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Quotes by Actress
"I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain."
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"They offered me that film before I did Frida and I said, no, I'm not capable of directing. Then after seeing Julie direct, I was inspired by it. She motivated me to do it, because we don't have role models as woman for directors."
68
"It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer."
68
"I don't go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack."
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"You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way."
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"Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too."
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"It's more than a job. It's very personal, so when you're hurt, you're really hurt inside."
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"My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness."
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"But my brother Joey was there, and my sister Tina Nina Minnelli was there."
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"I don't know what the big issue is about a kiss with Neve Campbell in Wild Things. It's a role, and I think a bigger issue is made out of it. It was a part I took and it's what the character did, so I did it."
68
"I was always cutting dialogue out when we were rehearsing, and when I produced movies, too. I felt that people don't say things in life - they act, they do things. I always wanted my characters doing, rather than saying what they were doing - which was redundant."
68
"I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy."
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"The look in his eyes turned a little wild. "That's the only reason I'm letting you go. If I had any choice--""You do," she said "Wed can all sit here and let him die. Or you can let Eve go on her wild-ass rescue mission and get herself killed. Or you can let sweet, calm, reasonable Claire go do some talking."He shook his head. His long, elegant hands, which looked so at home wrapped around a guitar, closed into fists. "Guess that means there's no choice.""Not really," Claire agreed. "I was kind of lying about that choice thing."
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"Indians have a big problem with alcohol and drugs. I grew up with an admiration for their culture and was sensitive to their problems."
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"I didn't get along with Lindsay Lohan on 'Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen', but you have to consider that we were 16-year-old girls. I haven't seen Lindsay since then, but I imagine she's grown and become a different person. I know I have."
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"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."
68
"Never face facts; if you do you'll never get up in the morning."
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"Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade."
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"There was a big question as to whether or not different generations have grown up differently."
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"About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient."
68
"Three-quarters of the world's population doesn't have enough to eat!"
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"We have an abundance of rape and violence against women in this country and on this Earth, though it's almost never treated as a civil rights or human rights issue, or a crisis, or even a pattern. Violence doesn't have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender."
68
"When I was 13, I told Henry Winkler I wanted to act. He said, Do it and don't let anyone stand in your way. His validation just made it all the more true. I haven't stopped thanking him since."
Act,
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"If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty."
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"I was in Jersey when the whole World Trade Center thing happened and I felt powerless. So, I went to Hawaii and did a surf movie. It's kind of fluffy."
68
"We blush very, very easily, and we get terrified of audiences."
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"There is all the difference in the world between departure from recognised rules by one who has learned to obey them, and neglect of them through want of training or want of skill or want of understanding. Before you can be eccentric you must know where the circle is."
67
"Money's not important to me. Movie star acknowledgement is not important to me. I don't want to be a big studio actress. I don't want to be in the limelight."
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"You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented."
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"I don't know what it means to be a sex symbol. When I look myself on a magazine cover I don't see it as me, but as someone painted, fluffed, puffed and done up."
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"We're not all nice, and there are a lot of levels of ambition and niceness."
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"I don't smoke, don't drink much, and go to the gym five times a week. I live a healthy lifestyle and feel great. I can run a marathon, you know."
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