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Quotes by Actress


"I take the longest to get ready of anyone. I've been going in two hours before the show every performance."

"They showed this one beautiful picture of me recently and they had all the things that I had done. I thought it was a great compliment for everybody to think I've had plastic surgery."

"Every color I can think of and nationality, we were all touched by Dr. King because he made us like each other and respect each other."

"Having Zoe saved my life. It was my wake-up call. There were so many things I didn't want to pass on to her."

"All they had to do was put my name on a marquee and watch the money roll in."

"The more confident one becomes, the less one needs all people to be the same."


"I think that the pendulum will swing back to the other side one day."


"I've always been drawn to Marilyn Monroe, but certain aspects of her story may be too sad to tell."
May,

"I didn't choose the fact that I was gay, but I did choose whether to live my life as a gay woman-that was the terrifying thing for me. Especially being a gay actress."

"Onstage or in films, you do affect peoples' lives, and sometimes that's very gratifying. But still, there's this little voice that says you should be doing something that matters."

"But Basquiat is the first thing I've done that I'm really proud of."

"Perspective is the most important thing to have in life."

"I can't say I can foresee the future and tell the stars, you know. But I do have an understanding for my own reality, just elements and things that I've learned from."


"I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality."

"I've put in as many as 40 weeks a year on stage. It is lonely and restricted, as all artistic life must necessarily be."


"They think I'm depressed because I look serious in photos. It's usually because I'm just nervous. But I've stopped dressing for other people. If I think I look good, that's the most important thing."

"For me, first, it's finding quiet in my life - and I do that through yoga and meditation. It's also been a matter of changing the way I eat, because I think what we eat can inform who we are; food is a chemical and a drug to a certain extent."


"I'm from the theater. I never wanted to be a star."

"I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to be shocked, when I was blond, that I wasn't stupid."

"If you're going to be alive and on this planet, you have to, like, suck the marrow out of every day and get the most out of it."
Day,


"After I read all the medical journals and watched all the documentaries, I still didn't understand the physical sensation of ticking and where it comes from and what it feels like."

"Before I started doing the film and when I found out I was going to be doing it, I just decided to pump up on the whole cardio stuff. Just in terms of stamina."
Film,

"One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer."

"In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes."

"Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. Blood doesn't run in races! Come on!"

"My driver Kellie Frost and I would race these fellows home and they were always faster on the highway. We did the same with Daniel and his driver, and thus began a long series of jokes and competitions to alleviate the impossible hours and tensions this film provoked."
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