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Quotes by Actress

"There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important as we make them sometimes."

"No not really, it is just like real life. Not everyday you are happy and not everyday you are sad."
Life,

"In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?"

"Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured."

"Yes, I do get recognized in public. It's pretty nice."

"Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened."

"All that schooling never prepares you for the reality of life."

"Words impress me. If a man can speak eloquently and beautifully to me, I just melt on the floor."

"You play a part, and as soon as a movie is over and the camera stops, you go home and you're not really responsible for what you've done."

"I didn't need the insurance. I do it again if my DP tells me it didn't look good in the camera or if the actors didn't hit their marks. But if everything was working why do it again?"

"I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater."

"It always surprised me that I was getting acting work."

"When you are young and healthy, it never occurs to you that in a single second your whole life could change."

"I'm not all that big on rides. I sort of like bumper cars but I don't really go to Disneyland all that much unless if have nieces and nephews or people to take."

"Alone in the car with my social life all before and behind me, I was suspended in the beautiful solitude of the open road, in a kind of introspection that only outdoor space generates, for inside and outside are more intertwined than the usual distinctions allow. The emotion stirred by the landscape is piercing, a joy close to pain when the blue is deepest on the horizon or the clouds are doing those spectacular fleeting things so much easier to recall than to describe."


"When you're constantly looking for things from other people, you're not looking within yourself."

"When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent."

"I think I'm learning to be bolder in my career choices and be more confident in my personal life. I haven't always felt very secure as an individual, but now I feel I certain confidence and sense of self that gets me through the day a lot better than before."


"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."


"I was really glad to meet Jane Clark because it did give me an insight. I couldn't imagine what kind of woman she was. I was hugely impressed by her energy, straightforward nature and enthusiasm for life."

"You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances."

"I try to keep my head on straight and take nothing for granted."

"I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience."

"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."
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