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Quotes by Actress


"I have worked enough and I am happy to be touring the country speaking about living with MS to give people inspiration and motivation to help themselves."

"A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day."

"Dancing on 'Dancing With The Stars' really broadened my fan base. I jumped off the stage backwards one week, and so many women come up to me now and say, 'You're so brave. I can't believe you put yourself out there like that'. If that inspires some girl out there, then great, because boys aren't the only ones who get to have fun. We get to have fun too."

"I'm pretty middle-of-the-road. There are some issues I'm more conservative on."

"More often than what you're suggesting, I find people are surprised that I have an urban side to me."

"I feel like I haven't done my best work yet."

"I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies."

"I put on the fat suit and went outside and walked around. I was really nervous about being found out, but nobody would even make eye contact with me. It really upset me."

"I'd like to go to Brazil I think. Do a little South America trip."


"I really loved Twin Peaks. When I saw the two-hour pilot, they screened it in the big theatre. I said, I don't know what is going to happen. I'm in this and I don't understand it. This is never going to sell. Who's going to watch this thing?"

"I wish we did have responsibility for the hair. I have been screwed up by the hair on many occasions."

"I just cleared the slate and thought of her as a mother and went from there."

"Bad directors will tell you they absolutely know how to do it, and how it has to happen; there's this insecurity that leads them to feeling like they have to control everything."

"I didn't think I was an actor and fought it for a long time. Nobody paid for that but me."


"I love acting, and it was really important to me to give it a real shot."

"You feel completely in control when you hear a wave of laughter coming back at you that you have caused."


"I'm 40 and I just got my first beauty campaign with Clairol Nice and Easy."

"On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people."

"Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't."

"We were very rich culturally. One Sunday each month, we would do this thing called Chamber Pots at somebody's house. A classical music group would come over and we'd have dinner. There were thirty people - parents and kids - and we'd sit on the floor and listen to this beautiful music."

"Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time."

"When you fall head over heels for someone, you're not falling in love with who they are as a person; you're falling in love with your idea of love."

"It's very strong after the birth. It's extraordinary. You can't watch anything to do with kids being harmed."


"My mother's been married many, many times and grew up believing in love like that. It's remarkable."

"But I love filmmaking - I'm not ashamed of that. You're sort of vilified if you say that in England."
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