Actress Quotes

Party of Five won a Golden Globe, it was a well-written television series.

My issue in the past with nudity was that these scenes had been written solely for box office draw.

It's almost better most times to not talk in a scene. I think you can actually express a lot more without words.

If you're in a company, you're dancing from 9 a.m. till 7 in the evening, and then you go home and get in a hot tub and get some Epsom salts and try to get your body goin' again. There's no social life, no anything.

I've never been opposed to nudity. I've been opposed to nudity for box-office draw.

I'm just one of those people that if I sit down to watch a horror film, I put my hands over my face and I cry a lot and I don't see half of the film because I'm too upset.

I love New York. I love the multicultural vibe here. Los Angeles doesn't inspire me in any way. Everyone is in the same industry, yet you feel very isolated.

I find the most interesting and most daring scripts tend to be for independent films.

I always thought I should base how good I am on how good I feel I am.

Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started.

Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned-out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually train your body to be a different structure than you were born with.

No matter what your choices are, you truly have no control about what people think of you.

I don't know how people can live without a therapist.

Dance is certainly a sport, and they are phenomenal athletes, and they're also artists.

The cool thing about my profession is that I can do it until the day I die.

Once you find love, you find it. There isn't an age on love.

Once I got my driver's license everybody treated me like I was an adult.

I figure this is my time - to relax, be with my family and have a normal life.

Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough to go to Heaven? How would you know?

Your work isn't just to learn and say the lines. Your work is to figure out what the chatter in your brain is, that's going on under the lines. It doesn't matter whether you're speaking or not speaking because your mind is working the way your character's mind would work.

You don't take a job in acting at all expecting 25 years in and a pension.

Well, I do lie for a living. I'm an actor.

The rite of passage of learning to build a fire that will burn all night with one match is not an insignificant one in my husband's family, and I grew up camping and backpacking. I love to camp.

One thing that annoys me is when you see women in these terrible and incredible situations with perfectly glossed lips. You're not going to look good in the apocalypse.

My husband's family is military. Preparation is just, from that family perspective, it's just a part of what makes sense to do. You buy insurance for your house; you have a go bag.

Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick - it seems like a decent skill to have.

I'm learning to hunt with rifles, because if you think about it, hunting gets you the healthiest meat - organic, free-range food. It's a totally yuppie spin on what I thought was kind of a redneck occupation.

I'm growing as an artist and expanding my range,and not pigeonholing myself by doing the same thing, over and over.

I watched Ricki Lake's documentary, 'The Business of Being Born,' and that led me to call a midwife, and not an ob-gyn, when I found out I had conceived. My delivery was not easy - they call it 'labor,' not 'a vacation!' - but I was incredibly grateful that I did it that way.

I think I'm probably much better at the boots and pocket knife thing than I am at the high heels and martini thing.