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Quotes by Actress
"You can't show me an ad on TV with hard bodies and say I have to buy that car. You have to tell me why that car is better and safer than another car."
Car,
36
"Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone."
36
"To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil."
36
"It's a real leveller, you know, to do theatre at least once every two years."
36
"I think that's what's great about being an actress is you get to learn so many different things like that, like learning a little bit of Tibetan here, learning a Southern accent there."
36
"I had a good time working with Russell Crowe, Ron Howard and Ed Harris. It was a great cast and Russell worked really hard, doing tons of research and questioning everything."
36
"I don't consider myself a celebrity, and I don't consider myself a star."
36
"I don't know how many times I can sit there and talk about my character or my life. It's interesting to talk about experiences in the context of something you're doing for somebody else, and particularly if you can persuade others to join you in your support."
36
"But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for."
36
"Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great."
Jazz,
36
"You see, money isn't everything - I know it sounds corny but I really mean it - success means a lot more."
36
"Look, it's one of the great mysteries of the world, I cannot answer that question. I think I'm vaguely blonde. To be perfectly frank, I don't know."
36
"The world that she lives in is just magical, one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen."
36
"To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death."
36
"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."
36
"It's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything new."
36
"My mother's very proud of the name she gave me. She thought it sounded rhythmically better. It doesn't really make a difference to me what people call me, but since my mother calls me Holly Marie when she's angry, I prefer just my first name."
36
"You can alter movie singing so much because you go into the recording studio and, just technology for recording has gotten so good, you can hold out a note and they can combine a note from take 2 and a note from take 8."
36
"I sometimes feel like I could do another job. Anything. Maybe because as an actress you're playing different characters, everything feels possible."
Job,
36
"When you're nursing and you're working 18-hour days, that's pretty hard."
36
"Living in continual chaos is exhausting, frightening. The catch is that it's also very addictive."
36
"In the theater, it's about taking time in a musical segment, a pause in a musical way and then moving on."
36
"I try to bring elements of my own personality to every character I've played, but I think I'm pretty similar to the character I'm playing now. The biggest departure would have to have been Freaks and Geeks Sara, who was this sort of subordinate and shy girl."
36
"It was actually a relief for me to play an actor who was scared, who didn't know where everything was, who didn't know what buttons to push, and for me to be able to play all that."
36
"So I majored in Drama, did all the plays that were possible to do, skated through school in order to be in every production on stage or backstage in whatever capacity and I came to New York looking for work in the summers."
36
"I get a script and it's really interesting with scripts, because you never really know. It's paper and it could be great or awful. Even scripts that are good could end up not working."
End,
36
"Someone said I wasn't attractive enough. People say those things, but they make you stronger. Then you can win an Emmy and think, ha, ha, ha."
36
"You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself."
36
"Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around."
36
"I come from the New York theatre world, and I have a lot of gay male friends, so this friendship of Will and Grace's isn't such a stretch."
36
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