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Quotes by Actress

"Men pretend they don't like to be nagged, but they love it, really. It makes them feel wanted."


"I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard."

"The complexity of the emotional life of the play is what you live to work on."

"Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship."

"I restore myself when I'm alone."

"I was down in Washington when 9/11 happened. We were in the middle of putting together the next summer season, and all I could think of was something somehow must make sense to us. Our Town kept coming into my mind."

"Crap, are you thinking what I'm thinking?""I'm thinking we have about fifteen vampires and no blood," Claire said. "Is that it?""No, I was thinking we're out of chips. Of course that's what I was thinking."

"Developing strong interpersonal relationships by creating lasting connections instead of just passing acquaintances will take your business to a new level."

"You know," I said to Michael, "my girlfriend took him down with a broken tree branch." "Too bad she isn't here," he said."

"Life management is not about BUSYNESS; it is about PRODUCTIVENESS and EFFECTIVENESS " major on the major things in life, not the minors."

"In a world where the larger majority of society is careless, it's the small percentage of people who make the choice to be different and prioritize relationships that stand out."

"There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart."

"Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better."

"It has been very erotic and provocative for people to wonder about my feelings for women."

"It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor."

"Your environment should not restrict your growth. Your atmosphere will impact your sprit, mind and body. The right one can make a world of difference in your life and the life of all within your world. Create a growth environment to grow consistently and to impact many around you."

"Every challenge that comes your way is an opportunity for you to do something remarkable."

"Leadership is not always about your power, it's all about your ability to empower, encourage, and elevate others."

"Your personal dignity was always more important to you than mere emotion, wasn't it?"

"Any fool can kill. It takes genius to create."

"Winning requires a crystal clear vision, relentless passion and complete dedication with No Excuses."

"Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage."

"Discipline leads us to freedom and freedom leads us to fulfillment."

"Leaders are builders. They build bridges to unite, not walls to divide."

"I hate traveling with amateurs."

"Every woman knows what I'm talking about. It's the presumption that makes it hard, at times, for any woman in any field; that keeps women from speaking up and from being heard when they dare; that crushes young women into silence by indicating, the way harassment on the street does, that this is not their world. It trains us in self-doubt and self-limitation just as it exercises men's unsupported overconfidence."

"When you're young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you're laughing again."

"The radical geographer Iain Boal had prophesied, "The longing for a better world will need to arise at the imagined meeting place of many movements of resistance, as many as there are sites of closure and exclusion. The resistance will be as transnational capitalism."

"Leadership is influencing others through modeling."

"Be the hero of your own story. You are born to turn you mess into a message and the test into a testimony."

"I like incidents of that sort, when forces that are usually so sneaky and hard to point out slither out of the grass and are as obvious as, say, an anaconda that's eaten a cow or an elephant turd on the carpet."

"He hung up on her. She'd just been hung up on by a disembodied brain in a jar. Fantastic."
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