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Quotes by Actress

"Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them."

"Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist."

"Failure brings success to those who don't quit."

"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."

"My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way."


"Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once."

"To be with the same person for the rest of your life just sounds so drab."

"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."

"Some women get erased a little at a time, some all at once. Some reappear. Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would have her disappear. She struggles with the forces that would tell her story for her, or write her out of the story, the genealogy, the rights of man, the rule of law. The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt."

"I agree with Marjorie Rosen's good psychological analysis of my acting ability."


"Ryan is my bridge to the past, to memories that lose some of their sting when he recounts them."

"And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read."

"Party of Five won a Golden Globe, it was a well-written television series."

"All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay."

"And I did a movie called Basil with Jared Leto and Christian Slater."

"Some people come to Morganville and collapse, Michael said as he put the car in motion. "I've seen it a dozen times. But there are a few who come here and just-bloom. You're one of those. Claire didn't feel especially bloomy. "So you're saying I thrive on chaos."

"The competition is so fierce once you become an adult. I'll probably move on to something else."

"When he's late for dinner, I know he's either having an affair or is lying dead in the street. I always hope it's the street."

"It was never really my choice to be an action heroine."

"In a collaborative environment directors hire actors because they want their input, not just their bodies."

"I don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up."


"I had my electricity turned off three times because I never had time to pay my bills. It was a joke. I'm making a ton of money, and I'm walking around my apartment with flashlights."

"I did Phone Booth, and that was shot very, very quickly, but that was Joel Schumacher, who's shot so many movies that, if anybody can figure out how to do it in a couple of days, it's him."

"It took a long time to get that film made. I went in for it almost right after or like maybe six or seven months after I had my son and actually auditioned for the Regina King part and they just were like, 'No, you're just - you just don't really seem the part.'"


"It makes me believe in fate. In most cases, the readings where I've been really bad have usually been the ones where I got the part."
Fate,

"When I'm not working, my family and I have a house in the San Juan Islands. We've been here since '94."


"Bleaching my hair for Two Moon Junction... my hair was fried and I looked like an idiot."

"Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief."

"I think that the two of them have been doing this for a really long time and it is more like sport. Yes, they would love to find a lasting relationship, but it's not likely to happen the way they are going about it."
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