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Quotes by Actress
"People go 'You look a lot like Minnie Driver.' Once I said, 'Thanks, Minnie is a great actress.' But, it blew up in my face. This person said, 'Nah, didn't like the last movie she did.'"
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"I guess because I pay so much attention to the physical part of the character, I don't look upon it as like Charlize Theron up there. I don't think of them as like Charlize Theron films."
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"I have more zits now than I did as a teenager. Stress zits."
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"I have never, ever, had an acting partnership that was a safe, as full, and as exciting as the one I had with Tony. I didn't want to go through life without having a chance to taste it again."
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"When I look in the mirror I see the girl I was when I was growing up, with braces, crooked teeth, a baby face and a skinny body."
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"That's just the way this business works. You're a reliable commodity."
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"Working with a great director is like getting a master class in acting."
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"Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration."
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"I made a movie where I played a girl that just got out of prison and we shot it very very quickly but very intensely-that took me a long time to get over."
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"When you're in front of the camera, for a small budget or a big budget movie, there's no difference."
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"Detroit, the heart of the country... I grew up on 10 Mile, 2 miles better than 8 Mile."
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"I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes."
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"I think women are taught to ask permission about everything. We don't realize that we are entitled and we do have a say in our lives."
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"Playing in front of an audience was just such a turn-on for me, and you have 200 people in the audience and it's like doing live theater. And filming something that goes to millions of people several weeks later, it's an interesting dynamic."
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"I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it."
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"Every woman feels she is too old and has missed the boat."
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"On general principle, I boycott shows that don't employ actors."
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"My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega, was a general manager for Neil Simon shows on Broadway."
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"I got back into the position of taking care of my husband, which is what I'd learned that I couldn't really do: you can love and make things okay to a certain extent, but you can't fix. I didn't quite learn that until the kayaking incident. It became so clear then."
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"It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams."
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"I knew nothing about martial arts. And I don't really like it! But in the film, I not only had to pretend that I knew all about it, I had to be the best at it. That was very difficult."
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