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Quotes by Actress

"I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick."

"I love marriage. I failed at marriage, but I'd rather go into anything with gusto and fail than go into it half-assed."

"I use something that is a real staple in the directing world. It's called a dance floor. You lay it down so that it's so smooth you can roll around, and you can put furniture on top of it. It's seamless and you don't see it."

"I'd been trying for all of the eight years we'd been married to have a child, and finally I did."

"It was a place as blank as a sheet of paper. It was the place I had always been looking for... Flat expanses would call to me... These are the places where the desert is most itself: stark, open, free, an invitation to wander, a laboratory of perception, scale, light, a place where loneliness has a luxurious flavor..."

"There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing."

"The first time I was in his office was when they called me in to tell me they had changed my name. I had a feeling that if I'd gone along with the name they'd chosen, I'd never be seen again. I'd be swallowed up by that name, because it was a false name: Kit Marlowe."

"There is definitely something sexy about a girl with an attitude and a pair of leather pants."

"It's not always thankless. Let's face it - it's not always thankless. I've gotten a lot of really great recognition and I've worked with amazing people."

"Everything changes as a mother. Yes, work has changed. The projects that I choose are even more important to me now. The world he's growing up in and the kind of stimulus that is out there; they are so precious and I'd do anything to protect him."

"I want to feel good, I want to feel proud, I want to feel that I give someone enough and that I get enough."
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"We started with the basics of kicking and punching, then we moved on once we got proficient in that, we moved on to working with the weapons, and from then on working with the wires."

"I wish I were supernaturally strong so I could put right everything that is wrong."

"It is sensible to have a safeguard against unemployment."

"Some of the best roles are for women in these independent, smaller movies."

"Reality is hard. It is no walk in the park, this thing called Life."


"I've had the same friends for ten, fifteen years."

"I remember seeing some little wrinkles in my early 30s and thinking they were interesting. But you know the horror of it is that the screen image has to be perfect."

"I have no intention of discussing my private life with anyone."

"Unless everyone grasps the importance of having only two children per couple, wars won't be over just oil anymore, they will be over water and food."
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