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Quotes by Actress

"I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling."

"A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others."

"I like to think of myself as kind of a sculptor, only I sculpt people."

"Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences."

"When I attack a role, be it TV, film or stage, the first thing I say is, I don't want to know anything. If it's good I don't want to hear it; if it's bad I don't want to hear it. The only thing either thing can do is distract me. I like to stay focused."

"Yoga is wonderful. It clears up most health problems. It also gives you an overview."

"You protect your being when you love yourself better. That's the secret."

"I hate the word gothic but I would like to try doing something like that. A gothic sound, not rock, but gothic. There's a difference."


"I get to do what I love every day. I get to crawl into someone else's head and I love that."

"Why, when I was a child, I didn't say, as most children do, that I was going to become an actress. I felt that I was an actress and no one could have convinced me that I wasn't!"

"I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror."


"The things that I've done that have totally been remembered, they've always started with the same kind of engine, they've always started with someone saying 'I have to make this film - I'm going to make this film whatever the odds'."

"In country music the lyric is important and the melodies get a little more complex all the time, and you hear marvelous new singers who are interested in writing and interpreting a lyric and in all form of popular music."

"I don't think he cheated on me. During the marriage, I think he was there."

"I think space exploration is very important. I think there is very intelligent life on Mars. I believe that Martians are spying on us from the bottom of the ocean."

"I'd never watch a horror film, but after I found out I was going to be in one, I watched, like, four of them, including The Shining, I was terrified - I couldn't sleep for days. But I wanted to get myself used to things I was going to see on the set."

"Daytime has been successful all these years because it caters to a very real need in the audience - to see something that's not nighttime fantasy. People watch daytime because it's like their lives."


"I'm learning as much martial arts as I possibly can. My show is packed with action. Enough to get a rise."

"When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves."

"I was always a show-off - as a kid I was never afraid to make a fool of myself, and I guess that's still true."
Fool,

"To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long."

"I don't enjoy other people's dramas, and I don't enjoy mine."

"I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly."

"I've been in the studio experimenting on making a CD of my own. I'm trying out different producers, styles, sounds. With music, as opposed to acting, you are not playing a character. You are showing people who you are. I really want to have my spirit in it."

"It's also that comedians don't have the kind of narcissism that actors have. They're writers who perform their own material. It's more interesting. And they're sexy because they risk more. Stand-up comedians risk more than anyone."

"Before, I just spewed whatever it was I thought about everything. I tend to be more contemplative now."

"You know, you do it, and you get paid for it, and you have a wonderful time, then you're on to something else."
Time,
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