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Quotes by Actress

"I acted three times with Fred MacMurray, three times with Martin and Lewis, four times with Rock Hudson. Three times with Glenn Ford."

"Once you're able to look like an idiot and be OK with it, it opens up your potential."

"I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin."

"My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen."

"I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well."

"I would like to do maybe a smaller romantic comedy."

"I have six sisters, so I assumed I'd have a girl. Learning I was having a boy was really weird."

"Aaron Spelling went further than anyone has ever gone for television."

"You know when I feel inwardly beautiful? When I am with my girlfriends and we are having a 'goddess circle'."

"Oh that's very English, that's probably why. They just go "LOL" in America."

"A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you."


"Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life."

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

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

"And I was victim to that very early in my career, where I would go into auditions, and I'd be wearing a big T shirt, a big baggy T shirt and loose jeans. You know, to try and show people that there was more to me than just that."


"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."

"Because I sleep with him he asked me to audition, you know?"

"If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused."

"Substance abuse is a disease which doesn't go away overnight. I'm working hard to overcome it. I did fail my recent drug test. I'm prepared to face the consequences."

"I have been both a ghost and haunted in the city I love."


"I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love."


"Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images."

"I guess Species was a movie made for me and hence I bagged the role. In fact even when acting, I never thought the outcome would be so good which I think it was! The entire role was a challenge. I was to be this strange yet sexy thing which was challenging!"

"When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tomorrow."

"I never wore glasses except when I had to read a teleprompter at an awards show or drive, so I didn't notice much. I could exist in my head. It was kind of my escape from the world and my protection."

"I'm going to Columbia University but I'm trying to keep that low-profile because I don't want weird people following me there. I want the experience of normal college life."

"I've travelled around the UK a lot recently and have discovered that I really like trains. If you're in the quiet carriage, nobody can get hold of you and you can relax."

"Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures."

"It finally became clear to me that they had no hopes of my ever walking again."

"The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is an oriental city. As long as you do that you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else you'll perish."

"Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure."

"I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand."
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