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Quotes by Actress

"I'd rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have the advantage of this brilliance."


"A woman has many faces as she goes through her life. It's like we need more than one hair-do. We have many, many changes in the evolution of our lives. We have, we learn, and we grow; we view life differently, and life views us differently."

"You really have to listen to yourself and know if what someone is saying is true for you."

"Tim also has enough confidence so that it always looks like a Tim Burton film, but it really is collaborative. You're allowed to do it your way but of course he's always going to choose his way."

"I'm obsessed with cooking shows, even though they make everything look so easy when it isn't."

"I look at smoking as a crutch, and as an actor I would like strip away as many crutches as possible."

"My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if you know what I mean. We would hang out behind the ropes and look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres."

"There's a higher form of happiness in commitment. I'm counting on it."

"I'm fine, and my hips are fine. My false knee is fine. My false hips are fine. Everything's cooking."


"When we meet, I'm interested and I'm curious about what he's doing because he's burning a number from a client. And I'm like, 'Who is this?' and my girlfriend's like, 'That's a drug dealer. Stay away from him.'"

"This was like watching murder. Defilement. And it was something worse than either of those things. Even among his family, black trade as they were, books were holy things."

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

"You are the only person who can sell you, so you do spend a lot of time in your job by yourself everyday."

"Bishop was all done with the witty converstaion. 'Will you swear?'And Myrnin said, shockingly, 'I will.' And he proceeded to, a string of swearwords that made Claire blink. He ended with, '-frothy fool-born apple-john! Cheater of vandals and defiler of dead dogs!' and did another twirl and bow. He looked up with a red, red grin that was more like a leer. 'Is that what you meant, my lord?"

"The notion of a contemporary epiphany to me is very exciting, because it's a sort of biblical thing. It's something that has happened to people in other centuries or in the context of religious experience."

"The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer."


"After every movie, I always kick myself for the same things-didn't do enough, not enough variation, not enough interesting choices, too bland."

"I'm a strong person, but I'd never resort to violence."


"This is my idea of heaven, coming home and watching the news."

"I think so, she [Claire] said. "Just watch your back, okay? "Nah, Michael's got mine. He [Shane] looked straight into her eyes."I've got yours."

"I think one of the primary goals of a feminist landscape architecture would be to work toward a public landscape in which we can roam the streets at midnight, in which every square is available for Virginia Woolf to make up her novels."

"My younger years of modeling were really just filled with fun trips. I was doing catalogues for Alexander's and Bloomingdale's."

"But Tommy Lee Jones is just smooth. He's just the real deal. I'm captivated by him because there's so little of that in Hollywood, and he just embodies it."

"Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough to go to Heaven? How would you know?"
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