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Quotes by Actress


"This was all the inspiration it took: We put 100 percent of ourselves in the lines. We personally take care of everything, from fulfillment to answering the mail."

"I think because I am as earnest as I am, people were accepting of my evolving into a certified, legitimate, and grown up and I did take three years off."


"People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves."

"Myrnin to Claire about their costumes of Pierrot and Harlequin, respectively"Don't they teach you anything in your schools?".""Pity. I suppose that's what comes of your main education flowing from Google."

"As an actress, I was trained to show emotion I did not feel, or no emotion at all."

"The hardest thing is at the end you have to say bye to all these people who you have worked with for so many months. It was really sad not to see them anymore. But you have the parties that you go to and you get to see them, like the premieres and the screenings."

"If you've got a lot of children, I think you let the other children bring them up more and you just sort of step in and do stuff like every now and again."

"I was often very, incredibly naughty, and if I didn't come home at tea time I used to be sent to bed without any dinner. But people used to bring me things: I was better fed in bed."

"My character was kidnapped by the Terminator and I was kidnapped by the Terminator production."

"Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them."

"Foods high in bad fats, sugar and chemicals are directly linked to many negative emotions, whereas whole, natural foods rich in nutrients - foods such as fruits, vegetables, grains and legumes - contribute to greater energy and positive emotions."

"It's not a country of articulate people, sophisticated people. There's too little subtlety. Men and women don't enjoy each other very much in Australia. I don't find very many men sexy in Australia. Of course, I'm married and out of it, but still."

"Let those who know know, and let me keep what little privacy I can."

"The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step."

"I don't think about going back to the theater."

"I married him for a green card. We had a really great, caring relationship; it just obviously wasn't right for me."

"I'm odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet."


"I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition."

"I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go."


"With the art therapy, as soon as they saw the paper and crayons coming, we couldn't get it out fast enough. And we told them to draw about the tsunami."


"In a way, my past gives me a little credibility. Not that anybody cares what I did nineteen years ago, but I did have a career, and a legitimate one, before I met my husband."

"Yes, I was correctly quoted in saying I introduced sex into films in the 20's, but it was sex in good taste and left a great deal to one's imagination."


"My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself."

"There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them."

"In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin."

"It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams."
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