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Quotes by Actress

"I am so happy to be on a show with writing I wanted to participate in."

"Even for the most difficult scenes, and there are difficult scenes in the film, and because Michael Haneke is such a great film-maker - I think a great film-maker is not only being inspired, but how to do it, how to make it as real as possible, knowing that it's not real."


"I have never had anything done. I've been asked if I had breast implants. Whether I did or not, it's nobody's business but my own."

"But that's why there are so few women stars today. Pornography has taken away the mystery."

"I just didn't work that much while the kids were growing up."

"I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me."

"Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me."

"I definitely feel, when I'm wearing the costume, that I could scare people and hurt them."

"When my career first began, I didn't have children - so there's a whole lot of difference in the way I choose roles now. Not just films for my children, but how long I'm going to be away, and is Dad going to be home while I'm gone. That sort-of factor plays a part."

"Inspiration is the key to everything."

"But I think it's also hard to get into soccer here. I think purely on a time level on television as well because of the ad breaks. It's something to do with that as well. You can't show a complete soccer match here. Which I kind of find a bit of an odd thing."

"What was previously perceived as nerdy is now viewed as original. What I like about nerdiness, geekiness, is it doesn't really matter what you're into - it just means you're not a follower."
Now,

"I was a single mom that raised two bright, beautiful, and compassionate girls."

"I think Elaine would go out with anyone if they showed interest in her. She's nuts. The woman's nuts."

"Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing."

"My life collapsed. People ran from me because suddenly it was 'Oh my God! It's over for her now!'"

"Mammograms are really sort of a gift. You can either catch something early or count your lucky stars because nothing was discovered. Either way, you're ahead of the game."

"I was very strongly influenced by women's magazines and I really believed tha a woman could not be married and raise a family and have a successful career all at the same time."

"Only a certain breed of actor should ever even try to work for Orson Welles. I'm glad I'm one of that breed."

"It's important to e alive in those moment, especially when you're doing something you love to do."
Love,

"I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five."

"One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man."

"It gets kinda monotonous, but that's television. There are plus sides and down sides. The positive side is that you have steady work for nine months of the year for however many years your show is on TV,."

"This I regard as a classic example of my not being properly prepared for a part I very much wanted."

"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul."

"Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found."

"I've had a very interesting career. I get to do amazing things and work with amazing people and travel and learn languages - things most people don't get the opportunity to do."

"I like somebody who makes me laugh. He's also got to be prepared - I'm sort of a loose cannon, in a good way. I also like people who disagree with me and make me work to prove my point."
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