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Quotes by Actress

"When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history to fall back on."

"Some people can sometimes really invade your space and kind of never leave you alone."

"The high point of my entire junior high school career was going backstage to meet George Harrison. I was simply awestruck."

"I think you've got to have your feet planted firmly on the ground, especially in this business, and you must not believe things that are said or written about you, because everything gets out of proportion one way or the other."

"I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up."

"If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed."

"It's that I'm 39. I feel hot and sexy, actually... I feel it inside myself. I don't feel dried up and tired and no longer interested in sex is what I'm trying to say."

"One of the greatest joys of tennis is having a nice volley and not really keeping score, not really looking at the lines, but just catching up with each other."

"I did a film called Dracula and it was very nice because I had lots of trips to New York on Concorde."
Film,

"My Brilliant Career was beautifully directed, but I had a bit of trouble with myself in it. It was a silly script, based on a book this 16-year-old girl wrote."


"I'm a terrible patient, and I find that doctors can be very condescending."


"In the original computer game of Doom, you not only have to kill things. You have to pulverise them."

"I don't know... I don't want people to know everything about me."

"You know, I'd love to do a Maxim shoot. But I'm not going to do it, because that's just stupid to do."


"You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real."

"It's quite hard for me being an actress because I actually don't like attention."

"It was hysterical going to work. I would just walk in and think, 'What in hell? Am I here? What's going on? I'm going to wake up in a minute. I'm in a dream.'"

"It's not that I don't believe in miracles, but I never quite trust that they're real."


"I also think it was important for me and Freddie to be able to have a lot of time to share our lives at the beginning of our marriage rather than my coming home at 9 or 10 at night from the set. Things have really worked out for the best for both of us."

"You go through at least the first two years of Star Trek and you find some amazing stuff. Everything that was going on Gene put into the series. He just put strange costumes on the actors and painted them funny colours and left the same situation in."

"It was more that his career was going down again and he was tired of the songs. He was tired of the routine. And there was a point where he just kind of gave up. He couldn't face being 40. And he resorted to stimulants. There's a dark side there, a really dark side."


"The art of acting is to be other than what you are."

"If I'm going to do something a little bit more adult, I'll do it if it's going to be on at a different time slot or if it's going to be something that kids won't be able to get their hands on."


"Sometimes I think they should set up an asylum for people like that... a whole slew of paparazzi defending their positions."

"Absolutely. I - you know, he was so that much a part of my life that, you know, Elvis, you know, once - once you bonded with him, I mean, there was no - there was no going back. He was just a great guy."
Life,
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