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Quotes by Actress

"The best people I know have had a lot of obstacles to overcome."

"In a man, I look for a friend, someone who's equal, with whom I'm comfortable."


"I think Pedro understands the universe, the same vision I have, about relationships anyhow."

"I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me."

"You can have a laugh in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your attitude towards it."

"I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald."

"It's almost better most times to not talk in a scene. I think you can actually express a lot more without words."

"A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else."

"It's impossible to always get across what I'm trying to say, but, if I just stay honest, then I'm not going to look back on any of these interviews and wonder what I was trying to do or be."

"Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography."

"A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature."

"Always you find that the more decisive event wins so my father's sort of annual decisiveness which came upon him on the Day of Atonement every year, he suddenly remembered that he was Jewish."

"I feel as though my career really hit its high point when I was cast as a supporting actress in 'American Wedding'. I thought the script had a lot of depth and intelligence, and it really just jumped off the page."

"I'd like to be able to use Storm's powers for good, like have it rain more in Southern California. We could do with it."
Rain,

"I became very successful at a young age... I had lots of opportunities and lots of power and had no idea how to focus it."


"People work really hard to get to a certain point. But they have to work just as hard to stay there."

"There's a higher form of happiness in commitment. I'm counting on it."

"When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire."

"I'm faster than the rest of you, if .. Because I'm a vampire, Michael said, and it was some kind of breakthrough for him to say that. "If you get in trouble, I'll be there."Nice, Shane said. "I'm warming up to this bloodsucking thing, Mikey."No, you're not."Okay, no, I'm not, but right now let's pretend I am."

"It's definitely a shock to go from being 15 in high school to working. There's no real cushion there. There's no preparation at all. You learn by doing."

"I was really into dancing, taking six classes a week, and my real dream was to be in a Broadway show."

"Bishop was all done with the witty converstaion. 'Will you swear?'And Myrnin said, shockingly, 'I will.' And he proceeded to, a string of swearwords that made Claire blink. He ended with, '-frothy fool-born apple-john! Cheater of vandals and defiler of dead dogs!' and did another twirl and bow. He looked up with a red, red grin that was more like a leer. 'Is that what you meant, my lord?"

"Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading."

"He put a ring in the toe of a stocking. On Christmas Eve, we opened our stockings and it was there at the bottom of the toe. Then he got down on his knees and he was shaking."

"I never knew motherhood could be so truly gratifying until I had Natasha."

"I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes."


"Sometimes it was so quiet, it's frightening. It really prioritizes things."


"So it's conceivable I'll do something insane, or more insane than Dawn of the Dead. If that's possible."
Dawn,

"When you give yourself to places, they give you yourself back; the more one comes to know them, the more one seeds them with the invisible crop of memories and associations that will be waiting for when you come back, while new places offer up new thoughts, new possibilities. Exploring the world is one the best ways of exploring the mind, and walking travels both terrains."
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