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Quotes by Actress

"The craziest thing I did to get a guy to notice me was going out with his best friend. It worked - he did notice me - but I don't recommend it."

"If I have to, I can do anything. I am strong, I am invincible, I am Woman."

"The best thing I have is the knife from Fatal Attraction. I hung it in my kitchen. It's my way of saying, Don't mess with me."

"Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl."

"Oliver paused for a few seconds, then leaned forward with his elbows braced on his knees, pale hands dangling. "When I was . . . transformed, I thought in the beginning that I could stay with those mortals I loved. It isn't smart. You should understand this by now. We stay apart for a reason."You stay apart so you don't feel guilty for doing what it is you do, I shot back. "I'm not like you. I'll never be like you. Best of all, I don't have to be."

"Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers."

"Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God."

"No one really wants to send their kids off to die for oil."


"I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase."


"I've made mistakes, and I know why I made them, but I made that choice. Nobody's ever made a choice for me."


"I would like to think that I'm more different from my character than I am."

"Chazz Palminteri is just the ultimate screen husband."

"We have a world that is searching for answers, that is searching for a way back to spirituality."

"I don't see myself ever retiring, unless it's for something that I like better, and so far I like directing a lot but I don't see the necessity to retire from anything unless there's a really great alternative."

"I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep."

"I'm really proud of Twilight. I think it's a good movie. It was hard to do, and I think it turned out pretty good. But I don't take much credit for it. So when you show up at these places, and there's literally like a thousand girls and they're all screaming your name, you're like, why? You don't feel like you deserve it."


"AIDS is a global problem and there should be a global solution found by the entire international community. It is really scary to see and imagine our world fall into pieces because we refuse to share and put in the common vestiges of our civilizations."

"Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is."

"I grew up in Kentucky, but I did not grow up like that. I had heat, and I didn't have to shoot my dinner or anything."

"My husband was actually very keen that I would become a Bond girl."

"Some people think my father was a spy, because of working for that government agency in Vietnam, but he can't find his car keys, much less keep a national secret."

"I've been involved with blood donation since the 1980s because there is a critical need."

"Every photo shoot, I'm always asking the makeup artist what they're using on me, and I'll go out and get it."

"Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?"
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