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Quotes by Actress


"It was in New York, and I've always wanted to film in New York. And the writer was a teenage friend of mine. We did youth theatre together when we were 16 and always had a dream of making a film together. And ten years later, we've done it. So it's great."

"I'm so protected in my Nickelodeon bubble and "What I Like About You." It's all pretty much the same people I've worked with and it was pretty protected."


"I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it."

"Some people in LA are addicted. They have to be here. My personal life is stronger than my professional life, in terms of priorities."

"Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while."


"I'm really proud to have been in The Craft. I will always be that chick from The Craft, no matter what I do."
Will,

"I try to see my films just once. it's like a dream you've been through when it's been intense, and you just have to go through it once more just to make sure you've had it."


"I think it's definitely beneficial for these characters to have good acting voices behind them and it affects the characters in a way that people can feel like they're part of the game and that they know these characters."

"I'm a Southern girl. I like when they open the door and pull out a chair. I'm really into a man's man."

"When you see something that is well-written, the actors can get behind it."

"Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite."

"You're not ethnic enough. You're not fat enough. You're not thin enough. You're not blond enough. You're not dark enough. You're not young enough. You're not old enough."
Old,

"A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma."

"I knew from a very young age that there was something very wrong with me."

"If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights."

"I definitely felt that I was put at a very high place to be able to be a part of such a wonderful franchise in cinema history, so I was definitely very driven at doing a great job and having my body look the way it should and just being a part of the creative process."

"You can learn so much from children, and you can give them so much."

"We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8."
Old,

"Warren and I are friends, but working with him had been difficult."

"I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me."


"I desperately want a dog, but I've been told I travel too much, and I'm not allowed to have a dog."

"I'd already made the decision before I'd even read it-just because it was John Sayles. Then when I read it, the themes were actually themes that have been a big part of my life."


"I've always thought that a lot of the problems in the world would be solved if a spaceship did arrive, then anyone with one head and two arms and two legs would be your brother! It wouldn't matter where they were from or what they believed or anything. It might be good for us."

"When I think of Marilyn Monroe, and achieving her sound, I think of having a rather large bust. I think of her physically and I am just able to create her sound, because her physicality was so much to do with her sound."

"I can't do the same thing every night, the same gestures... it's like putting on dirty panties every day."

"I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either."

"I'm the slowest reader in the world, because I perform it all in my head."

"Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity."

"Acting is a tough business, and you need to be in good shape mentally and physically."
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