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Quotes by Actress

"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."

"The production team's first meeting took place at my house. I had ideas and a color scheme in mind, how I wanted the movie to look, because that has to be a real collaboration."

"You don't want to be photographed? You don't want to be known? Then you don't need to be out there peddling movies."


"Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes."

"The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth."

"I have a hotline to the tabloids. When I get up in the morning, I call the Star, and the last thing at night, I call them. I want them to have the inside track."

"I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian."


"I was lucky. My family is wonderful. And it's funny, because most of my best friends come from very large families. So it always felt as if I had lots of siblings, though in the end I had to leave them and go home. I kind of got the best of both worlds as a kid."

"There's something about taking a film from concept to script, through production, and then to see the final thing happening in the edit phase. It's almost like a miracle in the making."

"Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure."

"If people knew how KFC treats its chickens, they'd never eat another drumstick."


"I can install toilets. I know all about the wax ring. I can tile floors. I'm learning how to do basic wiring."

"We were all ruled by the studio system. I signed a contract for seven years."

"They see a work ethic in both of us. But, they also see that my husband is more in control of his future, and I am more reliant on other sources for my career."

"We are not the originators of the story. I think it's actually the opposite when you're an actor. You're telling somebody else's story."

"I spend a good portion of my dinner-party conversation defending America because no matter what the political agenda, it's still a fantastic, amazing place."

"I am really looking forward as I get older and older, to being less and less nice."

"I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination."


"Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented."
Luck,

"You hear stories like that of Canadians trying to get in, but when you go back home, you don't expect that."

"I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star."

"It's the same as any role and I find that you can't lump characters together; because they all have different life experiences, different reasons for being the way they are."

"Wanting to be in a Western film won't get me very far. Unless the opportunity arose, it doesn't matter how much I want to be in one. But if an opportunity did arise, no actor would pass it up."

"I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture."
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