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Quotes by Actress

"And I'm working with all these great people at Sony Publishing."

"The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me."

"But I think the possibility of a black and white society feeding each other's expertises, living harmoniously, will probably go along in fits and starts now but at least it has a great constitution now to back it up."

"I come from the New York theatre world, and I have a lot of gay male friends, so this friendship of Will and Grace's isn't such a stretch."

"Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct "British" accent, one that my dialect coach was happy with, he hated it."

"I try to see my films just once. it's like a dream you've been through when it's been intense, and you just have to go through it once more just to make sure you've had it."

"I joke around a lot about the manic times because they're funny. We manics do outrageous things and it is part of our colorful nature."


"I think, on the whole, men are much more shallow than women."


"I really always felt that I was going to be an actress. I had a lot of confidence in the fact that I would do well from a very early age. I didn't know how tough the business is."

"The Parent Trap gave my career another boost, starring in family comedies."

"I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance."

"I had a hell of a time convincing people I was gay - which was so annoying!"

"And I can relate to that, because I went to an all white school, so I knew what that was like. And it was hard at the time, but anything that's difficult you learn from, don't you?"

"My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him."

"You can learn so much from children, and you can give them so much."

"It all has to do with the director, the captain of the ship. He sets the pace, the mood. If the director is quiet, the set is quiet. If the director is loud, then everybody has to be louder to be heard."

"I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination."

"Warren and I are friends, but working with him had been difficult."

"My children have no prejudices at all. My own brother-in-law is Jewish!"

"It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using."

"Whatever is said about roles drying up, I intend to keep working. Certainly now the roles couldn't be more interesting - playing mothers, divorcees. I think it's going to be exciting to play a mother of teenagers. The longer your life, the deeper it gets."


"You know, it's not the people in Hollywood who go to see movies that will make a movie successful; it's the people all around the country; it's word-of-mouth."

"Since I have fair skin, I have to stay out of the sun. I can't stand the sun. I dyed my hair red for a while during the 1990s but I'm actually a natural blonde."

"I've always been able to decide what was more important at different points in my life, but I never gave up personal things to work, never."

"I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it."


"It would be interesting if this sitcom works, so I could be doing one thing all the time instead of going back and forth between all this different media which I sort of thrive on, I'm a bit of a moving target in that way."


"I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting."

"If you've looked at all the glamour magazines lately, all the covers are actresses. If they are on those covers, they are going to try to emulate models. That's just the way it is."
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