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Quotes by Actress

"In the bare room under the old library on the hill in the town at the tip of the small peninsula on the cold island so far from everything else, I lived among strangers and birds."

"And that's what the audience was feeling too, as they watched the show and as they watch it now. And overriding all of that is the way it was written. It was written honestly. There was never any manufactured laugh. There was never compromising of character."

"To stop smoking was actually really easy because I had already started to cut down. My husband is asthmatic, and he just can't for the life of him imagine why anybody would put smoke in their mouth, so he really helped me to start cutting down."


"It is a different world than when I was growing up, and you started to just kind of maintain at thirty-five and just hope you can hope it together. People are a lot more vital than I am and doing all kinds of things and leading really important movements."

"Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago."


"I take the longest to get ready of anyone. I've been going in two hours before the show every performance."

"So I - the thought that I would physically be different was - it's not a thrill, I have to tell you. It's kind of - it brings you up short. But I was able to look at it right away."

"Keeping it all normal and keeping us together is my first priority. Then I fit films into my life."

"Working together was a bit of a disaster. I'd tell him his ideas were cr*p and he'd say the same about mine."

"What I loved about playing the corpse is that obviously somebody else got to do the physical part. It appeals to the part of me that likes playing character parts and getting the chance to get away from my own physicality."

"I saw Redeye, and I love being scared and on the edge of my seat."

"In North Carolina nobody bothers us; we're all about concentrating on the work or our auditions that we're trying to get a flight out for. So all that crap is not something that I'm confronted with on a daily basis."

"It's based around a Jewish family but it really is a universal theme about getting along and coming along."

"Keeping a feminine approach is vital - men hate bossy females."

"I think my parents see my life now as very conservative."


"So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!"


"I am pretty much a sucker any really bad reality television."

"Um, and I'm also very proud of my work on George of the Jungle 2."

"When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way you could be a good winner."

"Perspective is the most important thing to have in life."


"I realize it's probably best to keep my politics to myself."

"I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to be shocked, when I was blond, that I wasn't stupid."
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