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Quotes by Actress

"I remember hearing someone say that good acting is more about taking off a mask than putting one on, and in movie acting, certainly that's true. With the camera so close, you can see right down into your soul, hopefully. So being able to do that in a way is terrifying, and in another way, truly liberating. And I like that about it."


"I have to be careful not to be too proud in life, because there is always room for improvement."

"And if there's anything movies can do in a way that I just love, and I love as an audience is, "Show me something I don't know about. Show me something I haven't seen.""

"Back then, it was more or less we couldn't change a line in our script. We weren't allowed to change lines. Today, actors change everything and won't do parts. It's very different today. Back then, the producers were in charge. Today actors are more in charge."

"I just feel passionately about a few things and particularly about helping artists get off the ground."

"Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me."

"There are amazing schools and amazing educators that are doing a wonderful job. And then there are a lot of educators that are not prepared to deal with inclusive education. They haven't been trained. It's really quite lovely and easy when you understand how to do it."

"There was a storyline this year where Taylor lied to Brooke. It was supposed to be set up in a way that I was so outraged by her that I let it stay. I thought that was human, which was great."


"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."

"I filmed underwater for two days in the open ocean with dolphins."

"At this point the theater America is in such a precarious place."

"Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons."


"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."

"We're not going to dumb down for them. They have to move up. They're the network and we're the show."

"I'm having a great career, though I think I'm not as good as your little scenario makes me out to be."

"I know my husband really loves me because he takes me to have ribs. He says I'm the only girl he ever took out who actually ate anything on her plate, as opposed to pushing it around."

"We had to decide: Do we want to do Saturday Night or go to our Senior Prom? We opted for Saturday Night Live."

"In the happy scenes there were really fun times. Sean would say really funny stuff because he likes to improv. I would want to laugh, but you are not allowed to do that during the take."

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

"Regrettably, I do sometimes have to fight a tendency to be bitchy."

"I do not believe that I fell in love with a woman because I was abused."

"This season is a lot funnier, not as dark, mainly because, well, she has accepted the fact that she is dead. She knows she cannot go back to where she was when she was alive."
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