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Quotes by Actress
"With the number of people I ignore, I'm lucky I work at all in this town."
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"Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work."
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"I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl."
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"God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of."
God,
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"For me, its like go ahead and eat. Live your life. I mean, I've just seen so much death, you know, as of late, being in my 40s, of people getting sick or, you know, whatever, that I just feel like, you know what? You never know with life. Eat. Enjoy yourself. Just try to be healthy and, you know, and watch it."
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"You are always damned by things that you do well as an actor."
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"I know many beautiful people and their lives are just so terrible. They feel so uncomfortable with themselves. Being comfortable is not about what you look like, but how you feel."
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"I was walking around legally blind. Now I have 20-20 vision. I can't believe I spent so many years blurry, but I think that coincides with how I was feeling. Now I notice if people are watching me, but I also smile right back if someone waves, which helps."
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"I look back at old photographs and videotapes, and I go, Who was I trying to be? Who was I doing this for?"
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"I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology."
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"I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed."
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"I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really."
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"It was my first straight dramatic role, and the most adult, intelligent one I have ever played."
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"You make a choice whether or not to turn that TV on. We didn't even have a television in the house."
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"My character, Taylor McKessie, is a little bit brighter in the math and science department than I am... okay, a lot."
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"When I went to school, I was in the same mode. I did the things I enjoyed, what I loved."
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"I think being mean to people in high school is healthy. It's sort of like you're in this situation with all these other kids and sometimes you need to get your aggression out. And if you'd had people be mean to you before, it really does build character."
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"Watching Jodie on this is incredible; it's the perfect role for her. It's so intense and so emotional. She just jumped right into it and is so professional."
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"If you're at an award ceremony, you're against your mates."
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"When I go, if there's a tombstone it will say, She doesn't give in. She doesn't give up. And she never takes no for an answer."
Will,
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"In the studio, if they need to come down to the floor, things are a bit pushy, although it is easier for them to say things directly rather than through about five people."
34
"Going to another country you're not in your house, you're with people you've never met before, and I think it's definitely a good growing experience."
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"I argued that I didn't have any of the attributes to pose for cheesecake. I said I would have to make good on my acting ability, which was the only attribute I could offer."
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"I know people like spectacle, but I'm interested in moving people."
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"I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually."
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"I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the '50s. I had sock hops for birthday parties. So I've always done The Twist and stuff. It was pretty natural and, with my parents doing it all the time, I'd just copy them. Not very pretty."
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"I couldn't watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed up."
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"My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends."
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"Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother."
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"The worst thing you can do to a kid is tell them that their dreams are invalid."
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"I am so like Donna it's funny. And most of my friends are guys too."
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"I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film."
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