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Quotes by Actress

"I think my mission is to become the greatest human I can. I know that sounds pompous, but what else do we have?"

"My taste in music and entertainment is quite eclectic."


"But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole."

"Adding "just kidding" doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal."


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

"When I came back to Britain, I realized that I was no longer a very young woman. I had to meet my new consciousness, my new age, with roles that reflected it somewhat."

"It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me."


"Probably what my comment meant was that I don't care about the circumstances if I can tell the truth."

"If I have smashed the traditions, it was because I knew no traditions."

"We are 5 percent of the global population and consume a third of the total resources - on some level we should all feel guilty relative to the world."

"Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now."


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

"My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate."


"Because Buffy really has become the straight man, every once in a while it's nice to be the one that tells the joke and it's nice to be the one that is the joke and it's nice to do something that's a little bit different."
Man,

"I had a migraine for about seven or eight straight days, and I was unable to sleep most nights."

"Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me."

"I have a strong dance background. I danced from age five till 18, and that helps a lot. Doing a fight routine is like doing a dance routine."

"You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal."

"I first wanted to be an actress after seeing a play - not a movie."

"When my friends and I would act out movies as kids, we'd play the guys' roles, since they had the most interesting things to do. Decades later, I can hardly believe my sons and daughter are seeing many of the same limited choices in current films."


"You show your vulnerability through relationships, and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot."

"I'm not particularly impressed with going 50 miles per gallon. That doesn't impress me when we can go to the moon."
Moon,

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

"I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true."

"Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the characters, the more they see."

"They're called "angels" because they're in heaven until the reviews come out."


"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?"

"Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in."
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