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Quotes by Actress

"I tend to spiral out of control if I'm not working. I get panicked and don't know what to do with myself."

"I can never have a poker face. Anybody looking at me can tell exactly what I'm thinking."

"It's unfortunate that music has become such big business."

"And maybe that's being the third child, although my entire family are very resilient - very, very resilient."

"There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I can't be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on."

"I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser."

"I want to work with great directors. I want to work on good material with good actors. I've probably done 20 movies at this point and a lot of independents. It's been an incredible ride and I love it and I'm just going to keep going and doing what I'm doing."

"You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real."

"I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the '50s. I had sock hops for birthday parties. So I've always done The Twist and stuff. It was pretty natural and, with my parents doing it all the time, I'd just copy them. Not very pretty."

"It's not that I don't believe in miracles, but I never quite trust that they're real."

"Relax, Georgie, I'm just making my collar and cuffs match."

"I try to keep an open mind but I'm so tired of the mediocrity."

"Plastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting in the Hollywood living room."

"They weren't impatient for the boys to turn into cartoons again. They awarded sympathy, gave compassion. Because deep down they had found parts of themselves in the characters. You said it George."

"Jack Kennedy always said to me, Hedy, get involved. That's the secret of life. Try everything. Join everything. Meet everybody."
Life,

"I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies."

"I really never stopped thinking about Ellen, because I just haven't felt that kind of energy with anyone in my life."

"I worked hard and made my own way, just as my father had. And just, I'm sure, as he hoped I would. I learned, from observing him, the satisfaction that comes from striving and seeing a dream fulfilled."

"I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way."

"I am a really bad test taker. I can get straight As in school, but I get nervous on test."

"When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach."

"This season is a lot funnier, not as dark, mainly because, well, she has accepted the fact that she is dead. She knows she cannot go back to where she was when she was alive."
Fact,

"When I read the script sometimes, it's like 'Christ! Enough!' I can't sleep at night sometimes. There's the occasional script that just hammers you, that you can't shower off."

"Howard Hughes himself was a regular at the restaurant, and in a way it became his headquarters, too. Howard had recently relocated to Las Vegas, so when he wanted to do business in Los Angeles, he went into the back of our restaurant to use the telephone."

"Bunny boiler is now part of our language, and I'm proud of that."

"It's never been important to be a huge star or to have some breakout role. If you're the lead, you get a lot more screen time and you get a lot more chances to develop that character more thoroughly than you would if you do it in a little supporting part."

"It's very strong after the birth. It's extraordinary. You can't watch anything to do with kids being harmed."

"As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand it and would try to talk him out of it."
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