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Quotes by Actress

"I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room."

"I never meant it," he was saying. "Never meant it to happen. Can't stand it,seeing her suffer. Must do something, do something... What do I do? What can I do...?"

"I think anybody over 30 plays parents because it happens in your thirties and so that's kind of a natural progression. But I'm definitely drawn to it. It's probably the most intense, passionate thing that happens to you as you get older."

"I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized, you know?"

"In L.A., if you're an actor, your personal and professional lives are too intertwined."

"I've been an important star and lived a full life, yet I only hve three close friends. I guess that's all anyone can expect."

"So I did that for a long time in my career, and I waited for parts to play myself just physically down a little bit. But I do feel like I'm at a place in my career now where I don't necessarily fret about that too much anymore."

"Men don't get smarter when they grow older. They just lose their hair."

"I mean one of the basic rules when you're acting is that you mustn't stand in judgement on a character, you mustn't say Hitler was a bad man because you can't act in that way."

"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."

"I was bookish and dorky in high school, so the best part of this movie was getting to be on the other side."


"Which is a wonderful irony, I have property there. I go back every chance I get. One of the main reasons I actually wrote the book, agreed to write it having never wanted to do that in my life, very intimidating by the way to write a book."


"Lynda Carter, I think the reason I liked her was because she was so down to earth. Even though she was a big star and she was Miss America, she was very approachable."

"I'd never been to a prom, I had never had the whole high school experience. I think I was kind of an anomaly. I don't think they knew where to put me."

"I would kill the clone. That would be my first response."

"One fantasy is that I just do a Don Roos movie every year if that's possible. If he'd have me."

"You should have trusted me. I'm really tired of people not trusting me."

"I know I can handle dramatic roles, but I don't think I should have to play a young mother on crack to prove it."

"Honestly, people have said everything under the sun. I just want to do my work, raise my kids, and hopefully find somebody who I can share my life with again."

"Josie needed more of a personality than what the cartoon had to offer."

"We're all with Friends until Friends dies. If one of us goes, we all go. One of us wouldn't leave. It wouldn't be the show it is without each of us."

"I was never a dangerous woman. I'm not the prissy blonde woman that could take your husband away."

"When you become a mom you just learn how to function sleep deprived and you do get used to it. I came back to work when Finley was three months old and the first few months were rough. Then somehow you learn to exist on no sleep and now when he does upon occasion sleep through the night, which is like a full six hours, you're pretty sure he's suffocating. So you don't sleep anyway."

"Everybody smokes! Models, actresses, everyone! Don't they realize that it's gross? I understand it's an addiction, but it still pains me to see my friends do it."

"I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances."


"I was an idiot in terms of career-building, but I had a great time."

"Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on."
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