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Quotes by Actress

"As soon as I gave birth, it was as if you understand them. They become people, not kids. You start to identify with them. You see yourself in them."

"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."

"I found it to be more challenging to be in a huge effects movie, because a lot of the things aren't there.You have to trust the director and react to nothing."

"We moved to Australia for two years though and that was a little bit tough trying to fit in."

"I have a picture of myself in my mind as I walk around every day, until I look in the mirror-and then I'm stunned."

"In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way."


"The best thing about being an actress is getting good concert tickets."


"But I just wonder what it would be like to be able to go places without people recognizing me."

"I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman."

"I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was fully ready to support it, that Michael's work was wonderful and I imagined that Daniel would feel the same. He listened quietly and read between the lines."

"I know for a fact that if there's a role which I am suited for, I'll be signed on. I'll never go begging."
Fact,

"A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion."

"I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies."

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

"I wanted out of my pain and that silliness, but I wanted an easy out. That's before realizing that there is no easy out. Before accepting that you just have to do the work."


"I don't really see science fiction as fiction. I can imagine colonies on Mars and everything."

"From the time I was very young, maybe five or six, I thought a lot about being an actress. I didn't tell my friends about my ambitions, though, especially when I got older, because I thought they would not receive them well. I never talked about what I wanted to do."

"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."

"Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time."

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

"And that's what the audience was feeling too, as they watched the show and as they watch it now. And overriding all of that is the way it was written. It was written honestly. There was never any manufactured laugh. There was never compromising of character."

"If it's a big hit, fantastic. If it's not, then it's not. I don't worry about my work."

"I really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing."

"When you see a girl like me bustin' perps, there ain't no time to be pretty."
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