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Quotes by Actress

"Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted."

"I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit."
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"I'm in the process of trying to find something that I could do on my own."

"Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses."

"And also, Sergio Leone was considered in Italy a director of category B, not a big director."

"And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every two years."

"At one point, they offered me this part to play a drug-dealing, gun-selling butch lady. I don't know how to describe her but she had like a crew cut and stuff. I was like, 'Is this a joke?' And they said, 'No, we think it would be great because everyone would be like, 'Oh, look at what we've done to Charlotte.' I was like, 'Well I can't do that!'"

"But now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see that in the science sphere of our lives there is new, there is progress."


"I genuinely enjoy talking one-to-one. I have no shyness about that."

"All my six husbands married me for different reasons."

"For me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not."


"I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance."

"In Wales it's brilliant. I go to the pub and see everybody who I went to school with. And everybody goes 'So what you doing now?' And I go, 'Oh, I'm doing a film with Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins.' And they go, 'Ooh, good.' And that's it."


"I don't think any child could really be happy between five and eight away from their parents."

"I do know the Spelling family. I worked for Aaron Spelling when I was a brunette. I've known them since Tori was a little girl."

"Well, I didn't really admit that I anywhere until my daughter started school and I knew I couldn't pull up and leave when I felt like it."

"Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars."

"Girls are scary. Large groups of girls scare the crap out of me."

"Generosity is a strength, not a weakness."

"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."


"Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without."

"Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University."

"I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid."

"I wouldn't do nudity in films. For me, personally... To act with my clothes on is a performance; to act with my clothes off is a documentary."

"For twenty years I have sat alone at a desk tinkering with sentences and then sending them out, and for most of my literary life the difference between throwing something in the trash and publishing it was imperceptible..."

"Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are."

"Parents had some kind of sin radar, Claire thought. They always called when you were in the middle of something you just knew they'd consider wrong. Or at least risky."


"I'm from New York, I make kind of somewhat maybe lewd, at times - maybe some would say dirty - jokes. But in jest."

"I just think that it's such a good show and timeless and still very funny, and that just makes me happy to have that whole first season in one concentrated space for people to enjoy so that it's not hit and miss trying to find it in syndication always."

"The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of Carousel, and it was a very vivid experience."

"I think male roles are generally much better written. So for actresses, we're always dealing with trying to inject a role with more truth than the writer possibly had in mind."
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