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Quotes by Actress


"I have married thriteen couples. I'm about to do a marriage next month."

"People were actually approaching me on the street and thinking that I was an athlete. They couldn't quite place it, but a runner, or swimmer or something."

"I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting."

"To change, that is the most difficult thing to accomplish."

"It was an interesting way to come across in my first big role. To work with Robert DeNiro was very exciting."

"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."

"Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible."

"Because of the power of television, I was visible to everybody all over the world. But there are many things in the theater that are more fulfilling and that I look forward to doing more. But really, I love it all: theater, film, television."

"Obviously you don't want to be anonymous, but you don't want everyone to know your life."

"Being an actress is a very physical thing. If I didn't look the way I looked, I would never have started in films."

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

"It's great being blonde - with such low expectations it's easy to impress."

"And I don't believe that women can successfully have it all. I really don't."

"You're being cast for your acting ability. It's not based on the way your body functions. If you're playing a lead in a movie, it's for that character and they'll tailor it to you. In a dance company, you have to fit in a definite mold."

"I thought my book was done, then we went to Hawaii and the whole last chapter happened."

"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."

"I got a role in this movie called Freeway playing this really angry, aggressive, violent young woman who believed wholeheartedly in the truth. I had such satisfaction afterward, and I thought, That's what I want to do."

"When you grow up on film, people sometimes have difficulties accepting the fact that you are growing up. They always imagine you younger."

"I used to go to school in Manhattan with a bunch of the City Kids."

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

"I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am."
Love,

"I did that film just so I could kiss Robert Redford."

"And that might have led to other shows but you know what LA is like. I was in my early 30s and it wasn't going to get easier. You know, that's when you start to wonder if you might have to get lots of plastic surgery."

"I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society."
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