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Quotes by Actress
"I was the only swimmer in movies. Tarzan was long gone, and he couldn't have done them anyway; he could never have gotten into my bathing suit."
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"I was reading through endless junk scripts that were being sent my way. Typically the roles were to play his wife or his girlfriend - leading roles for women were few and far between."
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"After all, everybody has secrets and there are some things that nobody knows about you but only you, right?"
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"I have too much respect for the characters I play to make them anything but as real as they can possibly be. I have a great deal of respect for all of them, otherwise I wouldn't do them. And I don't want to screw them by not portraying them honestly."
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"I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her."
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"I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said "Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is"."
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"There's no way to eloquently put this. I just can't go to the mall. It bothers me that I can't be outside very often. And also to not ever be just 'some girl' again. Just being some chick at some place, that's gone."
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"The wonderful thing about acting is you move along with your decade. The older you get, the more interesting the parts you get to play and you bring more of your personal experience to the part."
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"You have to really concentrate on piano or acting. You can't do both."
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"Apart from anything else, I find boots are too hot except in wintry weather. At home I usually wear a sweater, shirt and slacks."
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"Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger."
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"To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil."
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"I am not successful, in terms of Hollywood."
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"I like working intensely, then going away and thinking about it, working out why it didn't work and then coming back to it. It makes the work richer, I think."
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"It's funny that until I actually met my husband, I never thought I'd get married."
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"It was an interesting way to come across in my first big role. To work with Robert DeNiro was very exciting."
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"It's like the riddle of the Sphinx... why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men?"
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"The world that she lives in is just magical, one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen."
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"For a while I couldn't leave the house by myself. Even if I was just grocery shopping alone, I'd get self-conscious."
Self,
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"I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look."
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"My mother's very proud of the name she gave me. She thought it sounded rhythmically better. It doesn't really make a difference to me what people call me, but since my mother calls me Holly Marie when she's angry, I prefer just my first name."
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"They didn't train me to be in the ring for five and a half hours punching air. So, it was hard, I had to get some body contact in there somewhere, it was mostly body shots and stuff. I had no clue, really."
Body,
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"It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially."
Life,
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"You can never get to a place of comfort in this business. As soon as you hit that little cushy spot, somebody's gonna kick you out. So I have a constant need to do it better."
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"It was really really neat to make the movie because there were mentally challenged actors in the movie. So that was really really cool to work with them and they were always really happy, and they made everybody really happy on the set too."
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"I always like to get local music when I'm in another country."
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"'What do you really think happens after you die?' That's the question that everyone, everyone, everyone asks. And I'm so sick of it. But my true answer is, I don't know. And there's no way I'm going to find out 'til it happens."
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"I love anything to do with ventriloquism and magic."
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"She tries to get a waitressing job for a while - I mean, she's looking for a while before she finds Coyote Ugly - and it's hard to get a waitressing job in the city."
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