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Quotes by Actress

"The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you."

"Well, I don't know what Ron has in mind, but I do know about the arc of the show. Looking at how intuitive and instinctive Eddie and I play, that is the sort of thing that leads into sexual chemistry. I wouldn't be surprised if it emerged."

"With two leftover husbands to account for, my wicked soul has just about shriveled and died."

"Entrepreneurs persevere until it pays off. One good day can make up for an entire month, and one good month can make up for an entire year. Don't give up. The isn't over 'till it's over!"

"There's no environment. Use your imagination. There's no fourth wall, whether it's the first time you've told this story about her life, or the sixth time."

"Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of."

"Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel."

"Yeah, I've had the privilege to know a lot of really talented people."

"Michael died five years ago this January, and the first thing that really struck me about the script was the part about her peeling off from the funeral and just getting into a rowboat and having a real kind of cry where nobody was."

"I can't stand being around anal people, especially anal people with big egos."

"I was moaning and grieving as if I lost one of my own children. It was probably one of the most real feelings I ever had on the show. I was just sitting there wailing with no lines. I was beat after that storyline."

"A lot of people didn't realize that I acted before I did anything else."

"A bedroom requires a bed. Everything else was extravagance. Well, he had a bed all right."

"Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that my breasts are not down to my knees when I'm undressed in front of my husband."

"I want to be a person who makes a quiet difference."

"TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary; with independent films, you just can't."
Age,

"When I do something I give everything, so it has to be something that I really want to go for."
Want,

"It's heartbreaking but we're trying to get over it. As disappointed as we were, I think that somehow you have to find a way to think that it happened for a reason."


"Sitting at the table during Color Purple and looking up and suddenly realizing I was acting in front of Steven Spielberg, was pretty cool. It was pretty good."

"It's easy to play a bad girl: You just do everything you've been told not to do, and you don't have to deal with the consequences, because it's only acting."


"The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields."

"Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and that someday I would arrive at it."

"The best part of learning any profession, when you're really going through those huge stretching escalated times of learning and energy, is when you want to do it so much."

"Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret."
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