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Quotes by Actress

"All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year."

"You've got to realize that any lady on a soap is devoting her life to it, 24/7."

"I just want to be able to sit on grass as long as I want to, without anybody telling me to leave. Everything is so restricted, here, in that you actually have to stand behind a line, you can't go up the Canyon and enjoy the view."
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"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships."

"There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us."

"True Leaders take an Ordinary Person and turn them into an Extraordinary Performer."

"When I was working on Eye of the Beholder, I played a character who is so aloof that my whole lifestyle became very aloof. If someone knocked on my door, there was a part of me that went into a rage, because I wanted to be isolated and alone."


"The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after."

"If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?"

"The bigness of the world is redemption. Despair compresses you into a small space, and a depression is literally a hollow in the ground. To dig deeper into the self, to go underground, is sometimes necessary, but so is the other route of getting out of yourself, into the larger world, into the openness in which you need not clutch your story and your troubles so tightly to your chest."

"And doing a film in that period, and having to really celebrate what they wore back then, how they sat and how they spoke. You know, what the etiquette was back then for a lady. All of those things are like putting on a wig and transforming yourself, which I love."

"When I came to Los Angeles, it was the first time that I ever felt like I belong somewhere. Not because it was wacky, but because people here understood what I felt like to perform, and there were other kids my age who wanted to do it. I didn't get looked at as God, you freak."

"The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another."

"I find the mantle of, she works hard for the money, or, she's overcome so many obstacles a bit overused."

"When we were doing a scene, lots of times we would collapse giggling, because it seemed so silly because it felt like we were doing a home movie at times."


"I kind of resent this attitude of men that we somehow must always look good."

"My audience is the baby-boomers, the bulk of the population. This is also a group that is being ignored by most record companies because they're not the Top 40 hit singles market. They forget these people still listen to music."

"Marriage is a big deal, but who's to say I'm not going to pull a Vegas and get married to see what it's like for a minute?"

"Most of us start out with a positive attitude and a plan to do our best."

"Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson."

"I am really rather like a beautiful Jersey cow, I have the same pathetic droop to the corners of my eyes."

"I was really tired of words like 'plus size,' 'round' and 'large.' I thought, 'Come on, we're fat.'"

"My biggest challenge is trust, and really believing that trust, in letting things just happen personally and professionally and trust with myself. But I'm getting better at it."

"It's pleasant and bothersome and embarrassing all at once. Especially when you haven't done much and are a celebrity."

"My goal in life is to enjoy what I do, and never to look back and say I wish I would have done that, and to go to UCLA, and to become someone great in life!"

"The best way in the world to advertise is to get somebody else to run around with the name of your product on their person or showing it around somewhere and not only that but they're paying for it."


"I played the best role I've ever seen on TV or film in the last five years. It was hugely gratifying."

"There is only one issue: man's lack of experience in feeling his Divine self and his innate connection with the Divine. All other issues stem from this."
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