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Quotes by Actress

"I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity."

"People who wear fur smell like a wet dog if they're in the rain. And they look fat and gross."

"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."

"To find someone who loves your children like you do is really rare."

"If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them."

"I got cocky and I stopped taking my vitamins. It was an inconvenience to have a suitcase full of vitamins with me on the road. About two years ago, it caught up with me."

"The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you."

"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'm going to take over on the Techno Comics so I'm going to be dealing in the children's merchandising type department. But that's just setting it up and having somebody run it."

"If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role."

"Smoking is related to practically every terrible thing that can happen to you."

"The one thing I missed was never having children. It just wasn't in the cards, I guess."

"Victor Mature was a big man; he had a great swagger. I liked him and I knew we'd be good together on screen."
Man,

"It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment."


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

"Mike Leigh encourages you to choose a person that you know to base your character on. You write a whole list of people that you know and you go through that list in great depth with him. And then he chooses one of those people from your list."

"And I do think that earlier in my career, I did make a very conscious decision to make sure that I was doing work that wasn't necessarily given to me, and that people didn't necessarily think that I would be able to do."

"I believe that time destroys everything. You can take one beautiful apple, red. After a while, it becomes shrivelled and full of worms, just like what happens to us."
Time,

"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."


"The particular refugee camp we were in, they were hungry for play, they were hungry for any kind of normalcy."
Play,

"But just playing the partner of someone famous, I had a lot more freedom."

"I'm just not very good at glamour... It doesn't come easily to me."


"I'm trying to appeal to the disenfranchised everybody, not just specifically gay."

"We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation."

"It's more than a job. It's very personal, so when you're hurt, you're really hurt inside."

"There are so few strong roles for women, especially young women. And Veronica is very serious but also very likable. She's a lone wolf, and it appeals to people that she isn't rich and doesn't have a lot of friends. No posse. She's just like you, like most of us."

"I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls."

"Mr. Disney believed everyone was still a child deep inside."

"I would love to have children, yes. Maybe even adopt them. I'm not sure that I should pass on my genes."

"I would like to do maybe a smaller romantic comedy."

"I'd say my happiest moment as an actress came when I learned I'd won the Look Magazine Best Supporting Actress Award for 1956 in The Killing."

"Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves."
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