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Quotes by Actress


"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."

"I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born."

"I regret that I wasn't the kind of person who could enjoy celebrity. It embarrassed me too much."

"Of course it was Mamma who both stopped my career and crystallized my determination to resume it."

"It's a great time to be an actress at this point in my life."

"That's just the way this business works. You're a reliable commodity."

"What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have."

"Electric cars aren't pollution-free; they have to get their energy from somewhere."

"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."


"Working with a great director is like getting a master class in acting."

"Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration."

"I believe people are in our lives for a reason. We're here to learn from each other."

"There were episodes where I would wear seven or eight outfits. It took a lot of time to get those together. What the character wears is very essential to how I create the character."

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

"Sayles could pull a performance out of a dog. I'm serious. He was just amazing. The world could fall apart and he remained on neutral."

"Should l go on playing bridge and dining, going in the same old monotonous circle? It's easy that way, but it's a sort of suicide, too."

"Women have routinely been punished and intimidated for attempting that most simple of freedoms, taking a walk, because their walking and indeed their very beings have been construed as inevitably, continually sexual in those societies concerned with controlling women's sexuality."

"Myrnin to Claire about their costumes of Pierrot and Harlequin, respectively"Don't they teach you anything in your schools?".""Pity. I suppose that's what comes of your main education flowing from Google."

"I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare."

"It's the relationships between people that are more important than the sort of far away fantasies of what the good life is, the world of supermodels and Bud ads."

"You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!"

"Suddenly, you are very much in the present, and you learn it's really the place where you should always live."

"I wouldn't want them to feel lonely or outcast ever in any way. And no matter where they were in the world, I'd want them to always feel incredibly confident about who they were and proud."

"When I'm not working, I definitely I like waking up at noon."

"I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room."

"Getting plenty of sleep is always great. It really is. I have a girlfriend who's sending me a slant board."

"I'm so glad you're okay.""So, how do we celebrate my okayness? It's my day off. Let's go crazy. Glow-in-the-dark bowling?""No""I'll let you use the kiddie ball.""Shut up. I do NOT need the kiddie ball.""The way you bowl, I think you might."He grabbed her in an exaggerated formal dance pose and whirled her around, backpack and all, which didn't make her any more graceful. "Ballroom dancing?""Are you INSANE?""Hey, girls who tango are hot.""You think I'm not hot because I don't tango?"He dropped the act. Shane was a smart boy. "I think you are too hot for ballroom or bowling. So you tell me. What do you want to do? And don't say study."

"Let those who know know, and let me keep what little privacy I can."

"Claude Rains was what we call an actor's actor. He was very involved with himself and his performance."
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