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Quotes by Actress
"I'm the kind of actor who has ventured into escaping from me."
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"For some reason when I write in cursive, it's easier and flows better for me to read that when I print."
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"I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe."
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"I've always felt robbed of something by people not knowing I was a Jew."
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"When I was growing up, I always thought my hair was messy."
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"Getting buried alive will always be my claim to fame."
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"Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners."
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"I'm very happy with the way I look. I wake up some morning, catch myself in the bathroom mirror, and go, 'hey girl, you're alright'. But on the other hand, I find the website stuff, and the polls, something completely removed from my own personal life. You can't take anything like that too seriously, otherwise you'd end up in the loony bin."
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"I just look at it, as it's something that I had to do. I had this vision that really, Graceland is suited for a king and it is his castle. And people really should see it, as he loved it."
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"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!"
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"The problem with winning the rat race is you're still a rat."
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"I carry Yeats with me wherever I go. He's my constant companion. I always can find some comfort in Yeats no matter what the situation is. Months and months and months go by and I know I need to switch to Shelley or somebody else, but right now Yeats is enough for me."
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"Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls."
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"A bit of lusting after someone does wonders for the skin."
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"I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally."
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"I don't think we should be deprived of the privilege of free speech."
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"But I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was not a very happy time for me."
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"The way they were writing Christine as this older woman who got married, which she shouldn't have. Obviously got divorced right away. Reached the glass ceiling in the police precinct. So there is a part of her that died because she knows she couldn't go any farther."
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"Sexy at the millennium means having a solid sense of self but never taking yourself too seriously."
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"Great drama is all about conflict, and what's a better conflict than Republican-Democrat?"
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"I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare."
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"At least I know that one film-maker in my career has had the initiative to come to me and thought of me as being capable of doing interesting and complicated work, and so I have a new-found belief that other film-makers will see me in a different way, the way that Patty did."
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"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."
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"Dick Wolf was my first boss after coming out of Sarah Lawrence."
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"I need a SUV, for me and my four sisters. So, I've narrowed it down to four, kind of expensive, cars."
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"In a man, I look for a friend, someone who's equal, with whom I'm comfortable."
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"I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different."
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"I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald."
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"It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding."
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"I was so overprotected, I used to think I was as delicate as people said I was."
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"I regret that I wasn't the kind of person who could enjoy celebrity. It embarrassed me too much."
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"Most Republicans call the show 'The Left Wing.'"
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