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Quotes by Actress

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

"I remember seeing some little wrinkles in my early 30s and thinking they were interesting. But you know the horror of it is that the screen image has to be perfect."

"England and Greece are friends. English blood was shed on Greek soil in the war against fascism, and Greeks gave their lives to protect English pilots."

"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."

"Unless everyone grasps the importance of having only two children per couple, wars won't be over just oil anymore, they will be over water and food."

"I love TV. I know all the theme songs from the shows I watch. I'm not one of those who'd rather be a movie star. I prefer TV because of the rushed way of working-on a movie set, you sit around and wait and wait to do a scene because they're adjusting the lights."

"I think one of the primary goals of a feminist landscape architecture would be to work toward a public landscape in which we can roam the streets at midnight, in which every square is available for Virginia Woolf to make up her novels."

"I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and... I believe in miracles."

"Before I do a movie, I watch Meryl Streep movies over and over. It's not to mimic her. It's to remind myself to be more committed."

"I'm more of like a recreational surfer, not a consist surfer. Some people get out every week or every day."


"I concentrate on exercises from the waist down, since that is the laziest part of a woman's body."

"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."

"There is really a whole new appreciation when you leave and then come back."

"The only way people are going to change their car buying habits, and the only way government will get behind alternatively fueled vehicles, is if gasoline prices continue to go up."


"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."

"Of all the roles I've played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother."


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

"How do you calculate upon the unforeseen? It seems to be an art of recognizing the role of the unforeseen, of keeping your balance amid surprises, of collaborating with chance, of recognizing that there are some essential mysteries in the world and thereby a limit to calculation, to plan, to control."

"The triangle of success for an Entrepreneur is not only composed of his Net Worth, but also his Self Worth, and Net Works."

"Some people enjoy celebrity. I admire those who do, because if you're going to go through it, you might as well enjoy it."


"A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity."

"I knew that I was gay, I knew it. I just couldn't see myself as a gay woman, even though that's where my heart was."
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