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Quotes by Actress

"When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way you could be a good winner."


"You have to support your children to have a healthy relationship."

"I knew that by getting behind the wheel of the car and having had something to drink, the responsibility laid on my shoulders."

"What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be."

"If you have to make mistakes, make them good and big, don't be middling if you can help it."

"Now that I'm more mature, in a funny way, I can even appreciate that I've bad to become more aware of my body. Since I've chosen acting as my career, I have to keep my weight down anyway-I've been used to it for years, so it's no problem. And there's nothing I can't do."

"I can only pay my electric bill for my last two years on my acting."

"I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have."

"I almost feel like Mars has been taking care of me for all of these years."

"At boarding school you had to wear your name across your chest and your back, and obviously I had a pretty funny name. It wasn't Brown or Smith or Hughes."


"They offered me one cover about 10 years ago, and I said, no, I can't do it. I'm happy to cover up now."

"I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business."


"I came from a real working-class show business family."


"You know, my parents have always been incredibly supportive. I'm an only child, so we're very close. There's just the three of us. They're exceptional parents but also great friends. My father was able to take his hobby, photography, and turn it into a beautiful career. So when they saw how much I loved acting, they were 100 percent behind me."

"If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends."

"It gets really tricky giving advice. The older I get, the less advice I give."


"Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third."

"I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things by people who couldn't really do it, you can do some pretty wonderfully, imaginative horrific things to teachers."

"As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean."
Film,

"We don't relate to her too much because you don't want the heroic character to not be heroic."

"I felt they had really moved the characters in a direction that was very interesting. The family had really felt the impact of what had happened to the."

"My agent sent me the script and I loved it. I wondered how they would turn me into a chimp. My agent said it would probably not entail to much time. Just some hair and make-up. I found out that it was not so simple."

"Most of the people I know in show business don't need anybody pushing them at all. They're extremely aggressive."

"I had a friend, and we always used to pretend to be twins. We had this fantasy about going to Hollywood together. We were about four."

"She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker."
Age,

"I can goof around with other people right up to when we shoot."

"I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine."

"I don't think of it at the moment, but the roles that interest me are those of young people."
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