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Quotes by Actress


"I did a guest appearance on The Practice and loved it."

"It felt like a very, very weird thing to go on the set on September 13th. I would never want to glorify that."
Want,

"Even people that know Johnny Cash's music really well and know that he was married don't really know that much about June Carter. So finding out about her really helped to inform my performance and to bring her to the front in a way that she has never been before."

"So, it's cool that, yes, Hal Jordan is a superhero, but my character is a real-world hero in her own life."

"It's hard for women to talk about these things, and for the doctors to really talk about it too, and to even have the knowledge of what's going on. That's why I'm doing this and urging women to speak out and talk to their doctors frankly."

"You know, women have a history of just being - we've been told all our lives not to say - in the fifties you couldn't say birth or even be pregnant hardly on television - and then gradually things have changed."

"I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive."


"I'm a woman who carries around all these layers of fear and vulnerability."

"Basically I was a rebel growing up. I got kicked out of six schools. But I don't think that it makes you less of an intellect. You know, if you ever crave knowledge, there's always a library."

"I was put under contract. A major studio. I got nominated for an Academy Award. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean, at the age of 18!"
Age,

"I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working."

"I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all."

"My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money."


"I love John Waters. You see, I want to be the next Divine."

"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."

"In my fantasies, I always wanted to play the ingenue, but in reality, in my bones, I am so used to playing the grandmother that I don't feel safe or even sure that I can do it."

"No man bosses me around, and no man ever will."

"There are two kinds of cloning right now. One is therapeutic cloning which is for coming up with cures for life threatening, really, really awful diseases. Then there is reproductive cloning, which is to make a human being out of your DNA and a donor egg."

"I think it's more important to be fit so that you can be healthy and enjoy activities than it is to have a good body."
Body,

"We had such a wonderful set of circumstances in Wilmington. Yes, the four of us became famous literally overnight, but we were in a small town and we always knew when people were coming down. We always knew when to behave."

"As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation."

"It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written."

"I did try to get a few of those teen high-school movies, but they just didn't like me. I guess I wasn't a certain type."

"I went to national piano competitions and did that whole circuit. Then I played professionally to support myself when I moved out to LA."

"There are horses people use for competition, and if they don't perform well or go lame, then people ask the vet to put them down to get the insurance money. And my vet knows I love horses, so he gives them to me."
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