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don't do T&A very well because I haven't got much of either.
David.
The best thing about marriage is David.
Not
to sound like a whore, but I've been with...I've worked with...some very
attractive men. Nick Cage...Al Pachino...Ben Stiller...and Woody Allen.
Acting
doesn't feel good. It's not comfortable to feel all this stuff, it's
not.
And
I thought, you know, I have to say that maybe the whacked out mother is
my new favorite role, but I don't want to just do it and become Nurse
Ratchett.
And
then I did Pilates, partly because I have found that that's maybe the
most genius, therapeutic exercise, whatever, but also I thought perfect
for that Beverly Hills/Bel Air white lady.
At
one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes.
But
I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that
we grew up in. It's not 1973.
But
I've never looked at myself as being particularly funny.
Every
time I do a press junket, I get sick... what do you think that is? It's
like, how odd, my sicknesses are so predictable.
First
of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter,
and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship
between the two people.
I
don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean
this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt
like my heart broke.
I
don't think, there's no possible way for me, anyway, to play a character
that I haven't found some sort of sublime compassion for and I related
to Deborah on a way that almost, initially, almost in a way maybe
someone in the audience might.
I
dress up for awards, but only if somebody else is going to pay for the
clothes. And shop for them, too!
I
feel better. I feel hornier. I feel more womanly and more accomplished
and prouder after having my daughter.
I
have a fast swing and I can outdrive a lot of the men I play with. Of
course, I only play with people from retirement communities. I can hit
it 200 yards. I've seen 230.
I
have always loathed working out.
I
just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways,
because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was
making one point.
I
live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then
I began sprinting it.
I
started in 1997 while I was on the television series, The Naked Truth.
It seemed as if everybody in TV was holding important meetings on the
seventh green: producers, writers, mostly guys. I thought it would be a
really good idea to learn the game; we could all play golf and discuss
the show.
I
started taking burlesque a couple of years ago because, actually
probably before Spanglish even was a thought because I very much
recognised that I live in a place that is a Hispanic community, 48% I
think at this point and I felt like I was missing it.
I
use Callaways. I have a driver with a firm flex. Honestly, I think you
might as well get the biggest thing at the bottom of the stick and go
for the ocean.
I
was desperate to go back to New York and when 9/11 happened, I feared
moving to the bulls-eye and that was very hard because I have a lot of
family there and I really had to question what I didn't like about this
community.
I
was one of the most brilliant liars as a child.
I
was out at Sheep's Meadow and that's the coolest thing, to return to New
York, the city that has people trampling over it and all this change all
the time, and you can take a glance at something like Sheep's Meadow and
be like... I can remember being on a rock at age 13 with a Frisbee and a
joint.
I'm not a huge fan of my work.
I'm
not quite ready for a no makeup movie.
I've
been in a gym probably nine days of my life.
I've
looked at my roster and I'm ready to hold it up against Nicole Kidman. I
mean, I got everybody she's got except for Tom and a few others.
If
I swim in the ocean, I have a shark thought. Not a bad one, but just a
little one.
It
was just this interesting, my first, the first time you hear your child
in any way criticise you. It's the worst review of your life and it's
really relieving to find out that they don't know what they're saying.
It's
kind of fun to be sexy.
Jim
Brooks is a very powerful director and it was a lot of intense work.
LA
is a Hispanic culture.
People
don't know this, but early in your career, you don't just glide on to
The Tonight Show.
Really
it was the first time in my life that I recognised that acting is, I'm
just going to say it, I am an artist, I have to do this, I have to do
this.
Shopping
turns me off.
Sometimes,
I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and
gentrified or something.
The
inner conflict is what makes the spin so much fun, what makes it more
colorful. I actually can't imagine playing someone who wasn't neurotic.
The
one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is
listen.
Well
what I will tell you is for this movie, I got into probably the best
shape of my life.
Well,
I don't find glamour and clothing relevant.
Well,
I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we
got on set, at least for me... dreading this idea that I was just going
to suck and I really had strong feelings about that. I just didn't want
to be that weak link.
Yes,
I guess I am bi-coastal.
Yes,
I think motherhood has almost everything to do with it, but when I was
pregnant with my daughter, I thought I'll never work again.
I
love tennis. I love very aggressive tennis, and I think I'm quite good.
Golf, well, of course you can drink beer when you play that, but I take
it pretty seriously, and I'm quite good at that. And I'm a good swimmer,
and I used to compete in windsurfing. |
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