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Quotes by Actress

"I am most proud of my integrity and least proud of my cynicism."


"You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me."

"It was exactly what was released two months later with the exception of a couple of reaction shots which we went back in to get. I liked the movie very much and asked him what the studio's problem was. I felt that he was at a point where they might have worn him down."

"I think everyone feels lost at times during their high school years."

"My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am."

"I don't look at scripts in terms of commerciality. I just look at the part, the people involved."


"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."


"Plus, doing a zombie movie is quite liberating. It's fun not to take myself seriously all the time."


"No, I don't belong to a retirement community."


"If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of 20 million full-time volunteers."

"I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious."

"Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles - poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that."


"I've been playing tennis, and just whatever sport is in front of me I will do."

"The guy has to kill the spider and get the dead mouse outta the pool."

"Acting is definitely put at the back of my mind, if it's there at all right now. It's all entertainment."


"The pictures we saw before we got down here didn't even touch the reality of what it is like being here. We can be right on the beach with all the devastation and still not be able to imagine what it was like when the wall of water actually came up."

"But listen, I'm 29-years-old, I'm really lucky to be there and whatever happens I've been really blessed already. I have plenty of awards for this movie and if this was it for me I'd be really content."


"Being a human being is all about experiencing all of the wonders of the world and therefore as an actress, I'm open to any opportunity that may enrich my horizon."

"I don't think I would have been a good mother. Being a parent brings immense responsibility. It's a Herculean task. It would be almost too much for me."

"I worked very hard, but I think it's unfair to make it all sound like it's all David's fault."

"I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength."

"God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence."


"Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds."
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