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Quotes by Actress

"The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another."

"There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them."


"Oprah is so bright, and her intelligence is so piercing that I don't think anyone who spends a few minutes with her isn't struck by that."

"I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes."

"The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title."

"Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up."

"What I love is a peanut butter and pickle sandwich. I'll just have peanut butter and bananas, then peanut butter and pickles. Peanut butter and chocolate I don't recommend."
Love,


"It took the producers a while to realize I wanted a full-bodied life. I wanted to get out before I felt I'd sacrificed so much to get somewhere that I couldn't afford to leave."
Life,

"The Internet's been so great, and it's so nice to have fans do nice, elaborate websites, but I think the downside is some of the things... for real fans to go on and see that 90 percent of the information isn't true or to see pictures that aren't really me."


"I entered into Dawson's Creek to do a couple of episodes. They weren't sure about my role in the beginning, but then the chemistry kind of worked."

"My goal in life is to enjoy what I do, and never to look back and say I wish I would have done that, and to go to UCLA, and to become someone great in life!"

"If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way."


"I always say if you've seen good acting on television, those actors are really good. Because there's just not enough time. You don't have any preparation."

"Until I separated from Parker, I had never been without them-and it's the hardest thing to share them. But we're trying to give the children the semblance of having whole lives."

"I thought it was a wonderful line - right on the cutting room floor."


"When we saw our plane on TV as breaking news, it was the most surreal experience. A lot of the women were crying. There was a gentleman who was writing in his journal and crying. Seeing that isn't easy."


"I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen."


"One of the best things for a woman to hear is that she is sexy."


"People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so."


"But there's not enough time in life to go sit at a party, have a drink, and make idle conversation. There's too many important things to do. Just being together with my husband, spending time alone, which I have very little of."


"We really enjoy entertaining our children with characters. We'll act out all of The Wizard of Oz together."


"I think actually what I'm going to do when I'm done and take my next vacation, is I'm going to go over and start unions in Japan. I'm going to unionize Japan. Because the way they work those crews is so criminal. There's no overtime, so they can just keep going."

"I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others."
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