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Quotes by Actress
"In my case, I was born to parents who were very young, and I don't think they were entirely ready to have a child. My dad was going to college and working two or three jobs at the same time, and my mum was working and going to school."
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"Bigotry and judgment are the height of insecurity."
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"They offered me that film before I did Frida and I said, no, I'm not capable of directing. Then after seeing Julie direct, I was inspired by it. She motivated me to do it, because we don't have role models as woman for directors."
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"There's a difference between wanting to be respected and being a strong female and being known for being able to do things, but still very much wanting guys to open the door, wanting them to ask us out, still bringing flowers and stuff like that."
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"The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios."
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"A 41-inch bust and a lot of perseverance will get you more than a cup of coffee - a lot more."
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"Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator."
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"A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished."
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"I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else."
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"You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead."
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"But my brother Joey was there, and my sister Tina Nina Minnelli was there."
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"My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen."
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"I play a female Indiana Jones, a professor who hunts down precious objects, like a bowl that belonged to the Buddha. They tailored the role to me: I wanted to be smart, funny, and to kick some ass."
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"I just don't know a couple that's been married more than three years that doesn't annoy the heck out of each other every 15 minutes."
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"I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well."
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"I can enjoy a vacation as well as the next person, as long as I know it's a vacation and not a premature retirement."
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"It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country."
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"Everyone is their own kind of lesbian. To think there's a certain way to dress or present yourself in the world is just one more stereotype we have to fit into."
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"I have very short hair. It's the only cute haircut I think I've ever had."
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"I don't think any child could really be happy between five and eight away from their parents."
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"Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life."
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"I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege."
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"Girls are scary. Large groups of girls scare the crap out of me."
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"Never face facts; if you do you'll never get up in the morning."
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"And I was victim to that very early in my career, where I would go into auditions, and I'd be wearing a big T shirt, a big baggy T shirt and loose jeans. You know, to try and show people that there was more to me than just that."
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"Beauty fades! I just turned 29, so I probably don't have that many good years left in me."
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"If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused."
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"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."
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"When he's late for dinner, I know he's either having an affair or is lying dead in the street. I always hope it's the street."
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"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."
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"Three-quarters of the world's population doesn't have enough to eat!"
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"It was the most pleasurable thing I've ever done, playing this character, and I just remember feeling so at home and so - I don't know, I was just happy - and it just wasn't ever work! It was like a sandbox for me, and I would crack myself up rehearsing."
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"Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure."
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"You get kind of bored being in catalogues all the time."
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"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..."
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