Actress Quotes

I love the fast lane.

East Hampton happens to have been the first place in the world where I was a star, a real star with a star pasted above my name on the dressing-room door.

After all the work I've done, why should I suddenly be treated as a bona fide actress?

There was no way I could live in Hollywood and not become an actress.

I'm a workaholic. Before long I'm traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting.

Most people don't need to work as hard as I do.

My co-workers expect me to be late and temperamental.

I learned early that you only have so much energy to give. You have to spend it correctly.

The only thing you have to know are your words.

If a man is truly in love, the most beautiful woman in the world couldn't take him away. Maybe for a few days, but not forever.

Love is a game that two can play and both win.

When I was in school, I was very involved with a lot of things. I was very very active. I couldn't say that I wasn't popular. I was a cheerleader when I was in junior high. I didn't make it in high school so I started a dance line.

Usually when you're working is when people want you to work. They don't want you as much when you're not working. That's the frustrating nature of our business.

One thing I think kids need to do is more chores, and take care of their own rooms. Responsibilities are really important to start them with. If they have animals, they have to feed them and care for them. That's the only way I think I could do it.

My theory is, if you can do comedy and you can be in a scene with someone like Brad Garrett and hold your own, you've really got a future in this business.

My mother keeps me abreast of all the hometown things.

It takes a lot of energy to work, in general, especially if you're the lead in something.

I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.

I haven't actually spoken to my parents since the hurricane.

I love playing moms. It's a lot easier than being a mom, I hear.

I have a friend that has five kids and she went through a trial separation with her husband, and she didn't have time to be upset. Every now and then, she'd call me on the cell phone and just cry.

When I do watch shows, or projects that I've been a part of, I'm pretty good at watching them objectively. And that's mostly because I want to see how it came out overall, what the overall story was and how it came together visually, what my mates were doing.

When I did 'Battlestar Galactica' it was the first time I really understood science fiction. That was a very political drama, but set in spaceships so people didn't really take it seriously. But some really fascinating things were explored in that.

There's a feeling of immortality you have in youth. You just don't see the dangers around you, or, if you do, maybe you're even excited by them.

That's what I think is smart about 'Durham County.' It's not derivative of anything American. It's more in the vein of the BBC miniseries I grew up with.

So often in TV, when you have an antagonist who's supposed to be the 'big baddie,' it's so easy for them to become cliched.

People ask me what the appeal of 'True Blood' is and I think there are so many answers to that question, but I think that when there is so much excitement for what you do there is no way that that doesn't become palpable and comes shooting out like bullets.

Pears are my favorite fruit! Reminds me of childhood.

One of my last few vices is coffee, but with a spot of almond or soymilk, it's never tasted better!

It's a wonderful thing working with young actors. I know a lot of people don't like working with children. I actually adore it, because you watch their imagination open up and you watch them start to learn this job that I've been doing for so long. They come with such a lack of cynicism.