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Quotes by Actress
"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."
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"I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be."
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"I'm a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn't like to play myself."
Play,
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"In 2003, I had the pleasure of acting in three films."
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"I can sing, but my voice is untrained. I'd like to do a musical someday."
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"I was traveling in Europe with Paul and suddenly realized my passport still said I was Mrs. Sampson."
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"Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children."
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"South Africa is the most beautiful country I have been to. Canada is also hugely underrated."
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"The wonderful thing about acting is you move along with your decade. The older you get, the more interesting the parts you get to play and you bring more of your personal experience to the part."
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"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."
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"If I had a normal job and had been moving up, I'd be management level now."
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"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."
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"I turned down a lot of things that were so-called commercial. You're coming out of one film, and then they want you to be in the same one."
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"Stephen Sondheim told me that Oscar Hammerstein believed everything that he wrote. So there's great truth in the songs, and that's what was so wonderful to find."
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"I wish we lived in a society that made it safe and provided the courage for everyone to come out."
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"We had a one bedroom, one bathroom, one closet apartment with four girls."
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"But celebrity really doesn't mean anything unless you use it for finding some way to give back and I've always felt that way."
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"A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did."
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"There's no doubt that becoming a mother was the greatest thing I'll ever do."
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"It's important to talk about loving yourself and looking at your tragedies and the stuff that makes you grow."
Talk,
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"I figure when you get married, it doesn't matter how much you earn or how much your husband earns, just as long as everything you do for the house is together, while still reserving some part of yourself to be yourself."
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"They didn't train me to be in the ring for five and a half hours punching air. So, it was hard, I had to get some body contact in there somewhere, it was mostly body shots and stuff. I had no clue, really."
Body,
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"So anyway, I've learned a lot about myself just in terms of acting but just work ethic and interesting things like full-page monologues or talking straight into camera, which I had never gotten to do before."
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"My own personal connection with God was not in a religious sense, so I wasn't really thinking in that way when I got the role and when I started doing it."
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"I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18."
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"So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone."
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"No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing."
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"Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting."
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"When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool could tell my hair is dyed."
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"I always like to get local music when I'm in another country."
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"Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don't choose this."
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"I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than, 'How do you do? Love you! Bye!'"
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"Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it."
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"But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God."
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"I know it's a lot harder for women who don't have enough help, but the truth is, no matter how much money you have, if you want to stay involved with your children and don't want to lose being a primary parent to them, you're still in the game."
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"But that we didn't have the level of experience in terms of working in the industry so you weren't sure and you needed to see it and this is an industry that the more you work the better you get and that the more opportunities you have the better you get."
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"I think that being perceptive and having interests is nothing but an asset."
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"I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations."
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