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Quotes by Actress
"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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"We would love to have other children. It hasn't happened. We haven't been lucky enough."
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"It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes."
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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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"Yes. I did more research than I ever wanted to and saw some things I wish I didn't. I went on ride-alongs, spent time with Homicide, Cold Case, and SVU detectives, hung out in subways learning how to spot pervs and pick-pockets, viewed an autopsy, went to a police firing range, and witnessed court cases and I read, read, read."
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"Being around people with whom you feel a connection, on many levels, not just a professional one, is very relaxing. Your ears are more open to someone who is not a cantankerous bastard."
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"What makes these creatures so awful is the feeling that they can use us in ways too horrible to imagine-and yet, we DO imagine them, which makes it worse than seeing it."
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"I think when an actress marries she should leave the stage. She cannot be happy if she is married and remains on the stage. She must care more for her art or for her husband."
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"For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses."
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"It takes 300 years, it seems, for the great bands to get their due."
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"I want to find a way to reach young women emotionally and also to start providing clothing for them so that they can wear the same things their thin friends can wear. I really want to do evening wear and prom dresses for these girls."
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"I'm not homely enough to play the nerdy girl and not nearly pretty enough to play the pretty girl."
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"I knew I wanted to act, and I was really driven, so I kept going for it. We moved to L.A. full-time when I was 8 or 9."
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"Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual."
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"It's always been really important for me to try to maintain a balanced life, professional and personal, and this was absolutely something that my husband and I had hoped for."
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"I prefer being as far from the centre of celebrity as possible."
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"All I really want to do is entertain people out there sitting in the dark and for them to believe it."
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"But also, it's a wonderful thing for children to see the birthing of puppies, to see nature at its best when it works and to have the experience of the puppies."
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"He painted me when I was young because he was in love with me, but now that he has loved me he doesn't paint me anymore."
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"The food was interesting. My background is Russian, so cheese and potatoes are my love. There was plenty of that. And fried cheese! It is really, really, really good. And really, really, really bad for you. It's like an artery on a plate."
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"I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right."
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"I think there is something for all of us where you find a balance in your life, where you feel that everything you do isn't about your own creature comforts or satisfying your own appetites. Some of it has to be directed outward and there is a huge satisfaction in that."
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"When I was first starting out, and I was less established, I was really concerned about being typecast."
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