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Quotes by Actress

"That's what everyone said attracted them to Lantana - I call it an adult mystery, because it's not a thriller in the sense of that other way, but it is a mystery."


"But to be part of helping create a character and be a part of something from the beginning - the excitement of it - it doesn't get any better."

"I think people think Jim Carrey's just wild and crazy. He really is very disciplined. It is true of Eddie Murphy and Robin Williams as well."

"There are a lot of people who wait tables. And especially because you can do it at night and you can do your work in the day, she and I had a very similar experience."


"Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability."

"I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford."


"The first thing I ask when I'm offered a part is, Who's the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles."


"When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture."

"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."

"But no one frees himself from being in love in three days."

"Motherhood has relaxed me in many ways. You learn to deal with crisis. I've become a juggler, I suppose. It's all a big circus, and nobody who knows me believes I can manage, but sometimes I do."

"I know very few Americans, though I like the way they think. They think big."

"I like to go to openings when I'm in it, or friends are in it."

"Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life."


"Character roles definitely age better than your ingenues. You don't get to keep doing that."

"When I first started acting, and we would all sit down and talk about Shakespeare and how great it was. I thought well, I suppose it is."

"Howard Hughes himself was a regular at the restaurant, and in a way it became his headquarters, too. Howard had recently relocated to Las Vegas, so when he wanted to do business in Los Angeles, he went into the back of our restaurant to use the telephone."


"Who says I'm gonna marry another guy? In Europe it's not like in America, where you set a date."
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