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Quotes by Actress

"When I get recognized, every time feels like the first time."

"I had an obsession that I was male characters from movies."

"For a while I was living in New Orleans for like 4, 5 years. I had just come back to town."

"Sometimes when you're just thrown into something, you are more ready for it than when you have time to think it over and get nervous about it."
Time,

"I think in small towns like this one, whether you're a man or a woman, you basically do what there is to do."

"There is no magic person out there, no perfect human being out there waiting for you."

"No, I don't tolerate pressure from anyone about anything."

"I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life."

"We were never thrown into the situation in the middle of our lives, but grew up doing it. This is all we know, and some people who were thrown into it don't really know what to do or how to react and this is just kind of natural for us."

"I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible."


"When I was growing up watching Marilyn Monroe, I learned that you can be very beautiful, very glamorous and very vulnerable and not give up your soul just because you were a movie star."

"I personally take cues directly from the script, then I like to surprise the other actors. But you must maintain control on a level and see how far you can go up, down or out emotionally. You have to balance the craft with spontaneity."


"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."


"I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be."

"You can best fight any existing evil from the inside."


"It was really important in my relationship with James Caan that I understood the relationship between the family and the father."

"They wanted Guy Middleton instead of Kenneth More, and even Kay Kendall wasn't their first choice!"

"Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger."

"The thing I noticed about Jack was when we did a reading of the script, just to warm up."

"I need to go where people are serious about acting."

"I am less selfish. But I am more insistent on being part of the creative experience. I find I am a better mother, lover and wife when I am writing. When my daughter was small I wasn't writing as much and I didn't miss it."


"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,

"So Liam and movies are obviously big passions, and I read and write."
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