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Quotes by Actress

"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."

"So wearing a corset certainly changes your state of mind."


"I couldn't do it at all. I was never really good at it, but I can't imagine what it can be like as a fortunate person not having to deal with it. I mean, people of all ages, not just my age, 25, 35, all the way down the line."

"Just the actual physical ability to hold four instruments simultaneously and do some of the things that Vivien was able to do is mind blowing to any surgeon. He never went to medical school and he became one of the great teachers of medicine himself, people are just amazed."

"Almost any film that you do is an opportunity to open you up and make you more aware of an area that you might not be thinking about. That's what is kind of cool, or one of the cool things about this profession."


"I've been doing this long enough that you can tell when people have seen you in something they didn't enjoy, and when they have seen you in something they actually enjoyed."

"I'd do pretty much anything to get back on stage. I'd like to develop a new musical. I nearly had a heart attack when I heard that they're developing John Waters' Cry-Baby because that is so amazing and super and wonderful and I wish that I could be involved. But it's not the right time and I understand that. But I hear things like that and I get that little tingle in my stomach."

"'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices."

"Everybody is just at the start of this huge process of trying to unravel what's going on with the 4,400, where they've been and why they're back and what they're trying to do with us in the present. And we're trying to work out what messages they're sending us."

"I'm one of those people who was taught not to ruffle any feathers. Of course, I have no problem ruffling feathers."

"I think people stop themselves from doing the things they want to do. I just think you never know how long you're going to be around so you might as well do the things that are intriguing. Nobody really cares anyway so you have to do what makes you happy."

"How could you have had such a wonderful life as me if there wasn't a God directing?"


"It's unfortunate that music has become such big business."

"Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian."

"If you can find something you love, go for it everyday of your life, and it would be really good to you."

"I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them."

"I would rather have gotten married than have a Hollywood contract."

"If you give a character room to breathe, they come alive."


"I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts."

"Oh, well, in Los Angeles everybody is an actor, or a producer, or a writer, or a director, or an agent, or... So everybody understands the hours."

"To be honest, I am completely natural. I have nothing in my face or anything. I wear sunscreen, and I don't smoke. I take care of myself and I'm very proud to say that."

"When that man wants something, he'll stop at nothing to get it. And I also believed in the good of him."


"I think from here on it's up to me to prove that I'm growing up and that I have other things to say, but in terms of the show it definitely gave me all of the opportunities I've had so far."

"We met and married when both of us knew exactly what our jobs were. He was only 32, but he'd been all over the place. I'd been working on films and television shows all over the world."

"The story line was done in a way that's organic and was doled out very slowly in little bites. We think that's authentic for this character, that her feelings are very deeply buried or she never felt them."

"A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone."

"I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine."

"There are two reasons why I'm in show business, and I'm standing on both of them."


"Men who are too good looking are never good in bed because they never had to be."

"I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year."
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