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Quotes by Actress
"There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them."
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"I was born in Norway, and when I was little I went to live in Detroit, Michigan. My father was a professor of philosophy at Wayne University, and my mother was also a teacher."
52
"I rely on my instincts and intuition, and I feel it's so imperative for people to follow not the path but their path."
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"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.'"
52
"Despite what anti-aging ads say, growing older can be better. I feel better in my skin, 100 percent. You have greater effects of gravity, but the better sense of yourself you have is something I wouldn't trade. Women who lie about their age - 'why?'"
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"I like the enthusiasm but not the insincerity of Los Angeles."
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"In terms of the frustration of my character, I suppose any teenager has probably gone through that, in terms of telling their parents, I want to do one thing, and their parent says no. I think parents sometimes forget that they were children."
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"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,
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"We owned a bearded collie for many years. Sophie. She was old, and she died last year."
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"I love playing different characters all the time, so I'm concentrating on doing other stuff."
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"Female television viewers paid attention to Catherine Gale."
52
"Don't forget the prices are so high in theater; it isn't really where a young person can go on a date and buy two tickets and take someone out anymore."
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"I used Jimmy to give me what I needed to keep going and to know that I was on the right path with it. I thought I saw Jimmy's soul all the time we worked. He never covered his soul and I never covered mine. We saw into each other's souls, very definitely."
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"Once you sell yourself, it's over. You've got nothing left."
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"I've got cousins galore. Mexicans just spread all their seeds. And the women just pop them out."
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"I created a production company. Right now I am so happy in my work."
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"In television, women can really run anything. It can be a comedy, it can be a drama, it can be genre, it can be anything. But in films, women are still getting to the top."
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"But Angela had at least 30% more viewers on the same night at the same time. I mean, she wiped everybody out. But the sponsors don't care when she had the most people. They only care about if there was only a handful of young viewers on the other one."
52
"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?"
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"You can't be trying to make a film that pleases all people, you know, so it's not a concern of mine."
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"I have to go back to my younger days, when I just adored Hollywood musicals."
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"Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine."
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"If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married."
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"Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring."
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"It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility. I think just what's happened so far is already making the opportunities more interesting, even though I'm at the twilight of my career of like 48 years."
52
"Having done something like The Thorn Birds gives you enormous longevity. You can keep picking and choosing the roles for a bit longer."
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"I'm always the girl at the party who, within five minutes, has taken my heels off, hitched up my dress in my knickers, and probably spilt drink down my cleavage."
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"The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors."
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"One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story."
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"So how critics will perceive your film or your work, or whether your movie is going to make $100 million at the box office, or whether you are going to be winning any awards - well, you have no control over that."
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"If you get enough sleep, cut back on cigarettes and red meat, you look better the next day."
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