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Quotes by Actress
"You have to laugh, you have to be able to take criticism."
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"I don't think you should do things in your personal life differently because you're a role model."
Life,
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"We have a good arrangement. Roman lies to me and I pretend to believe him."
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"What's funny is my husband doesn't have any tattoos at all, so he must be the very conservative one."
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"Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it."
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"Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible."
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"As an actress we don't beat one another. It's whoever's right for the part."
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"Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?"
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"I've gotten better at not making people feel uncomfortable with my shyness."
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"I was lucky. My family is wonderful. And it's funny, because most of my best friends come from very large families. So it always felt as if I had lots of siblings, though in the end I had to leave them and go home. I kind of got the best of both worlds as a kid."
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"I don't eat or wear animals, but I never tell people not to - that's just my view."
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"And I love writing; I've been writing ever since I was seven."
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"If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind of cliched."
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"I'm a lot more grounded now, a lot more settled in my skin."
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"I mean normally you have your agent call the other agent and all the agents talk and then finally you get a phone call and you hear some misrepresentation of what someone else had to say."
Talk,
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"If you have everything, then you don't want to go on. It's the lacking that makes you search for something better."
Want,
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"I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love."
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"I'm home schooled, and I have a teacher that goes with me on all my movies."
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"My publicist always said as long as they pronounce your name or spell your name right, it's all good."
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"Adopted kids are such a pain - you have to teach them how to look like you."
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"So many people are called but few serve as actors, you know what I mean?"
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"If all you have to offer is a look that is supposed to be appealing, the you are going to be paid attention to about a tenth as long as you would be if when you speak you are interesting."
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"No, I'm so well-known at home I think they think of me like a piece of comfortable furniture that's always been around that they're not going to throw out."
Home,
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"I used to watch dailies and felt I had to keep on top of the character, but I don't feel that any more."
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"You know, I once leased a Mercedes because I got a good deal on it because of my first name."
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"I enjoyed showing a bit more leg in the last few stories. It was good fun, but it can be quite sexist. But it doesn't worry me personally all that much."
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"The shooting of the guns, that was kind of funny, because rolling a cigarette and shooting a gun aren't like normal things for a 13-year old girl!"
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"I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for."
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"My name's Jennifer Ellison and one day I'm going to be famous!"
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"Crimes of Passion, which is one of the best films I've done, will live strongly in my resume, even though it didn't do well."
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"I think when you're a bigger star you get many good scripts sent to you, and you have to choose which one you're going to gravitate toward, but I just try to gravitate toward the best-written one that's been thrown my way after a lot of girls have passed on it."
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"To stay interested in acting, I have to keep trying stuff I've never done before."
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