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Quotes by Actress

"The parameters are such that I don't get offered a lot of work. I'm sure most directors hear my list of don'ts and say forget it."

"When you think about it, we actors are kind of prostitutes. We get paid to feign attraction and love. Other people are paying to watch us kissing someone, touching someone, doing things people in a normal monogamous relationship would never do with anyone who's not their partner. It's really kind of gross."

"It's easier in some ways being on the life raft and the other guy's in the boat and you can row alongside and be supportive. In some ways, that's an easier role."

"I was all in gold sequins for Million Dollar Mermaid, 50 feet in the air."

"I have a boy's body. I would prefer to have more curves because I think that's more beautiful. I would much rather have J. Lo's body than mine."
Body,


"I just let the character speak to me and things appear."

"There is a shyness about me, and I really need to get out more."

"You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well."

"The thing I was attracted to as a little girl was Kirk, Bones and Spock, and their utter loyalty. There's nothing more powerful than that."

"My mom is going to kill me for talking about sleeping with people. But I don't want to put myself in the position where I'm in a monogamous relationship right now. I'm not dating just one person. 'Sex and the City' changed everything for me because those girls would sleep with so many people."

"I'm happy when I'm juggling, but I feel like I've gone from, like, 3 balls to 10 bowling balls. But, that's a good problem. I don't really have a complaint about that."

"I really don't consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I've never really been marketed by the big studios to do mass market box office films."

"In the '50s, a lot of girls never saw beyond the wedding day."

"Well, this would be nice if it worked out, but I'm not selling the farm."


"You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me."

"I'm a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I've really had to decide what's important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with show business."

"I was born with a fierce need for independence."

"I like writing better. Because I don't have to wear makeup, I don't have to be thin, and I don't have to remember lines."


"I had done 25 motion pictures prior to The Partridge Family and nobody knew my name."

"We owned a bearded collie for many years. Sophie. She was old, and she died last year."

"I think you have to relax about aging. What else can you do?"

"I can hear you and I can watch your mouth move, and then I put together the sounds and the visual image, and I can understand the words as I integrate the two signals."

"I binge when I'm happy. When everything is going really well, every day is like I'm at a birthday party."

"Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot."
Riot,

"Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere."


"I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs, the music, the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world."

"Mom always tells me to celebrate everyone's uniqueness. I like the way that sounds."

"I used to sit near Marilyn Monroe in the Actor's Studio. She'd get dressed up because that was her identity. Sad. Those cameras wouldn't leave her alone. She didn't know where to hide."
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