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Quotes by Actress

"The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it."

"Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world."

"For some reason I am one of those people who act like they were born and raised during the Depression."

"I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way."

"And even then when you take it, you've got to take it with your whole heart."

"I think the original Matrix was really incredible. It was so original and it did so many innovative things with film. It was a much bigger film. Bound was just a smaller film. It was kind of like an old noir film."


"Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got."

"The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy."


"I had a dozen years to act before starting a family then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value."


"One of the cries from the people was, don't forget us. They have a long road ahead of them. Operation Blessing has found those little fishing towns. They will not be getting what other towns are getting from the government."

"I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot."
Time,

"I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you."


"The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive."

"I use to watch like maybe three or four movies, five days out of the week. I was a movie buff, but I really didn't know what it was like behind the scenes, or the whole political process of it."


"I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of."

"And I think I have a perspective about Hollywood that you don't see very often in the press."


"For example, when my mother died, the people who showed up just to put an apron on to cook, people who really do the right thing, so to speak, as my momma would always say to show that they care, a sense of community that we've lost so much in our country."

"I met Patricia Neal, John Houseman. But I loved my grandfather because he was this kind, talented man."
Man,

"We have to support our own films. If we don't, how can we expect others to support them?"

"I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I'm naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself."
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