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Quotes by Actress
"The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen."
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"Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over."
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"I don't know, I like to go on really different types of dates. Going someplace new or some new part of the city, something that's not your average thing. Something where you just go have an adventure together."
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"I know certainly, when one job draws to a close, that I feel I'm simply never going to work again. No one will ever want me for anything ever again. I think that's a vulnerable moment in every actor's life, and it happens every time you finish a film."
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"The money isn't a lure. I've done very well out of this business."
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"I assume that if people get to know me, they'll like me. If they don't, it's not my problem."
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"What lies ahead seems unlikely; when it becomes the past, it seems inevitable."
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"That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself."
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"I wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older child. And it was also the kind of part I've been looking for my whole career, actually, in film. You know, just to play a femme fatale who's very smart, and wicked."
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"To stop smoking was actually really easy because I had already started to cut down. My husband is asthmatic, and he just can't for the life of him imagine why anybody would put smoke in their mouth, so he really helped me to start cutting down."
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"Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago."
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"I also never went there when I was little because I was too busy working and traveling on national tours."
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"I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to."
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"You can feel like, 'I look really bad', but to other people you can be really gorgeous."
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"Keeping it all normal and keeping us together is my first priority. Then I fit films into my life."
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"What I loved about playing the corpse is that obviously somebody else got to do the physical part. It appeals to the part of me that likes playing character parts and getting the chance to get away from my own physicality."
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"I saw Redeye, and I love being scared and on the edge of my seat."
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"I have the power of my height. Growing up, it was a total drawback. There was nothing good about it at all."
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"I can be extremely vulnerable. People are tough on me because they think I can handle it."
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"In North Carolina nobody bothers us; we're all about concentrating on the work or our auditions that we're trying to get a flight out for. So all that crap is not something that I'm confronted with on a daily basis."
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"I felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had experienced complete fulfillment in something that had nothing to do with me being in the spotlight."
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"Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up."
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