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Quotes by Actress

"Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade."

"I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is."


"People do eventually see something that's quality."

"Elisha Cook was a darling, and full of the devil. A wired - up little fellow who was always busy, busy, busy."

"Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover."

"Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?"

"Antioxidants have a good effect on certain forms of Crohn's disease."

"Fits did not go over well in my house. There was a lot of discipline and obedience and you had to be very ladylike. Ladies didn't curse and I still don't curse in front of my parents."

"Bunny boiler is now part of our language, and I'm proud of that."

"Hiking is the best workout!... You can hike for three hours and not even realize you're working out. And, hiking alone lets me have some time to myself."
Time,

"I think that we give the impression, to carry on your metaphor, that we go a little faster than we actually do. I'm fairly lazy so I'm always interested in slowing down."

"I always believed that I could make it or I would never have spent so many years trying to get here."

"If I were offered a cochlear implant today, I would prefer not to have one. But that's not a statement about hearing aids or cochlear implants. It's about who you are."

"I've had so many interviews where the last question is, Are you gay? I had to find very creative ways to say that I was gay, but that I wasn't going to talk about it."

"I live in New York simply because I don't know any better. I moved there when the show went off the air a couple of years after that."

"I was very young when we got married and I don't know why it worked out like it did or how I was smart enough to know that this was the right guy, but somehow I got lucky."

"When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London."

"Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance."

"Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that."


"I act and perform in hopes of getting attention and admiration."

"This is always a pain because it's injustice too and so my response to it, I tell you what I am more surprised or horrified at Jews who forget to be humanists than I am at anybody else."

"There's no drugs, no Tom in a dress, no psychiatrists."

"I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me."

"You know, it's a big version of an episode, which I think is necessary at this point because we're drawing in people who not only people who have seen the show before and are devoted to it, but people who have never seen it before."

"There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography."

"If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!"


"The doctor told Phil, my then husband, that my condition was really bad news. They had found an artery tearing and said I could die. They said they could try to patch it up but it could go horribly wrong. It all turned out okay in the end but it was touch and go."

"I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting."
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