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Quotes by Actress
"Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House."
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"Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses."
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"Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin."
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"I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression."
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"I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that."
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"I don't have high expectations anymore. Maybe they've just been beaten out of me."
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"Aaron Spelling went further than anyone has ever gone for television."
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"I don't like psychiatry. I don't believe it works. I believe psychiatrists are neurotic or psychotic, for the most part."
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"Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants."
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"I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy."
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"Oh that's very English, that's probably why. They just go "LOL" in America."
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"Actually, I think it's interesting that when I put the weight on, I was already with him. I don't know, maybe I felt safe. And he likes me like this. He likes me whatever size I am."
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"It's an incredibly difficult thing to bring a giraffe down. They can kill a lion with a single blow from their feet."
Feet,
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"I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance."
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"A woman my age is not supposed to be attractive or sexually appealing. I just get kinda tired of that."
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"Failure brings success to those who don't quit."
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"Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now."
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"Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical."
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"In Wales it's brilliant. I go to the pub and see everybody who I went to school with. And everybody goes 'So what you doing now?' And I go, 'Oh, I'm doing a film with Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins.' And they go, 'Ooh, good.' And that's it."
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"My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way."
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"Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once."
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"I love the film route and I'm gong to try my hardest to stay on it."
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"When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary."
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"And then I heard the ring of metal on concrete, and I went cold, because one of them had found a piece of rebar lying around, and I knew with sudden certainty that these guys were going to kill me right here on this stupid sidewalk, for nothing, without even the reason of knowing my name or hating my politics. They were just going to kill me because they needed to kill something, and I was handy. At least zombies would have had a reason."
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"Let's say that it belong to me as much as it belongs to anyone alive today. If I am, strictly speaking, living. The old word was undead, you know, but aren't all living things undead. I dislike imprecision."
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"Generous leaders are servant leaders. They always come with open hands and an open heart."
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"I couldn't kill a chicken, I couldn't kill a cow - I was a vegetarian too at that time - so I thought, well what is there that I could kill? I couldn't kill this and I couldn't kill that."
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"Ryan is my bridge to the past, to memories that lose some of their sting when he recounts them."
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"And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read."
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"If you're middle aged... where're you going to go to meet someone? You're not going to go to a bar, you're not going to go to a night club; and there are the museums."
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"Motherhood changed me because it is so fundamental what you're doing for another person. And you are able to do even though it takes a lot."
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"All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay."
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"My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing."
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"The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than them by the time I was about 18. They thought I was going to be the ne'er do well, who they'd have to keep worrying about."
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