimes necessary, but so is the other route of getting out of yourself, into the larger world, into the openness in which you need not clutch your story and your troubles so tightly to your chest."

"And it blew my mind when I started to get wind of the fact that they actually liked me being around. That was humbling, because Kentucky basketball is a big deal, and I am not the biggest fan - I am just the most notorious one."

"I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname."

"I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had."

"I guess there are very few actors that I've worked with that I would like to work with again. You never think you'll have that chance and, if we didn't do Italian Job together, there wouldn't be another one that could be right."


"I wasn't a businesswoman, so I didn't know how to build a career."


"What I really need is for people to know that I don't just do this, I do this and this and this and this. We all have creativity in us and we all are multi-dimensional and we are all interested in a lot of things and that women are fabulous. We can handle a lot of things."

"It's so great to love somebody and, out of that, to make a child. So that's my goal."

"I think I can speak for all four of us on the show here. We all consider ourselves to be feminists and we get very upset when people don't think we are. We're like, where did this come from? Of course we are."
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