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Quotes by Actress
"Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me."
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"I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'"
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"After I do a big movie I get offered big movies. But I always do the weirdest indie."
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"I was raised Catholic and I'm Presbyterian now, but I've always been a Christian, regardless of denomination. I believe that Jesus is the way."
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"Regrettably, I do sometimes have to fight a tendency to be bitchy."
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"I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December, right?"
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"I think the original Matrix was really incredible. It was so original and it did so many innovative things with film. It was a much bigger film. Bound was just a smaller film. It was kind of like an old noir film."
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"These days I have to be extra nice in stores. It never fails that whenever I look as bad as I can possibly look or I am sort of cranky because the store is out of something, that is precisely the time when someone one will recognize me and say: 'I really like your show.'"
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"Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is."
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"It's fine to have anal sex as long as you're not in high school."
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"I used Jimmy to give me what I needed to keep going and to know that I was on the right path with it. I thought I saw Jimmy's soul all the time we worked. He never covered his soul and I never covered mine. We saw into each other's souls, very definitely."
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"They tell me that it will be hard to find a man strong enough to love my own strength and independence, and not worry about being Mr. Diana Ross, but I disagree. I know absolutely that that man is somewhere out there."
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"In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star."
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"Right now, I love the fact that I have so many opportunities, but I know this privileged position cannot last. That doesn't mean that I'll stop working. I picture myself as an old actress doing cameos in films with people saying: "Isn't that that Bening woman?""
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"It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that's not the world we live in."
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"I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general."
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"I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back."
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"I worked very hard, but I think it's unfair to make it all sound like it's all David's fault."
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"I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles."
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"I was on Murder She Wrote with Angela Lansbury. She was fantastic... she was lovely to everyone, she was always on time, prepared."
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"In Europe the parents are included as with children. All three generations are together. I'm thinking of Italy. You go out on a Sunday afternoon and the whole family is there."
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"I sketched out a rough story for them and the director said, well it's a good story but we have the go-ahead from Universal to make this script and did I want to do it. I said no, and they left."
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"The costume that I wear on the show is a little snug and doesn't leave a whole lot to the imagination. I don't have a problem with it because of the way this character's been written."
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"It was considered that you were stepping down by doing television. I almost turned Cybill down because I so wanted to remain a theater actress."
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"Sometimes I use Botox. Compared to most, I use it very sparingly. One time I did too much, though. I feel weird if I can't move my face, and that one time I overdid it, I felt trapped in my own skin."
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"I love men who know when to put their foot down and when not to."
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"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."
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