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Quotes by Actress

"Kids aren't going to understand single life in New York City."

"I had a burning ambition. Otherwise, I wouldn't have accomplished it."

"No candy bars unless I've had a low blood sugar where I'm shaky."


"My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression."

"I think Baywatch is such a hit here because of the weather."

"It's really important for boys to see that girls take up half of the planet - which we do."

"Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory."

"We have to be vulnerable as actors, but we have to protect ourselves."


"It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive."

"I love 'Some Enchanted Evening', and 'If I Loved You'. And as I sing them more and more, I find new favorites."

"I lied to everybody. I lie very well, being an actress, naturally."

"Hollywood has an obligation to watch what they put out there. Kids do imitate what they see - good or bad."

"Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death."

"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."

"A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself."

"I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries."

"Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them."

"Sometimes when you do a part, the wall between you and the characters can be very porous. You can sort of move in and out of your character's persona and being. And that just couldn't happen on this one because of working with him."

"If there's no inner peace, people can't give it to you. The husband can't give it to you. Your children can't give it to you. You have to give it to you."

"I never think of myself as any kind of sex symbol, but I get letters from all over, all sorts. It's really cool. I get a lot from inmates, which is kind of scary. But the best was the guy who wanted to send me a plane ticket to fly me to his prom."

"I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal."


"It was really important in my relationship with James Caan that I understood the relationship between the family and the father."

"People were actually approaching me on the street and thinking that I was an athlete. They couldn't quite place it, but a runner, or swimmer or something."

"I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting."

"I don't know how to do the other, so I won't even consider television until the audience's taste changes."

"A friend of mine described it this way: When they were born it was like a meteor landed in our house and blew everything apart. We had to just put all the pieces back."

"There's no doubt that becoming a mother was the greatest thing I'll ever do."

"Someone at Disney heard one of the records and called me in to do the sounds of Lucifer the Cat in Cinderella."

"I had a flight trainer who is one of the biggest and most famous helicopter pilots the world."
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