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Quotes by Actress
"In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private."
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"I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning."
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"I was put under contract. A major studio. I got nominated for an Academy Award. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean, at the age of 18!"
Age,
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"I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that."
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"Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes."
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"If one thing that bothers me about acting, it's that there's no clear-cut number one. The closest you can get is winning an Academy Award, and I'm going to work on that if it takes me the next 50 years. To my peers, it will mean that I'm the best!"
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"Hollywood is sexist and age-ist, and that covers all the bases, I guess."
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"I love John Waters. You see, I want to be the next Divine."
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"Watching a person lose their dignity used to be uncomfortable, and now it's an expected part of the program that we're becoming comfortable with."
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"I always wanted the fairy tale, but now I want someone who is a great partner."
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"I think it's more important to be fit so that you can be healthy and enjoy activities than it is to have a good body."
Body,
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"Sometimes, when you have someone behind the counter who's supposed to assist you and help you out, just being completely bored and uninterested - sometimes it's a little bit frustrating, you know?"
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"I ask myself: Would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm instead of shock treatments and medication?"
Home,
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"We all keep dreaming, and luckily, dreams come true."
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"I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out."
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"I haven't had a lot of celebrities around me growing up."
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"During Breaking The Waves, I was on my own in a hotel room. I think I would have been impossible to live with. When you go home, you have to pretend to be the person you are at home."
Home,
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"So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and the most descriptive way to say it."
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"I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal."
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"I've been on stage since I was 7. That's where I'd rather be than anywhere else. Just because you can do a bunch of things doesn't mean you are a bunch of things. I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer."
Act,
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"Then, as now, the Disney studio buzzed with activity. You had a strong impression of being at the center of something very exciting."
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"Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool."
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"It is a lonely existence to be a child with a disability which no-one can see or understand, you exasperate your teachers, you disappoint your parents, and worst of all you know that you are not just stupid."
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"Actually, I'm happiest in Williams-Sonoma in New York. That's a wonderful cooking store."
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"I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life."
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"I consider myself to be a pretty good judge of people... that's why I don't like any of them."
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"He painted me when I was young because he was in love with me, but now that he has loved me he doesn't paint me anymore."
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