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Quotes by Actress

"I wanted it so badly that there was no choice. It's like something in your blood that you have to do."

"Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself."

"They're my favorite two words these days: Oscar reject."

"So most of my acting experience came in college when I was living away from them. I acted in various independent films, and I got some commercial work and stuff like that."

"Look for someone who has a complete life without you in it. If you have a person you don't need for anything, that's ideal. You're just together because you really want to be."

"Part of the joy of dancing is conversation. Trouble is, some men can't talk and dance at the same time."

"The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters."

"I can't say I can foresee the future and tell the stars, you know. But I do have an understanding for my own reality, just elements and things that I've learned from."

"Maybe because she doesn't try so hard to seduce and impress, I guess that's why some guys fell for her. Because she's so different and crazy and we all like a little bit of that in our life."
Life,

"I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful."

"It's the most amazing cast, a dream cast. We laugh all the time."

"I've put in as many as 40 weeks a year on stage. It is lonely and restricted, as all artistic life must necessarily be."

"I think Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they don't sell out to the new ones."

"And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go."


"If there's a Disney animated feature based in Hawaii, I knew I had to be part of it. I'm very proud to be from Hawaii. There was no question the role was mine."

"I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business."

"I always had really long swimmer's arms. The last to totally go is always my thighs and butt, but my old body is there somewhere."


"Where I am now, you're very much at everybody else's mercy. You have no control over your career in a lot of ways. It's just important to know what your own goals are, because that's empowering."

"John is a cottage industry in Baltimore and the city opens its doors for him whenever he is making a new film."
Film,
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