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Quotes by Actress


"I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road."

"I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He's usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it's strange."

"I have to watch the news or my day is not complete."

"My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunites."

"I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one."


"My friends that are snobs think its cool I did a movie with Albert Brooks."

"John Wayne was a consummate gentleman. Bigger than life."

"I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book."

"I feel like I haven't done my best work yet. I feel like there's a world of possibilities out there."

"One soft humid early spring morning driving a winding road across Mount Tamalpais, the 2,500-foot mountain just north of the Golden Gate Bridge, a bend reveals a sudden vision of San Francisco in shades of blue, a city in a dream, and I was filled with a tremendous yearning to live in that place of blue hills and blue buildings, though I do live there, I had just left there after breakfast."

"I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood."

"There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them."


"I got very fit that week with all the running around that we di. I was always last, because I can't run as fast as everyone else. I'm useless at running."


"The only thing I can talk about is just forgiving yourself, because I do not have everything together. And so I tell people: No, you should see my house, it's a mess."
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"But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself."


"We have one cat. I had eight cats and six dogs in Los Angeles."


"I didn't get to see Predator until halfway through shooting. It was great to get an education while I was shooting because it made me excited to be part of this legacy."

"One time we did have 300 acres in watermelons. That was fun."


"The whole publicity machine is a very weird one. It's kind of a necessary part of what we do here, but this helps me keep grounded."

"My boyfriend calls me 'princess', but I think of myself more along the lines of 'monkey' and 'retard'."

"I don't like to search too much. I find it is easier when romance finds you."

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

"I must confess I took a couple or three jobs just for the money."


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

"I'm smart and I can be really funny and interesting and I can go toe-to-toe with anybody in a conversation."

"My sister and I are both diagnosed with second-hand smoke syndromes. We have never smoked, but we grew up with second-hand smoke our entire lives."


"But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole."

"I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others."
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