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Quotes by Actress

"I came out of the womb born to sing and dance. I have to follow my heart."


"They offered me one cover about 10 years ago, and I said, no, I can't do it. I'm happy to cover up now."


"I came from a real working-class show business family."

"I'd never had so much pleasure with another human being."

"God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of."
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"Although Dorothy in Blue Velvet was humiliated and hurt by men, basically I could react to how she felt."


"Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third."

"Only a certain breed of actor should ever even try to work for Orson Welles. I'm glad I'm one of that breed."

"I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really."

"You make a choice whether or not to turn that TV on. We didn't even have a television in the house."

"I'm most interested in working and learning from different people and telling good stories."

"I'm one of those people who was taught not to ruffle any feathers. Of course, I have no problem ruffling feathers."

"I think people stop themselves from doing the things they want to do. I just think you never know how long you're going to be around so you might as well do the things that are intriguing. Nobody really cares anyway so you have to do what makes you happy."

"Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian."

"And maybe that's being the third child, although my entire family are very resilient - very, very resilient."

"Oh, well, in Los Angeles everybody is an actor, or a producer, or a writer, or a director, or an agent, or... So everybody understands the hours."

"I couldn't watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed up."

"The story line was done in a way that's organic and was doled out very slowly in little bites. We think that's authentic for this character, that her feelings are very deeply buried or she never felt them."

"Whenever I do your show, sometimes I get a little check in the mail and then I take that check and buy a new pair of shoes, and then I wear those shoes the next time I do your show."

"Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has come neatly wrapped up in its penalties."

"More often than what you're suggesting, I find people are surprised that I have an urban side to me."

"When a person goes into a relationship emotionally needy, they are not going to have discernment in choosing people."

"I mean, I like to think of myself as being strong and independent, but I definitely wasn't like that at 14."
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