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Quotes by Actress

"I put the weight on after we were together. I put on about 20 pounds when we got married, and people were flipping their lids. And then I put on more after that, and I've gone up and down since then."

"Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino."
Time,

"There are some scenes that work beautifully in a moving, sweeping master, which is how I like to work."
Work,

"Sometimes it just doesn't translate to people. You just move on, and you feel bad because people worked so hard on it and everyone loved it... Everybody was treated so well and was going for something and trying to do the best work possible."

"I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood."

"I'd like to provide information, inspiration, and access to whatever goods and services are needed to make it super easy for everyone to change their lifestyle to a sustainable one."

"In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal."

"Just look at my face. Its an extraordinary experience. All of my friends who are grandparents have been saying, just wait, a bit cynically, but its just extraordinary. You feel like a child again yourself. Just walking on air."

"I don't care who you are, everyone has been through it - that feeling where you'd like to be someone else."

"In this business, I don't know how you can have a plan or how you can orchestrate anything. But I've been lucky with my choices. I'm very strong-willed, so I've been able to stick with it. I'm lucky there."

"Charles Laughton signed me to my first movie contract at 17. He later asked my parents if he could adopt me."

"There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important as we make them sometimes."

"I think it's a pretty good day if I can get through it without lifting a finger."

"I feel less pressure to dress youthfully. I'm 50 and everyone knows I'm 50 - who are you kidding? Jeans are my uniform. I have about 15 pairs."

"I can't say too much about it because I don't know a lot. We're not told what's in store for our characters until we turn up to shoot the episode. But it's fair to say that Betty and her son bring a brand new mystery to the street and they will be around all season."

"Detroit, the heart of the country... I grew up on 10 Mile, 2 miles better than 8 Mile."

"Yes, I do get recognized in public. It's pretty nice."

"What woman wants a camera following around her naked butt?"

"If you're offered something, you're not really sure exactly what is that they saw in you that they think is the character so it's a little scary, I feel."

"I don't think it's true that blondes have more fun... Trust me, it is not true!"

"I found that I could make people laugh doing people like Shirley Bassey. Fortunately it worked."

"I've been very lucky in the characters I've chosen. Up until last year I was a nobody. I did jobs I booked because I needed to put food in my mouth."

"Who on earth can feel any respect for a girl who chases?"

"When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship."

"There's been a big void out there, in terms of where I've been and what I am currently working on, I'd like to fill that void now and share my exciting plans for the future."

"You play a part, and as soon as a movie is over and the camera stops, you go home and you're not really responsible for what you've done."

"I didn't need the insurance. I do it again if my DP tells me it didn't look good in the camera or if the actors didn't hit their marks. But if everything was working why do it again?"

"I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single."

"I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater."

"I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard."


"If you take away money, if you take away the houses and things, who are we really? What is love really about? What is it to love each other? Why do we stay together, and why do all the kids split? All these questions I have really deep inside of me."

"I choose to do unattractive people, because then I can pretend they think they're attractive."
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