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Quotes by Actress

"I think another problem people have is they are always searching for that high, and they don't realize they can get that same high with that same person again."

"I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference."

"And I think I have a perspective about Hollywood that you don't see very often in the press."

"Even people that know Johnny Cash's music really well and know that he was married don't really know that much about June Carter. So finding out about her really helped to inform my performance and to bring her to the front in a way that she has never been before."


"The things that I've done that have totally been remembered, they've always started with the same kind of engine, they've always started with someone saying 'I have to make this film - I'm going to make this film whatever the odds'."

"I think smart is sexy. I like smart people. People that are comfortable with themselves I think is very sexy. My cat is really sexy."

"Weird, but sometimes I feel more like my cartoon character than I do Lizzie because she's a little more edgy and snappy."

"If you get enough sleep, cut back on cigarettes and red meat, you look better the next day."

"I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone."

"Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication."

"My dream role would probably be a psycho killer, because the whole thing I love about movies is that you get to do things you could never do in real life, and that would be my way of vicariously experiencing being a psycho killer. Also, it's incredibly romantic."

"Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me."

"I just smoked a Cohiba the other day. It was great. You have to appreciate everything that cigar is."
Day,

"Getting buried alive will always be my claim to fame."

"I'm married now, so I have a life. I had to get a life. That's one thing I really had to do, you know. You do that kind of work on television series after television series and you don't have a life. So, that's part of what I did while I was gone, I got a life."

"Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work."

"They handled it very badly. It was disappointing and very humiliating. John York was very rude. He never consulted with me over what he said to the press."

"Why is it so weird that somebody didn't recognize me?... The fact is that whenever I meet somebody, I say, 'Nice to meet you. I'm Julia.'"
Fact,

"I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights."

"The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children."

"I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression."

"My friends always said that I should be a comedienne - I was named my class clown."

"There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it."
Act,

"In Hollywood everything is so documented. If you go for a drink with somebody, it's passed around the world so quickly."

"Home life is a foreign environment for most guys. So it's natural to show them being idiots at home."

"The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become."
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