Actress Quotes

I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, Shouldn't get face work? My mother and Anne Bancroft said, We're not going to fall into that.

I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.

I really don't consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I've never really been marketed by the big studios to do mass market box office films.

I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people.

I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.

I knew you had to go in and audition and maybe they'd hire you, and that's where you start. I had a good understanding about press: that it's the actor's responsibility to publicize his or her films.

I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not only for ourselves but from a partner.

I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.

There's something so accessible about heroes who have faults.

We were on the island of Hawaii. I think I was there three months. It was fantastic. It is not much different than films. It depends on the television show but much of television today is as good or better than most films.

There's an incredible fascination for that and that goes with violence and everything else in pictures.

Probably some of the projects I chose to do after that had more to do with what people thought of me. The industry was very open and probably hoping that I could do anything.

It's been very nice. I haven't gotten out too much because we've been working a lot but other wise the people have been very nice and I've had a good time.

I played a definite part in it. I guess the things that I played in films and the way the nudity and the love scenes were handled were really different.

I love Spain. I go back two or three times a year usually to visit friends and ride horses.

Glorifying violence is terrible. Simulating sex is nothing - it's something so impersonal really.

Also there is a twist to the story as I'm being haunted and driven crazy, attacked and so on. All I seem to do is run and scream and cry in every scene.

'10' was amazing! I had no career before '10' and then all of a sudden I was able to do pretty much whatever I was able to do in the business.

I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I've always loved horses so it was part of my dream that I was able to fulfill to have horses.

I found my love when I was 17-years-old and my love is one hundred percent honest. We've never had any ugly, rocky things to overcome.

It's really difficult for me. Language, I am sorry that I haven't. I think I just always expected that you learn a word in place of a word and when I discovered how difficult the grammar was and learning that was very discouraging for me.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.

I wasn't a rebel.

I was a very unique child.

I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.

I was a Girl Scout!

I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.

I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.

I think you can tell when someone is being dishonest as an actor.

I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.