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Quotes by Actress

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

"It was obvious what kind of game they were playing on the set of Amityville."

"I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long."

"Mike Leigh encourages you to choose a person that you know to base your character on. You write a whole list of people that you know and you go through that list in great depth with him. And then he chooses one of those people from your list."

"I'm more relaxed about life now that I'm older. I like it-despite the wrinkles. It's what I feel inside that's precious."

"I'm so in control of my life, you shouldn't dislike anything I do-because I'm not only in the best place I've ever been, but it keeps getting better and better."

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


"My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew."


"I grew up thinking that whatever I wanted to do, I could do."

"I believe in sex on a first date. Otherwise, how do you know if a second date is worth the effort?"

"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."

"There are so few strong roles for women, especially young women. And Veronica is very serious but also very likable. She's a lone wolf, and it appeals to people that she isn't rich and doesn't have a lot of friends. No posse. She's just like you, like most of us."

"They handled it very badly. It was disappointing and very humiliating. John York was very rude. He never consulted with me over what he said to the press."

"I've been dating since I was fifteen. I'm exhausted. Where is he?"


"The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty."

"I love working with people who are inspired and obsessive."

"I was so naive I didn't even know about agents. I telephoned the William Morris agency and asked to speak to Mr. Morris. I expected Bill Morris to be waiting for my call."

"Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin."


"I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression."

"Zac Efron is like a brother who's just goofy and crazy. He plays a lot of practical jokes."

"I know I'm only one human being and I'm only making one tiny contribution and it's nothing more than that."

"Fans always ask, 'What did the bedroom look like?' All they ever saw was Alice or Ralph going in and out."
Fans,

"The message of transformation and how we all can live from our heart, not just from our head, was a very important message for me to learn in my own life."

"I don't like psychiatry. I don't believe it works. I believe psychiatrists are neurotic or psychotic, for the most part."

"I was really into dancing, taking six classes a week, and my real dream was to be in a Broadway show."

"It's an incredibly difficult thing to bring a giraffe down. They can kill a lion with a single blow from their feet."
Feet,

"I still don't know precisely why The Mickey Mouse Club ended when it did."

"Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was doing acting, commercials, and modeling at the time and... to see my cousin doing that was really inspiring and I wanted to do it. So I went to my mom and I asked her if I could do it, and for the acting part of it, she made me study for a year."
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