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Quotes by Actress

"My body started to shut down. I got really, really ill. When you're starving yourself, you can't concentrate. I was like a walking zombie, like the walking dead. I was just consumed with what I would eat, what I wouldn't eat."


"I was a brat. It was crazy, I was very picky. In other words, I didn't take advantage of what was happening."

"Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents."

"In France, you're with the crew, and you have lunch with them. It's more like a family."


"For a while we lived in a tent we'd pitched inside his parents' house and we slept on pillows."

"I think so much depends on how you are feeling mentally and emotionally. I try to keep my head on tight, and try to feel good, and just go out there and not be afraid."

"It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career."

"I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows."

"I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family."

"I think I can deceive people. I'm like, the nice, sweet girl when you meet me. And I don't have any bad intentions. But I'm a bad girl too."

"Not hippie - my parents were not hippies - but they were very supportive and encouraging, and that does a lot for someone, and it gives them a lot of confidence."


"It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth."

"Emilio Estevez was definitely my first love."


"I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work."

"I'd like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don't have misconceptions - they understand. I believe that."

"Bush invited his constituency to be blind to the world's real problems, and leftists often do the opposite, gazing so fixedly at those problems that they cannot see beyond them. Thus it is that the world often seems divided between false hope and gratuitous despair. Despair demands less of us, it's more predictable, and in a sad way safer. Authentic hope requires clarity--seeing the troubles in this world--and imagination, seeing what might lie beyond these situations that are perhaps not inevitable and immutable."

"Marriage is a big deal, but who's to say I'm not going to pull a Vegas and get married to see what it's like for a minute?"

"Even though college has been hard, I don't want to give up."

"I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like, 'But, Daddy, he's a musician!'."

"I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without paying the price. It takes an attitude of hard work, commitment and purpose."

"Even in India the Hindi film industry might be the best known but there are movies made in other regional languages in India, be it Tamil or Bengali. Those experiences too are different from the ones in Bombay."

"You have to be careful not to let your fear stop you doing things. It's very exciting to test yourself."
Fear,


"I played the best role I've ever seen on TV or film in the last five years. It was hugely gratifying."
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