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Quotes by Actress

"Look at any black-and-white movie; everybody is smoking."

"Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine."

"Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head."


"My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!"

"Every woman feels she is too old and has missed the boat."

"Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic."

"I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one."

"I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress."

"Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die."

"I was homecoming queen. I was star of my basketball team."

"Ruby in Paradise and the intensity and quality that I was able to experience on Smoke were equally as important to me as working on this movie every day for three-and-a-half months."

"An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine."

"I've always just gone with the best role, and I don't care if it's in theater, film or television."

"I'm pretty gross. When I talk I can be gross and crude."


"I don't normally look like a twig and I do eat like a pig but the weight has just dropped off me."

"Horrifying as it was to crack up in the public eye, it made me look at myself and fix it. People were exploitative; that's human nature."

"Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable."

"Cute is when your personality shines through your looks. Like, when you see someone's personality in the way they walk and you just feel like hugging them every time you see them."

"Angelina Jolie may get Antonio Banderas in bed for eight hours on a movie set, but I get him in bed everyday."

"A 41-inch bust and a lot of perseverance will get you more than a cup of coffee - a lot more."

"From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture."

"I wore a lot of vintage clothing. I dressed like a reporter, with a little card in my hat. I had these fantasies of who I wanted to be, so I'd dress like an explorer, a cowboy. I dressed up like Elton John a lot too. That was another period."

"In my day, people didn't do nude scenes. I mean they didn't exist."

"Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first."
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