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Quotes by Actress

"If you've earned a position, be proud of it. Don't hide it. I want to be recognized. When I hear people say, 'There's Joan Crawford!' I turn around and say, 'Hi! How are you!'"

"When you don't have anybody to take care of you, then you could go both ways: You could do whatever you want, or you could take charge and be your own parent."


"Acting in films hasn't changed me. I feel exactly the same."

"My mother was there every day of the production. You know what? My mother and I are so close, she really understands the fact that I am 18 and I am maturing. I guess I am not your average 18 year-old."

"I don't live that much with the character. I find it hard enough having to spend so many hours with the character during the day."

"When a child is bruised physically or emotionally, parents often reward him with a treat."

"I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well."

"At the beginning Scully was much more sceptical than she is now."

"I think that you love who you love, and there are people who you love that people aren't going to understand why, and that sort of doesn't really matter."

"My understanding is that Olivia had no idea what was going on."

"Entrepreneurs don't just like to win, they live to win. Winning is not just their habit but also their lifestyle."

"Your habits guide and sculpt your path. The same process that builds habits can break habits."

"When I first began to write, I had been a child for most of my life, and my childhood memories were vivid and potent, and the forces that shaped me, Most of them have grown fainter with time, and whenever I write one down, I give it away: it ceases to have the shadowy life of memory and becomes fixed in letters: it ceases to be mine; it loses that mobile unreliability of the live."

"I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting."


"When a man and a woman see each other and like each other they ought to come together - wham - like a couple of taxis on Broadway, not sit around analyzing each other like two specimens in a bottle."

"Watch me when people say deaf and dumb, or deaf mute, and I give them a look like you might get if you called Denzel Washington the wrong name."

"A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night."

"Dogs are very, very pleasant with people that they're connected to."

"I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre."

"We have developed this unbelievable ability to deny. We have to. If we didn't, we'd go crazy."

"You can take charge, kick ass, do whatever you have to do and it's okay. You can blow people up. These are things that are okay for cartoon characters to do."


"I'm contemplating moving to London for a period of time. I've been in Los Angeles for 15 years and I'm really tired of it. I'm continually uninspired by what's being sent to me. Even by huge films that they're doing there. They're just awful."


"Although working with Amitabh Bacchan was a different experience altogether, I just enjoyed it."

"There were times when there were parts that I was sure I got and then I didn't, and I did get upset. But at this point, it doesn't affect me in the least because I know how the business works."


"The British are so funny. It's like they can't believe I lived in Hackney. 'You could live in Bondi Beach. Why would you want to live in 'Ackney?' But Hackney's fantastic. I'm serious. There are so many artists there. I loved the markets, the parks, the pubs, the diversity. It was a cultural melting-pot."

"If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try."
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