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Quotes by Actress

"I'm living by example by continuing on with my career and having a full, rich life, and I am incidentally gay."

"So we do have our exits and our entrances and we are perhaps mere, but I think if one keep a certain joyousness in life which should be in playing, then good for one, but it's slightly more serious than that."
Life,

"You know, I grew up with brothers so I'm used to being the only girl."

"I'm not strictly vegetarian, but meat doesn't play a big part in my diet."

"My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful."


"I was not particularly bright, I wasn't very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, I was just really weird as a kid."

"Claire was struggling through last summer's diary volume when Myrnin popped in through the portal, wearing a big floppy black hat and a kind of crazy/stylish pimp coat that covered him from neck to ankles, black leather gloves, and a black and silver walking stick with a dragon's head on it. And, on his lapel was a button that said, If you can read this, thank a teacher."

"John Schlesinger had one of his friends designing it and he had never done a film before. Ten days before it started, they didn't have any costumes. I was rung up and joined up."

"People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart."

"It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it."

"If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by."

"Too many people use abortion as a form of birth control. And that's very wrong. I could never, ever have an abortion."

"Malcolm X raised my consciousness about myself and my people and other people more than any person I know. I knew him before he became Malcolm X."


"I was in school studying civil engineering. A guy approached me on the street and said that I had a interesting look-very exotic. He told me I should try to be in the industry."

"I think another problem people have is they are always searching for that high, and they don't realize they can get that same high with that same person again."


"I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom. That was my way of being a bad girl."

"When I was a kid, my dream was to be a farmer and marry Charlie Brown. I wanted to rescue him and make him happy. Besides, he was always lusting after the little redhead girl."

"It's just too egotistical to think that we are the only lifeform in the universe."

"You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about."

"Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place."
Love,


"The curtains would open and it would be just her standing in some ludicrous pose, like Aphrodite."
Open,

"When you face your fears, you are free of them. There's nothing in the world I need to hide from again."

"I've always said I want a farmer, not a hunter. Hunters go for the kill and they move on. A farmer nurtures; he watches things grow."
Want,

"My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose."

"There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it."
Act,
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