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Quotes by Actress

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

"I'm odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet."

"Honestly, people have said everything under the sun. I just want to do my work, raise my kids, and hopefully find somebody who I can share my life with again."

"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."

"Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me."


"My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons."

"I loved working with Valerie. That was the most wonderful revelation to find that when we are on a set and we're playing our roles, we're like separated twins. We can almost finish each other's dialogue."

"I thought Erica Jong's Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that I've ever read in my life."

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


"I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do."

"I was never a dangerous woman. I'm not the prissy blonde woman that could take your husband away."


"My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised."


"I think it's easy for people to assume that fame is equal to glory, but it can be a very isolating experience."

"I never got into this business thinking I'd be like a movie star."

"When the Exxon Valdez spilled in 1989, I was angry. I even wrote on the back of my car, Boycott Exxon!"
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"I was this person with this weird last name from New York that no one had ever heard of. But my screen test I guess, according to him, was the best. So I got the part, which was incredible."
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"I've got friends who are pyrotechnics who do big fire shows, so I'm really fascinated by that."

"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."

"I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances."

"On the whole, I think women wear too much and are to fussy. You can't see the person for all the clutter."

"It never occurred to me that I couldn't change things that needed changing or couldn't have what I wanted if I worked hard enough and was good enough."

"If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?"

"And doing a film in that period, and having to really celebrate what they wore back then, how they sat and how they spoke. You know, what the etiquette was back then for a lady. All of those things are like putting on a wig and transforming yourself, which I love."


"I'm a conservative. I was an avid supporter of Ronald Reagan; I thought he was fabulous."

"I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter."

"I did a lot of fast talking as a youth; I was pretty good at it. I was never talked into it - I was always the one doing the talking."

"I find the mantle of, she works hard for the money, or, she's overcome so many obstacles a bit overused."

"And I kissed a lot of frogs as well, but no, I kissed a lot of frogs and now I've found my prince."

"I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled."
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