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Quotes by Actress

"An activist is one who is actively involved in creating community, whether that is locally in their neighborhood or internationally. It is an admirable quality."

"There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside."

"It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about it because all the relationships in the film are so, not negative, but antagonistic. There's not a lot of love going around."

"I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara."

"I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so."

"I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art."

"You know, my dear, I insured my voice for fifty thousand dollars."

"I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none."


"I still get so much fan mail addressed to Carol Brady, and I think a lot of it's through the Net. And I always answer it, if it's legible."
Mail,

"In the X-Men the women are so strong and sexy! We really kick some male butt!"

"You can sleep with a blonde, you can sleep with a brunette, but you'll never get any sleep with a redhead!"

"When fans come up to me and Vanessa, they're really sweet and ask for autographs - but once they see the guys, the girls tend to scream."

"This was like watching murder. Defilement. And it was something worse than either of those things. Even among his family, black trade as they were, books were holy things."

"Will I return to England? I don't know. I'll think it over."

"I have the most lovely, healthy bouncing baby, she was all very compact and the right size."

"There's too much insecurity on studio sets, with all the people standing around, whispering."

"If you've got a lot of children, I think you let the other children bring them up more and you just sort of step in and do stuff like every now and again."

"Revolution is a phase, a mood, like spring, and just as spring has its buds and showers, so revolution has its ebullience, its bravery, its hope, and its solidarity. Some of these things pass."

"Growing up, I was the plain one. I had no style. I was the tough kid with the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair."

"I was often very, incredibly naughty, and if I didn't come home at tea time I used to be sent to bed without any dinner. But people used to bring me things: I was better fed in bed."

"I got into my very theatrical phase. I wore only black: a big black hat and wild hair and wild black clothes, and I carried a sword stick. I went there still looking like Miss Florida, and I came back looking very different."

"It is sensible to have a safeguard against unemployment."

"The notion of a contemporary epiphany to me is very exciting, because it's a sort of biblical thing. It's something that has happened to people in other centuries or in the context of religious experience."

"I'm good in the kitchen. I can cook seafood, collard greens, black-eyed peas."

"I've never done a teen movie before, but I certainly could tell you some of the ones I came very close on. I was very close on Clueless and She's All That."
Teen,


"It's not sometimes realistic to think that something magical can happen, but I think I look for the magic."
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