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Quotes by Actress


"I want to do feature films. I am flying to Malaysia to be in another feature film. We will be filming that in Malaysia, the Phillipines, and back in California."

"I have no doubt I was someone very interesting in a past life."

"I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less."


"I wanted to be a decorator. I wanted to interior design homes and do everything myself."

"So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it's also been very hard to handle rejection."

"Stay out of the sun, because it is the worst thing in terms of aging. I'm very medical. I come from a medical family."

"If there is one creature that represents my essence, it's butterflies."

"I don't think men like a bad girl. Well, I haven't had a date in a year so I'm obviously doing something wrong. It's not that my standards are too high, I haven't even been asked out in a year. I have no standards, anyone, please!"

"You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important, and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do."

"My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it."

"I had a career for 25 years in Australia before I ever came to the United States."

"The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably."

"I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting."

"It's communication - that's what theatre is all about."

"We were taking collections for people with AIDS in New York around Easter."

"Clothes, thank God I can get them from designers."

"Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain."

"A lot of really good directors have a killer in them, as if they'd do anything to get that image. But that comes with the terrain and I don't mind it."
Mind,

"My hairdresser and I found ourselves shopping at Bloomingdale's with nothing to do for days."

"I've played American, Italian, Greek, French. I've been really lucky that way."

"You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life."

"Now that we have a democracy and you can go back and the airport air is not laden with evil any more, you can actually breathe oxygen when you land in Johannesburg."

"England is very interested as well, and other countries if I could speak the languages!"

"After about 15 minutes, you feel that you're winning them over."

"Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally."

"I think if I could have a boyfriend like my brothers I'd be really happy. But without the brother thing."

"I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock that in."


"I was not particularly bright, I wasn't very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, I was just really weird as a kid."

"There was a time when I used to live in Spain that it went really crazy with drugs and stuff like that."

"People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart."

"You know, I grew up with brothers so I'm used to being the only girl."

"I have been very lucky, I have only had one bad experience."

"It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it."

"I'm not strictly vegetarian, but meat doesn't play a big part in my diet."

"Malcolm X raised my consciousness about myself and my people and other people more than any person I know. I knew him before he became Malcolm X."
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