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Quotes by Actress

"I've never done a teen movie before, but I certainly could tell you some of the ones I came very close on. I was very close on Clueless and She's All That."
Teen,


"Do you know what I like about your program? Even when I'm running the vacuum, I can understand it."

"We are all the heroes of our own stories, and on of the arts of perspective is to see yourself small on the stage of another's story, to see the vast expanse of the world that is not about you, and to see your power, to make your life, to make others, or break them, to tell stories rather that be told by them."

"I don't want to be a 'teen star' because so many people don't ever grow out of that."

"Then no matter what goes on around you in the physical universe, hang on to what you know."

"I liked The Slipper and the Rose, as I have already mentioned, because it was such a lovely film to do."
Film,

"We take our children everywhere we go. I don't believe in having them and then leaving them to someone else to bring up."

"Coaching is the universal to connect with people, helping them to develop a new perspective, while expanding their inner beliefs and boundaries, equipping them to become the best version of themselves."

"Then, all of a sudden, here I am in the Press Room in the White House and walking in with the guards, who handed me three little pieces of paper asking me to send pictures to the guards at the White House."

"It occured to me the other day that I've made out with more people on camera than I have in real life!"


"My husband and I didn't sign a pre-nuptial agreement. We signed a mutual suicide pact."

"I think sometimes I'm more fond of doing the research for the character because you learn so much. Sometimes shooting is really difficult because you wake up early and you're always hurrying. And sometimes I don't know what I'm doing. I'm here and there."

"Glamour is something you can't bear to be without once you're used to it."

"Being a psychologist did enable me to maintain objectivity."

"It's true, I did a lot of great movies, and I'm happy. It was what it was, and now I think all of that has fed into where I am now, and I think it has taught me a lot."

"Rose was sexy. It was my fantasy about her. She accomplished so much and came from so little in terms of a background that would have prepared her for the world, let alone the world of entertainment."


"When you're a regular gal, you look in the rearview mirror, and in the bright daylight you see that line around your mouth, but when you're an actress and you see that line up on the big screen, it's, like, seven feet long."
Feet,


"If you believe in what you're doing, you'll be successful."

"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."


"Somewhere along the line, Bob said I'd better begin taking this business seriously, because, whether I liked it or not, I had a career."

"The problem with losing your anonymity is that you can never go back."

"I didn't pay as much attention in school as I would have liked to."

"I told the students that they were at the age when they might begin to choose places that would sustain them the rest of their lives, that places were more reliable than human beings, and often much longer-lasting, and I asked them where they felt at home."

"We have our little restaurants, and there's a beautiful beach that we go to in the summer and fall. We tend to have a lot of get-togethers, and if it's at my house, we order pizza because I can't cook."


"Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly."

"I think I'm finally growing up - and about time."

"Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice."

"You'd look out and there'd be little babies watching the show, and boys and girls. They loved the cowboys, and they loved Annie. There were young people seeing the show for the first time. I stayed for two years because I enjoyed it so much."
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