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Quotes by Actress

"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."

"A woman today is good, or she is bad, according to the way she does a thing - and not because of the thing itself."

"I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building."


"I wouldn't call him a slave. I don't whip him when he does something wrong. Just when he does something good."

"I shot Footloose nearby, and we used to hike. Very fond memories."

"If I hurt someone, if I were to accidentally poke someone's eye out, I would laugh. And then I'd say, 'I'm sorry, I really do feel bad,' but then I'm on the floor rolling."

"I think romance is anything honest. As long as it's honest, it's so disarming."

"My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid."

"Well, the studios don't really want to take those risks right off the bat. They'll take the risk after they've seen the finished product and say oh yeah we want that. This is a great film but they are hesitant to take the risk when you just see it on paper."

"I always wore the highest heels possible, because the other women on the show were tall."

"Well, you know, I mean, she was so wonderful, and she really played the role to perfection."

"John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time."

"Why am I so good at playing bitches? I think it's because I'm not a bitch. Maybe that's why Miss Crawford always plays ladies."


"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."

"Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep."

"I think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for. And I've worked very hard in the last ten years of my life, definitely, and I can tell you that hard work pays off. It's not just a cliche."

"I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true."

"If we could have somehow stayed away from the public and the press, it might have been different, but every private issue seemed to be played out on the front page."

"They're called "angels" because they're in heaven until the reviews come out."

"I like cats. I used to have a lot of cats, but I don't anymore, now I just have a dog. It does take a certain temperament to have a cat, as they do have certain personalities."

"The guys on the stunt team are really fantastic. It's really funny, because for all the aggression they have to display on screen, they're actually really happy, good- natured people."

"I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience."

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

"There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we both thought it would be a good idea to produce a true one."

"I am the one who got myself fat, who did all the eating. So I had to take full responsibility for it."


"I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes."


"Sexiness is all in the eye of the beholder. I think it should be. Absolutely. My sex appeal, whatever it might be, isn't obvious... at least to me."

"When I wear high heels I have a great vocabulary and I speak in paragraphs. I'm more eloquent. I plan to wear them more often."

"Prostitution happens to you because of troubles you had. In reality no woman would choose to do that."
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