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Quotes by Actress

"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."

"My sister and I are both diagnosed with second-hand smoke syndromes. We have never smoked, but we grew up with second-hand smoke our entire lives."

"I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make."

"The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently."

"You wouldn't recognize me from one project to the next."

"If you didn't know that I am an actress, I don't think you could tell from my lifestyle. I cook and cook and cook. I like to be with my daughter. She's 16, so of course I bore her."

"These things have a life of there own and never existed when I was growing up certainly worrying when one would get made. It's kind of amazing how that one movie kept living through all these years."

"Vary the pace... is one of the foundations of all good acting."

"It finally became clear to me that they had no hopes of my ever walking again."

"When Tony was madly in love with me, his relationship with Vanessa Redgrave was ending."

"Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, you just deny yourself. It's about control."

"If I could stomach the awful part of being a veterinarian, which involves sticking your hand up animals' behinds, I would be a vet."

"It was a struggle treating Claude Rains as my lover, but we were friendly. It was no great love affair."

"I can only pay my electric bill for my last two years on my acting."

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