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Quotes by Actress

"After that, I was offered lots of lesbian roles, but I didn't want them because I'd already played the best there was."

"I knew nothing about martial arts. And I don't really like it! But in the film, I not only had to pretend that I knew all about it, I had to be the best at it. That was very difficult."

"To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time."

"My earliest memories are the best. I always try to remember the good times when Daddy was alive."

"We have an abundance of rape and violence against women in this country and on this Earth, though it's almost never treated as a civil rights or human rights issue, or a crisis, or even a pattern. Violence doesn't have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender."

"I just believe that whatever you put into your system you're going to see on your face and your body."
Body,

"We have a world that is searching for answers, that is searching for a way back to spirituality."

"I don't see myself ever retiring, unless it's for something that I like better, and so far I like directing a lot but I don't see the necessity to retire from anything unless there's a really great alternative."

"I don't think I'm beautiful. When I look in the mirror, I just see me - and, I'm pretty used to me."


"I don't smoke, don't drink much, and go to the gym five times a week. I live a healthy lifestyle and feel great. I can run a marathon, you know."

"Hermione uses all these big long tongue twister words. I don't know what she's going on about half the time!"

"I'm a hopeless romantic. It's disgusting. It really is. I've seen 'While You Were Sleeping', like, twenty times, and I still believe in the whole Prince Charming thing."

"I love changing what I look like because I always feel super strange whenever I do watch something that I'm in."
Love,

"The difficulty of IVF or of any fertility issues is the hope and the shattered hope, the dream that it might happen this time and then it doesn't happen."

"I live my life parallel with my work, and they are both equally important. I'm always amazed how much people talk about celebrity and fame. I don't understand the attraction."

"But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds."

"I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone."

"When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go."

"I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house."

"When you're on a long running series, you reach a very rarefied, high oxygen area and after a while to keep a show on the air they have to make some very drastic changes."

"So I had all the names, three names, and that's good to have on a soap."

"Almost every girl falls in love with the wrong man, I suppose it's part of growing up."

"Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?"

"If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere."
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