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Quotes by Actress

"Somewhere along the line I made the switch and was able to look at the bight side rather than the dark side all the time. Now I look at everything I have and think how lucky I am."

"Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of."

"I do wish I could tell you my age but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time."

"I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging."

"My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem."

"I really would rather have gone to New York, since all my training had been in theater, but I didn't have the guts to go there alone. I knew only one person in New York, and that was a man. What I needed was a woman. That's the way Southern girls thought."

"I'm a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big philosophy on life. I'm certainly not going to write any sort of memoir."


"I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material."

"Leaders are called upon to build not to repair."

"I'm looking for the truth. The audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves."


"This is going to sound really funny. I have a poster of Zac Efron on my wall! I think every girl has a poster of him in their room so, why not join the club!"

"I just think it's fun to remind people that good television has exited and it can exist again and just to give them pleasure and enjoy it and make them laugh."

"Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession."

"I loved school, I loved putting on my uniform and doing homework every day. I was one of those good students that the teachers liked. I guess that's got to be a pretty nerdy, geeky part of me."

"I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille."

"If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them."


"I took some classes in sign language when I was in my early teens because I was told that I would be completely deaf very early. But I never really wanted to learn."

"I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today."

"To be used in a part without depth is a frustrating feeling, when you know you have something to give."

"So for me, anything that has to do with animals, and I'm a happy camper."

"I never consciously said, 'I want to be an actor.' It sounds stupid, but it's kind of like being a painter or something. You don't say, 'From today on I'm going to be a painter.' It's not something conscious - you've just been painting pictures all your life."

"It's more fun if you can control things like lighting and make special effects in the darkroom."
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