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Quotes by Actress

"I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit."
Love,

"I'm in the process of trying to find something that I could do on my own."

"And also, Sergio Leone was considered in Italy a director of category B, not a big director."

"If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something."

"I was always cutting dialogue out when we were rehearsing, and when I produced movies, too. I felt that people don't say things in life - they act, they do things. I always wanted my characters doing, rather than saying what they were doing - which was redundant."

"I think, especially in our business we meet a lot of people, and sometimes you spend so much time being nice to strangers, and so, you know, keeping a clear head and just being nice to each other. And that's all the advice I can give."

"All my six husbands married me for different reasons."

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

"The revolt against brutality begins with a revolt against the language that hides that brutality."

"I was the good Bond girl, but I wanted to have the dresses and the high heels. I wanted the funky, sexy name."
Name,

"Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist."

"I gotta get working, you know? I've been too busy. I've been trying my hardest, but it's really tough."

"I spent most of this afternoon writing a new introduction for my autobiography."

"I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men."

"Domesticity has to mean nesting. Otherwise, six months go by, and you don't know where your underwear is."

"I like to go with the energy because when you ignore it that's when you start doing things wrong."

"Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?"

"I would sign on for projects that were meant to shoot in July, and then they would postponed and they would bleed into the following semester, and then I'd take a semester off, and then the movie would collapse."

"Well, I didn't really admit that I anywhere until my daughter started school and I knew I couldn't pull up and leave when I felt like it."

"The only things I'm competitive in are backgammon and poker."

"I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair."
Hair,

"I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it's a conversation piece."

"People think you know beforehand when you win an Oscar - I can assure you you don't."


"Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project."


"Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores. I collect furniture, rugs, paintings, frames. It's my hobby to go around to shops and markets."

"Shane looked faintly injured. "I make it my business to know everything about silver. And I saw your notes. I study up on everything when it comes to your boss, anyway. There was a flicker of jealousy about that, but she didn't have time, or energy, to consider it very much. Not even whether or not she liked it."

"I was asked to come to Chicago because Chicago is one of our fifty-two states."

"I did Phone Booth, and that was shot very, very quickly, but that was Joel Schumacher, who's shot so many movies that, if anybody can figure out how to do it in a couple of days, it's him."

"Parents had some kind of sin radar, Claire thought. They always called when you were in the middle of something you just knew they'd consider wrong. Or at least risky."

"If you want to say it with flowers, a single rose says: "I'm cheap!""
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