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Quotes by Actress

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

"I finally moved out of my parent's house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room."

"I think that unless you grew up in New York or Chicago or Los Angeles, you're sheltered."

"I really enjoy having sex, and that's offensive to some people. Women are the quickest to call other women sluts, which is sad. I haven't met a lot of men who've said, "You like having sex? What a dirty whore you are!". That's because they wish their wives or girlfriends would have more sex with them."

"I carry Yeats with me wherever I go. He's my constant companion. I always can find some comfort in Yeats no matter what the situation is. Months and months and months go by and I know I need to switch to Shelley or somebody else, but right now Yeats is enough for me."


"Fritz Lang was one of my dearest, dearest friends. I loved working with him."

"There are always good parts. They may not pay what you want, and they may not have as many days' work as you want, they may not have the billing that you want, they may not have a lot of things, but - the content of the role itself - I find there are many roles."

"At least I know that one film-maker in my career has had the initiative to come to me and thought of me as being capable of doing interesting and complicated work, and so I have a new-found belief that other film-makers will see me in a different way, the way that Patty did."

"I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin."

"I had been doing plays in New York and on a whim we packed up and moved West, I started doing commercials and plays and guest star spots on TV and one thing led to another and I got Knots Landing."

"I go on giving interviews because I've been brought up to support the projects I'm involved in. When you've enjoyed working on a production, you want to do them a favour."

"Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But if I make him happy, then I'm everything I want to be."

"I need a SUV, for me and my four sisters. So, I've narrowed it down to four, kind of expensive, cars."

"My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night. That is glamour!"

"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."

"Most Republicans call the show 'The Left Wing.'"

"My favorite actresses are Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts and Julie Andrews."

"You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself."

"I don't believe in perfection. I don't think there is such a thing. But the energy of wanting things to be great is a perfectionist energy."

"When you love someone, you don't want them to suffer at all."

"There's a pressure regardless of that to do a good show."

"Fans always ask, 'What did the bedroom look like?' All they ever saw was Alice or Ralph going in and out."
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"I'm obsessed with cooking shows, even though they make everything look so easy when it isn't."

"I do recommend it for all girls, and boys, out there: put on a pair of fishnet stockings and find your inner sexiness!"

"Weight doesn't matter as long as you're happy with yourself."

"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."


"When we meet, I'm interested and I'm curious about what he's doing because he's burning a number from a client. And I'm like, 'Who is this?' and my girlfriend's like, 'That's a drug dealer. Stay away from him.'"

"My mother was an artist and highly strung, whereas my father was much calmer."
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