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Quotes by Actress

"I love TV. I know all the theme songs from the shows I watch. I'm not one of those who'd rather be a movie star. I prefer TV because of the rushed way of working-on a movie set, you sit around and wait and wait to do a scene because they're adjusting the lights."

"I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing."

"You only get one life so you might as well make it a happy one, and that's why I tend to just jump into things. I'm sort of a fearless idiot that way."
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"In New York I was always offered the hot, sexy roles. But in L.A. I was offered the plain, dowdy roles. It says a lot about the difference between the coasts."


"I concentrate on exercises from the waist down, since that is the laziest part of a woman's body."

"For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian."

"Heather knows why and when her marriage ended with Richie and she knows why my marriage ended with Charlie."

"Leadership is the act of serving others and has no gender preference."

"I was more excited than scared, at the opportunity to work in an English movie."

"Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit."


"I was looking for someone to formulate a skin care line I could use."

"There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed."

"I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown."

"Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around."

"Maybe she'd seen too many Japanese horror movies, and maybe it was just a tingle of warning from generations of superstitious ancestors, but suddenly she knew that what Alyssa wanted was not to be saved, but for Shane to join her. In death."

"The only way people are going to change their car buying habits, and the only way government will get behind alternatively fueled vehicles, is if gasoline prices continue to go up."

"Actually I did, because I saw the film like everyone else, ten years ago and I remembered some of it. I just wanted to see it, to kind of remember the tone a little bit."

"To work with a director that has emotional commitment and passion toward the characters, and the piece, and the experiences, it only enriches your work."

"The triangle of success for an Entrepreneur is not only composed of his Net Worth, but also his Self Worth, and Net Works."

"Even at al my mother's concerts, I had never seen people go crazy the way they did with the Beatles."


"I like friends who are honest and loyal. They also shouldn't be afraid to be a kid. I like having fun."

"Some people enjoy celebrity. I admire those who do, because if you're going to go through it, you might as well enjoy it."


"I've noticed a growth in Spike and definitely in myself. I feel like the seeds that he planted in me five years ago have ripened up to a place where I could even tackle this role in the way that I did."

"In France, you're with the crew, and you have lunch with them. It's more like a family."

"I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in."

"It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career."

"I was 23, and that was my first professional job. Anybody who has curly hair knows you don't want it to be brushed out because it becomes a never-ending tangle."

"We have a real role in how our own collective lives, our nation, and our world and society turn out. Seizing those opportunities is important, and disasters are sometimes one of those opportunities."
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