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Quotes by Actress

"It's really difficult for me. Language, I am sorry that I haven't. I think I just always expected that you learn a word in place of a word and when I discovered how difficult the grammar was and learning that was very discouraging for me."

"For me, first, it's finding quiet in my life - and I do that through yoga and meditation. It's also been a matter of changing the way I eat, because I think what we eat can inform who we are; food is a chemical and a drug to a certain extent."


"I'm from the theater. I never wanted to be a star."

"I still have highs and lows, just like any other person. What's missing is the lack of control over the super highs, which became destructive, and the super lows, which are immediately destructive."

"I don't buy the tabloids, but you're surrounded by it all and people tell you things they've read. I'd be sitting on a train looking over someone's shoulder and thinking: That's familiar... oh my God, it's me."

"Before I started doing the film and when I found out I was going to be doing it, I just decided to pump up on the whole cardio stuff. Just in terms of stamina."
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"Now that I'm more mature, in a funny way, I can even appreciate that I've bad to become more aware of my body. Since I've chosen acting as my career, I have to keep my weight down anyway-I've been used to it for years, so it's no problem. And there's nothing I can't do."


"These things have a life of there own and never existed when I was growing up certainly worrying when one would get made. It's kind of amazing how that one movie kept living through all these years."

"Everyone thrives most in his or her own unique environment."

"To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid."

"I crashed my boyfriend's birthday when I was 12 years old. He didn't invite me and so I showed up."

"In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes."

"The idea is that we're doing it just for the joy of the actual physical experience. We may record something just for the fun of it, but the idea is just to be truly joyful and truly fun, especially for me, because I take myself too seriously all the time."

"I just kind of opened up and said, 'I feel like a rag doll. I have hair and makeup people coming to my house every day and putting me in new, uncomfortable, weird dresses and expensive shoes, and I just shut down and raise my arms up for them to get the dress on, and pout my lips when they need to put the lipstick on.'"

"I used to hate looking in the mirror. I've grown up into myself and now I'm happy with the way I look."

"I hope they make a show like M*A*S*H, which dealt with a lot of difficult subject matter but was very funny."


"When I don't plumb the depths or the opportunities of each day, I don't have joy."


"Some people might say I need to learn how to relax."


"I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl."


"You know, my parents have always been incredibly supportive. I'm an only child, so we're very close. There's just the three of us. They're exceptional parents but also great friends. My father was able to take his hobby, photography, and turn it into a beautiful career. So when they saw how much I loved acting, they were 100 percent behind me."

"Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful."

"Anything is possible in this world. I really believe that."

"My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run."

"I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things by people who couldn't really do it, you can do some pretty wonderfully, imaginative horrific things to teachers."

"I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by another generation. Having been a teen idol of the '60s is great because you realize you left your generation with a smile and good memories."

"I felt they had really moved the characters in a direction that was very interesting. The family had really felt the impact of what had happened to the."

"I had a friend, and we always used to pretend to be twins. We had this fantasy about going to Hollywood together. We were about four."

"I can goof around with other people right up to when we shoot."

"Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes."

"I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up."

"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul."

"Mel is a great director because he's not just a director, he's an actor, so he knows how to direct actors. I loved working with him. He's great as a director. He's so intelligent. He's generous. I really loved him."


"There is something at work that's bigger than us. It's about having a trust in life and being at peace that things are happening the way they should. You do what you do as well as you can do it, and then you don't worry or agonize about the outcome."

"I thought it was very important that femininity wasn't lost."

"I met Clinton at a benefit for teachers, which was a very good charity, but I met him for about 90 seconds, and I thought it was important to meet the leader of the free world. So I stood next to him for a photograph, and then apparently that's all it takes."
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