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Quotes by Actress

"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."

"I don't know anybody's road who's been paved perfectly for them, there are no manuals, you don't know what life has in store for you."

"I'm gonna do the whole bedroom in camel color - it's an old lady color."

"I think anybody over 30 plays parents because it happens in your thirties and so that's kind of a natural progression. But I'm definitely drawn to it. It's probably the most intense, passionate thing that happens to you as you get older."

"The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step."

"I think there are a lot of other actors that are just talented, it's just about this opportunity - it's just about when are we going to be put in those positions where we can shine."

"Sometimes I miss the spirit of London, but it's a very gray place."

"I like the way my own feet smell. I love to smell my sneakers when I take them off."

"I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it."

"When things are perfect, that's when you need to worry most."

"I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York."

"Dodi got a lot of criticism when he began dating Princess Diana. No one seemed to think he was good enough for her."

"Tune in to Kids and Family Week is perfect for me."

"I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times."


"They still had the Lord Chamberlain, so we had this idiotic censorship. We were allowed three Jesus Christs instead of 10. Why three were OK, I don't know."

"We're all with Friends until Friends dies. If one of us goes, we all go. One of us wouldn't leave. It wouldn't be the show it is without each of us."

"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."

"It's challenging, but you have to at least try to eat right and exercise."

"When you become a mom you just learn how to function sleep deprived and you do get used to it. I came back to work when Finley was three months old and the first few months were rough. Then somehow you learn to exist on no sleep and now when he does upon occasion sleep through the night, which is like a full six hours, you're pretty sure he's suffocating. So you don't sleep anyway."

"Everybody smokes! Models, actresses, everyone! Don't they realize that it's gross? I understand it's an addiction, but it still pains me to see my friends do it."


"I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves."

"Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's best done by disguising it as doing something, and the something closest to doing nothing is walking."

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


"If you believe in what you're doing, you'll be successful."

"I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories."

"I wish I could blame it on the choreography, but it's not a musical. I just had a clumsy moment."

"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."
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