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Quotes by Actress
"What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other."
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"The panic attacks - I still have them. They started when I was around 8. They always have to do with my death."
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"I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care."
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"Whether you have experienced financial struggles, a challenging childhood, prejudice or criticism against your weight, sex, race, or faith, or even rejection, failure, and loss, you should never give up. Your experiences, challenges, and struggles are all the more reasons for you to succeed. So get up, get busy, and start building the future you deserve. There are no limits other than the ones we create for ourselves. Grow from your past to gain success in your future."
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"I just read that Time magazine cover story with all this information about how you have to have your kids by the time you're 12 or it's all over. Please."
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"I love working quickly. I don't like to do thousands of takes, and I don't want to do thousands of set ups."
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"For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture."
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"I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever."
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"And I like the look on people's faces when I say I'm doing this movie called Pride and Prejudice and they kind of smile, and then I say I'm in a movie called Doom and they kind of do a double take and try and put the two things together. And they never quite manage to."
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"I get a lot of independent films from people who are starting out."
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"That's a curious paradox that I don't think a lot of people out there know; that you get really scared before you go on. You come out in a nervous rash, and it's not like you actually love getting up there and showing off."
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"Unfortunately, I ended up kind of getting sadly duped, in a way. I haven't had an agent in 10 years, and now I'm doing some of the most interesting films I've ever had an opportunity to play in."
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"Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal."
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"I think, head up and shoulders back. Not only does it make you look taller and thinner but it gives you confidence and boosts your self-esteem."
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"I'm an artist, and the need to get inside myself and be creative and be other people is a part of who I am. I don't imagine I'll abandon that completely."
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"The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees."
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"Making this movie was a great opportunity for me to explore high-definition. I'm glad I got to see what the challenges are, what makes it better. It works wonderfully."
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"Leadership is not only about producing results or measuring success with statistics. Leadership is doing something with significance that makes families, organizations, societies, nations, and the world a better place before you die."
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"The definition of being committed is getting things done with absolutely no excuse, with an unshakeable and undeniable passion and with an uncompromised integrity."
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"I give everything I have to give on the screen. I feel I don't owe the public anything else."
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"Hollywood is run by men who are big on vulnerability."
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"There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level."
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"There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me."
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"You can see when an actor gets bored: Their eyes go dead. I promised myself I'd never let that happen. If it does, I'll go and live on a desert island for a year."
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"And I got to play lead with Gene Barry - a fellow who has never, ever been hard on the eyes!"
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"The little boy, Spencer Breslin, it was just so great to have a kid on set. He is talented, he's a pro. He's been doing this for years, I think he started when he was four or five."
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"I am extremely shy. I am not happy in crowds of people."
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"Layers are not difficult for me. You have the luxury of takes, so if you feel like, say, you did not take in the fact that your aunt is across the way in one take, you do it again and try to add that piece."
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"I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left."
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"Working with Bernardo Bertolucci was one of the greatest highlights of my whole life. It was such an incredible opportunity for me."
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"The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American."
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"I think anything that has to do with sexuality makes people very interested."
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"You know, I change my hair color a lot, I do all sorts of different things."
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