Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim.
Audrey Hepburn's face was made for the camera.
Bambi has a profound effect on children because it's about losing your mother.
I adore clothes, I adore drinking. I just don't have the time or the inclination to totally indulge in it.
I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family. You're trying to pack a lot in.
I cried a lot at Patch Adams and hated myself because I thought it was manipulative and utterly sentimental.
I didn't want to move my family to California. I had such ambivalence about it. I was one of those actors who was a chauvinist.
I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn.
I don't go to sleep at night worrying about whether or not I'll be as good or even measure up. Comparisons really are odious.
I got into Julliard on almost a full scholarship.
I love consonants as an actress. You can sink your lips and tongue and teeth into all these delightful consonants.
I never say I have a preference for one medium as opposed to another.
I often close my eyes because I can't tolerate violence.
I think people think Jim Carrey's just wild and crazy. He really is very disciplined. It is true of Eddie Murphy and Robin Williams as well.
I thought it was going to be one thing at the beginning, which I was more than happy to play, but then as we got into design and I saw my costume, and her longing for the Grinch, it just got better.
I wanted to show people I can do things other than the sophisticated bitch.
I was sent to ballet school when I was very young. I really loved dancing. I started performing in high school by the end of my sophomore year.
I wish I didn't have to live up to anything.
I would be loath to offend anyone.
I'd much rather be famous for being a fabulous bitch than being, She does that nice wife really well.
I'm a nice, happily married wife and mom and I live in Connecticut.
I'm doing a mom on a half-hour comedy. She's a nice lady from Philadelphia. For me, the challenge is playing a normal lady.
I'm not sure I ever had a bigger high than doing Sweeney Todd at the Kennedy Center, singing that score onstage with a full orchestra. I'm not sure anything gets better than that.
I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture.
If I never do another movie, I will have had the privilege of working on one of the big Hollywood movies with top people, creating a world that can only be described as totally cinematic.
In the early '90s, New York was a pretty depressing place.
It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes precisely.
It was considered that you were stepping down by doing television. I almost turned Cybill down because I so wanted to remain a theater actress.
It's a great time to be an actress at this point in my life.
It's the thing that you do well that brings you to prominence. The very thing that brings you to success can also be like a curse, because then people think that's all you can do.
Jim Carrey is a consummate actor and professional. He comes on set, knows his lines and knows his moves.
Lawrence of Arabia is the ultimate movie, deeply cinematic.
Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me.
Most of my training and career has been theater and it's great to be back doing it.
My children were growing up and I had to pay bills. Television and movies did that.
My paternal grandparents were actors in the Polish theater in Buffalo. They did plays and operettas when I was a little girl. My grandmother had her own radio show with her friend and they wrote comedic sketches.
People used to say, I can't wait to hear what's going to come out of your mouth next.
Really, can anyone drink several martinis at lunch?
Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity.
The man I married is an adventurer; when we met he was off to the jungle on a Harley Davidson.
The older I get the more I try not to waste my time on negative energy.
The sibilant s is the most difficult sound to correct.
Usually, it gets worse and worse as they downsize your character; mine just kept getting better.
What is it about women drinking that's so funny that wouldn't be true if men were drinking? I'm mystified by it.
Who can spend the whole day getting dressed in a Christian Lacroix suit just to sit in some restaurant?
Why would I lose sleep when I really need valuable sleep just to recuperate and come back and do my job?
You are always damned by things that you do well as an actor.
You can only do the work to the very best of your ability.
You have to hold your bloody own or you're lost.
You know Martha Stewart: everything has to match. In my living room, my hostess gown matched the Christmas ornaments on the tree.
You make a choice whether or not to turn that TV on. We didn't even have a television in the house.
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