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Quotes by Actress

"The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man."

"I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story."

"In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic."

"I don't think today's younger audience... would even know what 1920s musicals were like."


"I started out doing theater and a soap in New York and that's... sort of what I got stuck in. I was blessed enough to have long runs, and it's sort of hard sometimes then to get out."


"It's like our relationship is always about the other side that isn't the obvious side."


"Network heads don't seemed to be turned off by the men who get older."

"I have always been willing to take the blame for the things I have done."

"Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?"

"I think some people in their 20s really get it, that acting is about creativity and the work. They get their maturity from their work."

"No one has really heard my side of the story, the adventure we had together, the transformation that I had going from a schoolgirl to a woman overnight."

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

"But on the whole, nothing requires unbearable energy for me, it's just a normal thing."

"I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me."


"I was in group therapy for years but it wasn't the same thing. It was more about growing."

"I'm opening up my heart to the idea of dating. It's funny - my friends would always come to me for romantic advice. I know nothing, and things have changed since I was dating in high school! I'm really trying hard to spend this time working on myself."

"I have a strong dance background. I danced from age five till 18, and that helps a lot. Doing a fight routine is like doing a dance routine."

"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."
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"And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating - and the levels of the communication that I've seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don't we have that here?"

"I try to keep an open mind but I'm so tired of the mediocrity."

"Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage."

"Men are wonderful. I adore them. They always give you the benefit of the doubt."

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

"I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with."

"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."

"Ulcerative colitis can be cured by the operation, but you cannot cure Crohn's disease."

"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 am a really bad test taker. I can get straight As in school, but I get nervous on test."

"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 a great time on The Shield. From working on it I have a totally different view of law enforcement."
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