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Quotes by Actress

"I like women who look like women. I hated grunge. No one's more feminist than me, but you don't have to look as if you don't give a - you know. You can be smart, bright, and attractive aesthetically to others - and to yourself."

"It's much more acceptable for men to work and father kids. There's an inherent inequality, because we want to do it all, and I don't know how we can do this all."

"Yeah, a lot of people think I'll be a tortured nutcase when they meet me."

"The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it."

"There's this wonderful first assistant and he'll be saying, 'Now Harry goes down among the dragons.' You have to hold yourself together. Because if you lose it for a second then you're sunk."

"I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way."


"After I do a big movie I get offered big movies. But I always do the weirdest indie."

"I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board."

"I am a really bad test taker. I can get straight As in school, but I get nervous on test."

"If we could have somehow stayed away from the public and the press, it might have been different, but every private issue seemed to be played out on the front page."

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

"I think the original Matrix was really incredible. It was so original and it did so many innovative things with film. It was a much bigger film. Bound was just a smaller film. It was kind of like an old noir film."

"These days I have to be extra nice in stores. It never fails that whenever I look as bad as I can possibly look or I am sort of cranky because the store is out of something, that is precisely the time when someone one will recognize me and say: 'I really like your show.'"

"I love romance. I'm a sucker for it. I love it so much. It's pathetic."

"Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down."
May,

"The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it."

"The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck."

"We're getting ready to take over the world. My group of girlfriends - we're renegades."

"The first thing I have to do to erase my French accent is think that it is actually possible, whereas for the moment, I think it's not. I have a lot of work."

"They tell me that it will be hard to find a man strong enough to love my own strength and independence, and not worry about being Mr. Diana Ross, but I disagree. I know absolutely that that man is somewhere out there."

"There's only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn't give you a chance there is nothing you can do."

"I've literally, in my entire life I've had two guys come up to me and ask me out. Other than that I have had to go and try to like spend time with them, or sort of start the conversation, basically like spell it out in a Sharpie, like, you know?"

"You can't be trying to make a film that pleases all people, you know, so it's not a concern of mine."

"If only those who dream about Hollywood knew how difficult it all is."

"If only Vivien Leigh had stayed in England, that part would have been mine."

"I have to go back to my younger days, when I just adored Hollywood musicals."
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