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Quotes by Actress

"It is a very difficult job, being the servant of two masters."

"I don't think I miss anything by not watching television."

"It's not about me, it's about my family. You don't answer questions for you, but for us. You learn to live beyond yourself."

"I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings."

"When you first entered the restaurant, I thought you were handsome... and then, of course, you spoke."

"I think in life we want to challenge ourselves."

"I feel like I almost didn't grow up in the business, because my parents worked so hard at sheltering us from that. I was raised in Connecticut. And I honestly wasn't aware that my dad was a celebrity until I moved to Los Angeles a year ago."

"I'd rather do theater and British films than move to LA in hopes of getting small roles in American films."

"I never go outside unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door."
Want,

"If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere."


"I like that kind of frantic schedule. It makes me feel like I have a purpose."

"I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model."

"You can't have a relationship when you're shooting a 14-hour day and your husband is shooting a 14-hour day in the same city. It's a time thing and it's a together thing."

"Well, usually when I finish one character, I'm looking for a role that's really different."


"Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich."

"My kids are young and my life with them is really stimulating and really full and significant."

"When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it."

"I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance."


"I've been working on Barb for a while. I looked at her as a sort of every woman. She's incredibly strong; she's incredibly generous. She's seemingly insane because she is in the situation of a polygamous relationship, but she had definite reasons to do it."


"Longhorns are unique - each and every one of them is a different color with a different design."

"I'm trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I'm not a smoker. But my character only smokes as an affectation."

"I'm getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can't stop lifting it, and I love that you know."
Love,

"But my middle daughter, Kate, is very involved in martial arts, and I was just at one of her competitions."

"Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest."

"All that schooling never prepares you for the reality of life."


"Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent."

"People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me."

"The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any."

"I had such extraordinary breaks from the moment I entered the theater."
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