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Quotes by Actress

"The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports pages."


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

"Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it's very easily manipulated."

"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 have a lot of variety within me, and the dream role, I think, is actually a compilation of parts that express different aspects of my persona and personal interests."

"My daughter is a freshman in college and my son is - well, our daughter and our son - is a sophomore in college. So they come home on selected weekends, they come home on vacations and they're home in the summer, although they have jobs."

"Dancing on 'Dancing With The Stars' really broadened my fan base. I jumped off the stage backwards one week, and so many women come up to me now and say, 'You're so brave. I can't believe you put yourself out there like that'. If that inspires some girl out there, then great, because boys aren't the only ones who get to have fun. We get to have fun too."

"I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dead in a week."

"I'm reachable for people, I'm not out of their league. I'm just a normal girl."

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


"For me, Los Angeles, New York, where I don't know my neighbors, where people don't necessarily care if they know their neighbors, I'm missing things that truly fed my soul when I was younger, the exchanges between people, the caring and the shared history with people."

"I feel like I haven't done my best work yet."

"I actually turned down an opportunity for a private interview with Adolph Hitler."

"When I was younger, I think I intimidated people much more because I was far more insecure."

"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."

"I like to go to openings when I'm in it, or friends are in it."


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


"Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks."

"Even befor doing this film, I've always been interested in mythology."

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


"Our show was - it remained - you know, kids could watch it and laugh at it. And they wouldn't know - they wouldn't get the jokes. But they would laugh at it. So they tell me now they have grown up and they're watching it. Now they get the jokes. But we didn't say anything blatant."

"I do not believe that I fell in love with a woman because I was abused."

"This season is a lot funnier, not as dark, mainly because, well, she has accepted the fact that she is dead. She knows she cannot go back to where she was when she was alive."
Fact,

"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."

"On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people."

"I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me."
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