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Quotes by Actress

"I love New York. I love the multicultural vibe here. Los Angeles doesn't inspire me in any way. Everyone is in the same industry, yet you feel very isolated."
Love,

"What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch."

"There's a great difference between being popular and being an artist."

"Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door."

"Where I am now, you're very much at everybody else's mercy. You have no control over your career in a lot of ways. It's just important to know what your own goals are, because that's empowering."

"I don't drink, and I don't smoke. It's a personal preference. My mom has never drunk or smoked. I look up to my mom."
Mom,

"Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people."

"But I think it's more fulfilling to be working with people."

"I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me."

"I've always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer."

"I like to connect to people in the virtual world, exchanging thoughts and ideas, when in the physical world we might never have the opportunity to cross paths."

"I can't do theatre in the US,' she says, 'because I don't have a green card."

"I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations."

"51st State was one that I loved doing because the character was so out there, and in a way I was sad to leave the character behind. I'm afraid I could never be that cool in real life!"

"Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me."

"I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'"

"After I do a big movie I get offered big movies. But I always do the weirdest indie."

"I was raised Catholic and I'm Presbyterian now, but I've always been a Christian, regardless of denomination. I believe that Jesus is the way."

"Regrettably, I do sometimes have to fight a tendency to be bitchy."

"I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December, right?"

"And I grew up watching all the British ones so when you hear that from an early age, it makes it much easier than you guys who don't grow up with Australian television or British television."

"I think the original Matrix was really incredible. It was so original and it did so many innovative things with film. It was a much bigger film. Bound was just a smaller film. It was kind of like an old noir film."

"These days I have to be extra nice in stores. It never fails that whenever I look as bad as I can possibly look or I am sort of cranky because the store is out of something, that is precisely the time when someone one will recognize me and say: 'I really like your show.'"

"Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is."

"It's fine to have anal sex as long as you're not in high school."

"I used Jimmy to give me what I needed to keep going and to know that I was on the right path with it. I thought I saw Jimmy's soul all the time we worked. He never covered his soul and I never covered mine. We saw into each other's souls, very definitely."

"They tell me that it will be hard to find a man strong enough to love my own strength and independence, and not worry about being Mr. Diana Ross, but I disagree. I know absolutely that that man is somewhere out there."

"In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star."
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