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Quotes by Actress


"I always say if you've seen good acting on television, those actors are really good. Because there's just not enough time. You don't have any preparation."


"When we saw our plane on TV as breaking news, it was the most surreal experience. A lot of the women were crying. There was a gentleman who was writing in his journal and crying. Seeing that isn't easy."


"I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen."

"When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I'm a little guarded and hardened to that."

"Everyone gets the feeling that they know you and they know your life, and I felt really embarrassed by that."

"The most important thing for me was to never, ever, ever deny it. But I didn't really have the courage to talk about it. I was thinking, The people who need to know I'm gay know."

"I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That's what our purpose is in this business. You're merchandised, you're a product. You're sold and it's based on sex. But that's okay. I think women should be empowered by that, not degraded."

"There's always a side of a woman that likes a man from the other side of the tracks."

"I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security."

"I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me."

"Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people."

"Getting sober just exploded my life. Now I have a much clearer sense of myself and what I can and can't do. I am more successful than I have ever been. I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober."

"If you want to be a star, don't bother doing it because it ends up being very empty."


"Because Buffy really has become the straight man, every once in a while it's nice to be the one that tells the joke and it's nice to be the one that is the joke and it's nice to do something that's a little bit different."
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"It's easier in some ways being on the life raft and the other guy's in the boat and you can row alongside and be supportive. In some ways, that's an easier role."

"You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal."

"Judy Garland's father was gay. That seems to be the consensus. They left Minnesota and went to California because he got caught with some boy backstage."

"My mom is going to kill me for talking about sleeping with people. But I don't want to put myself in the position where I'm in a monogamous relationship right now. I'm not dating just one person. 'Sex and the City' changed everything for me because those girls would sleep with so many people."

"We're not going to dumb down for them. They have to move up. They're the network and we're the show."
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