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Quotes by Actress
"I wanted to share the experience of how yoga and meditation have transformed my life, how they have enabled me to observe who I am, first in my body, and then emotionally, and on to a kind of spiritual path."
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"Power, as in the power structure, is why we are still using gas in cars."
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"It's the thing that you do well that brings you to prominence. The very thing that brings you to success can also be like a curse, because then people think that's all you can do."
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"The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough."
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"I think in terms of family, in terms of relationships, in terms of work, competition to be the favorite, to be the noticed, to be the one - I don't know if it exists for all personalities, but I know for sure it did with me."
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"It wasn't my intention in going after this part but I suppose now I do. The adult roles are a lot meatier - you're not always just the daughter or the girlfriend or whatever."
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"I had years of therapy to recover from this. A lot of it had to with being a people pleaser, being the ultimate good girl. I wanted everyone to like me. I didn't really have a voice. I was afraid of growing up."
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"Making pictures, for an actress, is like betting, for a gambler. Each time you make a picture you try to analyze why you won or lost."
Time,
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"Surfing is such an amazing concept. You're taking on Nature with a little stick and saying, 'I'm gonna ride you!' And a lot of times Nature says, 'No you're not!' and crashes you to the bottom."
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"I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers."
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"I have no complaints with the whole childhood acting thing, because I wanted to do it."
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"My cousin cleaned out a shotgun for me and let me carry it around the house, because he said, 'Anybody who knows anything about guns is going to know in a second if someone has held a gun before.' I didn't want to be that person. I wanted to be practiced."
Want,
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"My favorite albumn ever is Jeff Buckley's GRACE. I feel a weird unexplainable connection to him."
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"For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I'm making the wrong decision, he'll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts."
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"And sometimes I do films so my daughter can see me work."
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"I'd really been wanting to do a television series. I was looking for a comedy."
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"So, when the discussion about not using the term feminist came up at a conference workshop, I couldn't believe it. The more I listened, the more I felt the need to express my passion about my identity as a feminist."
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"And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after."
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"In acting there's two different things: You're either pitching in a scene, or you're catching."
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"I look for people who're passionate, dedicated to the text, and in whom I trust completely."
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"The fact is that daytime television is less valued than nighttime, and it's partly because of the product that we produce. We do a one-hour show in 12 hours. Nighttime produces a one-hour show in seven to nine days."
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"I met John when I was 18 and I was in my first John Waters film when I was 19."
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"I've slowly gone back, later on in life, to fish and then chicken and then, last year, red meat."
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"I am quite surprised, that with all my work, and some of it is very, very good, that nobody talks about The Miracle Worker. We're talking about Mrs. Robinson. I understand the world... I'm just a little dismayed that people aren't beyond it yet."
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