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Quotes by Actress

"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."

"I don't even like watching sex scenes in movies. I have a slight prudish side to me."


"I started reading and talking and interviewing nutritionists and a thread was starting to form for me which is - a protein digests in a different rate of speed than a carbohydrate."

"If we're for one another, we're feminists. The rest is semantics."

"We have to be vulnerable as actors, but we have to protect ourselves."

"I have a certain curiosity for life that drives me and propels me forward."

"I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life."

"Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death."

"Never let them see you in public after you've turned thirty-five. You're finished if you do!"

"I've had some of the best craft services on independent movies, actually, because they get more creative, generally, with a smaller budget. The work is still the same. I didn't really notice the difference other than I was getting dressed behind a curtain, basically."


"I felt little awkward about taking one boyfriend to see a film starring another boyfriend."


"The sweetest thing a guy said is that I look pretty with or without makeup."

"I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year."

"I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress."

"You have to remember that when I met Elvis, you know, it wasn't the fanfare that it is today or even when he was here in the states and I was in Germany growing up."

"I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters."

"I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal."

"Actors have to be there and do the work, and that's enough."

"I don't see myself as competing with other actresses. I mean, I went through a time when I was in New York, and I was going to lots of auditions and trying to get parts, but even then, you're not really competing with the other actresses. There is a competition going on, but it's not like something you can win in that way."

"I think I'm going to put together a compilation under Disney's name of my songs that I've done for them - because I've done six or seven by now! The latest was for the Princess Diaries 2 soundtrack. So that's the next thing that's coming out."

"I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare."

"I don't think I'm great at acting. I think I'm great at directing."


"This is a Disney animated feature; it's eternal, it's history. What's there to think about'"

"If you compare my character to the others, they were sexy with designer clothes. I had the nerdy outfit."

"The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That's the little girl in me that will never grow up."


"I always knew how to cook and at one point in my career where I had done nine television pilots before Three's Company and they all failed, I just got discouraged."


"Sean's movies are provocative and challenging without being slick."
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