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Quotes by Actress

"So, I'm happy to do that because it's a wonderful working relationship but I will be going out for pilot season for half hour work and that's the gamble I'm taking."

"When your vision is clear for your life, goals, and dreams, the confidence and assurance gained bear fruit to joy and peace."

"The story of a love is not important-what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity."

"Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo."

"We live in the land of opportunities. People come from all over the world to hustle and work their way up to places that they could only imagine or dream of."

"The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film."

"We have to embrace obstacles to reach the next stage of joy."

"I like the sensibility of Australian film a lot and the crews are fantastic. Great characters, wonderful people and no line between - I think in Hollywood they have this line between actors and crew a lot, and that just didn't exist, which I really appreciated."

"Other women looked on me as a rival. And it pained me a great deal."

"Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness."

"I guess if I wrote a book one day, it would be about hair."

"I don't know if it's a sign of all the chaos that is happening out there or not, but I've lately craved the structure and order of classical music, the balance and symmetry."

"Compassion is that special ingredient that is often missed, and it makes a difference in building a positive environment."

"Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same."

"As we look ahead into the future, leaders will be those who serve others, actively listen, and daily empower."

"I just find it thrilling, especially when I totally lock in to the person that I am doing and I'm really flying... I suppose I am hiding myself when I sing as these other people."

"Once you find love, you find it. There isn't an age on love."

"But to do this kind of work, you have to be very strong, otherwise you lose your personality, your identity."


"Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry."

"The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre."

"The only thing I like about being an actress is acting."

"I don't know much about football but everyone seems to say that it is all about possession."

"You can't enjoy life if you're not nourishing your body."

"Don't just aim, Shoot!Don't just talk, Do!Don't just walk, Move!Don't just hope, Act!Don't just follow, Lead!Don't just dream, Live!Don't just exist, Love!"

"A lot of people asked me if it was frustrating not having a clear specific diagnosis, but I didn't mind, I just chose the most optimistic diagnosis."

"I always got along with all types of people - popular people as well as drug addicts."

"I'd like to make really important movies, like American Beauty. I was really proud to be a part of that movie."

"When I'm not working, my time is really about my children."


"In addition to having a good partnership with a good doctor, you have to do some of the work yourself. Go online, read about it, and find out what you can tolerate."

"I always took it for granted that there would be life after Hollywood."

"Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic."

"The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well."


"Anything that loosens you up and makes you freer is good, because that's what acting and performing is all about - being free. It gives you a better connection to the audience."

"Eduardo Galeano notes that America was conquered, but not discovered, that the men who arrived with a religion to impose and dreams of gold never really knew where they were, and that this discovery is still taking place in our time."
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