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Quotes by Actress

"If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!"

"I was not particularly bright, I wasn't very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, I was just really weird as a kid."

"I think part of that is to create an environment where it's like real life, where you don't really know what's going to happen to you in a certain scene."

"I still find that a kind of stricture of the heart happens when I see any form of bigoted or racist behaviour. I get an actual pain in my heart."

"I have been working a lot, and I like it. And you know, it's hard for me not to. I guess I've been working a lot because I get to play with brilliant people."

"He opened up the tent where I was actually literally bent over a chair getting my crack touched up and I turned around and said, 'don't come in here Bryan, you don't need to be seeing this!' and he said, 'ooh, you need some white wine.' He handed me a glass of wine."
Wine,

"Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die."

"You know, I grew up with brothers so I'm used to being the only girl."

"It was never really my choice to be an action heroine."

"Each one of us has to take responsibility for reality, and present it so that kids will grow up familiar with that and say, OK. I've seen that before. I'm not afraid of it."

"We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company."

"I don't normally look like a twig and I do eat like a pig but the weight has just dropped off me."

"Again, I find it difficult to be taken care of and rarely acknowledge it, and every act he does registers, but I also just need to verbally acknowledge him and hug him."

"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!"

"What I find very attractive, what I find sexual, are people who are unapologetic for who they are and comfortable with themselves. And I think with those two things sexual energy does come out because you're not hovering or censoring yourself, you're just being who you are. And being who you are is a very attractive quality in a person."

"Nothing you wear is more important than your smile."

"My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!"

"Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant."

"Malcolm X raised my consciousness about myself and my people and other people more than any person I know. I knew him before he became Malcolm X."

"As I've gotten older, I've gotten more liberal, and my father is increasingly conservative. It's so shocking to me because I always thought we had the same politics. The day I realized we voted for different presidents, I practically fell out of my chair."

"Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials."

"I can remember crying on the set of Beverly Hills 90210 after being released from the show a few years ago."

"When you face your fears, you are free of them. There's nothing in the world I need to hide from again."

"If someone is mean, harmful, or evil, they're out of my life. I cross them out."

"No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person."

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