“I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.”
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“Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away.”
“A clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance.”
“You have no idea, sir, how difficult it is to be the victim of benevolence.”
“I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.”
“If a person was accused of being a racist when he was young - he said some racially insensitive thing or someone had him on tape calling someone the n-word or whatever - and then you fast forward and he feels, Oh, back then I didn't say this or that. He's not thinking about the person that he hurt when he said what he said, or however it came out, or the effects that it could have had. He's not thinking about it. He's thinking about his own self and how he feels.”
“It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.”
“Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.”
“Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.”
“The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.”
“I think if I could do it over again - as much as I loved meeting the people I did on the films after 'Matilda' - I wish that I had stopped after 'Matilda.' I wish that I had just focused on my own life for a while.”
“I felt like I had to be conscious of myself as a girl for the first time. I had to be more feminine. I had to look a certain way. And it's something that you want to suffer in silence, but I would go onto movie sets and they would bring out bras that were basically binders, because there were continuity problems between months.”
“I am selfish, private and easily bored. Will this be a problem?”
“There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.”
“I could not separate myself off stage from myself on stage, as so many actors can.”
“I liked the fact that I was forced to get inside of my emotions and to really try to figure out a lot of what I was going through.”
“I can be hurt, you know. I can get as exhausted as anybody else. I can feel so bad I want to cry, too.”
“Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.”
“The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them.”
“I am not a perfect being. . . . I have more faults than I know what to do with. I have a naughty temper. I am stubborn, impatient of hindrances and of stupidity. I have not in the truest sense a Christian spirit. I am naturally a fighter. I am lazy. I put off till tomorrow what I might better do today. I do not feel that I have been compensated for the two senses I lack. I have worked hard for all the senses I have got, and always I beg for more.”