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Quotes by Actress

"We live by encouragement and die without it - slowly, sadly, angrily."

"We've got our football where no one wears anything and the guys are in little shorts and they beat the crap out of each other, and they can catch it and they can kick it, and it's the only place it's played in the world."

"How do you even speak of, let alone propose regulation of, [any] category [so] full of internal contradictions? . . . Maybe, like so many other things, it is a language problem."

"Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same."

"We live in downtown Manhattan and we have pretty big windows that looked right at the World Trade Center. I was home along with Kai and we watched it all happen. I was holding him in my arms and we were looking out the window when the second plane hit."


"I had my electricity turned off three times because I never had time to pay my bills. It was a joke. I'm making a ton of money, and I'm walking around my apartment with flashlights."


"I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status."

"But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself."

"I know that I'm getting the real deal with my mom. I know that she's telling it like it is. She's proud of me when I've earned it and she's disappointed in me when I've earn that. She's really my spectrum on where I am as a person."
Mom,

"One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you."

"I think that the two of them have been doing this for a really long time and it is more like sport. Yes, they would love to find a lasting relationship, but it's not likely to happen the way they are going about it."

"When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I'm a little guarded and hardened to that."

"I have perfected the art of putting my feet on my husband's lap during awards ceremonies so he can rub them."


"Well what do you do with a character like Christine Cagney and you tell her she can't have things?"


"Oh no, the dead have risen and they're voting Republican."

"There were the phone calls and Elvis had asked me to visit him in Los Angeles. This was in 1962."

"There's always a side of a woman that likes a man from the other side of the tracks."

"I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building."

"I shot Footloose nearby, and we used to hike. Very fond memories."

"If I hurt someone, if I were to accidentally poke someone's eye out, I would laugh. And then I'd say, 'I'm sorry, I really do feel bad,' but then I'm on the floor rolling."

"My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned."


"I had to gain weight until I looked like a seal so I could compete with the real whores who played the other roles. I was fat as a barrel."

"I have never believed you make your case stronger by bad-mouthing your opposition."

"I like to feel sexy. I know my husband thinks I'm sexy. I think he is too. But I don't go out half-naked with 'sex' written across my back."

"I told him that I can play it if he wanted to write it, and I would be willing to try and go there emotionally. I did not know as an actress if I would be able to get there, because when you feel really deep emotions or pain, you don't want to go back there."

"I think maintaining relationships with my friends, my mother, my manager, they're all important."

"I can never have a poker face. Anybody looking at me can tell exactly what I'm thinking."

"I'd have to say that, in general, models take themselves too seriously. Basically, they are genetic freaks who spend a couple of hours in hair and makeup."
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