Actress Quotes

Feed the dogs. I hate to hear them barking like that.

After being so bad I could hear the angels singing.

Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.

Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit.

I do not regret one moment of my life.

The other girls were so comfortable with their bodies and it eventually rubbed off on me.

The actual cheerleaders in our film are all Broadway dancers.

I compare it to being in a car accident. There's so much adrenaline rushing through you that you remember being in the accident but you don't remember any of the details.

You have to trust your body to take care of you.

If I'm not living from my heart, I get sick.

I have a great life and I'm super active.

I don't look at myself as suffering.

You can't be a victim and heal.

One of the annoying things when you're in a movie is that gets talked about is everyone projects meaning onto everyone's intentions.

I was fortunate enough to have my kids early, so being a mom always ended up being a better gig than these other parts that came along. So I always justified not really working a lot because I had a family.

I totally love being on camera.

If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.

If I didn't have children I'd be a much better actress. I wouldn't be so distracted. I could pour 100 percent of my energies into it, to promote the investigation which acting is.

I've been thinking a lot about next year, which will be the first time in 25 years that I don't have a child at home.

I worked on my voice for Sweet Dreams, but only to match my speaking voice to Patsy's actual singing voice. That was my way into that character.

I never think of the future. I never imagine what comes next.

I never felt like I belonged in Minnesota when I was growing up there. That's why I was out the door as soon as I turned 18.

I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth.

I have made decisions based from purely an actor's point of view.

I had never done Shakespeare before, but I don't think you can be an actor and not do it. There were moments when I thought, I'm just not going to be able to pull this off.

I could be making a lot more money now if I had chosen a different kind of movie, but none of that matters to me... I've done the parts I wanted to do.

Because Shakespeare's language is so expansive, we're under this misconception that it's difficult. But I discovered that it's easy because it's so brilliantly written. The words are perfect, and the language is intelligent and very emotional.

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

Allow the diversity to exist. There is nothing wrong with it. Hell, we put up with the religious right-we can put up with transgendered human beings.

All through life I've harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment.