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Quotes by Actress

"I ran into Ellen at a photo shoot. She took my breath away. That had never happened to me in my life."
Life,

"Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life."

"It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life, my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And knowing we were all there to raise money for Gay Men's Health Crisis made the evening an extraordinary experience."

"Why would I lose sleep when I really need valuable sleep just to recuperate and come back and do my job?"

"The biggest challenge was that we had to shoot so quickly and with such a limited budget."

"Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us."

"People are forever finding something wrong with you."

"Occasionally if you do something extraordinary, the crew responds with spontaneous applause, but that's very rare."

"It's hard for women to talk about these things, and for the doctors to really talk about it too, and to even have the knowledge of what's going on. That's why I'm doing this and urging women to speak out and talk to their doctors frankly."

"I find very often that very ugly women have really handsome men and vice versa because they don't have any competition. Sometimes handsome men have avoided me."

"My father was a good preacher and had a little bit of drama."

"There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life."

"You know, women have a history of just being - we've been told all our lives not to say - in the fifties you couldn't say birth or even be pregnant hardly on television - and then gradually things have changed."

"Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante."

"It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done."

"I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all."

"Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period."


"We have a good arrangement. Roman lies to me and I pretend to believe him."

"Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star."

"If only every man who sees my films did not get the impression he can make love to me, I would be a lot happier."

"You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman."

"Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference."

"It's a great way to start the day, hearing you've been nominated for an Emmy. It's just thrilling."
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