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Quotes by Actress


"I don't go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack."

"I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll."
Word,

"If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!"

"A good margarita, a good red wine, I like expensive alcohol, but not a lot of it. I don't like to throw up."

"The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children."


"It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality."

"The Parent Trap wouldn't have been as special without the remarkable performances by Hayley Mills."

"My sister Liza and I have never felt that we were in competition."

"Bite me, Goth princess, Shane called from the back. "Not literally or anything."Maybe you should say that to Michael."Not funny, Eve, Michael said.Eve raised her eyebrows and held her fingers up, measuring off about an inch. "Little bit, she said."

"At one point, they offered me this part to play a drug-dealing, gun-selling butch lady. I don't know how to describe her but she had like a crew cut and stuff. I was like, 'Is this a joke?' And they said, 'No, we think it would be great because everyone would be like, 'Oh, look at what we've done to Charlotte.' I was like, 'Well I can't do that!'"

"But now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see that in the science sphere of our lives there is new, there is progress."

"Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly."

"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down."
May,

"I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork."

"If you want a place in the sun, you have to expect a few blisters."

"Claire, I-Look, my life is one long series of screw-ups and bad decisions, and I know that. I own that. But you...I just want you to be happy. And it cuts me when you're not.""I'm happy with you."She heard the smile in his voice this time. "So what do you really want? A storybook life in Vampireville, with your life on the line every day and a half?""I'm considering it," she said. And she was."

"That goes against what I believe morally. That's adultery, and if I'm accused of that, no, that's not right. I have two kids who see that and remember that and judge me. It didn't happen, and it's not to be reported that way."

"Well, I don't think I've ever consciously come up with tricks and tools to, kind of, hide. I do think I'm a bit more vigilant, in terms of safety issues and things. And sometimes it is kind of nice to try to hold onto your anonymity."

"I was a tomboy right from the time I was a kid and loved to be like that. I'd hate all the girlie things. Well my best friends as a kid have been boys. I get along best with the opposite sex. I guess that's the case with most people though!"

"I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine."

"Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University."

"If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty."


"To make a movie is very grueling at times. Long, long hours and cold weather."

"I found it all very scary. This fairytale gets built around you - as if you've been walking through the streets and then Sydney Pollack sees you and goes, 'I'll put you in something!'"

"I prefer a kiss that is so much more than just a tongue in your mouth."

"Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what you don't eat."

"It finally became clear to me that they had no hopes of my ever walking again."

"Your mind can't always tell the difference between pretend and reality if you pretend too long; or if you go too deep and really believe in what you're doing."

"I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is."

"I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school."


"Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in life that don't turn out the way you're given the impression that they will. And I think that's all kind of a con. But I think we've probably all been hurt."


"People do eventually see something that's quality."
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