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Quotes by Actress
"I just came into my own sexuality at thirty. I don't think it's something you can deeply experience at 18 or any time before that."
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"Sometimes the odds are against you-the director doesn't know what the hell he's doing, or something falls apart in the production, or you're working with an actor who's just unbearable."
36
"I can install toilets. I know all about the wax ring. I can tile floors. I'm learning how to do basic wiring."
36
"When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!"
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"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."
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"So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and the most descriptive way to say it."
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"You seldom get that in film where you're lucky if you get any say at all in the final cut."
Film,
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"But, my dear, I knew when I was a baby what I wanted to do, and I'll tell you, kiddo, if you don't do what your heart tells you, you'll never be real."
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"I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person."
36
"I have an older sister named Haley and she wanted to be an actress. So I wanted to be an actress. It's really funny the way that some people don't give kids enough credit for like really being driven, and really wanting to do things so badly."
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"So we all got basically what we wanted, and as far as the women are concerned, he figured that 30 good women could handle a crew of 300 anyway. So that's how we ended up with our crew."
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"We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of 'how do we find our authentic selves?' And that we all - whether we're actors or not - perform ourselves. As a way of searching. As a way of fumbling around and trying to say, is this my voice? Is this who I am?"
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"Most people spend their whole lives looking for the right job. There are others who never get an opportunity to do work that fulfils them."
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"I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness."
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"It was very natural for me to want to disappear into dark theater, I am really very shy. That is something that people never seem to fully grasp because, when you are an actor, you are meant to be an exhibitionist."
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"In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book."
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"I like my money right where I can see it... hanging in my closet."
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"With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the theater."
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"I am ashamed to admit I watch a lot of reality shows like The Osbournes and The Bachelor."
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"I don't theorize too much. I sort of let the experience sink in, and I have to discover what the character is by doing it, and having those thoughts that she's thinking."
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"They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and I thought, How nice!"
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