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" I wanted to write something from a child's viewpoint... Five of the characters I have played in movies have either been abused or became abusers, themselves, and I just kind of felt like there was a need. "

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" I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me. "

" I didn't plan to act, but I'm glad I'm doing it - and I just want to keep getting better. "

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" Horror movies can be very interesting because they can deal with intangible subjects that are full of emotion. "

" I'm not that fashion-conscious. A lot of times, when women are appearing to be so perfect, it's because they're a mess underneath. "

" I think it is important to say that though, of course, it is wonderful to have children, it is a disservice to others not to also say how hard it is to do it alone. "

" If you meet people who have been successful in Hollywood, or look a their photographs, you see a haunted look in their eyes, you sense a trapped feeling. "

" There we times when everybody in the house has the flu. You're cleaning up vomit and it's 2 in the morning, and you're wishing there was somebody else there to help you. "

" I know that in order to be considered successful, you're supposed to do two or three movies a year. I only work once every year-and-a-half, sometimes two years. I have children to raise. "

" I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think it must be every housewife's dream, to be an actress part-time. "

" I limited myself to introduce a change in my way of thinking and the way I see things. When I look at my child, I do it in a different way then when I'm contemplating a chair. They are different... the child is a living being, and the chair is an object. "

" Acting's not my whole life. My children definitely come first. "

" Look, I know he's been married three times before. I accept it, but I don't want it driving up the driveway. "