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Quotes by Actress

"There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs."

"Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star. We had no idea that other people would think we were special, because there was no other lifestyle to compare it to."

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

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

"I'm very grateful for the platform that I've had in my life to speak out about the things I care about."

"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."


"Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.'"

"But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge."

"Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing."

"Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist."

"I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed."

"I was in Yorkshire. We were a family of five and I used to be sent sometimes to get the rations for the week and I was easily able to carry them back. It was like one egg and a tiny bit of tea."

"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,


"We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!"

"Everybody is just at the start of this huge process of trying to unravel what's going on with the 4,400, where they've been and why they're back and what they're trying to do with us in the present. And we're trying to work out what messages they're sending us."


"I'd love to be the first one to say this, but it automatically turns into - we all have those responsibilities that we ignore because we don't feel like they're ours."

"How could you have had such a wonderful life as me if there wasn't a God directing?"

"When I go, if there's a tombstone it will say, She doesn't give in. She doesn't give up. And she never takes no for an answer."
Will,


"In the studio, if they need to come down to the floor, things are a bit pushy, although it is easier for them to say things directly rather than through about five people."

"I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them."

"Going to another country you're not in your house, you're with people you've never met before, and I think it's definitely a good growing experience."


"I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts."

"I think we have to be careful about what we label as a prerequisite for spirituality. I don't think you have to know a lot to have a spiritual life, but knowing gives life richness."


"It was my first scene in any movie and my only scene in Kramer vs. Kramer. I was petrified."
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