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Quotes by Actress

"Indians have a big problem with alcohol and drugs. I grew up with an admiration for their culture and was sensitive to their problems."


"No matter what it is, pick yourself up and go on to the next project."

"Playing in front of an audience was just such a turn-on for me, and you have 200 people in the audience and it's like doing live theater. And filming something that goes to millions of people several weeks later, it's an interesting dynamic."

"I didn't get along with Lindsay Lohan on 'Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen', but you have to consider that we were 16-year-old girls. I haven't seen Lindsay since then, but I imagine she's grown and become a different person. I know I have."

"There was a big question as to whether or not different generations have grown up differently."

"There were always questions about my parents; I got so fed up with that."

"I was in Jersey when the whole World Trade Center thing happened and I felt powerless. So, I went to Hawaii and did a surf movie. It's kind of fluffy."

"I've banged my head quite a bit. I liked Iron Maiden, Ozzy, AC/DC. And of course, Ratt and Poison."

"We blush very, very easily, and we get terrified of audiences."

"I'm going to Columbia University but I'm trying to keep that low-profile because I don't want weird people following me there. I want the experience of normal college life."

"Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way."

"I've travelled around the UK a lot recently and have discovered that I really like trains. If you're in the quiet carriage, nobody can get hold of you and you can relax."

"The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently."

"There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I can't be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on."

"The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business."

"We are going to find, I think, several different kinds of Crohn's disease."


"AIDS is a global problem and there should be a global solution found by the entire international community. It is really scary to see and imagine our world fall into pieces because we refuse to share and put in the common vestiges of our civilizations."

"I'm happy for people who want to get married. It's not my thing."

"It's lonely and cold on the top... lonely and cold."


"In a perfect world, I could be doing some bigger films and balance that with some independent films because they seem to be the most challenging and unique."

"I think 'destiny' is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern."

"What if Whitney was at her top, and we brought in a name like Whitney Houston, it would sell."

"Some people think my father was a spy, because of working for that government agency in Vietnam, but he can't find his car keys, much less keep a national secret."

"I am loathe to get married again. I've been married enough; I just prefer to forget it."

"Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing."

"I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me."
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