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Quotes by Actress


"I realized a career is built as much on what you don't do as what you do do."

"Shakespeare said, nothing is either good nor bad but thinking makes it so."

"Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe."

"Bing Crosby sings like all people think they sing in the shower."

"What a holler would ensue if people had to pay the minister as much to marry them as they have to pay a lawyer to get them a divorce."

"If I had to choose, I'd choose my friends over my career."

"I'm sure it really is hard to be an oncologist, and actually, more and more people are surviving cancer."

"I feel I'll take on the responsibility of showing the world a whole different kind of Latin woman."

"We don't really have favorite positions. Its mostly just playing the game that we love."

"Lots of colors appear when you're working with other people."

"I liked wearing the '50s wardrobe. It was hard in the beginning. The first shows I wore regular young girl dresses. Then a little later I got to wear the poodle skirts and such."

"I'm easy. Put me in an interesting location with good people and I'm there."

"To every little girl, her father is a hero. My father actually is one."

"I don't have the confidence to be a personality."

"I think Australians do well here because we feel a bit naughty, like we're in America and if they only knew how much fun we were having, we'd all get thrown out, you know."

"I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food."


"I like men to be men and I like them to care about me and to take care of me. I'm willing to let them do that."

"I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people."

"An activist is someone who makes an effort to see problems that are not being addressed and then makes an effort to make their voice heard. Sometimes there are so many things that it's almost impossible to make your voice heard in every area, but you can sure try."


"Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you."

"But this is called show business, not show family."

"For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of horizons, of remote mountain ranges, of anything far away. The color of that distance is the color of an emotion, the color of solitude and of desire, the color of there seen from here, the color of where you are not. And the color of where you can never go. For the blue is not in the place those miles away at the horizon, but in the atmospheric distance between you and the mountains."Longing, says the poet Robert Hass, "because desire is full of endless distances. Blue is the color of longing for the distances you never arrive in, for the blue world."

"The whole point is to hook people and keep them interested."

"Does it give you deja voodoo how alike the houses are?""That's deja vu, and I hate you right now.""For narcing on you to your mom? Wait until you hear what I tell your dad."From the sly grin on his face, she knew what he was thinking."Don't you even think about it.""I could tell him about the time we-""Hell, no."


"The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think."


"I've had my ring since I was 12 years old. But for me it's not something I want to go around saying, 'Hey, look what I have', It's a promise I made to myself and God. I think some people misinterpret that as a trend and think everyone's getting one."

"Outside of being an actress, I feel like being out is the biggest way that gay people can change perception. There are people that give millions of dollars to gay organizations but are closeted to their own families."

"David Duchovny is a dream; a dreamboat and a dream. He was so kind... He held my hand after we were done shooting and told me I did great. He's so good at what he does."
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