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Quotes by Actress

"Sometimes I feel limited by people's perceptions of what I can and cannot do, or what I do or don't look like."

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

"Every woman in her late 20s goes through a period where she just doesn't believe love is out there anymore, but it is. And I think the minute you stop looking for it is when it comes for you."

"I like the sound of that, crashing Monica's party," he glanced at Michael, then quickly away. "What about you? That break some kind of vampire rules or something?""Blow me Shane.""Boys," Eve said primly. "Language. Minor at the table.""Well," Shane said, "I wasn't actually planning to do it."Claire rolled her eyes. "Not like it's the first time I've heard it. Or said it.""You shouldnt say it," Michael said, all seriousness. "No, I mean it. Girls should say 'eat me' not 'blow me'. Wouldn't recommend 'bite me' though. Not around here."

"You're over there in the corner either thinking about the dead dog or whatever, you're bringing up your personal life and you need the space, and then somebody throws you a joke. Especially if it's an emotional scene, you don't want the joke."

"We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it."

"I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough."

"Amelie said, "I won't be your servant in Morganville. Nor should you be mine. Equals. She offered her hand to him, and he looked down at it, clearly taken aback. But he took it. "Now defend what is ours, my partner. He grinned, grinned! and whirled to meet Myrnin in midleap as Myrnin attacked."

"In her experience, groups of friends like that just didn't open up to include underage, undersized geeks like her. They hadn't sounded mean, they just sounded - self-confident. Something she wasn't."


"I did a film about the Zodiac Killer. It turned out well."

"There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasn't heard it."

"The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become."

"I did commercials since I was 16, and that's kind of acting, depending on what you're selling."

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

"People forget we come from an embryo and we're part sperm and part ovary. We have both sides in us."


"The reason we shot it was that the script was geared to Las Vegas and it was something commercial that we wanted to have in the can in case Butterfly was a success and we needed a follow-up."

"It's funny, I get really nervous when I audition for voiceovers."

"The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence."

"But I've never felt that being an actress is being in a comfortable place. It's seen from the outside that we're being driven in big cars and having these gorgeous suites and all of that. But come on, it's not about that."

"It's easy to play a bad girl: You just do everything you've been told not to do, and you don't have to deal with the consequences, because it's only acting."

"I don't think in my family anyone looked after anyone. It didn't matter how old they were."

"What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being."

"You can't manage time. You can only manage your life. You can't strategically plan time, you can only plan your life."

"When I see someone who is starved, they don't look alert. They don't have boundless energy. If you're too skinny, it looks like you're near death."

"One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people."

"Being a working mom is not easy. You have to be willing to screw up at every level."
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