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Quotes by Actress

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

"People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people."

"It's part of the celebrity process but my life has never been as interesting or as wild as what's been printed about me."

"I think we felt the pressure more at first than this time around. But still you don't want to let anyone down. I never even met Patrick until we had a Christmas party at Ian McKellen's house on the first movie and then I didn't see him again until the premiere."

"The story follows the whole family. But pretty much all the characters who are in jail have written a book about it, so you've got their perspective of it, however skewed they want you to see it."


"I enjoy getting riled up, and nothing's gonna do that for you like a good scary movie."

"It's been awhile. My Oscar is getting kind of tarnished. I looked at it a couple of years ago and thought I really needed a new one."

"I think my parents see my life now as very conservative."

"We can't compare stories. We can only know in our hearts that we are the same. That may be the best we can do."
May,

"I think it's sort of disrespectful to the partner you're having sex with to talk about it."

"I come from a TV background, so for me this more like doing a freeing theatre piece because we'd go into a room and do the scene, instead of doing it as a wide shot, medium shot, and close up with only the odd line of dialogue."

"So it was good for me to play a likable person and it was just an amazing situation to be in."
Play,

"I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help, not even Mom's."

"I always feel like there is some dude out there with money that I could fall back on if I needed to."

"If you were in the film industry at that time, you were always picked up by directors who were much older. You were whisked about and shown things. I did work very hard though."

"I'm not that old, and I haven't lived a life so far from the ordinary, really."


"So, sometimes, when I'm not happy with my performance and I have to think, I will think in English."


"He makes me laugh, Mick! He tended to turn up when we were having lunch and entertain us all. He bought an Enigma machine! I've never worked with a producer who was more famous than everyone put together."

"Well, softness and femininity like yours people don't expect of me; so when they find me emotional and capable of real vulnerability, they're surprised."

"So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy."

"By knowing your character so well you can't go wrong. All of us kind of fell into that."

"With the number of people I ignore, I'm lucky I work at all in this town."
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