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Quotes by Actress

"I wanted to show people I can do things other than the sophisticated bitch."

"We need a number of solutions - we need more efficiency and conservation. Efficiency is a big one. I think car companies need to do a lot better in producing more efficient cars. They have the technology, we just need to demand them as consumers."

"There are all kinds of other things I could do, things I would probably like, but only acting would give me emotional fulfillment."

"Altman works in such an interesting way, letting things occur in the film even if he didn't particularly plan them."
Film,

"I have this very strange sensitive skin. If I put anything on it but this one product, it erupts into a rash."
Skin,

"Like at Halloween: I knew I'd arrived when I saw people dressing up on Halloween as my character."

"The thrill of being in front of a camera remains exactly the same."

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."

"We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the vegetables - the lettuce, the cucumbers, the onions, the green peppers - to maintain their identity. You appreciate differences."

"The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks."

"It's really important to draw the line on what we do as actors."

"I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely."

"The fact that anyone would find me sexy is very, very flattering, but ridiculous. I so don't believe it. But I'm flattered. Truth is, I don't lift a finger to look sexy. Ever."

"We feel it's unacceptable to be fat, when it has nothing to do with who the person actually is."

"While being called beautiful is extremely flattering, I would much rather be noticed for my work as an actress."

"I wrapped "Buffy" and I always felt on "Buffy" that they wanted to keep me younger for a specific reason. It seemed like I was getting younger every year that I was on the show. I think there was a reference to me being 15, then 14."

"I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel."

"The most rewarding thing is being on Broadway. I went into Cabaret as a replacement and was really challenged beyond anything I could have imagined."

"If I have any message for others, it is to go for help early and not to be a resistant patient."
Help,

"I had called her up a couple of weeks before then, because I had heard this vicious rumour that she did not like the movie. It was very upsetting for me. I am very sensitive to that, because I am portraying her life and did not want her to be unhappy."

"When you're 22 or 23, you think the world revolves around you, and I felt that way for a long time. But I just turned 30, and I love it! You realize, 'Whoa, baby, you ain't all that.' And you're not! You're just a woman out there doing something she loves."
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