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Quotes by Actress

"I used to dream of being normal. For me, if Kirk Douglas walked into the house, that was normal."

"I would just love once to be called sexy. Just because it would make me something other than cute."

"Claire, I-Look, my life is one long series of screw-ups and bad decisions, and I know that. I own that. But you...I just want you to be happy. And it cuts me when you're not.""I'm happy with you."She heard the smile in his voice this time. "So what do you really want? A storybook life in Vampireville, with your life on the line every day and a half?""I'm considering it," she said. And she was."

"What I find very attractive, what I find sexual, are people who are unapologetic for who they are and comfortable with themselves. And I think with those two things sexual energy does come out because you're not hovering or censoring yourself, you're just being who you are. And being who you are is a very attractive quality in a person."

"Playing in front of an audience was just such a turn-on for me, and you have 200 people in the audience and it's like doing live theater. And filming something that goes to millions of people several weeks later, it's an interesting dynamic."

"My mum says, 'Go with your first instinct,' but this can lead to impulse buying!"

"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."

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


"When I first came to Hollywood I was told to go out with an agent because it was good for my career. So I went to a party with him because it was good for my 'career.' Well, he thought the whole thing was a big date. Needless to say, I was very upset."

"The great equalizer is health. If you don't have it, you're screwed."

"My whole belief system is that our paths are drawn for us. I believe in reincarnation. I believe we're here to learn and grow. We choose how we come into this life based on what it is we have to learn. Some people have harder lessons than others."

"It was but then, when you're, one of the great poisonous events that have infected us all who were in South Africa is that the idea of difference is drip fed into your veins. It's that that you fight."

"They really stay just characters to me. I look at them, and I don't see always the same person up there. And hopefully, people will see that too. Because it's very easy to bore people, and that's a killer. So hopefully that won't happen."

"I used to wear boxers and a tank top, but now I sleep in the nude. It's kind of weird, because I used to have to wear something to bed, whether it was a tank top or whatever. And now if I have any clothes at all on, it's really hard to get to sleep."

"I can remember crying on the set of Beverly Hills 90210 after being released from the show a few years ago."

"Weird, but sometimes I feel more like my cartoon character than I do Lizzie because she's a little more edgy and snappy."


"Our bodies are machines and have to be functional, and to do that they have to be fed properly."

"Things said to a reporter in confidence should be kept in confidence."

"Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me."

"In the sequence where I am burned at the stake, everything was so casual and hazardous that the bottom of my dress caught fire, and the grips became hysterical as they tried to pull me off the stake."

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

"Why would I cry over a boy? I would never waste my tears on a boy. Why waste your tears on someone who makes you cry?"

"The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children."

"The Parent Trap wouldn't have been as special without the remarkable performances by Hayley Mills."

"When you have to play a character that seems to be a relatively decent person and seems to be like yourself, I think the trick in that kind of character, so that you don't become a cliche, is to find where their weaknesses are."

"My sister Liza and I have never felt that we were in competition."
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