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Quotes by Actress
"Going back to Ireland involves at least six to seven emotional breakdowns for me per day."
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"I cannot sustain hate for longer than a couple of years."
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"I've got news for you: There are going to be people other than Christians in the hereafter. What are you going to do about it? Are you not going to go?"
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"Most actors are insecure enough already without having a director who adds to that."
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"That's what life is - you follow where your heart leads you - at least I do."
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"As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them."
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"When you share work, and you have the opportunity of seeing people you like doing what they do best, and you also interchange socially with them, it's very addictive."
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"And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I was 17. So there wasn't much time."
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"In films, the fact that you can always do a scene again takes a load off your mind, enabling you to strive for perfection, which I always wanted."
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"I'm crazy about my father, he's an amazing man, a real adventurer. He took us with him to travel all over the world. We were in places that were so remote, that white people hardly ever reach them."
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"There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life."
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"I just think you would never kill and cut up a human to wear so why do it to animals? I just think it's horrible, I would never wear fur, although I guess if it was a really vintage piece you might just get away with it."
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"The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed."
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"There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention."
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"The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it."
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"It's only a house when it's filled with people you love."
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"Oddly, because she has that confidence, the people around her like her more. She becomes more a part of the Reaper family, and she also is able to get along with people more outside of their circle as well."
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"And I know that the younger generation is doing things that are so ingenious. And for them it's not a matter of a political belief or an environmental stance. It's really just common sense."
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"People don't know very much about me. They do not know what really goes on in my private life."
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"Leadership is the art of intentional living."
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"On the speech day, the production designer, who has a lot of say in things, and sometimes I didn't agree with him but I had to do what I was told, wanted the speech day to be all in neutral colours for the women, which was a good thing."
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"This is government. There is no entertainment."
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"Some people are born gardeners, some are politicians. I was an actor. It took a great deal of pain before I figured that out. I didn't relate to most of it."
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"It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness."
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"I'm living every ten-year-old boy's fantasy. The other day, Chris and I had this big scene where we had to pull out our guns, and I was thinking, 'Here we are in New York City - a place where every actor wants to be - and we are literally playing cops and robbers. How great is that?'"
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"I think that's one of the most important gifts we have in television - the ability to heal through laughter."
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"I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films."
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"I haven't actually spoken to my parents since the hurricane."
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"It has been said that on screen I personified the American woman."
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"My husband gave up all his work to stay at home with the kids, and we split all the duties at home. I do all the boring stuff - like pay the bills, and he does all the exercising for both of us, which I'm very grateful for... I thank him for it regularly."
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"When I think of all the years in my 30s when I starved myself... but when I got the role of Lois, I stopped thinking about my looks and was just myself."
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"You never know when you read a script how it's going to turn out because so much depends on the collaboration between people. If I'd been in some of the movies I turned down, maybe they wouldn't have been a success."
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"I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve."
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