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Quotes by Actress

"I've definitely grown apart from a lot of my friends. Some of them don't understand the schedule, and it's not that I don't want to talk to them, it's that sometimes I am really busy and can't get back to them."


"When you walk away from a really wonderful job like that, you start messing with everyone's priorities. It's like you're dissing them."

"Growing up, being watched from the outside... it's kind of very taxing and maybe I should just do some kind of manual labor-it might be more relaxing. But I can't, it's not in my nature."

"I know what's best for me, after all I have been in the Claudette Colbert business longer than anybody."

"Yes, I know I've played these women, but I'm not really conniving at all."

"It's pretty overwhelming to know that people can call up Moviefone and find out where it's playing."

"It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me, it's a natural thing."


"We can bring to characters dark and bright sides that nobody even dreams about."

"Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one."

"My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself."

"If you have what you want to say inside, and if you are crying for something that is true inside, it doesn't matter. The camera always sees it."
Want,


"You don't forget the movies, but you forget the details of them."


"Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good."

"It's very difficult to marry into another civilization."

"People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening."

"You only get one life so you might as well make it a happy one, and that's why I tend to just jump into things. I'm sort of a fearless idiot that way."
Life,

"What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change."

"I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career."

"Brian really kicked back on his own when Amanda was a baby. We had a long talk about it, and he was spending a lot of time in California working there and he didn't really want to spend all his time out there and have his children and his wife on the East Coast."

"I couldn't be happier about being a part of 'Hunger Games' and to play Katniss. I have a huge responsibility to the fans of this incredible book and I don't take it lightly. I will give everything I have to these movies and to this role to make it worthy of Suzanne Collins' masterpiece."

"Having children is what a woman is born for, really."

"The more prepared I am, the more I'll be in control, less nervous, less stressed and more focused."

"It was a few days later I came out to Hollywood for a screen test, and so did a lot of other people. So, I really didn't think I would get it. I was definitely the one that was least likely to get it, because everyone else was an already established star."

"People say to me that I can't be nervous because I've had such a wealth of experience, but I tell them that I have never done this particular part before."

"I grew up with a lot of boys. I probably have a lot of testosterone for a woman."

"I think that the most difficult thing is allowing yourself to be loved, so receiving the love and feeling like you deserve it is a pretty big struggle. I suppose that's what I've learnt recently, to allow myself to be loved."
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