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Quotes by Actress

"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,

"Life had stopped for her a long time ago. She was so out of touch with her feelings that she had no joy in her life and no concept of the fact that she could be wrong. She delivered her care of her insane patients in a killing manner, but she was convinced she was right."

"The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark."

"I really do like to work. I will work again. But on my terms."

"Suddenly, I realised: this was what I wanted to do. I didn't know how to do it; I just knew acting felt right."

"It wasn't the way I looked at a man, it was the thought behind it."

"But it was not possible to do this movie, in this matter of time, without a solid rehearsal period."
Time,

"I think that my interpretation of Italian was a lot more southern than what my husband cooks. You know, I grew up in Queens and in Brooklyn, and we - really, it's more southern. It's Naples and Sicily. It's heavier. It's over-spiced. And like most Americans, I thought spaghetti and meatballs was genius."

"They've said I'm gay, they've said everyone is gay. I personally don't believe in doing huge lawsuits about that stuff. Tom does. That's what he wants to do, that's what he's going to do. You do not tell Tom what to do. He is a force to be reckoned with."

"Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and wonder how I do these things. I can embarrass myself so badly that I literally get a hot prickle down the back of my neck."

"Teens are dealing with the same problems now in the '90s as they did back in the '70s, the only real difference is the clothes we wear!"

"My personal life was fair game. And that's what hurt me."

"I can't comment on any outside perception. I'm happy to come out and talk about movies that I've worked on in a setting like this. Otherwise, I have my own life that I live which is very different and private."

"I have a hard time retaining the lines. Even on set I make mistakes but I'm okay with that."

"I really identified with Jess, because my own dream was acting, which isn't the most conventional profession."

"I was at a luncheon; and some cameras were trained on us. I dont' know whether they were for television or not. You know how little I know about cameras."

"Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between two women."

"But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed the exercise of no faculties but those which they enjoy in common with the brutes that perish."

"In some movies you feel like you're a very small part of a huge machine. Whereas in the theater you can have a very small part, but you can still feel the weight and the gravity of it. Given the nature of theater, it's a more concentrated and quiet experience."


"I think that as is true in this industry, everything gets blown out of proportion because it's more fun for people to read about. It's even more fun to read about if the stories get wilder and wilder."

"The most important lesson I've learned in this business is how to say no. I have said no to a lot of temptations, and I am glad I did."

"I have two new nephews and a new niece this year, so I have plenty of kids that I can spend time with."

"All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form."

"China's cinema has been rising for some time; it has more exposure, so my chances of becoming internationally known are better. But the first thing I have to do is learn English. If I can grasp the language, then perhaps I can think about the U.S."

"The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects me to that place. There's also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I've never been able to shake."

"I don't want to do anything like Can't Hardly Wait, I don't want to do anything like Scream. I saw all those movies, and they were good, but they're just not what I want to do."
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