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Quotes by Actress

"Knowing what I know of love, I hang back because I don't like to lie to myself."

"The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what hap- pens, whether the cancer never flares up again or whether you die, the important thing is that the days that you have had you will have lived."

"I was terribly shy when I was growing up, I really wasn't confident with other people and I think I was always afraid of up or not being this very cool, amazing person that I wanted to be."

"It took me about eight years to put together the program that I have been living for twenty years."


"When people pay to see you live, they connect with you on a much deeper level than people who just buy your records."

"There are plenty of lesbians in Hollywood, but they're not out. And that's their choice, but I can't do that, it's too important to me."

"It's tough when take 1 is technically okay and take 2 has better acting. Out here (Hollywood) they print the first one. That's the one where we all hit the mark on the floor and who cares about the acting."

"First and foremost, I'm a feminist. And basically that stems from a strong belief that all people and creatures deserve equal opportunity, rights and respect."

"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell."

"When I first began, the technicians, camera and makeup men made me feel so self-conscious that I began to have the biggest inferiority complex about my looks."

"So that's my philosophy: If you believe in yourself, the chances and the opportunities will come around."
Will,

"Who can I trust? You have to invest in somebody and chances are you're probably going to invest in somebody who's going to deceive you. I've been conned a couple of times, but now I'm a little more savvy."

"One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career."


"Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings."


"I can laugh on cue, and it sounds real. People laugh with me."

"I'm also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I'm doing it."


"The point of our demographics is that we're not having as many children and the population is stagnant, if not declining. So without immigration, we're not going to have the population."

"I don't think people were betting on me, but they were giving me a chance. I think I rode a wave there, by being different in appearance than the girls who preceded me."

"You really have to love the work. You can't look for stardom. That's a by-product."

"I have got two reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them."

"If you're always strict with yourself, life gets miserable. And we're supposed to enjoy life."
Life,

"I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not."

"Sure, I'd take the responsibility of queen any day."

"The worst storyline I've ever been involved in I wasn't involved in, because I was clever enough to get pregnant with my second child and they wrote me out and they replaced me with Christine Jones. And thank God - that was the worst storyline."
God,


"I'm not the sexiest thing in the world, I feel actors who have to 'play' sexy lose all their sex appeal. When they start with the tongue and the heavy lids, it looks so ridiculous. I think you just have to be yourself."
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