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Quotes by Actress

"I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and pen. That sort of thing anybody can live without."

"Do you know what I'm working on now? My first feature as a director."

"If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down."
Dumb,


"It used to be only on TV that women could lead, that a show could be based on a woman."


"It was not always easy because I was always an individual and found it difficult to be one of a group. One person who was very supportive was my father. My mother was great but my father really recognised my individuality and supported me in that."

"There was a period of time in America where the advertising world actually went to the housewives of America and had them write jingles that would appeal to them. It was actually brilliant marketing."

"I hadn't even watched '24' before, and the audition was kind of far away. When I got the material, there wasn't a character yet, so it almost seemed like an assistant to Jack Bauer saying, 'Yes, sir. No, sir.'"


"It was Britney's movie. I liked that movie. It didn't get too much love, but a lot of people really liked it."


"Thirty years ago, there was definitely a huge difference between men and women, and the man wanting to feel like the protector, and not scare the wife."

"My mother used to tell me, No matter what they ask you, always say yes. You can learn later."

"My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them."

"I've had a normal life, but I have struggled to get here. It hasn't been handed to me and it hasn't been easy."
Life,

"If I was 14 and knew some gay people, I wouldn't nearly have had the struggle I had. Our world is definitely changing."

"My background has been very helpful for this experience. But everyone was so accommodating because they knew it's not the most comfortable position to be the new kid."

"Some things you know about, you know what the ingredients are - maybe not all of them. But it's up to you to put in the amount. It's up to the director to nag you until you get it right."

"The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country."


"Well, I mean she's of a certain biological age but she didn't have to go around with fat patches and stuff."
Age,

"New York in a way functions as another character within the story, as it does within most of Woody Allen's stories."


"I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent."

"My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation but I'm working on the foundation."
Work,

"I think getting drunk is the key to flying comfortably. A couple of bloody marys or several glasses of champagne, and suddenly it's like you're on a roller coaster."


"Just because you donate sperm does not make you a father. I don't have a father. I would never give him the credit or acknowledge him as my father."

"My kids and my family are number one; I enjoy them the most."

"Even though I don't feel I need approval, it's still important to me to give a good performance. I'm hard on myself."

"Whether you're on TV or on the stage, you have to work hard to stay fresh, real, and full of energy. You can't settle back. You always have to stay on your toes."


"My husband is from Hawaii and his father who was also born in Hawaii was a teenager when Pearl Harbor happened, right before church and he ran up and got on the roof of his grandfather's house and watched the planes go over."

"My little sister Aliana's opinions are the most important to me. She says, 'I want to look like you, you're so pretty!' But she is very beautiful and so she is trouble in the making! She wants to do what I do. I'm like her second mother and I am very protective of her."


"I think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century."
Want,

"It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead."

"When you're Judy Garland and you want something, you just pick up the phone and call somebody. Anybody."
Want,
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