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Quotes by Actress

"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,

"If the body is the register of the real, then reading with one's feet is real in a way reading with one's eyes alone is not."

"Earlier 18th-century literary language was not supple enough to connect the life of the imagination to that of the street."


"When you read a script, you get a feeling from it."

"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,


"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."

"The Pledge of Allegiance does not end with Hail Satan."

"I wish people could get over the hang-up of subtitles, although at the same time, you know, that's kind of why I'm kind of pro dubbing."

"This profession has fed me creatively and allowed me to have a home life and a private life."

"I have a four year old and I'm telling you we did Nickelodeon last night and he embarrassed me. It was like one of those moments when I couldn't believe my kid is acting like this. I just had to just like walk away from him because he was really pushing my buttons."

"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."


"I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience."

"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."

"Until they come up with an independent woman who's on an adventure of her own, I don't think I'm interested."


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

"I love New York. I love the multicultural vibe here. Los Angeles doesn't inspire me in any way. Everyone is in the same industry, yet you feel very isolated."
Love,

"You wouldn't recognize me from one project to the next."

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

"It was a struggle treating Claude Rains as my lover, but we were friendly. It was no great love affair."

"I think the lawyers are such incredible actors. Can you imagine the performance they have to do every day?"

"I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European."


"There's a great difference between being popular and being an artist."


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

"It's toughest to forgive ourselves. So it's probably best to start with other people. It's almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself."


"Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it."

"I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale."
Life,

"I would write plays for my grandmother, who was stone deaf, my mother and the dog, that was our audience."

"The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater."

"I do, too, most recently while I was singing karaoke in some weird bar."
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