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Quotes by Actress

"You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses."

"Every person is so different and I don't think there is an exact match for every person. If you meet someone and they have 20 of the 25 things you want in a person, then you're pretty lucky."

"What we do is look for high standards of excellence in the arts."

"There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing."

"I'm the kind of actor who has ventured into escaping from me."


"There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears."


"Nothing is going to improve my hearing. I've only got to prevent it from getting worse."

"The only problem with the way they do my character is that they have her get redeemed too early."

"I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted."

"I lied to everybody. I lie very well, being an actress, naturally."


"I grew up thinking that whatever I wanted to do, I could do."

"When I was growing up, I always thought my hair was messy."

"The Dewey decimal system really works. So that's all I needed to know. Elementary school taught me that."

"I think my real depressions started when I was about 16 and doing The Patty Duke Show. I would go to bed at about 10 o'clock on a Friday night and not get up again until 6:30 Monday morning."

"You were up at 5 o'clock in the morning, and then you'd ride in a caravan, because we didn't have big movie trucks or trailers that is the hardware of a movie camp."

"I can wholeheartedly apologize for not being at all sorry. And it really is the least I can do."

"I'm still learning, you know. At 80, I feel there is a lot I don't know."

"There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic."

"I'm half-Irish, half-Dutch, and I was born in Belgium. If I was a dog, I'd be in a hell of a mess!"

"There's also something of an illusion in that, you can perhaps record a TV thing one month and complete a book the next and then be in a play. Then, if they all come out at once, it looks as if you're actually juggling a million things."

"We always had chocolates and my mother was careful to make sure they were unwrapped in advance so the paper wouldn't rustle in the middle of a performance."

"My talents fall within definite limitations. I am not as versatile an actress as some think."

"I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no."
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"I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough."

"I want to exude strength and intelligence."

"Someone at Disney heard one of the records and called me in to do the sounds of Lucifer the Cat in Cinderella."


"I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point."

"To become a classical ballerina, you have to move to New York when you're 12 or 11 and that becomes your life. I just wanted to be good in my company in Charleston and I wanted it to always be part of my life."

"It's pretty refreshing to be in a situation where the spotlight is on someone else."

"Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House."

"Depression is close to me, but suicide hasn't been."

"I was brought up Catholic, and my family is still very religious."

"If only I could find a guy who wasn't in his 70s to talk to me about white cranes, I'd be madly in love."


"People really feel the need to share how the series has touched their lives, and that's been very moving. We're enormously grateful to the fans of the show. They've been extremely loyal to us season after season, and they make it all worthwhile."

"Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed."
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