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Quotes by Actress

"I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer."

"Steve is very quiet, even shy. I am very gregarious. So, opposites."

"One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you."

"The whole publicity machine is a very weird one. It's kind of a necessary part of what we do here, but this helps me keep grounded."

"I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists."

"The radio for these women is like television is for us today, which is really like looking at the radio."

"We can't compare stories. We can only know in our hearts that we are the same. That may be the best we can do."
May,

"One of the best things for a woman to hear is that she is sexy."

"I don't know if this is why everything has worked so well and I'm not sure I'd recommend this kind of thinking to anyone else, but I've always known I'd be successful in acting. I have certainly worked for it."

"I like analyzing human behavior. It's complex. That's what keeps me going."

"For sure, you don't believe the good stuff. I mean, the good stuff is just insane - wacky. If you don't take it too much to heart, it does help when the negative stuff hits. And you know the negative stuff is coming. It's got to! What comes up must come down."

"Stardom isn't a profession; it's an accident."

"I could talk about him all day. He's one of the most wonderful things that ever happened to me."

"Um, and I'm also very proud of my work on George of the Jungle 2."

"I would seriously question whether anybody is really foolish enough to really say what they mean. Sometimes I think that civilization as we know it would kind of break down if we all were completely honest."

"Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment."

"I'm not a celebrity. I don't call myself a celebrity. I'm an actor."

"We really enjoy entertaining our children with characters. We'll act out all of The Wizard of Oz together."

"I kind of fell into acting, but I have sung and trained since I was in the eighth grade."

"I have perfected the art of putting my feet on my husband's lap during awards ceremonies so he can rub them."

"I just didn't work that much while the kids were growing up."

"You shouldn't have to give things up for someone. If you love them someone, you should love them for everything they do and all that they are. I love acting and I wouldn't give it up for anything, and I don't know anyone in my life who would ask me to give it up."

"Cast changes are a hard thing. For two years, we had this little family. We weren't together when these changes were decided upon. It all happened during our hiatus."

"I must confess I took a couple or three jobs just for the money."

"You know, we're not on stage, we're not doing a play, so we don't have a relationship with the audience but going through that process and also just hearing how much people love the film, you feel like you do have a relationship with the audience."

"Well what do you do with a character like Christine Cagney and you tell her she can't have things?"

"Maybe because she doesn't try so hard to seduce and impress, I guess that's why some guys fell for her. Because she's so different and crazy and we all like a little bit of that in our life."
Life,

"One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap."

"It's the most amazing cast, a dream cast. We laugh all the time."

"I've put in as many as 40 weeks a year on stage. It is lonely and restricted, as all artistic life must necessarily be."
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