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Quotes by Actress

"In terms of Cube I think he's very conscious of the technical aspect of the business whereas when you're just hired as an actor, you're not really secure in that part of your work and you're not really paying attention to where the camera."

"I don't see myself as competing with other actresses. I mean, I went through a time when I was in New York, and I was going to lots of auditions and trying to get parts, but even then, you're not really competing with the other actresses. There is a competition going on, but it's not like something you can win in that way."

"I think at some stage, I would love to have another child. I would love to settle into a relationship that was really important to me. I actually am not good at the balance at that."

"One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other."

"My own personal connection with God was not in a religious sense, so I wasn't really thinking in that way when I got the role and when I started doing it."

"When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool could tell my hair is dyed."

"I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me."

"If I'm walking very, very fast down Madison Avenue in the middle of the day, I'll say I'm stopped 10 times."


"This is a Disney animated feature; it's eternal, it's history. What's there to think about'"

"I was having such a hard time when I made Sylvia. I gave everything I had for that role. It's one or two or three things I'm most proud of in terms of my work. But it was very dark."

"I know it's a lot harder for women who don't have enough help, but the truth is, no matter how much money you have, if you want to stay involved with your children and don't want to lose being a primary parent to them, you're still in the game."

"I've never had to pretend to be having sex with somebody. I'm like the queen of the foreplay dissolve."

"I have three sons, and I think we're both fierce protectors of our children."

"My first speaking part was to read for John Forsythe for Bachelor Father. I was the lead, opposite him."

"In terms of my own film experience, I'm definitely used to morose and very heavy, heavy dramas."

"When I got a call from Los Angeles to do the Tonight Show, I considered it more of an inconvenience than an opportunity."


"Me, I'd prefer to have a good reputation rather than getting press for being scandalous, getting drunk in public, staying out late and so on."

"I can't think of anything I want and need that I don't already have but at the same time, I'm not sated."

"My father in the film - which we probably haven't seen in previous movies, and in British Asian movies you could probably count on one hand - he says exactly why, actually why he's frightened for his daughter. He came to this country, England, and had a bit of a crappy time."

"I'm a person that carries everything that happened to me in my past, with me into the future. I refuse to let it make me bitter. I still completely believe in love and I remain open to anything that will happen to me."

"As much as most of the actors were kind of curious to know what their character meant in relation to the script and to the plot, they really were quite happy to be part of the adventure of not knowing."


"Some people work hard in this business and become really popular, really big stars but they never receive an award from within the business. Somehow, when your colleagues and friends believe in you to the point of handing you an award it means so much more."

"As far as pacing the shoot is concerned, I know when I've got it. I don't think there's any reason to take ten takes unless you need them."


"One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays."
Act,

"In the next shot the cameras zoomed to the fiancee who noticed the lights in the Czarina's room go out and the camera then turned to the pond where two goldfish were making love."
Love,

"And you know, we did it as an independent film, and we weren't expecting it to be on television, and Lifetime ended up buying it. And the viewers responded intensely to that film."

"Yet there's a hunger in me still. I'm like only beginning. I feel like I still have so much to learn."

"When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied."

"When I was anorexic it just seemed like I literally wanted to disappear. And now I would like to reappear."
Now,

"Every time your picture is taken, you lose a part of your soul."
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