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Quotes by Actress

"And that's what's beautiful to me, is he did not become a victim of it, and he didn't become a statistic, he just kind of kept on marching through, no matter what people threw at him."


"Some shows, like PPG, tape in a group session, which is always more fun because you can play off each other."

"So I was always passionate about it and felt that it was sort of the golden thread inside me in terms of what I was supposed to do in terms of work but I think I have relaxed a lot in terms of the actual experience and actually enjoy it more and enjoy the people more."

"I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to."

"The critics tend to forget their own answers after a while."

"I'm not all that big on rides. I sort of like bumper cars but I don't really go to Disneyland all that much unless if have nieces and nephews or people to take."

"The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you."

"Alone in the car with my social life all before and behind me, I was suspended in the beautiful solitude of the open road, in a kind of introspection that only outdoor space generates, for inside and outside are more intertwined than the usual distinctions allow. The emotion stirred by the landscape is piercing, a joy close to pain when the blue is deepest on the horizon or the clouds are doing those spectacular fleeting things so much easier to recall than to describe."

"I lay in the bed at the hospital and said, 'let's see what I have left.' And I could see, I could speak, I could think, I could read. I simply tabulated my blessings, and that gave me a start."

"I'd also say having Jack's son Chris living with us from his 13th year on helped in raising Rick."

"I'm one of those people who figures that it will eventually sort itself out."

"I've always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me."

"TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary; with independent films, you just can't."
Age,

"If you had told me when I was 18 that I wouldn't have made it until I was 29, I would have said, Forget it."


"The Craft was what it was. People who respond to that movie respond to it really strongly."

"The busier you are, the more interesting you are. The more you're off doing your thing and loving your job and your life, that's fascinating."

"There are all kinds of letters and protests that come from, not surprisingly, Japanese fishermen, the fishermen's wives; there are student groups, all different types of people; the protest against the Americans' use of the Pacific for nuclear testing."

"It seems to me the most important issue in the LGBT community is the right to be queer-the right to be free of the heterosexual assumption."

"I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America."

"Shirley Valentine is a beautiful character and so well written. What Shirley speaks and thinks is so logical."


"I think that's the phenomenon of our time is that a lot of women keep themselves in good shape but that there's not a lot of accommodation or people out there to connect with and the technology."
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