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Quotes by Actress

"I really haven't been cognitive of gas prices. It wasn't until I filled up my husband's Toyota Prius Hybrid that I had a moment of understanding of how people who drive gas cars feel."

"The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me."

"I definitely enjoy being in front of people which gives me that exciting immediate rush."


"I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser."


"When you're watching the news, how many days in a row can you watch that and feel good about yourself and the world?"

"People who know me know I'm strong, but I'm vulnerable."

"For Astrid, no matter what challenges they go through, they are going to face each other. It's hard for a daughter to accept that her mother is that selfish and that terrible."

"When I did small films like Lily and Buenos Vista, everyone thought my career would be ruined."

"I like women who look like women. I hated grunge. No one's more feminist than me, but you don't have to look as if you don't give a - you know. You can be smart, bright, and attractive aesthetically to others - and to yourself."

"If you go into a relationship expecting someone else to fill you up, you're doomed right off."

"I filmed underwater for two days in the open ocean with dolphins."

"At the beginning it wasn't to do with the work, it was more the experience."

"There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent."

"It's much more acceptable for men to work and father kids. There's an inherent inequality, because we want to do it all, and I don't know how we can do this all."


"I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead."

"But it's a Broadway show, so even if you're Christine in Phantom, you're still a princess. All female leads are princesses whether they're Disney princesses or not."

"I know my husband really loves me because he takes me to have ribs. He says I'm the only girl he ever took out who actually ate anything on her plate, as opposed to pushing it around."

"Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life."

"Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying, but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?"

"I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept it without wishing I had given it away."

"The best part of making the movies... learning from the pros themselves."

"So curiosity, I think, is a really important aspect of staying young or youthful."

"The scene was attempted a second time, up on top of the fort, and cameras didn't even roll. Michael, though he wasn't admitting it, wasn't sure how to shoot the scene."
Time,

"I'm not that girl from Freaky Friday any more! I'm a real adult. In fact, I hate children! I hate them all!"


"I'd like to do some more classical work if I do some more theatre."

"In any profession, there's a sleazy side and an honorable side."

"Right now, I love the fact that I have so many opportunities, but I know this privileged position cannot last. That doesn't mean that I'll stop working. I picture myself as an old actress doing cameos in films with people saying: "Isn't that that Bening woman?""
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