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Quotes by Actress

"The more things you own, the more people you need to employ."

"More teenagers go to movies or rent a tape of a movie than sit down and watch sitcoms on television."

"One out of six women are toxic with mercury. Mercury comes out of coal plants and chlorine plants. I am toxic, I deal with symptoms, children are born with, you know, autism - there is an epidemic in this country. This is like, the air that we breath."

"I'd love to see more women working as directors and producers."

"I was jumping out of my skin. It was horrible. I was all over the place, because I'd never been in front of a live audience. That's a whole other element in the play, the audience."

"Mostly, nothing's really changed. I'm still the dorky nerd that I always was."

"I have had only two men in four years while he appears every week on the newspapers with another woman."

"Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job."

"When they thought of me, they always remembered the vacuous Billie Dawn. It was as simple as that."

"True leaders don't look at just the outward appearances in the selection of team members, they look at one's core values and heart."

"I... had guys on the set who didn't like me... they weren't interested in the cold character."


"Falling in love-you should go with it, regardless of whether or not your heart gets smashed. You'll be a better person."

"You have got to have an agent. It's a business. But I think there is a way to be artful and commercial at the same time."

"I was bargaining for time away from Hollywood, and Columbia was bargaining for money. I got what I wanted and they got what they wanted. They knew I was so anxious to do Born Yesterday that I'd have done it for a dollar. They gave me the next best thing."


"The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear."

"It's a sad day when a cartoon is doing more and cares more and pays more attention to the environment than our president."

"We try to magnify the difference between Americans and the English. In real life they like the same music and dress the same. It's really much more similar than anyone thinks or how we show it."

"So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you."

"Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone."

"As far as the media is concerned, I wouldn't shoot anything down."

"I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing."

"The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are the inheritance of the highest order of human animals."

"One says also, it is one of the most faithful men in Hollywood, and makes again more interesting it equal."

"I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'"
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