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Quotes by Actress

"I'm worth more dead than alive. Don't cry for me after I'm gone; cry for me now."

"Here," Myrnin said, his voice still gentle and low. "Amelie said you had to work. No one said you had to work alone." He picked up the next part and slotted it in, took the screwdriver from Claire's numbed fingers, and fastened it with a couple of deft, fast movements. "I'll be your hands."She wanted to cry, because it was so sweet, but it wouldn't do any good."

"It's so weird that I went to rehab. I always said that I would die before I went to rehab. But I thought, 'I'm going to stay here tonight.' And I stayed there for a month. It was great."

"Read good writing, and don't live in the present. Live in the deep past, with the language of the Koran or the Mabinogion or Mother Goose or Dickens or Dickinson or Baldwin or whatever speaks to you deeply. Literature is not high school and it's not actually necessary to know what everyone around you is wearing, in terms of style, and being influenced by people who are being published in this very moment is going to make you look just like them, which is probably not a good long-term goal for being yourself or making a meaningful contribution. At any point in history there is a great tide of writers of similar tone, they wash in, they wash out, the strange starfish stay behind, and the conches."

"I have a little bit of a belly, a tiny bit of pooch. It's the one thing I don't want to lose. I just like having some softness. If I lose that, then Tom might leave me."
Want,


"We would have to invent the U.N. if we did not have it, which is not an original thought."


"Bleaching my hair for Two Moon Junction... my hair was fried and I looked like an idiot."

"A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it."

"Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't."

"Nothing is either all masculine or all feminine except having sex."

"Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves."

"I try to do a lot of research beforehand so I know where I want to go with a scene. I try not to get too stressed about it, because I find that's the worst thing."

"I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I."


"I kind of fell into acting, but I have sung and trained since I was in the eighth grade."

"We gave up having a TV last year. I am out of the loop. Life is way better than TV. I recommend it to anyone who has forgotten they have one."
Life,

"I would describe myself as emotional and highly strung. If something upsets me, it really upsets me. If something makes me angry, I get really angry. But it's all very upfront. I can't hide it. I'm also loyal and I hope I'm fun."

"I'm smart and I can be really funny and interesting and I can go toe-to-toe with anybody in a conversation."

"I've worked with the greatest actors, and they're all gone. This is what's so desperate to me."

"The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man."

"The easiest gift to give my husband is anything to do with airlines and flying."

"I think she definitely has. I think, um, her and Mulder's relationship has become more equal. And, I think she has become stronger and more independent over the seasons."

"Right now, my daughter's just rolling her eyes at everything I do; I'm just an embarrassment."


"My life has never been easy. It's like all the major events of my life have always been difficult."


"Network heads don't seemed to be turned off by the men who get older."

"Playing a robot is possibly the most difficult role you can have as an actor, because you have to take all your innate emotional responses and completely suppress them. Even the way you walk is affected."

"But on the whole, nothing requires unbearable energy for me, it's just a normal thing."


"Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it."
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