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Quotes by Actress
"I think that we need to look hard at our beliefs and be responsible about how we speak out."
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"I was born and raised in China, and my parents were missionaries."
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"I have a toy giraffe on my bed. I've got photographs over my desk as well as a mask of a giraffe in my kitchen. I am totally hooked."
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"I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton."
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"In the '60s, '70s and '80s, everybody was pretty tense on the set."
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"Collecting is my joy; it gives me great satisfaction."
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"There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation."
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"To find someone who loves your children like you do is really rare."
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"I hole up now and then and do nothing for days but read."
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"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."
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"Many people are target people. Once when Louis B. Mayer insulted me I poured a glass of water over his head."
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"I'm always on the quest for something delicious and healthful."
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"I was offered one of the roles in a big project that shall remain nameless. I thought the whole thing encouraged violent sex crimes toward women. It made horrible, ghastly rape violence seem sexy. I just didn't want to sign my name to it."
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"Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism."
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"Butterfly was certainly a vehicle for me, and if it died, it still would have served its purpose, in spades. We never expected it to give me the visibility it has given me. It was just a small thing as a vehicle, and suddenly the whole world knew about it."
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"I drink booze, I smoke, and I'm hooked on caffeine. I actually have been known to swear at times and belch and even raise my voice when provoked. And I'm not physically repressed!"
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"When you're on a long running series, you reach a very rarefied, high oxygen area and after a while to keep a show on the air they have to make some very drastic changes."
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"CGI is done after the film is done. It's through the computer. Most of the film is not computer-generated special effects. Most of it is that creature that is in the room with you."
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"The Sennett system of making pictures was actually fun. You never knew what the person next to you was going to do."
Fun,
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"I was really excited to get to shave my head - it's something I'd wanted to do for a while and now I had a good excuse. It was nice to shed that level of vanity."
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"I'm just not very good at glamour... It doesn't come easily to me."
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"I do a lot of races for the cure for breast cancer."
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"When I dress up, I have to have a lot of help. I was in a T-shirt until a few minutes ago."
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"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."
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"My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up."
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"I was the good Bond girl, but I wanted to have the dresses and the high heels. I wanted the funky, sexy name."
Name,
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"I was so happy when they cast me in Chocolat, because it's one of my vices."
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