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Quotes by Actress

"Every story was being made up. My true friends weren't the ones speaking. It was people who never knew me, making up stories. Even my local paper put a $1,000 bounty out for information about my whereabouts."

"Unfortunately, since the Sept. 11 tragedy, our business is not doing too well."

"On network TV, I'm still Phoebe to people, and it would be hard to convince them otherwise in the bright lights of a sitcom."


"We never expected the show to be this great. We think it is successful because kids can identify."

"The director, of course, was Bob Fosse. But again, I worked with my father to prepare for the role."

"In terms of my own film experience, I'm definitely used to morose and very heavy, heavy dramas."

"So I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it would be too intimidating for the other producers and the other men who worked on the show. In other words, I had the power, but I gave them the title."

"And I can relate to that, because I went to an all white school, so I knew what that was like. And it was hard at the time, but anything that's difficult you learn from, don't you?"

"I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination."

"I do it because I love acting, I love working, and whether it's radio, television, films, theater, I don't care as long as I can get out there and do it."

"It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre."

"I can't imagine actually singing on this show like I did on 'Felicity,' but it would be kind of funny."

"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 think there's an anxiety in life where we automatically tend to look to the next thing or we're complaining about the past. Worrying is not going to make it happen or not happen."

"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."

"I developed a nutty attitude where I'd think, If some guy really loves me he doesn't care if I'm fat. I'd come up with all these stupid reasons why it would be OK to be fat."

"I never mind scrubbing floors, vacuuming or bending and carrying stuff. Each time I do it I think, this is instead of going to the gym."

"You may not seem able to change some outer circumstances but you can start by changing your inner experience of life and yourself."

"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 really, really love Hilary Clinton. I think she's very cool. She's out there and she's involved."
Love,

"I am a grandmother now, and that means age is creeping on, creeping on."

"I remember that all of a sudden, the car felt like I couldn't control it. It was absolutely the most horrifying experience. We rolled over, off the freeway. I think there was something wrong with the car."

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

"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."

"I never did go back to acting class. I was too busy working."

"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."
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