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Quotes by Actress
"I had a hell of a time convincing people I was gay - which was so annoying!"
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"I didn't expect to win the Oscar. You grow up watching the Oscars on TV and you think it happens to fancy people. It was really surreal."
38
"Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured."
38
"We try to be driven by what's a good story, what's truthful, and the drama of what happens next."
38
"It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did."
38
"My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him."
38
"The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process."
38
"My father in the film - which we probably haven't seen in previous movies, and in British Asian movies you could probably count on one hand - he says exactly why, actually why he's frightened for his daughter. He came to this country, England, and had a bit of a crappy time."
38
"I'm a person that carries everything that happened to me in my past, with me into the future. I refuse to let it make me bitter. I still completely believe in love and I remain open to anything that will happen to me."
38
"As much as most of the actors were kind of curious to know what their character meant in relation to the script and to the plot, they really were quite happy to be part of the adventure of not knowing."
38
"My children have no prejudices at all. My own brother-in-law is Jewish!"
38
"Special effects movies have taken over the universe. That and scary movies."
38
"I think each role takes a little from you and circles around you for the rest of your life. I don't think you ever abandon any of them."
38
"It's not so much what do I want to be doing in 15 years, it's how I want to be in 15 years."
38
"Words impress me. If a man can speak eloquently and beautifully to me, I just melt on the floor."
38
"Because I'm not trying to throw people any curves."
38
"When I was anorexic it just seemed like I literally wanted to disappear. And now I would like to reappear."
Now,
38
"However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them."
38
"LA's a very hard place to be unless you have people there that love you. It can be very, very lonely, and it can eat you up if you don't take care of yourself. In LA, nobody wants to talk to each other, everybody's giving each other catty looks."
38
"It always surprised me that I was getting acting work."
38
"I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting."
38
"There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing."
38
"I mean, I haven't been around very long. I can't expect everyone to have seen 'The House Bunny'. Oh God. I am having such waves of internal embarrassment, which now I'm admitting on a tape recorder. This is so one of the things I should keep in my head."
38
"One girl was helped from my appearance on the show, and I swore I would not keep quiet again. When you talk about things that are embarrassing or devastating, obviously you can help people when you do."
38
"As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That's the bottom line."
38
"I got quite bored when I was hanging in the air. I want to do it without a parachute next."
Want,
38
"Michael died five years ago this January, and the first thing that really struck me about the script was the part about her peeling off from the funeral and just getting into a rowboat and having a real kind of cry where nobody was."
38
"I can't stand being around anal people, especially anal people with big egos."
38
"I was moaning and grieving as if I lost one of my own children. It was probably one of the most real feelings I ever had on the show. I was just sitting there wailing with no lines. I was beat after that storyline."
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