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Quotes by Actress

"I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana. I believe he was far less a mercenary than he was a freedom fighter."

"I think my first bikini, I was four and it was polka dotted and I had a big belly and I looked dashing."

"I think for me it was a natural transition to move full time into acting rather than figure skating."

"Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time."

"There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people."

"Everyone has highs and lows that they have to learn from, but every morning I start off with a good head on my shoulders, saying to myself, 'It's going to be a good day!'."

"I moved to New York last year and I love it. It's a huge change and I've always wanted to spend time there. It's like a more intense London, and everything's up a few notches. The lights are brighter, the pace is faster and the food's better."

"People stopped me on the street and said 'I can't live up to you.' Of course, they're referring to June Cleaver."


"So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!"

"The radio for these women is like television is for us today, which is really like looking at the radio."

"My desire to participate in the business is not to make more crap."

"I grew up in the church, and I feel very strongly about it."

"As a mother, you feel much more vulnerable. And when you're vulnerable, you're a much better actress."


"It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons."

"There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs."

"Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star. We had no idea that other people would think we were special, because there was no other lifestyle to compare it to."

"I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it."


"These things have a life of there own and never existed when I was growing up certainly worrying when one would get made. It's kind of amazing how that one movie kept living through all these years."


"If you come back from the dead, you don't have the same value system, I think."

"I think it's so important to keep learning and keep your brain active."

"My only ambition is to be true every moment I am living."

"We were worried about that actually. The cast was thinking that they'd lose their minds. But we didn't."

"Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, you just deny yourself. It's about control."

"I usually just have one cat. It is difficult, but I have my one cat that he'll travel with me if it's appropriate, if I'm not going overseas."

"I'm 24. I think when I was 18, 19, I had a problem with it because I wanted to look older and more womanly. I look in the mirror and I don't feel or look 14 to myself, regardless of what other people think. I'm fine with it and it really doesn't matter what age I'm playing."

"I came out of the womb born to sing and dance. I have to follow my heart."

"But actors at a certain point take the best of what's available to them."

"My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run."
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