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Quotes by Actress
"We used to wash our hair in buckets and survive on toasted sandwiches, chocolates and soup."
Hair,
32
"You have to make difficult choices in your life, and you just have to be happy with them."
32
"It's just so fragile. The growing sense of 'Oh, God, what am I doing? Am I any good? Will I ever work again?' All those questions of self doubt, they do creep in."
32
"We had a very energetic floor manager and he was always jumping around all over the place. The director would send down messages like, Can you tell that actor to calm down?"
32
"When entertainment was begun, during the Depression, it was supposed to take people's minds off reality. People could sing, dance, act or do anything. It was the type of entertainment that was available."
32
"Ice skating is very difficult. It takes a lot of discipline and a lot of hard work. It's fun, but you are there on the ice every morning freezing and trying to do these moves and these tricks."
32
"Clearly any film company that makes a film is always going to talk about sequels particularly if they see something as being successful, which Werewolf was."
32
"I'm very devoted to my husband and we've been together for a very long time."
32
"I'm doing my work in an environment that's ultimately about dollars and cents."
32
"I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid."
32
"It is one thing to go on stage and be funny or be in a good place in your career, but for a woman, actually facing the elements in a physical way is a very powerful thing."
32
"I think we have the same goals in mind. We are not planning on just all of a sudden taking a film and separating. Hopefully one day she can direct me in something, or I will direct her. Or we'll produce a movie under our company's name."
32
"It took me so many years to move out. I'm definitely a bit of a Peter Pan, reluctant to grow up. It all seemed really nice at home-why change it? Part of me would prefer not to have any responsibility whatsoever."
32
"When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child."
32
"I did theater when I was nine, I think. Nine and ten, and that was just the beginning of my whole involvement in acting, my whole interest. I don't really remember it that well. But it was really fun. I mean, it was exciting just to be on stage in front of an audience. It gives you a different kind of rush."
32
"I notice now, whatever character in whatever movie you're watching, they have these toned arms and muscles."
32
"It was difficult every ten days having a new director. I'm a real collaborator and, as an actor, I want to be directed. It's hard for me to shift gears."
32
"I always try to keep that feeling of being on the edge. I'm afraid of knowing too well and seeming mechanical."
32
"Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth."
32
"I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage."
32
"My real hair color is kind of a dark blonde. Now I just have mood hair."
32
"But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf."
32
"The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it."
32
"Which is not to discount everything I've done in my past; everything I have learned tremendously from."
Past,
32
"Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person."
32
"Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a more expanded art form. Back then, singer/actors were not the norm. From the 60's to now, it is necessary to do it all to be a consummate Broadway performer."
32
"I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?"
32
"I started on a very high note and I was alwasy able to choose. I want to be able to do that until my last breath. And to do that, you have to have money."
32
"That's an aspect of this business which can be very frustrating and aggravating. Most of what is written about you is wrong and so much of what does get printed is often about personal things that you don't want to have other people read about."
32
"I loved performing; I was always trying to impress my siblings by being a clown. I think that came from being the runt of the litter."
32
"I got my dailies every day, although I couldn't always look at them because I was usually preparing for the next day's shoot, both as an actress and as the director."
Day,
32
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