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Quotes by Actress

"But inside, I'm going, 'Oh my God, is my zipper up? Do I have a booger in my nose?' That's my inner monologue."
God,

"Every person is so different and I don't think there is an exact match for every person. If you meet someone and they have 20 of the 25 things you want in a person, then you're pretty lucky."

"A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists."

"Every one of us is different in some way, but for those of us who are more different, we have to put more effort into convincing the less different that we can do the same thing they can, just differently."

"Also everyone's hearts are in the right place when you do a small movie. You're not doing it for the money; you're not doing it for the possibility of an Oscar nomination. You are doing it because you love the material."

"My vintage Levi's are my favorite on the show, 'cause they really fit."

"I believe that behind both the person who weighs 400 pounds and the one who weighs 85 there is a lot of baggage, and it has nothing to do with their bodies."

"Sometimes when you're just thrown into something, you are more ready for it than when you have time to think it over and get nervous about it."
Time,

"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."

"I have a certain curiosity for life that drives me and propels me forward."

"Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy."

"I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special."

"After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films."

"You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out."

"I like to run, to go down the stairs, I'm one of those kind of people."

"I began thinking I would do musical theater because in high school that was really the only sort of curriculum they had as far as getting onstage and doing anything that anybody would see. So that's what I did."


"It is something actresses need to go through and I think they look forward to being naked in a movie. I don't know why, but it is something you need to exhaust from yourself."

"There was a sense of all the things that go on on the street, particularly in New York, that you are just completely unaware of, that that conversation could be happening at any time. I loved the instability of the camera. It's just an unstable world."

"The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true."

"The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain."


"In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?"

"Jim Carrey is a consummate actor and professional. He comes on set, knows his lines and knows his moves."

"You can't show me an ad on TV with hard bodies and say I have to buy that car. You have to tell me why that car is better and safer than another car."
Car,

"The thing I noticed about Jack was when we did a reading of the script, just to warm up."


"I have married thriteen couples. I'm about to do a marriage next month."
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