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Quotes by Actress

"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."

"I felt like the dark hair added like a toughness to my face also, which was really important."
Hair,

"If you tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I was going to Hollywood, they all laughed. And here I am!"

"51st State was one that I loved doing because the character was so out there, and in a way I was sad to leave the character behind. I'm afraid I could never be that cool in real life!"

"With a parent, it's always guilt. You want to be there, but you kind of also want to be here."

"We used to listen to all the marvelous operas on records. Music was a very important part of our lives."

"Being pretty crazy while being chased by the National Enquirer is not good. The British tabloids were the worst."


"I think the end of last year when we were aware of that transition was for everyone in their own way kind of bittersweet, but it's also what the show's about, one administration ends and another begins."
End,

"Ron allowed us to see right away the private piece of a person about to become very public. I suspect we're going to see more of her very private world - Laura's private experience. I'm not sure yet how public she's going to be about the actions she's going to have to take."

"People always joke that "dog" spells "god" backwards. They should consider that it might be the higher power coming down to see just how well they do, what kind of people they are. The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test."


"I don't have time to think about age. There are so many things to do."


"I, also, found the opportunity to work with the actors extremely gratifying and rewarding."

"We transported eight giraffes, and there are now nine because one gave birth to a male shortly afterwards. They carry their pregnancies very well-they all looked the same."
Now,

"I like to go to parties where I know everyone. How are you going to have fun with people you don't know?"

"Well, I love having kids. But I have the advantage of having a lot of help, a real hands-on husband and small children whom I can easily manipulate."

"Everything the Coen brothers do is brilliant."

"I don't want to feel I'm responsible for anorexia across the country."

"In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves."

"I mean, I like to think of myself as being strong and independent, but I definitely wasn't like that at 14."

"Neiman-Marcus is one thing, and the Dallas Cowboys are another."


"We were just covered in dirt the whole time. It was so hot - and that was in winter. I can not imagine what it's like in summer and how the people who actually live out there survive."

"Usually I'm frustrated when I look at my films and I don't believe that I've made a real transformation beyond my usual sets of gestures and expressions. I still have this nagging feeling that it's me, that I didn't create a unique character."

"I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things."


"I worked hard and made my own way, just as my father had. And just, I'm sure, as he hoped I would. I learned, from observing him, the satisfaction that comes from striving and seeing a dream fulfilled."

"I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me."

"At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers."


"The ranch was raw land when I bought it and, for better or worse, I have designed every aspect of it from the corrals, the arena, to the barn, to the house."
Land,

"The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs as we flew by them."
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