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Quotes by Actress
"I would think that other people could see if you had other talents. I grew and expanded from the Elly May role. I was doing real estate and personal appearances and kept my foot in the door."
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"You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens."
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"The status quo and the media is doing everything it can to fry children's brains and make them grow up maladjusted."
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"I've never felt more comfortable in my skin, I've never enjoyed life as much and I feel so lucky."
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"The internet to me is kind of like a black hole, and I never really go on it."
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"Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs."
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"They very seldom let me lose my cool. They made me like I was Polly Perfect, which was ridiculous so that when I bump into kids on the street they'd say 'I wish my Mom were like you.'"
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"I love anything to do with ventriloquism and magic."
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"I did Star 80, which was a magnificent experience as well, but still, I was at the height of my career at the beginning. Then I had to jump down the ladder and climb back up again, which I didn't understand. That was very hard."
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"In a way, I have simplified my life by setting priorities."
38
"I was having such a hard time when I made Sylvia. I gave everything I had for that role. It's one or two or three things I'm most proud of in terms of my work. But it was very dark."
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"I love to work. I love to have complexity."
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"People can tell you what to do, but ultimately, we're all going to die, so how do you want to live?"
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"There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving."
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"After I got to Hollywood, I resented that I didn't get a crack at more dramatic roles because I photographed so beautifully."
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"Sci-fi nerds are respectful, honorable. You can trust them."
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"And I'm working with all these great people at Sony Publishing."
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"I had never been able to get a car that said how much I cared about the environment until I drove electric."
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"TV is so different from the movies. It takes a lot of stamina because you work such long hours. It is really challenging. You are learning the next day's lines while you are shooting today's scenes. I found courage I never realised I had. I hope to do more."
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"But I think the possibility of a black and white society feeding each other's expertises, living harmoniously, will probably go along in fits and starts now but at least it has a great constitution now to back it up."
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"The thing I'm the most proud of in my personal life is that my daughter actually thinks that I'm fabulous."
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"Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct "British" accent, one that my dialect coach was happy with, he hated it."
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"Walking into a show when I was 16, at that time when it was the No. 1 hit show, and replacing a character comes with so many expectations. I felt a lot of pressure with that."
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"Look at the number of cop shows and lawyer shows and forensics shows... I think there could be room for two quite different examinations of the same political office."
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"My mother's life had been destroyed by the Garland legend."
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"Somehow he became certain the he himself possessed the skills of a hypnotist. How he reached this judgement, I have no idea, but never convinced the rest of us."
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"I don't know what I did in this life to deserve all of this. I'm just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream."
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"People can get certain good things out of fame, but until it killed a princess nobody ever talked about how bad it can be."
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"I think, on the whole, men are much more shallow than women."
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"As with anything, you need to keep your creative juices flowing and keep the character interesting."
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"Dream on it. Let your mind take you to places you would like to go, and then think about it and plan it and celebrate the possibilities. And don't listen to anyone who doesn't know how to dream."
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"My tattoo is a phoenix. I got the first when I was 16. I hid it for years."
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