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Quotes by Actress


"Human beings are not meant to lose their anonymity and privacy."

"Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls."

"A bit of lusting after someone does wonders for the skin."

"I had one nanny who made me sit in front of a bowl of porridge for three or four days running when I refused to eat it. I remember being very unhappy about that."

"I've never been opposed to nudity. I've been opposed to nudity for box-office draw."

"I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another."

"I don't think I will be less good because there's less pressure on me."

"But I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was not a very happy time for me."

"Sexy at the millennium means having a solid sense of self but never taking yourself too seriously."

"Believe me, when an actress is told that her very name is synonymous with bad acting, she's had it."

"My clothes are predominately black and my home is predominantly white."

"Early on in my career, I'd go into the makeup trailer, and they'd spend an hour doing my makeup, and I would hate it. I'd go into the bathroom, wash it off and start over again, which took an enormous amount of time. So I just started doing it myself."

"We've been listening to Wagner, which is so great."

"I'll probably pursue doing more movies, but not horror or movies with killers in them. I'll try to stick to happy movies. I want to act and direct like Jodie Foster. I admire her because she went to college and she's still doing the same thing."

"It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding."


"The only thing I know is that we came from the stars, and that we have the same material as the stars. That's all that I know. Everything else I don't know."

"Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now."

"There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth."

"Myrnin was silent for a beat, and then he said, "Bob would be very disappointed in you."

"Just look at all the awards shows now. It has turned into a catwalk. You have to be wearing a certain designer, a certain dress, and everyone's critiquing."

"Any time I break up with Dawson or question him, viewers turn against me."

"I made a movie where I played a girl that just got out of prison and we shot it very very quickly but very intensely-that took me a long time to get over."

"As an actress, I was trained to show emotion I did not feel, or no emotion at all."

"There's something about the Irish that is remarkable."

"They pulled Resurrection out of the theatres, so it was running in New York and I was nominated for the Oscar and there was no ad in the newspapers to say it was running. So it was literally killed."
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