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Quotes by Actress

"I'm open to sci-fi, but I was never a diehard fan. I have no idea why it keeps following me. I'm extremely lucky, I guess; it's a lucrative venue."


"If you're going to be sexy in a photo, you'd better be thinking about sex rather than about being sexy."

"I like working intensely, then going away and thinking about it, working out why it didn't work and then coming back to it. It makes the work richer, I think."


"My first crush was Spock. I thought it didn't get any better than Spock."

"I don't know how to do the other, so I won't even consider television until the audience's taste changes."

"I think behind closed doors people behave differently no matter what period we're looking at, because people have to stand up straight in public but can slouch behind closed doors - can you imagine wearing those corsets?"

"I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing."


"Doors open because you're beautiful, but I wouldn't cultivate beauty to the exclusion of brains."

"My Panasonic typewriter can make graphs. It types in four different colors."

"You can never get to a place of comfort in this business. As soon as you hit that little cushy spot, somebody's gonna kick you out. So I have a constant need to do it better."

"I love vampire stories. That's why I did the movie. Women especially were taken with that movie-even more so when it came out on video."


"When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family."

"Well I had my kids so young that I kind of feel that I'm a kid too and am growing up with them. The things they're interested in tend to really influence me."

"I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is."


"I was in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories in 1980. It was only a bit part and I didn't get to speak but I felt that I was in a real movie and heading where I had always wanted to be."

"Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age."

"I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me."

"My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth."
Play,

"But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people."

"But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table."

"You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now."
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"We will probably always be in business together."

"The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me."

"I already have a production company called J Squared and we're working on two projects."

"I'll miss everyone on Dallas so much, but I have a wonderful career ahead of me. I can feel it."
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