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Quotes by Actress

"I'd like to be able to use Storm's powers for good, like have it rain more in Southern California. We could do with it."
Rain,

"In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times."

"I think of myself as a journeyman actress. I will attempt almost anything that I think that I can bring off. It could be almost anything."
Will,

"I feel real ownership in this show. I feel very invested in it. I care very much about it. I don't feel any more like a hired hand, you know? It's a strange feeling - I feel personally responsible for how the story goes. What happens. What the weaknesses are. And so in a way, some of the changes gave me an opportunity to have a voice in a different way."

"I was utilized because I have a certain face that works well in cinema, and I'm used to making myself look as good as possible."

"When I was 14 -years-old, I made this PowerPoint presentation, and I invited my parents into my room and gave them popcorn. It was called 'Project Hollywood 2004' and it worked. I moved to L.A. in January of 2004."

"I'm obsessed with cooking shows, even though they make everything look so easy when it isn't."

"I was homecoming queen. I was star of my basketball team."

"I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be restricted by corsets and covered in lace, then I still wind up wearing an ape-mask over my face. I do wonder how I get myself in these situations!"

"It's so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the fragrance."

"My mother was an artist and highly strung, whereas my father was much calmer."

"So I was always passionate about it and felt that it was sort of the golden thread inside me in terms of what I was supposed to do in terms of work but I think I have relaxed a lot in terms of the actual experience and actually enjoy it more and enjoy the people more."

"For me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not."

"Everything changes as a mother. Yes, work has changed. The projects that I choose are even more important to me now. The world he's growing up in and the kind of stimulus that is out there; they are so precious and I'd do anything to protect him."

"I've definitely grown apart from a lot of my friends. Some of them don't understand the schedule, and it's not that I don't want to talk to them, it's that sometimes I am really busy and can't get back to them."

"I can't stand being around anal people, especially anal people with big egos."

"I don't want to be a 'teen star' because so many people don't ever grow out of that."

"In L.A., if you're an actor, your personal and professional lives are too intertwined."

"I have no intention of discussing my private life with anyone."

"When you share work, and you have the opportunity of seeing people you like doing what they do best, and you also interchange socially with them, it's very addictive."

"Naturally enough when I was a young dancer, I was terribly anxious to get ahead, and to get ahead quickly. I was impatient with all those older people who talked of the long grind to the top, who turned me down for jobs I knew I could do."

"Yeah, I do like scary movies, especially the ones that don't take themselves too seriously."

"I like the way my own feet smell. I love to smell my sneakers when I take them off."

"I would kill the clone. That would be my first response."

"The quickest way to a man's heart is through his chest."

"I couldn't kill a chicken, I couldn't kill a cow - I was a vegetarian too at that time - so I thought, well what is there that I could kill? I couldn't kill this and I couldn't kill that."

"I wore a lot of vintage clothing. I dressed like a reporter, with a little card in my hat. I had these fantasies of who I wanted to be, so I'd dress like an explorer, a cowboy. I dressed up like Elton John a lot too. That was another period."

"I am happily married to a wonderful man. He is not in the business."

"I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can't find a way of avoiding it."

"The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings."

"Beauty fades! I just turned 29, so I probably don't have that many good years left in me."

"My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised."
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