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Quotes by Actress

"The only thing I like about being an actress is acting."

"There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level."

"I don't know much about football but everyone seems to say that it is all about possession."

"This has taught me that being pleasant is always so much more productive, for I know well the rewards for being good-natured."

"Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents."

"I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting."

"It is very difficult for girls. They're told to look one way, but to act another way."

"A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night."

"The most memorable night of The Judy Garland Show for me was the night my mother pulled me out of the audience and sang to me onstage."

"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."

"We have developed this unbelievable ability to deny. We have to. If we didn't, we'd go crazy."

"I had a one day slip, Matt. So what do you do? You get up and you go on, and you try not to do it again."
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"I think I can speak for all four of us on the show here. We all consider ourselves to be feminists and we get very upset when people don't think we are. We're like, where did this come from? Of course we are."

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

"There were times when there were parts that I was sure I got and then I didn't, and I did get upset. But at this point, it doesn't affect me in the least because I know how the business works."


"That's something I go through every day - you know - Am I good enough to act?"


"I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work."


"People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries."

"I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants."

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

"It's hard to notice things without people noticing me and that takes some getting used to."

"You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me. That's why films like Fight Club were so important to me because I think I confounded certain stereotypes and limited perceptions of what I could do as an actress."

"We were in a relationship for eight years, and we maybe saw each other, total, for a year."

"I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it."

"I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like, 'But, Daddy, he's a musician!'."

"Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?"
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