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Quotes by Actress

"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."

"On-screen relationships are the best because you don't have to worry about saying the wrong things. And if the guy's got a girlfriend, or I'm not attracted to him, it's even better. It's just my character kissing his character."

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


"Ed is very sexy because his emotions are really there - not forced."

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

"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 take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache."

"My favorite part is the preparation because you read on the page, you get this character."

"In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star."

"My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again."

"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."

"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."

"Yes, during the pilot, they gave me a little toy from the shop. It's like three little moose in a boat, paddling. It's very cute. And I got to keep some of the clothes."

"I have a friend in New York who's a stylist and I went over to her place because she's got a lot of clothes. I basically ended up wearing most of it. So it's all stuff that I brought over."

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

"I did my famous cabbage soup diet, so I was able to do it."


"I had no idea that he was going to write that, but I've always believed that insecurity was what would keep you always in your innocence, no matter what the business did."

"Victor Mature was a big man; he had a great swagger. I liked him and I knew we'd be good together on screen."
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