I have no affectation when I speak.

I knew an actor's career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can't be your whole identity; otherwise, you're doomed.

One fantasy is that I just do a Don Roos movie every year if that's possible. If he'd have me.

I've been careful to keep my life separate because it's important to me to have privacy and for my life not to be a marketing device for a movie or a TV show. I'm worth more than that.

Shirley MacLaine said, You're so funny, then gave me a hug. Everything went white. I couldn't hear, I couldn't see. I thought I was going to pass out.

We wanted to do a woman on a reality show because that's what's happening right now-it's part of our culture.

I'd played dumbasses a lot. On Mad About You, I played a very dumb waitress and they saw me.

I do like reality shows, and I watch some of them because they're high drama. It's also just fun to watch people have honest reactions.

I actually made an effort to reject acting, to shove it out of my body, because I didn't want my kids to have an actress as a mother-to have, like, a silly person.

I have no affectation when I speak.

Blonde is dumb comedy, red hair is smart, sexy comedy.

I'm pretty middle-of-the-road. There are some issues I'm more conservative on.

I'll accept being Phoebe to people for a while longer, given how much fun it was. That's totally fair.

Watching a person lose their dignity used to be uncomfortable, and now it's an expected part of the program that we're becoming comfortable with.

On network TV, I'm still Phoebe to people, and it would be hard to convince them otherwise in the bright lights of a sitcom.

I'm the youngest in my family, and everyone is very funny, and I was always trying to keep up with them. I just loved making people laugh.

Christina Ricci is amazing, the most professional actor I think I've ever met. You can be chatting with her and when they call action, she's right there.

An actress, around 40, on television, that's where you get the most torture, I think.

My hair got lighter, and I gradually went blonde. I liked it. Had more fun. But my image of myself in my head is this dark-haired person.

You become a celebrity, not because of your work or what you do, but because you have no privacy.

We treat sex so casually and use it for everything but what it is-which is ultimately making another human being with thoughts and feelings and rights.

I found the right man, got married, and just had to keep not reinventing myself, just deciding that it doesn't matter what you are if you are a good person.

I've learned you can make a mistake and the whole world doesn't end. I had to learn to allow myself to make a mistake without becoming defensive and unforgiving.

I wanted to be the kind of woman who would attract a certain kind of man that I could respect. That was my thinking. It had to do with the kind of couple I would be a part of.

Since I had the baby I can't tolerate anything violent or sad, I saw the Matrix and I had my eyes closed through a lot of it, though I didn't need to. I would peek, and then think, oh OK, I can see that.

The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious.

I'm trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I'm not a smoker. But my character only smokes as an affectation.

I have no affectation when I speak.

Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.

I don't like affectation.

Half a loaf is better than no bread

People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.

Growing up in Niagara Falls, Ontario, I took classes as a young girl and became very serious about ballet, and also performed with a local company, although it wasn't a professional company.

Do one thing at a time and do that one thing as if your life depended upon it.

I have never worked on interrogation; I have never seen an interrogation, and I have only a passing knowledge of the literature on interrogation. With that qualification, my opinion is that the point of interrogation is to get at the truth, not to get at what the interrogator wants to hear.

By taking the time to stop and appreciate who you are and what you've achieved - and perhaps learned through a few mistakes, stumbles and losses - you actually can enhance everything about you. Self-acknowledgment and appreciation are what give you the insights and awareness to move forward toward higher goals and accomplishments.

We shot many films in Delhi that turned out to be successful at the box office. So the attachment is definitely on the positive side.

No writing effort is ever wasted. At the very least, it's practice, and a writer never knows when he or she might usefully cannibalize an earlier effort for something new.

When life throws trials and tribulations towards you, shield your destiny with courage, faith and perseverance.

When I was a boy, I was a worrier, and so was my son, Joe. I used to tell him that worrying meant he had an imagination and that one day he'd be pleased.

If I don't fight McGregor, I still have a good life.