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Quotes by Actress

"No, I don't tolerate pressure from anyone about anything."

"Growing up, all I did was work and vacation, but I loved it, no one pushed me into anything. The thing was I developed no special skills. I don't have any resentment because I am a performer and I've always felt that, but it did take its toll socially."

"I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it."

"Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much."

"I demanded two weeks of rehearsal because to me as an actor, that's the most important time."


"I think there is something for all of us where you find a balance in your life, where you feel that everything you do isn't about your own creature comforts or satisfying your own appetites. Some of it has to be directed outward and there is a huge satisfaction in that."

"Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships."

"I had mice that I kept as pets when I was very young, and I've always liked the way they look. Even rats. I'm not scared of them."
Pets,


"I am ashamed to admit I watch a lot of reality shows like The Osbournes and The Bachelor."


"You can certainly keep a low public profile if you want to."

"However, I'm at a very comfortable place in my career and celebrity, in that I don't have to audition as extensively as I used to for roles but yet I'm not immediately recognizable."

"We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality."

"But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for."


"It's funny, I had dinner with my dear friend John Spencer last night and I'm not in the first episode, but he's at the beginning of it and he was telling me about it and I thought this sounds very hot because I think this is definitely the last year of West Wing."

"Because of the power of television, I was visible to everybody all over the world. But there are many things in the theater that are more fulfilling and that I look forward to doing more. But really, I love it all: theater, film, television."


"What he's done is recognise the cinematic nature of the book. It's beautifully realised - it's a beat film."

"I sometimes feel like I could do another job. Anything. Maybe because as an actress you're playing different characters, everything feels possible."
Job,

"So anyway, I've learned a lot about myself just in terms of acting but just work ethic and interesting things like full-page monologues or talking straight into camera, which I had never gotten to do before."

"The internet to me is kind of like a black hole, and I never really go on it."

"Well I had my kids so young that I kind of feel that I'm a kid too and am growing up with them. The things they're interested in tend to really influence me."

"I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is."

"It's not about me, it's about my family. You don't answer questions for you, but for us. You learn to live beyond yourself."

"I think in life we want to challenge ourselves."
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