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" My feeling about the movies is that most of them are terrible. If you don't have a decent script and a decent director, forget it. "

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" You learn to rise above a lot of bad things that happen in your life. And you have to keep going. "

" I'm a big fan of Daniel Day-Lewis. He's a marvelous actor. He stands alone, I think. "

" If I could have lived as an actress in any period, it would have been the 1920s - I would have loved to have been part of that speakeasy era. "

" A famous love story is hard to maintain when you both live in the spotlight. "

" Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident. "

" I like to work with really good professional people - anyone with real talent. "

" I love being Jewish; I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it. "

" You are welcoming to everyone when you're a liberal. You do not have a small mind. "

" The big rule is that you must never get mixed up with a married man - never even look sideways at another woman's fella. Boy, I really was terrific at obeying that rule, wasn't I? "

" Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you. "

" It was Howard Hawks who changed my life. "

" I loved reading Grimm's fairy tales and Hans Christian Andersen, and I loved to dream about other worlds and other lives. Maybe that has something to do with having an incomplete family, being an only child. All I know is I loved to pretend, and all that was in tandem with my wanting to be an actress. "

" Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, 'Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?' 'Well, yes, I think I was,' I reply. "

" I don't look in the mirror; don't like what I see; never have. I am not my idea of a beauty. Never was. This is not false modesty. I've just never been enamoured of my face, which of course is magnified umpteen times on screen. "

" Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present. "

" I am essentially a loner. "

" I never believed marriage was a lasting institution. I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever. "

" Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. "

" You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now. "

" I adored 'Breaking The Waves,' so when Lars von Trier wanted me in 'Dogville,' I was beside myself with joy. He works in a way that nobody I've ever worked with works. "

" You can't always be a leading lady. "

" I was this kid, and I was scared to death of all these pros around me... My head would shake, and my hands would shake, and I discovered if I kept my head down and looked up, my head would not shake, so I started to do that when I could, when it was appropriate in a scene. "

" I'm not tough, and I never have been. I suppose over the years I've built up kind of a veneer to protect myself because I have functioned on my own for a long, long time, and I have never had a lot of flunkies preceding me to clear the way. "

" I don't consider myself a great actress. I'm just trying to stay alive, actually. I think I'm good, and I've learned a lot, certainly, mostly in the theater. I've been sloughed off movies for years. But what can you do? That's life. "

" I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word! "

" Acting is a life of rejection. "

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