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Quotes by Actress

"We try to be driven by what's a good story, what's truthful, and the drama of what happens next."

"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!"

"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."

"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."

"When my body is strong, I feel stronger inside. I feel more capable of handling emotional situations. Usually I'm more of a inside-out person, but this was a great case of me from the outside in."
Body,

"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."

"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."

"I'm just talking specifically of women's friendships. If two women go to a bar and they are fighting over men, it makes it much easier for the men. If two women are very close and they act as it makes it very difficult for the men to pull one over on anybody."

"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."

"We all have human emotions that rob our lives."

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

"I've always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me."

"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,
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