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Quotes by Actress

"The John Ford pictures I made are highly regarded, but at the time they didn't seem like that."
Time,

"I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze yourself constantly. But it's also good in that you are forced to think about things that you don't ordinarily think about. I think it's strange."
Want,

"Marriage, at this point in my life? I'm not interested in it. Yet. Maybe later when I'm 35 or 40."

"I love men who know when to put their foot down and when not to."

"Whenever I don't' have to wear makeup, it's a good day."

"Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee."


"I felt privileged to be a facet of such a jewel in the crown of American cinema."

"I was like any new bride, who said, 'I'm going to cook for my man.' In fact, once I started a small kitchen fire in a pan. Smoke was pouring from the pan, and I got really scared. Right next to our stove is a small fire extinguisher. You know, easy access."

"Around people I don't know, I'm totally at a loss."

"I am very proud to be British. I'm very conscious of carrying my country with me wherever I go. I feel I need to represent it well."


"In Houston everyone owns guns and uses 'em - sometimes just for the hell of it."

"But, you know, it really depends on the character. Age doesn't really matter."

"Regardless, we are a two career household, and it's Dario's season, and I'm really excited about going racing."


"I was concerned about that, because I've always been so specific about doing independent films, but I've never done anything that's so genuinely and ridiculously fun. And that's a great thing, for me to discover that that's possible."
Fun,

"Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves."

"I focused on where she was from of course, her voice and her history, her relationship with God - her religion. This was probably the strongest relationship she has had, really. She never seemed to maintain close relationships with husbands."

"There were many good actresses in my time like Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds, but I was the only dancer."
Time,

"But when I think of superchicks, I think of the roles, not the variety."

"So we all got basically what we wanted, and as far as the women are concerned, he figured that 30 good women could handle a crew of 300 anyway. So that's how we ended up with our crew."

"I'm not squeamish at all. As a child I dragged a dead squirrel home on my skateboard and cut it open and tried to look at its brain."


"Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal."

"It's a miracle to be an actor and to know that you have a job to go to a year from now is a rare thing, so I think peace of mind and financial stability come with that. Hopefully I'm a little wiser and have a little more perspective in my life than I did then."

"Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children."

"If I had a normal job and had been moving up, I'd be management level now."

"Abstinence, being faithful and correct and consistent condom use are the only ways to successfully reach everyone when discussing HIV prevention. I believe that the abstinence message alone does not solve the AIDS epidemic."

"I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing."

"I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me."

"If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion."

"I didn't finish college, which is really weird because they awarded me the Alumni of Distinction recently."

"My Panasonic typewriter can make graphs. It types in four different colors."
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