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Quotes by Actress

"I am proud to be a role model for my viewers. I am finding out that helping victims is as or more rewarding the all the awards I wins."

"Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting."


"Sex is like washing your face - just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it."

"I'm not for gratuitous nudity, but if there's humor, I don't have a problem."

"So wearing a corset certainly changes your state of mind."

"I think all industries are sexist in nature and I don't think the film industry is any different."

"Every time I work with a European director, I find they hire the person that captures the spirit of the role. Americans tend to hire the best face. The person that looks more like the role, whether they can perform the role or not is a bonus."

"Really try to follow what it is that you want to do and what your heart is telling you to do."

"I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine."

"I remember hearing someone say that good acting is more about taking off a mask than putting one on, and in movie acting, certainly that's true. With the camera so close, you can see right down into your soul, hopefully. So being able to do that in a way is terrifying, and in another way, truly liberating. And I like that about it."

"You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself."

"I'd do pretty much anything to get back on stage. I'd like to develop a new musical. I nearly had a heart attack when I heard that they're developing John Waters' Cry-Baby because that is so amazing and super and wonderful and I wish that I could be involved. But it's not the right time and I understand that. But I hear things like that and I get that little tingle in my stomach."

"Very few people run around and get amnesia and have comas and come out of them and do all the silly of people have strokes and have comas and come out of them and do all the silly things we do on soaps."

"I did the figure of Diana in V, a cult TV show seen all over the world."

"When you work with Sir Anthony there are days when he will do a lot of takes if he's really enjoying a scene."

"It's fantastic because I've been living thousands of lives, not only my life."

"There are amazing schools and amazing educators that are doing a wonderful job. And then there are a lot of educators that are not prepared to deal with inclusive education. They haven't been trained. It's really quite lovely and easy when you understand how to do it."

"And I had a big opportunity with Richard Brooks, The Professionals, which is really a magnificent movie."

"I'd like to play characters who are older - I don't want to be playing 14-year-olds too much longer."

"I'll do humor about myself, I'll poke fun and everything, but that's me and I can do it to me. I think it's cruel to do it to somebody else."


"I'm a firm believer in putting your money where your mouth is."

"I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year."
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"We transported eight giraffes, and there are now nine because one gave birth to a male shortly afterwards. They carry their pregnancies very well-they all looked the same."
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"Thirty years ago, there was definitely a huge difference between men and women, and the man wanting to feel like the protector, and not scare the wife."

"They weren't impatient for the boys to turn into cartoons again. They awarded sympathy, gave compassion. Because deep down they had found parts of themselves in the characters. You said it George."

"You know you have more to offer, and it gets frustrating when you aren't given the chance."

"NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits."

"Once you've reached the point where you can pay rent, you can go to the vet and you can go to the grocery store, after that point it's all the same. I don't have the appetite for a decadent lifestyle."

"I'd like to go to Brazil I think. Do a little South America trip."


"I really loved Twin Peaks. When I saw the two-hour pilot, they screened it in the big theatre. I said, I don't know what is going to happen. I'm in this and I don't understand it. This is never going to sell. Who's going to watch this thing?"
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