Actress Quotes

It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that's not the world we live in.

I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.

Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.

You've got to sing like you don't need the money.

If I'm too strong for some people, that's their problem.

I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better.

You walk off the plane in Rio, and your blood temperature goes up. The feel of the wind on your face, the water on your skin, the taste of the food, the music, the sexuality; Brazilians are very comfortable in their sexuality.

When my career first began, I didn't have children - so there's a whole lot of difference in the way I choose roles now. Not just films for my children, but how long I'm going to be away, and is Dad going to be home while I'm gone. That sort-of factor plays a part.

In the U.S., with very few exceptions, actresses older than 35 are simply discarded.

I will argue my points; I will have my opinions. But at the end of the day, it's the director's choice.

I used to travel in tennis shoes; I am just not allowed to anymore. I'm an old hippie from San Francisco.

I thought that my movie career was finished. I was quite happy to dedicate myself 100% to the theater. Surprisingly enough, I've never gotten so many work offers. It's so exciting, this feeling of a new beginning after 40.

I have a passion to do theater.

I get along great with directors, but I think some producers would tell you I'm a pain. They may say I'm tough to work with, but I have a great passion for what I do. I believe in fighting for it.

And you know, the baby boomers are getting older, and those off the rack clothes are just not fitting right any longer, and so, tailor-made suits are coming back into fashion.

Actors are not a great breed of people, I don't think. I count myself as something of an exception. I grew up in the theater, and my values were about the work, and not being a star or anything like that. I'm not spoiled in that way, and if I fight for something, it's about the work, not about how b

One of my problems is that I'm very honest and direct. You pay a price for that.

I'm in so many Charles Bronson films because no other actress will work with him.

We've been back since July, but I spent some time with the family in the south of France over the summer. We rented a house with another couple and took it easy.

We try to be driven by what's a good story, what's truthful, and the drama of what happens next.

The thing with Kerry is that all of this is a natural progression, her troubles. It's a cycle.

The story line was done in a way that's organic and was doled out very slowly in little bites. We think that's authentic for this character, that her feelings are very deeply buried or she never felt them.

Our intention is to really explore this transition and, beyond that, explore the particular things that someone comes up against when they're gay or lesbian.

It was sort of that in-between area when people don't talk about their personal lives. That's the kind of life I think Kerry would be living now if it weren't for the Lopez character sort of outing her.

I'm straight and I have a lot of gay friends.

I think they do a great job on Queer as Folk.

I have a friend who is around my age, a little younger, and she's gay and came out to her own community when she was younger but not to her family and to the community at large.

But I'm not objective when I'm acting.

And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.

You are all you will ever have for certain.