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“I like regular meals and restaurants that will adapt things to your taste. Not a place where they roll their eyes if you want the sauce on the side.”
“Barry Levinson saw me on a tape and put me in 'Rain Man' as the waitress who dropped the toothpicks. The scene was talked about a lot. Then, all of a sudden, I started to get more auditions.”
“I would hope to have some of the same audience that Oprah has earned. And I would love to earn that, as well.”
“When you're an actress, you are a part of the storytelling process. You have to do the same thing when you direct.”
“If I've learned one thing in life, it's: Stand for something or you'll fall for anything.”
“It's not that I don't take TV seriously. I take it very seriously. But I've got my priorities straight. Call it my extra gift. Without it, I would be devastated every day in Hollywood.”
“Over the years, if you look at the films of people like Billy Wilder, Preston Sturges, Frank Capra, their supporting characters, even if it's a doorman with two lines, always seem three-dimensional. To me, that's a sign of good storytelling.”
“I still have my bad days when I think I'm not getting everything I deserve. But those pass quickly once my Mother gets on the phone and says, 'listen, we used to eat rocks and walk 80 miles a day to school.”
“I have a great affinity for senior citizens.”
“I was so angry at God for taking my father from me that I marched up to my mother before the funeral and told her I was going to quit nursing school. I just wanted to stop living.”
“To have children on the set, you realize that if a 10-year-old can do it, who are you kidding? It humbles you.”
“Because I've been so blessed with a background in nursing and spent so much time with patients at a really intimate, vulnerable time in their lives, the one lesson I've learned is that you never turn down a challenge where you can keep your creative integrity and your heart and soul and your sense of self.”
“I only have one job, and that's being a storyteller.”
“I loved when my folks would watch 'The Dean Martin Show.'”
“When I first landed at Pixar, I felt like I found this creative oasis with John Lasseter... It's what you thought Hollywood was going to be.”
“I don't know if I realized that I was funny, but I realized how healing and important humor was in my childhood.”
“Hollywood is what you make it; you have to choose company with care because you become what they are.”
“I love writing.”
“My dad was a man of great wisdom in his short time here.”
“I won't wear fur - never, ever. I'm an animal lover. I wouldn't even wear faux fur. I prefer to go the cheap route and not shave my legs.”