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Quotes by Actress

"Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else."

"I love doing comedy - I get a laugh out of it, it's not so serious."


"I waited with a beeper for a year and 10 months to get that gift."

"Well, we have theatrical parties. It's not me singing. People like to get up and jam on the piano."

"Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition."

"I ask myself: Would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm instead of shock treatments and medication?"
Home,

"We all keep dreaming, and luckily, dreams come true."

"When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin."

"My dream role would probably be a psycho killer, because the whole thing I love about movies is that you get to do things you could never do in real life, and that would be my way of vicariously experiencing being a psycho killer. Also, it's incredibly romantic."

"Around people I don't know, I'm totally at a loss."

"During Breaking The Waves, I was on my own in a hotel room. I think I would have been impossible to live with. When you go home, you have to pretend to be the person you are at home."
Home,


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

"I have a bag with a toothbrush and toothpaste and all the things I might need during the day. I call the bag my trailer. Sometimes you don't have a trailer, so that's my trailer."
Day,

"But, you know, it really depends on the character. Age doesn't really matter."

"Women are responsible for creating their own roles."

"You see people all the time who are on hit shows and then you never hear from them again."

"My senior year I was basically supporting myself, so it was like, Do you want to eat and pay the rent, or do you want to go to school? I wanted to eat and pay the rent."

"But when I think of superchicks, I think of the roles, not the variety."

"Then, as now, the Disney studio buzzed with activity. You had a strong impression of being at the center of something very exciting."

"Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool."


"I am all about health... and to me, size is not what defines your health."

"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."

"Since Star Wars, that film's success led to bigger budgets, more hardware, that the great movies like the ones I did, which were studio movies, are now independent movies. They range from half a million to several million, and a lot of those have very interesting roles."

"I'm not squeamish at all. As a child I dragged a dead squirrel home on my skateboard and cut it open and tried to look at its brain."

"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."
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