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Quotes
Elektra is larger than life and wears her sexuality on her sleeve. So I
was wearing clothes that were 100 per cent sexy. And just giving in to
that.
I knew we were going to marry someday, but I was absolutely surprised
when he actually proposed. And surprised he had bought a ring. I ran
around the yard screaming.
I got my own apartment with a roommate and we decorated one piece
at a time. For a month we sat on the floor and ate off a box because it
was all we had. My roommate and I, her name is Corinna, are still so
close because we shared that: It was incredibly simple, but it was ours
and we loved it.
I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I
was broke, but I was happy.
When I first got to New York I lived on a futon on this woman’s
kitchen floor for nine months. I paid her $400 a month while I was
understudying a play on Broadway that I got $150 a week for. I got the
flu and bronchitis because I didn’t have a warm coat in the middle of
winter. I remember counting out pennies for the subway and walking from
85th street, where I lived, to 42nd where the theatre was. It wasn’t
like I was on the Street or destitute, but she was nuts, and I moved out
finally in the middle of the night because I got scared - I mean she
followed me to auditions, she thought people were stalking her and
nobody was.
When you are in your thirties, you grow into your own sense of
self. I'm not afraid of growing up and am really looking forward to
being 40. By then I'll have so much more figured out. The older women
get, the more beautiful they get, the more serene they get, the more
themselves they become. That can only be a good thing.
I've often said to J.J. Abrams, the creator of the show, 'I don't know
why you cast me in this role. I don't know why you thought I could do
it. I know I was good in Dude, Where's My Car?, but seriously... I can't
thank you enough!
My big sister Melissa, is such a stud and my little sister Suzanna, has
always had a perfect body and big blue eyes. We were a force.
When i started out i used to waitress at Isabella's," she
says. "Steve Martin used to come in for lunch. When I was finally
introduced to him last year he looked at me as though he knew me. 'Did
you audition with me or something?" he asked. I said, "No, but
i used to wait on you at table five every day!
I'd never have surgery but it would be so much easier to get a
boob job than constantly have to find ways to pad out my cleavage!
I never get recognized! I'll be with my husband (actor Scott
Foley from "Felicity" (1998) and people will think I'm his
manager, and they'll start giving me their business cards. - on (not)
being recognized.
For Alias I have a trainer who comes to my house at 4am. And
after just half an hour I feel like i'm going to collapse!
My husband was as flabbergasted as I was. I think he almost flew
out of his skin, he was so surprised and excited. He is just the most
supportive and proud friend. My family is just beyond out-of-control
excited. - on winning a Golden Globe.
Of course I never thought the divorce statistics would apply to
me. I was beyond heartbroken when they did. But, you know, you do get up
and get on with it. You have to. I feel like I'm out of the woods now.
It's not like we had kids, it could have been a lot harder.
Happiness is your own responsibility.
I don't have a fairytale vision any more," she says.
"But i still believe in finding someone, committing yourself to
figuring it out with them and raising kids together. It takes a while to
know.
Two of my mom's most oft-repeated mom-isms are: 'Happiness is
your own responsibility' and 'Weeping may last through the night, but
joy comes in the morning.' Both are true.
One kid used to called me Liver Lips," she says.
"Whenever your features are big as a kid, you grow into them later,
but at the time you think you're ghoulish. On top of that, i thought i
was fat. I was doing ballet and everybody else was so small. But really,
i was tiny. Now when i see pictures of myself from then, i think, 'Oh my
God, i had a full-on six-pack and how dare i think i was anything but
great?
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