Actress Quotes

When you see something that is well-written, the actors can get behind it.

We love to be with our family and friends and I can tell you that lots of eating will be involved.

This profession has fed me creatively and allowed me to have a home life and a private life.

The CD is dedicated to our dog Nell, who passed away last year.

Sometimes I think it's better to be a diva.

No one is ever really dead unless we find the body.

I know my husband really loves me because he takes me to have ribs. He says I'm the only girl he ever took out who actually ate anything on her plate, as opposed to pushing it around.

I get paid to not laugh.

I don't have a directorial overview, which sometimes is very helpful.

I am a makeup junkie... Yves St. Laurent, Christian Dior, and anything else that looks good.

Don't know about a cabaret act right now, would actually prefer a role in a broadway musical.

And I've had vocal training on and off for years.

Always wanted to be an actress or work with animals and now I get to do both.

I'm Method trained. How is this character like me? What does she think of her mother? What does her mother think of her? It's like construction, and then, yes, you hope you're talented and that the universe aligns and captures the kind of laborer's work you've done and whatever else sprinkles down o

I'm a little more extreme than a homebody. Unless there's some event I really have to go to, I don't like to leave my house.

I'd never say I'll never have a facelift, but I'm way too scared of looking like a different person. I have no philosophical or political position on plastic surgery; I just don't want to look crazy. And I don't like not being able to tell how old someone is: It's creepy.

I would love to do a television show in New York City.

I wish I had a little more ambition. But then what would I do? Turn down more roles with more vehemence? Me no likey worky.

I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have or the level of that gift, that you were obliged to know how to build a table. It's a craft. It's like being a ballerina or a violinist.

I studied acting for 10 years before I went for an audition. I studied with Lee Strasberg and Actors Studio teachers, and went to the High School of Performing Arts.

I remember my first friend who got sick. It was 1981, and the disease was called the gay cancer. I don't think the word 'AIDS' came out until '84. I just remember it being terrifying as more people got sick. We didn't know how you could catch it, you heard all kinds of crazy things.

I like being married. I like taking care of people, having someone to make dinner for.

I just would never go audition, and yet I was in very visible places where people would come looking for actors. I say I'm lazy, though I'm sure if I were in therapy for a lot of years, it would turn out to be a lot more than laziness. After awhile, it was, like, too embarrassing for me not to go on

I have skinny genes. My mother weighs 90 pounds.

I have no problem being 53. Why would I want to be 35 again? I want to discover who I am in my 50s. And if I tried too hard to look younger, it would seem that I was uncomfortable with who I am, wouldn't it?

I have huge hands and feet. I'm 5'6" and wear a size 10 shoe.

I guess if you're lucky enough not to have to pay your rent, then you or I take much more seriously the kind of work that I do, what it takes for me to leave two teenagers of my own and six stepchildren and a husband and four grandchildren.

I guess I worry about weird existential things, like how do we spend our final act. This is a very emotional question. I can't answer it without crying. I think, You're 56 years old, what did you do? You raised two good kids. What am I going to do now that is as meaningful as that? I don't know the

I eat cheese and salami and a lot of fried chicken. I eat a big bag of oatmeal-raisin cookies every night and I don't gain weight. I still look OK as long as I'm dressed.

I am to a fault an introspective person. But I am not a reflective person - except for a big mistake, and then I really think about it.