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Quotes by Actress


"I didn't want to do it... I'd been trying to get out of TV for years!"

"Talking about auditions, you never know what anyone else is thinking."

"There are no small parts; there are only small actors."

"ER was one of my favourites. I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I worked."

"When I was 7 years old, I put on shows for everyone at my grandpa's funeral. I was always the little entertainer."

"You have to be self-reliant and strong to survive in this town. Otherwise you will be destroyed."

"A consistent attitude of thankfulness will turn your success into significance."

"Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do."

"I hate committing myself to anything. It's probably the lack of discipline, honestly. I'm probably a spoiled brat worried about getting my way every time."

"Terri and her mother arrived. She was obviously a dedicated stage mother because she was loaded down with camera equipment, looking like a Japanese tourist."

"I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate."


"Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine."


"When you're on a set it can be very tedious and slow. It's just not as big as when you see it on film."
Film,

"I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it."

"Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5000 Gideon Bibles."

"Again, I find it difficult to be taken care of and rarely acknowledge it, and every act he does registers, but I also just need to verbally acknowledge him and hug him."


"For years I have been going to the South of France to cool out."

"In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times."

"I was raised in California, so this whole New York winter thing is completely new for me. I've already justified buying seven coats!"

"It Might As Well Be Spring... I used to sing that as a young girl in my voice lessons. Then I picked it up again and it spoke to me in a whole new way."

"Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening."

"Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure."

"I was asked to come to Chicago because Chicago is one of our fifty-two states."

"That's a powerful lucky rabbit's foot. I got the part in Gone With the Wind because of it. I got my Warner contract, thanks to it."
Wind,

"Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials."

"He opened up the tent where I was actually literally bent over a chair getting my crack touched up and I turned around and said, 'don't come in here Bryan, you don't need to be seeing this!' and he said, 'ooh, you need some white wine.' He handed me a glass of wine."
Wine,


"The episodes all blend together for me, so I don't remember. I can't even remember what I had for breakfast this morning. I always feel I must be such a disappointment to them."

"What was important was trying to create something that families could watch together and enjoy together."
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