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Quotes by Actress
"I would never describe Charlotte as a prude - maybe at the start, but that was in comparison to the other girls. She wasn't willing to do the stuff they were doing - and I mean, thank goodness!"
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"My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'"
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"Like at Halloween: I knew I'd arrived when I saw people dressing up on Halloween as my character."
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"Each new film is like a trial. Before I step in front of the camera, I do not know whether I am going to fall or whether I am going to fly - and that is exactly the way I want it to stay."
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"You know what I would really like to do? I'd like to do a half hour drama with comedy in it."
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"The thrill of being in front of a camera remains exactly the same."
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"We don't have a laugh track, which helped Seinfeld a lot, and did kind of tell people when to laugh. It just made it a lot easier. Our show doesn't have that, so it's hard for Middle America to catch on."
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"Why would I lose sleep when I really need valuable sleep just to recuperate and come back and do my job?"
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"The biggest challenge was that we had to shoot so quickly and with such a limited budget."
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"And they were writing scripts where Christine had hit the glass ceiling. And I always thought Christine would never hit the glass ceiling. I thought her dreams would take her. Maybe her dreams wouldn't take her where she wanted, but she still had her dreams."
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"Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion."
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"Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?"
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"I never feel more alive than when I'm on stage. On film you feel chopped up, you can be acting from the neck up, or the hand, there is a lot of close up."
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"The fact that anyone would find me sexy is very, very flattering, but ridiculous. I so don't believe it. But I'm flattered. Truth is, I don't lift a finger to look sexy. Ever."
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"Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles - poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that."
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"While being called beautiful is extremely flattering, I would much rather be noticed for my work as an actress."
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"I mean the whole thing about meditation and yoga is about connecting to the higher part of yourself, and then seeing that every living thing is connected in some way."
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"We are ready to say that we rule the entire Elgin enterprise as irrelevant to the present."
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"I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that."
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"After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried."
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"I don't think that I want to meet any of the icons. I don't think that anybody can quite live up to your expectations."
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"I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel."
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"Everyone in show business has had the experience of the fan who is so excited at recognizing their favorite star, they say, 'Oh my gosh, you're my biggest fan!'"
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