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Quotes by Actress


"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."

"It's weird, It's really weird to be called a breakout star. And some people are referring to my show as the new 'Friends', which I can't really even wrap my head around."

"Vincente understood all too well what was happening to Liza; he had gone through it 40 years earlier with my mother."

"So now I'm left with cigarettes, and I'm trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I'll be done."

"I did a terrible television pilot that was so badly written and dumb that it became a turning point for me and I decided that I would never accept a job just because I needed the money."


"I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared."

"Supermodels are over, and the new picture girl has become the television actress."

"We're making this as entertainment. But God willing, if this show stays on and people see a woman in that office for a while, I think it will help people become more used to it. It's certainly about time that we had a few female presidents."

"If I could do one thing over I'd have been nicer to my parents."

"You're grateful and appreciative that people liked you and remember you."

"I think that marriage is an amazing institution and should be preserved, and you can have great marriages, and you must because sharing your life with someone is like the greatest thing. And I loved being able to set a good example for that on television."


"Men, we don't need you to be a knight in shining armor. We just need you to be a little bit brave, just a little bit. And some of them are, and that's what he does."

"Being English, I always laugh at anything to do with the lavatory or bottoms."

"I've never been good in the financial and business arenas. I handle the creative side of things."


"I'd rather hang out with five people that I love than with 400 strangers at a club who are all doing the up-and-down inspection thing. They appraise everybody from head to toe - the outfit, the handbag, the shoes, how much they weigh... I can't stand it!"

"Your faith in yourself is all you will ever have. Don't let anyone take it away from you, ever."

"To use language is to enter into the territory of categories, which are as necessary as they are dangerous."

"And the sculptor woman was so clever in the way she did it. She had the beret just about to leave my hand. So it's attached to this finger and that's what will keep it there. And I'm looking up at it, so there's no question but that that beret is going to fly."


"The difference between working with a man and a woman... is immense."

"When I was with Ellen, I was telling people, If you come out, it's gonna be better for you. But I honestly don't know that."

"In the bare room under the old library on the hill in the town at the tip of the small peninsula on the cold island so far from everything else, I lived among strangers and birds."

"I stayed in New York City for the first time, I'd always wanted to do that."

"Entrepreneurship is an art, you do it because you love it."

"I was like one of those nauseatingly nice children. I was very, very well behaved and boring."

"And you can't hide in a comedy scene either. You have to give in to the scene and commit."

"There was a lot of protest after Bravo, from countries like India, for example. India was the first country which came forward and proposed at the United Nations that all of these nuclear tests should be stopped, that there should be a complete ban on nuclear testing."

"Live television drama was like live theater, because you moved without thinking about the camera. It followed you around. In film you have to be more aware of what the camera is doing."

"The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure."

"As long as she is talented enough and passionate about doing it herself then I will be happy and support her. I think I will be sensible - my parents said I could only do it if I got my education and so I had something to fall back on."

"I want people to be blown away when I do what they don't expect."

"So I - the thought that I would physically be different was - it's not a thrill, I have to tell you. It's kind of - it brings you up short. But I was able to look at it right away."
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