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Quotes by Actress

"When I was first starting out, and I was less established, I was really concerned about being typecast."

"I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people."


"I want to get married again and have kids and even adopt."

"My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say."

"I'm not going to give up doing interesting things. I'm going to do it as long as I possibly can and hopefully have longevity in this business."

"It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens."

"Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough."

"I had mice that I kept as pets when I was very young, and I've always liked the way they look. Even rats. I'm not scared of them."
Pets,

"In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it."

"I write a lot too, so I would like to write or direct in the future if I can."

"I've always wanted to act and I can't think of anything else I'd want to do, honestly."

"The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people."

"Stage is the most exciting. Film is lovely, because it's like a family."

"My role in 'Legally Blonde' was really rewarding, because I had so much fun working on the movie. I've had really rewarding experiences on tiny low budget films that you'll never see but where I had a cool time creating characters as well. I love almost all of the characters I've played."

"Give me civilization. I don't want to be pampered."

"Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life."

"I'm so happy in the projects that I'm able to make, to be involved in projects like this. This isn't always where it was at for me, I started working when I was a kid. I'm just a different person now, I'm 30. I started working when I was 11 and it's a different ballgame."

"I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look."

"Everybody hangs out with everybody, which is very strange for a cast this large and this young. We're all cool and down to earth and not caught up in this maniacal business at all... . Everybody really, really likes everybody else."

"God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met."


"I've done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading things and they're good reviews - you believe that and you're lost, and then you read bad reviews and you think that's true and you read that and you're lost."

"I grew up in Hawaii and I think it was easier because we did not have cliques at high school."

"I want people to like me. They don't have to always like my characters, you understand."

"We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant."
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