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“I used to be terribly shy, so I was either shy or over the top, and I always had a difficult time.”

Used Difficult Used To Be Shy Difficult Times Over The Top

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“I was discouraged at drama school, along with most of my peers.”

School Drama Peers Discouraged

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“I'd be more interested in doing a smaller, character driven thing, rather than another action picture.”

Character Action Driven

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“I'm very happy with the opportunities I've had.”

Opportunity Very Happy

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“We need to do a better job of keeping oceans healthy.”

Needs Jobs Healthy Ocean Better Jobs

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“I am more of a New Yorker than ever and just actually, sometimes I fantasize about living somewhere else, where it's maybe not quite so crowded or stressful, blah, blah, blah and after September 11th, I guess I could just not imagine living anywhere else.”

Sometimes Imagine September Somewhere Else Crowded New Yorkers Stressful Blah September 11th

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“I have always been uncomfortable with a series of movies. I hate that word 'franchise' - it always makes me think of French fries. What I felt each time was that we were going for broke, that this was going to be the last in the series. You can't count on anything.”

Thinking Lasts Hate Felt I Hate Series Broke Uncomfortable Fries French Fries

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“I just feel that getting out there physically and protecting New York, putting my arms around everyone and protecting them... to see this happen to our city and our community.”

Feels Happens Community Cities New York Arms Our Community

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“I made fun of myself before everybody else could, so I always got the comic crowns: Freshman Fink, Sophomore Fairy, Junior Birdman. I got all three of them!”

Made Three Fun Comic Fairy Crowns Juniors Freshman Sophomore

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“I never think about Wall Street - why should I - but to go down there so often while filming 'Working Girl,' to become acquainted with this whole different world, and to find out what goes on behind the scenes is so interesting. There's so much of the city that you don't really bother to investigate. Ahh... New York.”

Thinking World Should Different Whole Girl Interesting Cities Behinds Streets New York Wall Goes On Scene Bother Should I Different Worlds Behind The Scenes Working Girl

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“I still am in touch with several friends from high school. I don't go to reunions much. I'm afraid that if I go back to the school, they'll suddenly go, 'You know what? We've checked the records and you still have one more French class. Get back in here.'”

Ifs Knows Stills School Class Records High School Get Back Reunion

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“I think indie films are really important, because they show the studios and the audiences when they see them, great stories. Really interesting, small stories.”

Thinking Important Stories Shows Film Interesting Audience Studios Really Interesting Indie Films

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“I was at an all-girls' school, so there were a lot of us who were really awkward. I was this tall when I was 11, so I was really awkward and self-conscious. No one would really have wanted to be mean to me. I was too unimportant.”

Mean Self Wanted School Girl Conscious Tall Awkward Self Conscious Unimportant

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“I'm always the last person they go to with a sequel, because I'm the most skeptical. You know, I'm very proud of what we've done, and I don't want to screw up our series.”

Knows Want Persons Done Lasts Proud Series Screws Skeptical Sequels Screw Ups

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“I've been very fortunate to be able to jump around. I just did this really wonderful film called Map of the World. That was a real, amazing, dramatic story. Then I did a movie called Company Men, a little comedy about the Bay of Pigs.”

Men World Littles Real Stories Able Film Company Comedy Wonderful Fortunate Dramatic Maps Pigs Bay Of Pigs

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“My father was always very interested in space. I watch Star Trek and all those things, but I always had a different picture in my mind... maybe closer to Alien. I don't see it in space as much as I do see it in different planets, with each having its own strange characters.”

Mind Different Character Father Stars Space Watches Strange Planets Aliens

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“My husband is from Hawaii and his father who was also born in Hawaii was a teenager when Pearl Harbor happened, right before church and he ran up and got on the roof of his grandfather's house and watched the planes go over.”

Father House Born Church Happened Husband Teenager Planes Ran My Husband Grandfather Roof Pearls Hawaii Harbors

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“People who run environmental groups and things like that, who have to listen to all kinds of nonsense and keep their tempers, are very diplomatic and very inclusive.”

People Kind Running Groups Environmental All Kinds Nonsense Temper Diplomatic

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“What I love about the 'Alien' franchise is I would do all kinds of films - dramas, comedies, whatever - and every now and then I'd be in this science fiction blockbuster that would re-introduce the character and me to a lot of audiences around the world and allow me to go back and do the smaller films again, so it was really a good balance for me.”

World Kind Character Film Fiction Audience Comedy Balance Drama Science Fiction All Kinds Around The World Aliens Now And Then Introducing Blockbuster

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“Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer.”

Late Tardiness

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“One of the reasons I did this, because I wasn't really looking for another science fiction film, was that my daughter can see it. She's 9 and it's really a good film for all ages.”

Reason Age Film Mother Fiction Daughter Science Fiction My Daughter Good Films

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“Never burn bridges. Today's junior jerk, tomorrow's senior partner.”

Today Business Tomorrow Partners Bridges Senior Juniors Jerk Burning Bridges

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“When you're young, there's so much that you can't take in. It's pouring over you like a waterfall. When you're older, it's less intense, but you're able to reach out and drink it. I love being older.”

Able Young Love Is Inspirational Life Drink Intense Over You Reach Out Pouring Waterfalls

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“Carbon dioxide pollution is transforming the chemistry of the ocean, rapidly making the water more acidic. In decades, rising ocean acidity may challenge life on a scale that has not occurred for tens of millions of years. So we confront an urgent choice: to move beyond fossil fuels or to risk turning the ocean into a sea of weeds.”

“I don't want to leave New York and leave my family. I don't like the distance. I just did a movie in California and it's kind of excruciating to be away from them so I think there is that sense.”

Thinking Want Kind New York My Family Distance California

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“I think I have always tried to do the smaller films. I like to jump around and there is something really nice for acting in a smaller film... But I think now, Hollywood's movies certainly involve a younger generation for the most part and so... I love going back and forth.”

Thinking Film Acting Nice Generations Hollywood Movie Back And Forth Really Nice Younger Generation

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“Most of life is hell. It’s filed with failure and loss. People disappoint you. Dreams don’t work out. Hearts get broken. Innocent journalists die. And the best moments of life, when everything comes together, are few and fleeting. But you’ll never get to the next great moment if you don’t keep going. So that’s what I do. I keep going.”

“In the past, 'Avatar' would have won because Oscar voters loved to hand out awards to big productions, like 'Ben-Hur.' Today it's fashionable to give the Oscar to a small movie that nobody saw.”

Giving Hands Bigs Today Past Saws Productions Voters Awards Oscars Fashionable Ben Hur

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“I'd rather have a small part in a movie I love than a bigger part in one I don't care about.”

Care Bigger Don't Care I Don't Care Small Parts

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“Once I put that wig on, I didn't say an intelligent thing for four months. My voice went up. I walked differently. I'd ask incredibly stupid questions.”

Asks Voice Four Stupid Months Intelligent Blonde Wigs Stupid Questions

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“Some of the most intense affairs are between actors and characters. There's a fire in the human heart and we jump into it with the same obsession as we have with our lovers.”

Humans Heart Character Actors Fire Lovers Affair Intense Obsession Human Heart

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“With Alien, because we always use a different director, each one kind of stands on its own. So I guess it's possible for them to make another one, but we have no plans.”

Kind Different Use Plans Directors Aliens

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“As long as your robot isn't programmed by like Dr. Evil, I think you're going to be fine.”

Thinking Long Evil Fine Drs Robots

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“It's such a nice change to get to play a wretched, shallow, mergers-and-acquisitions woman. My true colors come out.”

Play Nice Color Shallow Wretched Acquisition Mergers True Colors Mergers And Acquisitions

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“If you come back from the dead, you don't have the same value system, I think.”

Ifs Thinking Values Value Systems

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“When I look around the world, I don't see too many damsels in distress. If they're a damsel in distress, they're manipulating some guy to help them.”

Ifs World Looks Helping Guy Around The World Distress Damsel In Distress

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“I changed my name when I was about twelve because I didn't like being called Sue or Susie. I felt I needed a longer name because I was so tall. So what happened? Now everyone calls me Sig or Siggy.”

Names Felt Happened Changed Needed Call Me Tall Twelve

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“People are amazed that I do comedy. I always did comedy.”

People Comedy Amazed

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“I often meet young directors who, you know, had a 'Ghostbusters' picture on their wall as they were growing up. And it's really nice. It just shows how inter-generational our industry is.”

Knows Shows Young Growing Up Nice Growing Wall Industry Directors Really Nice Who You Know

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“I think breathing is actually the key to a lot of opening up of other parts of yourself that you haven't used, for any job, but particularly in acting.”

Thinking Jobs Used Acting Havens Keys Opening Breathing Opening Up

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“I've always thought that a lot of the problems in the world would be solved if a spaceship did arrive, then anyone with one head and two arms and two legs would be your brother! It wouldn't matter where they were from or what they believed or anything. It might be good for us.”

Ifs World Two Matter Problem Might Would Be Brother Arms Legs Be Good Spaceships Your Brother

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“There's something to be said for going right into people's living rooms. I think actors have always loved that medium - you're right in there with people in their homes. A lot of very audacious work is being done on television.”

People Thinking Said Done Home Actors Rooms Television Mediums Living Room Being Done Audacious

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“Someday hopefully it won’t be necessary to allocate a special evening to celebrate where we are and how far we’ve come…someday women writers, producers and crew members will be so commonplace, and roles and salaries for actresses will outstrip those for men, and pigs will fly.”

Men Roles Special Members Actresses Producers Celebrate Evening Hopefully Someday Pigs Crew Salary Commonplace How Far We've Come

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“Please, God, please, don't let me be normal!”

Please Normal Let Me

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“It is one proof of a good education and of true refinement of feeling, to respect antiquity.”

Feelings Family Proof Antiquity Refinement Good Education

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“What makes these creatures so awful is the feeling that they can use us in ways too horrible to imagine-and yet, we DO imagine them, which makes it worse than seeing it.”

Way Use Feelings Vision Imagine Seeing Creatures Horrible Awful

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“As an actor, the second and last ones were interesting for me. Because those parts had the most change in playing someone who was both light and dark, sort of Jekyl and Hyde.”

Light Lasts Actors Change Dark Interesting Light And Dark Hyde Playing Someone

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“I'm no Ripley. I had doubts that I could play her as strongly as she had to be played, but I must say that it was fun exploring that side of myself. Women don't get to do that very often.”

Play Fun Women Sides Doubt Exploring

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“There's a lot of conning as part of our society, I think.”

Thinking Our Society Conning

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“I wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older child. And it was also the kind of part I've been looking for my whole career, actually, in film. You know, just to play a femme fatale who's very smart, and wicked.”

Knows Kind Children Play Whole Would Be Wanted Film Mother Interesting Careers Smart Wicked Very Smart Femme Femme Fatale

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About the Author

Born: October 8, 1949
Known for: Actress
Quotes: 101

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