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Quotes by Actress

"I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life."

"I kept bugging them about making it more upscale, because I felt Abby, through her cleverness and business sense, was a character who would move up. And that's what she did."

"I'm trying to eliminate every vestige of my own personality, style, approach and get into somebody else's skin. Sometimes I feel I've accomplished it. But when I don't, I'm nobody at all, having left myself at home."

"I have a real problem with stillness. With just stopping and being quiet."

"What I'm saying is that I tried very hard to give them my reality and my reality is kind of interesting."

"I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember Russell coming to my rescue, once. I watched Eric evolve before everyone's eyes. Maurice loved what he did, so. He treated his character with respect, down to the costuming."

"I've been happily married to Chris for almost 20 years."

"We each own one car, and we have a reasonable house. It's a lovely place to be, but it's not extravagant."
Car,

"I work out the other bits, too, but I need to know what I look like, very early on. And then it's like a template; I'll fill that person out. If I get that out of the way, then I'm all right."

"I need sex for a clear complexion, but I'd rather do it for love."

"I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better."

"The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it."

"You know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what children do with Barbie dolls - it's a bit scary, actually."

"After Leaving Las Vegas I did assume that things would get a lot easier than they've been. But it's just been a mirror of the way my career's been from the beginning, so for it to have changed would have been strange. My career has never been perfect."

"I liked the way my character, Shane, was first introduced. You get introduced to her through this sexual action, and I thought that was so cool and just kind of summed up what she enjoys and who she is, to a certain extent. She's a complete sexual being and the great thing is that she doesn't apologize for it. It's just who she is. We rarely see women be able to do that on television."

"At times those skills were really hard to do because not only was I having to contend with the camera, but I was having to learn these new skills and the ball was always kind of doing what you didn't want it to do. So it got a little bit frustrating at times but we got there."
Want,

"I had never done Shakespeare before, but I don't think you can be an actor and not do it. There were moments when I thought, I'm just not going to be able to pull this off."


"Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days."


"Doctor Who is like any long-running series in that the cast tend to look to the star to set the general tone. Rehearsals and filming could be a lot of fun."
Fun,

"I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent."


"I've been working some really long hours for the last five or six years. Anybody who works on series television knows, and especially women because women spend probably two hours more than the guys with all their hair and makeup crap."

"I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl."

"It's hard to be scared when there are 80 people around you."

"I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination."
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