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Quotes by Actress

"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."

"We did many of our own stunts. We had our hands full. In fact, the roles were physically demanding."
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"Anything that has cynicism to it and that's jaded is smutty."


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

"Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring."


"I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling audition process. It was almost as if I was learning to walk. It would be like teaching somebody to dance ballet for a role."

"So many other countries have had female leaders, in fact the U.S. ranks 61st in female representation in government and I think it is startling and sign of a change that needs to be made."

"If I know I have everything prepared for when I get killed by a stalker, then I can go to sleep."

"My heart's in really great shape thanks to spinning classes."

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

"You see, that's another thing that my parents gave me: an enormously great sense of humor."

"Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet."

"It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly."

"At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules."

"I was offered one of the roles in a big project that shall remain nameless. I thought the whole thing encouraged violent sex crimes toward women. It made horrible, ghastly rape violence seem sexy. I just didn't want to sign my name to it."


"In my early days I was a contract player at Universal and I had a wonderful mentor named Monique James, who was head of talent there, and she used to drag me on sets to do parts."

"The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage."


"I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level."

"I love men who know when to put their foot down and when not to."

"Kids aren't going to understand single life in New York City."


"My favorite designers are Levi Strauss and Fruit of the Loom."

"I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping."

"The least consideration of any film I've ever worked on is who is right for it."

"No candy bars unless I've had a low blood sugar where I'm shaky."

"The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it."


"I'm a native New Yorker. Everything to do with New York feels like my family."
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