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MGM never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles, but cast me in programme pictures.
I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.
I could have gone to the gym for three hours a day and bought into all that, but I just wasn't interested.
I miss that London thing of walking outside and bumping into mates and going, 'Do you want to get a pint?'
I see my job as an actor to be as good a channel as I can be. Acting is a gift, and I have respect for it.
We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival.
Forty percent of the people who are being treated for mental illness are not addressing the physical body.
I started in musicals. My first professional experience was Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz' in Palm Springs.
Once a week we go to juvenile hall and talk to boys there. Just go and spend a day in the juvenile courts.
I had no kind of work ethic and I always felt that music - especially rock 'n' roll - was a more for boys.
I always admired Wonder Woman and the Incredible Hulk - but I don't know if I'd be a very convincing hulk.
Woman: You certainly know the way to a man's heart. Mae West: Funny, too, 'cause I don't know how to cook.
I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.
I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.
When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they should bring me on.
The only movie that ever really scared me was The Exorcist,but even then, I was laughing part of the time.
I'm more of like a recreational surfer, not a consist surfer. Some people get out every week or every day.
I like working in any medium. Who's making it? How much do I like the story? Does it contribute something?
I keep every script from every film that I ever made because it's like a workbook of that time in my life.
But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work.
Sometimes you can't see your way out. The "dark night of the soul" - it's a reality for many, many people.
When you sing, you're releasing so much more than you are when you're speaking. You risk more as a singer.
I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.
This life is what you make it. Not matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth.
I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.
The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.
I look back at old photographs and videotapes, and I go, Who was I trying to be? Who was I doing this for?
I want roles without anger and feistiness. I want to show weakness and sadness, some love, some happiness.
Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.
Marriage is like a vacuum cleaner. You stick it to your ear and it sucks out all your energy and ambition.
I know I can't change the past. Not my mistakes or the mistakes of others. But I can begin by changing me.
I certainly was never the pretty girl at school, but I can go to a lot of different places with this face.
I have a child and I don't want to be at work all the time when he's small. I want to spend time with him.
And who cares, five years down the road, what most movies made or didn't make? If it's good, it stands up.
There are assumptions made about the way you look. I'm always surprised when people don't think I'm smart.
No one ever gets tired of loving. But everyone gets tired of waiting, assuming, hearing lies, and hurting.
My weight fluctuates constantly—I don't really take good care of myself. I just sort of exist and survive.
I'm not a happy-ending person. I want to know what happens once Cinderella rides off with Prince Charming.
When someone really believes in what they're saying, but it's crazy, it's like my favorite thing on earth.
But my middle daughter, Kate, is very involved in martial arts, and I was just at one of her competitions.
The thing that you have to fight the most when you lose is you feel like the biggest failure in the world.
You can't sing when you're upset. You can't sing when you're crying. You get all congested and disgusting.
If everybody that had two cars had a Prius instead of an SUV, we wouldn't be in the Middle East right now.
Popularity is very inconsistent. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. It usually just comes in waves.
Woody [Harrelson] and I actually worked together years ago on North Country. So I felt completely at ease.
Soaps are a great springboard for any actor but if you want to be taken seriously, you have to be careful.
The struggles I'm facing, The chances I'm taking, Sometimes might knock me down, But no, I'm not breaking.
My mom is always telling me it takes a long time to get to the top, but a short time to get to the bottom.
My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing.
My relationship with my mom is really the single most profound relationship that I've ever had in my life.