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Quotes by Actress

"I think getting drunk is the key to flying comfortably. A couple of bloody marys or several glasses of champagne, and suddenly it's like you're on a roller coaster."

"I didn't think I was an actor and fought it for a long time. Nobody paid for that but me."

"Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick."

"Whether you're on TV or on the stage, you have to work hard to stay fresh, real, and full of energy. You can't settle back. You always have to stay on your toes."

"There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich."

"Stress is an important dragon to slay - or at least tame - in your life."

"I find that when I play reality-based characters, it is only as fun for me if I have a lot of time to do research. If I don't it just isn't exciting but if I do, it can be fun because I can learn about that person and the world that they live in and I can become somebody else."

"Since Michael died I think I've worked constantly. Friends and colleagues are very sustaining. They're the people who get you through it... It's no good to be on your own."


"My mother's been married many, many times and grew up believing in love like that. It's remarkable."

"We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."

"I was looked at as weird, odd, not fitting in with the Hollywood crowd."

"I have a responsibility to nurture and shepherd my talent and when I'm living the parts of my life not related to that I feel I have the right to be left alone."


"Beauty lasts five minutes. Maybe longer if you have a good plastic surgeon."

"My best attribute is knowing when not to answer stupid questions."

"We don't have a laugh track, which helped Seinfeld a lot, and did kind of tell people when to laugh. It just made it a lot easier. Our show doesn't have that, so it's hard for Middle America to catch on."


"I have a home in Salt Lake, and I have a home in Malibu, at the beach."

"Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it."


"This CD became something of a personal journey for me. The tone of the whole CD is uplifting and inspirational. It's an upper. We have enough downers in the world."


"And they were writing scripts where Christine had hit the glass ceiling. And I always thought Christine would never hit the glass ceiling. I thought her dreams would take her. Maybe her dreams wouldn't take her where she wanted, but she still had her dreams."

"Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique."

"I am a makeup junkie... Yves St. Laurent, Christian Dior, and anything else that looks good."

"I came from dinner, went downtown with my friends, the elevator was down, I ran down the hall toward my room at 10 at night, having had two glasses of wine."

"People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves. I think that applies to their chosen profession, friends and relationships. It goes for your health too. If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everything should work out pretty well."

"I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate the pieces that stand out to you."

"Usually, it gets worse and worse as they downsize your character; mine just kept getting better."
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