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Quotes by Actress

"My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their sensibilities."


"I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December, right?"

"You'll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory, where you'll be challenged and growing and having fun."

"I think people are born bisexual and the make subconscious choices based on the pressures of society. I have no question in my mind about being bisexual. But I'm also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who is bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I'd never sleep with a girl who had slept with a man."

"I guess because I pay so much attention to the physical part of the character, I don't look upon it as like Charlize Theron up there. I don't think of them as like Charlize Theron films."

"I'm 18, I'm going to graduate high school in a few months."

"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life."

"Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor."

"Mom always tells me to celebrate everyone's uniqueness. I like the way that sounds."

"The sibilant s is the most difficult sound to correct."

"The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead."

"I only knew basic western trail riding. Nothing fancy."

"I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home."


"I think that souls agree to come in and do what they're going to do and then leave when they're going to leave. So there's nothing tragic when a soul leaves. I think it was already preordained."


"I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling audition process. It was almost as if I was learning to walk. It would be like teaching somebody to dance ballet for a role."


"Our church has been legal since late 1960s. I've been involved since 1972. I was ordained in 1975."

"I have a place in the Broadway community that can only be earned."

"I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid."
Kids,

"I was training more learning how to scuba dive which I'd never done which was really, really, really cool."

"No matter how much we love our family and friends, a part of us needs the occasional moment of solitude as a plant needs water. It is the inmost core of each of us that, that part which nobody can define but which we all recognize because it never changes."

"The academy awards in England; it's a classy affair as well."

"I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously."

"My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle."

"Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man."

"I believe that time destroys everything. You can take one beautiful apple, red. After a while, it becomes shrivelled and full of worms, just like what happens to us."
Time,

"I grew up in a trailer park in Bellingham, Washington."

"The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour."

"I've done archery for about six weeks, and rock climbing, tree climbing - and combat, running and vaulting. But also yoga and things like that, to stay catlike!"

"There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful."

"I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?"
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