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Quotes by Actress

"I sketched out a rough story for them and the director said, well it's a good story but we have the go-ahead from Universal to make this script and did I want to do it. I said no, and they left."
Want,

"The costume that I wear on the show is a little snug and doesn't leave a whole lot to the imagination. I don't have a problem with it because of the way this character's been written."

"It was considered that you were stepping down by doing television. I almost turned Cybill down because I so wanted to remain a theater actress."


"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."

"I love men who know when to put their foot down and when not to."

"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."

"I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships."

"I always feel I can play a role - just give me the time to do the preparation and I'll be it."

"I think Baywatch is such a hit here because of the weather."

"I personally take cues directly from the script, then I like to surprise the other actors. But you must maintain control on a level and see how far you can go up, down or out emotionally. You have to balance the craft with spontaneity."

"I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year."

"When something is troubling me, people know about it."

"It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden."

"Almost every girl falls in love with the wrong man, I suppose it's part of growing up."

"I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit."

"Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next."

"People were actually approaching me on the street and thinking that I was an athlete. They couldn't quite place it, but a runner, or swimmer or something."

"No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with."
Work,

"But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for."

"I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me."

"There are so few strong roles for women, especially young women. And Veronica is very serious but also very likable. She's a lone wolf, and it appeals to people that she isn't rich and doesn't have a lot of friends. No posse. She's just like you, like most of us."

"My experiences in film and theatre in the States have been much more rigorous-in England there's an environment of, Let's try this."

"I was regarded as the school freak which further reinforced a lot of inhibitions and doubts I had about myself. I was a shy, frightened teenager for a long time."

"Sexy at the millennium means having a solid sense of self but never taking yourself too seriously."

"Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions."

"When I'm out with my girlfriends at the bar, and I see some young 18-year old boy, just for fun I say, 'Hi honey. Do you like girls? Do you like girls exclusively? Oh, good.'"

"My face has always been my fortune anyway, not my body."

"Hollywood looks to these young people now to say something to the world. I have nothing against that, I think a lot of people have things to say. But I think you need life experience."

"It's impossible to always get across what I'm trying to say, but, if I just stay honest, then I'm not going to look back on any of these interviews and wonder what I was trying to do or be."

"I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural."

"I really always felt that I was going to be an actress. I had a lot of confidence in the fact that I would do well from a very early age. I didn't know how tough the business is."

"I'd like to be able to use Storm's powers for good, like have it rain more in Southern California. We could do with it."
Rain,

"In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times."

"I think of myself as a journeyman actress. I will attempt almost anything that I think that I can bring off. It could be almost anything."
Will,
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