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Quotes
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opens your eyes in this town, it's amazing. It's taught me who I don't
want to be.
Being
horrible in a big film is a quicker nosedive than doing an obscure film
and making no money.
I
believe in love, but I don't sit around waiting for it. I buy houses.
I
remember just lying in the grass, staring at the clouds, wondering where
they drifted off to after they floated over Texas. I never would have
imagined that one day I would follow one of those clouds and find myself
in Hollywood.
Once
you've reached the point where you can pay rent, you can go to the vet
and you can go to the grocery store, after that point it's all the same.
I don't have the appetite for a decadent lifestyle.
I
learned how little in the way of material goods we really need, and how
beautiful a simple life can be. In Romania people work with their hands
every day, and you'll see an 80- year-old woman still chopping wood
because she's been looking after herself all her life, and she still has
the strength to do it.
It
saddens me every day when people come up and say, 'OK, how did you lose
that weight?' I can't speak about it because I am not an authority on
weight loss. I am just not. I am not challenged with a medical situation
that's weight-related and that I need to pay attention to.
It
was very exciting for me to fill out Bridget's dresses. It felt really
great. I didn't feel any different. I didn't feel uncomfortable, and I
didn't feel as if it changed my life. I got such positive responses from
the fellows in my life while I looked like Bridget Jones.
I
had a lot of friends who said I should think about keeping some of the
weight on. I have to say I agreed, because there were certain things
about it I liked very much. But, of course, I'm a girl, and I thought,
'Ugh, no.' Like anybody, I want to look my best.
I
see the Oscar in my bedroom, and it's like I bought it in a souvenir
shop on Hollywood Boulevard.
My
life has far exceeded what I might ever have dreamed of because I would
never have been so bold as to dream that these things might happen to
me.
I
wanted to be self-sufficient, I wanted to take care of myself, and I
wanted to learn. I wanted to travel, I wanted to see the world and have
my eyes opened. I wanted to be consistently challenged and I knew I
needed to be creative in some way.
When
I got my job in a bar and I could pay for my tuition and go on auditions
and sometimes get jobs that I loved and pay my rent, I knew that I would
be all right. That's when my dreams came true, long before the telephone
rang and someone said, Come and meet Tom
Cruise.
It's
great to be a brunet. I can sneak around downtown Los Angeles and nobody
knows it's me. I went to Starbucks to get my coffee in the morning, and
they said, 'What's your name?' I said, 'Oh, Renee.' Nobody even looked
at me twice. My friends even walk past me. It's fantastic because I feel
so free again. That's why I think the old adage that blonds have more
fun is a presumption!
I
think we can all relate to Bridget standing in a hallway wanting to
know, 'Do you love me or not?' She just blurts it out and maybe that
makes her seem like she's not strong. I think she's very brave because
she's speaking her mind. Ultimately, she knows that even if she doesn't
get the right answer from this man, she will still get up and move
forward. That's strength to me.
What
I admire most about Bridget is her ever-present optimism in the face of
adversity. I love how she has romantic troubles, but she gets back up
and even laughs at herself. Me? I do my best. I keep on trying, anyway.
Emotionally
gaining the weight didn't affect me. In fact, I was afraid that I didn't
gain enough weight. We were working six days a week, so my fear was that
I'd lose a few pounds from the work, and the fluctuations in my weight
would show on the screen. But they weren't noticeable.
I
am very proud to be Norwegian.
People
did suggest to me, 'Oh, it might not be necessary to gain that much
weight or as much as you did last time.' I thought the weight was
essential in repeating the journey. If you're not going to be who she
is, then what is the point?
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