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Quotes by Actress


"I'm pretty much a good Catholic girl at heart, and I believe in family. I also have a basic belief that God takes care of me. I believe in prayer, even though I'm not that religious. I just have that foundation from my family. I mean when you think that you're just a human being and one of God's creatures, you can't take anything that seriously."

"Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself."

"But I never worked with a northern horse before. They are very different from western horses."

"I think everyone feels lost at times during their high school years."

"The thing about anything in life is you have to get ready for it. Study, learn."

"The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right."

"That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me."

"Kissing Macaulay Culkin was like kissing a brother. It was really no big deal."


"I'm not very experienced with boys or the whole dating thingy."

"A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations."


"I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general."


"I can't stand when people say, Don't hate me because I'm beautiful. OK, how about I hate you because you said that'"

"People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child."

"I helped found Artists for New South Africa, but it used to be called Artists for Free South Africa. Alfre Woodard and a bunch of us started this."

"Jackie considered his resurrection, the world's best return performance."


"Fortunately, we have a lot of really smart women in the business."

"I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person and that they're imagining the same as you."

"It was considered that you were stepping down by doing television. I almost turned Cybill down because I so wanted to remain a theater actress."

"I tried to commit suicide by sticking my head in the oven, but there was a cake in it."

"Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that."

"There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog."

"I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real."

"I went to work and did a lot of homework about what was wrong with me."

"He would use amphetamines to stay awake because he would have late night maneuvers that would go way into the early morning hours and he was given pills to stay up for the long hours."

"I love acting but I don't like all of the other stuff associated with it. The interest in celebrities, the press, the Internet, when your identity becomes mixed up in the way people are preceving you."


"I've struggled so hard to reign in my temper because it actually terrifies me."

"I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments."
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