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Quotes by Actress
"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."
80
"Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there."
80
"I'm amazed. When I was 40, I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60, I was still going strong and enjoying everything."
80
"Nothing you wear is more important than your smile."
79
"There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead."
Want,
79
"I own four copies of Robin WIlliams's Live on Broadway comedy special for HBO. One in Wilmington, one in L.A., one in my trailer, and one at my parents' house. I can watch it over and over again and it never gets old. He is the funniest, wittiest man on the planet!"
79
"Most of my memories of Texas are of mosquitoes, watermelons, crickets, and my brother teasing me."
79
"I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it."
78
"I was terrified. My first week, walking around in a teeny bikini, I kept crossing my arms over my chest because I was afraid I was going to fall out of the top of the suit. And I didn't know anything about technique or lighting."
78
"I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet."
78
"You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that."
78
"I am writing my second novel for children for Simon and Schuster."
78
"I think the diva is kind of a cliche. My definition of a diva is somebody whose talent does not match what they're trying to play, so all this temperament comes out."
77
"If someone is mean, harmful, or evil, they're out of my life. I cross them out."
77
"Look at any black-and-white movie; everybody is smoking."
76
"I don't know that I'd necessarily want to see into the future. I don't want to know what's happening next."
76
"Every woman feels she is too old and has missed the boat."
76
"On January 18, 1915, six months into the First World War, as all Europe was convulsed by killing and dying, Virginia Woolf wrote in her journal, 'The future is dark, which is on the whole, the best thing the future can be, I think.' Dark, she seems to be saying, as in inscrutable, not as in terrible. We often mistake the one for the other. Or we transform the future's unknowability into something certain, the fulfillment of all our dread, the place beyond which there is no way forward. Be again and again, far stranger things happen than the end of the world."
75
"I had been gullible, naive, soft, pliable. That's why I got taken advantage of. To survive, you have to have a tough skin."
Skin,
75
"Cute is when your personality shines through your looks. Like, when you see someone's personality in the way they walk and you just feel like hugging them every time you see them."
74
"Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first."
74
"People go 'You look a lot like Minnie Driver.' Once I said, 'Thanks, Minnie is a great actress.' But, it blew up in my face. This person said, 'Nah, didn't like the last movie she did.'"
74
"I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one."
74
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