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Quotes by Actress


"We had a one bedroom, one bathroom, one closet apartment with four girls."

"I love vampire stories. That's why I did the movie. Women especially were taken with that movie-even more so when it came out on video."


"Nobody can be exactly me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it."

"Some actresses seem to thrive on chaos, and I've often wondered if they felt they had to be that way in order to perform well?"

"She's true to herself and she's determined. She has things going against her, but she forges ahead despite all of that. I think that's encouraging. She's got some problems, but she has hope and tries to plow through things. I think that's a good role model."

"If you compare my character to the others, they were sexy with designer clothes. I had the nerdy outfit."

"I was born in Poland I came to Sweden when I was eight and always wanted to act and suddenly ended up in a Bond movie which was for me at that time absolutely enormous."

"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!'"

"Why is it so weird that somebody didn't recognize me?... The fact is that whenever I meet somebody, I say, 'Nice to meet you. I'm Julia.'"
Fact,

"I have never directed. But I think I could. I have thought about it. I'm a bit long in the tooth to start."

"You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now."
Now,

"I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara."

"The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy."

"My mother's life had been destroyed by the Garland legend."

"Because of the tension and difficulty, I remember trying to do the silliest things when we weren't rolling cameras, anything to lift the spirits. But once on set, it was important to have full concentration."

"Confidence is something you're born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15."

"We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked... not just pitter-patter, but real talk. We shouldn't be so afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable."


"Even the busboys at the restaurants have a script to give you. Everybody is in the business."

"I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like that at all. I think I'm much more outgoing and exuberant than my image."

"I think actors are getting so much more power these days, but I'm not. I stay very much away from the decisions, the way in which things are orchestrated, what's been changed. I just try to stay completely in the role as the actor and as the character."
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