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Quotes by Actress

"I'm close with my parents. I have a lot of acquaintances, but my very good close friends are few I can count my very good friends on one hand. And that's how I like it to be."

"Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade."

"When I came off the boat I was very proud of the thick calluses which had developed on my feet. But now, I am struggling to get into my favourite high heels which is a shame, as I have so many."

"It was never really my choice to be an action heroine."

"About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient."

"There are no explanations, there are no answers."

"Criticism, even when you try to ignore it, can hurt. I have cried over many articles written about me, but I move on and I don't hold on to that ."

"If it's supposed to be a really passionate snog, you slip the tongue in."

"So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person."

"Money's not important to me. Movie star acknowledgement is not important to me. I don't want to be a big studio actress. I don't want to be in the limelight."

"You don't realize how useful a therapist is until you see yourself on e and discover you have more problems than you ever dreamed of."

"What they were giving me seemed incredibly real to me, so I'd react to it in a very real way. That was frightening for me, especially because of the subject."

"Don't let anyone, or any rejection, keep you from what you want."

"I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand."

"I've always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer."

"We're not all nice, and there are a lot of levels of ambition and niceness."

"Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic."


"I made a conscious decision back then that I would rather be the best actress who ever lived than the most famous one."

"Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover."


"I do take responsibility for it. I admit to having a problem. I have been to numerous treatment centers."

"I think the number one thing that I find important is the importance of honesty with your friends and your parents, if you can be. But I think that telling people how you really feel, being who you truly are, being safe and taking care of yourself is the most important thing."


"You've got to vote for someone. It's a shame, but it's got to be done."

"I think smart is sexy. I like smart people. People that are comfortable with themselves I think is very sexy. My cat is really sexy."

"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."

"You know who helped me a lot? Jane Fonda. She said, Look at how many times I've been up and I've been down. So don't worry about anything."

"Things said to a reporter in confidence should be kept in confidence."

"Everything is a rejection of you, not your product, or your script, or a cosmetic. It's you."

"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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"I thinned them out real thin once and it just didn't look like me. I know it was in style to have really thin eyebrows, but it didn't look right on my face."

"I do know that God created us equal and we're not living up to it."

"Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me."

"Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one."
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