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Quotes by Actress

"Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening."


"I was in group therapy for years but it wasn't the same thing. It was more about growing."

"The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me."

"Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you."

"It's that I'm 39. I feel hot and sexy, actually... I feel it inside myself. I don't feel dried up and tired and no longer interested in sex is what I'm trying to say."

"I can't do theatre in the US,' she says, 'because I don't have a green card."

"The fact of the matter is that everybody treats me pretty much as one of the boys, which I take as a great compliment."

"There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent."

"Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage."


"Playing roles that are intense and damaged has always come more easily to me than doing comedies or lighter stuff - that would be taking a huge risk for me."
Risk,

"The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it."

"OK, well maybe I have to get back to Judaism. In the sense that if I look at me and my forebears forever stretching back to I don't know, whenever there's no sense of place and therefore no sense of nationality."

"The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs."

"Ulcerative colitis can be cured by the operation, but you cannot cure Crohn's disease."

"I really enjoy singing and I really enjoy acting, but singing I've been doing since I was really young."

"Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying, but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?"


"Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least for me... dreading this idea that I was just going to suck and I really had strong feelings about that. I just didn't want to be that weak link."

"I like cats. I used to have a lot of cats, but I don't anymore, now I just have a dog. It does take a certain temperament to have a cat, as they do have certain personalities."

"I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together."

"I rely on my instincts and intuition, and I feel it's so imperative for people to follow not the path but their path."


"There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival."

"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."

"I love playing different characters all the time, so I'm concentrating on doing other stuff."

"I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute."
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