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Quotes by Actress
"I was born with a fierce need for independence."
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"Two months later at a party, Bernard pulled me into a closet and proposed. I said yes."
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"I love romance. I'm a sucker for it. I love it so much. It's pathetic."
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"But I think theatre in a repressive society is an immensely exciting event and theatre in a luxurious old, affluent old society like ours is an entertaining event."
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"I think you have to relax about aging. What else can you do?"
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"I can hear you and I can watch your mouth move, and then I put together the sounds and the visual image, and I can understand the words as I integrate the two signals."
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"Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere."
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"The first thing I have to do to erase my French accent is think that it is actually possible, whereas for the moment, I think it's not. I have a lot of work."
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"I have to be asked, I guess, but I love the idea of marriage. I think it's beautiful. I'm such a romantic, and I always have been."
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"I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs, the music, the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world."
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"We played soccer a lot with our friends and at school. We weren't on an official team or anything, but we'd definitely be up for it in gym or in after-school pickup games where we live."
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"Everybody deserves a second chance in this world. That's basically all I ask."
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"I think it's almost easier to make people cry than to make people laugh."
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"But I always curl my lashes, even if I don't put on mascara. I'll also put on a lip gloss or lip balm. And I always brush my eyebrows. I have very thick eyebrows - I'm just now starting to thin them out a bit."
Now,
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"We are a research center and treatment facility all under one roof."
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"It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that."
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"Sometimes nudity is gratuitous. We just live in a society where everything goes."
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"I had started off, before I ever got an acting job, working at Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions as a reader. I was always interested in that side of the camera."
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"Anything that has cynicism to it and that's jaded is smutty."
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"I can't stand when people say, Don't hate me because I'm beautiful. OK, how about I hate you because you said that'"
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"Well, I certainly was exposed to and learned to appreciate the work of great directors early on. As a kid, my mother used to take me to see really interesting arty films in Los Angeles."
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"I don't understand why James Bond has to be a man all the time. When Pierce Brosnan retires, why not one of us?"
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"You see, that's another thing that my parents gave me: an enormously great sense of humor."
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"The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada."
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"I was always ready to leave England for some absurd reason."
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"In my fantasies, I always wanted to play the ingenue, but in reality, in my bones, I am so used to playing the grandmother that I don't feel safe or even sure that I can do it."
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"Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal... To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable."
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"A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy."
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"Unless you're a star in this town, you're really nothing."
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