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Quotes by Actress
"There is no point trying to figure out who is guilty or not at un-balancing the planet. I think we need to figure out and solve the problems together and not isolate from each other."
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"You know what? It's a great conversation starter, right? You meet friends that way. Sometimes it's a good thing. And then other times, I guess, the person is just a little too... then you kind of like want to back away. It depends on the person, you know?"
60
"They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum."
60
"When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you."
60
"The thing you do is escape from them by immersing myself in the character you're playing."
60
"I'm really proud of Twilight. I think it's a good movie. It was hard to do, and I think it turned out pretty good. But I don't take much credit for it. So when you show up at these places, and there's literally like a thousand girls and they're all screaming your name, you're like, why? You don't feel like you deserve it."
60
"I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference."
60
"Cinema is a director's medium, so you're saying, "What do you want?" Being an actor is about adapting - physically and emotionally. If that means you have to look great for it and they can make you look great, then thank you. And if you have to have everything washed away, then I'm willing to do that too."
60
"The reporter claimed he was going to write the article from my point of view. Instead, he made me sound like a little idiot. It made me never want to do another interview again."
60
"Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That's quite a title to carry around."
60
"The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners."
60
"Weird, but sometimes I feel more like my cartoon character than I do Lizzie because she's a little more edgy and snappy."
60
"Our bodies are machines and have to be functional, and to do that they have to be fed properly."
60
"I'm concentrating on the positive, on all the wonderful things I'm doing now."
60
"I always wanted to get married with just candles! I think candlelight is the most beautiful light there is and there's something very spiritual about it."
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"Do you really have to be the ice queen intellectual or the slut whore? Isn't there some way to be both?"
60
"I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven."
60
"In the sequence where I am burned at the stake, everything was so casual and hazardous that the bottom of my dress caught fire, and the grips became hysterical as they tried to pull me off the stake."
60
"I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit."
60
"I will not expose the ignorance of the faculty."
60
"Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions."
60
"My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness."
60
"I don't know what the big issue is about a kiss with Neve Campbell in Wild Things. It's a role, and I think a bigger issue is made out of it. It was a part I took and it's what the character did, so I did it."
60
"We were led to a pediatric ophthalmologist. It's a hard date for me, April 14, 1998. The doctor came back from the examining room and told us she had tumors in both eyes."
60
"I have six sisters, so I assumed I'd have a girl. Learning I was having a boy was really weird."
60
"Maybe subconsciously I've kept activism separate from acting because it's important to me in a more profound way."
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"You take a plug and put it in a socket, and that's what the theatre is-it lights up right away. You speak, and they respond immediately."
60
"I started dieting. I dieted, dieted, dieted and tried all the diets and I would lose and then I would go back to normal eating and would put it on and then some."
60
"The look in his eyes turned a little wild. "That's the only reason I'm letting you go. If I had any choice--""You do," she said "Wed can all sit here and let him die. Or you can let Eve go on her wild-ass rescue mission and get herself killed. Or you can let sweet, calm, reasonable Claire go do some talking."He shook his head. His long, elegant hands, which looked so at home wrapped around a guitar, closed into fists. "Guess that means there's no choice.""Not really," Claire agreed. "I was kind of lying about that choice thing."
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"And I find it very easy to memorize the scripts, which are so close to conversations my husband and I have."
60
"What I find very attractive, what I find sexual, are people who are unapologetic for who they are and comfortable with themselves. And I think with those two things sexual energy does come out because you're not hovering or censoring yourself, you're just being who you are. And being who you are is a very attractive quality in a person."
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