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Quotes by Actress

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

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


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

"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."

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

"I can tell you where my Tonys are. They're in a beautiful place in my living room, in a glass cabinet."

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

"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,

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

"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."

"I'm living by example by continuing on with my career and having a full, rich life, and I am incidentally gay."

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

"The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?"

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

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

"I still find that a kind of stricture of the heart happens when I see any form of bigoted or racist behaviour. I get an actual pain in my heart."

"I think part of that is to create an environment where it's like real life, where you don't really know what's going to happen to you in a certain scene."
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