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I am a smoker, I'm ashamed to say. I had given it up for many years, then picked it up again. It's a horrible habit. I struggle with myself all the time. And I love to smoke.

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If I'm going to get an ice cream cone two or three times a week, then it's a pleasure. No guilt.

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I have some close friends I keep in touch with. I knit. I watch a little too much TV. I ski, if the weather's right for that. If I can find a group of buddies, I go rock climbing.

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I'm a very lucky girl who gets to act for a living! So why sit around griping and grousing about what's not there.

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As an actor, you live a little bit of a cloistered life. It's a lonely life. You oddly, strangely find yourself all alone, quite often, with a lot of time to think.

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Being an actor on a movie set is like going to the playground at recess.

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There were not enough women like Kay on TV and now there are none.

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An actor has to be very, very careful, as one of the most wonderful props - and actors love props - is a cigarette. There's so much to do with it: you can bring it up to your face, play with the smoke. It's just the greatest - ever since I was 16 and in acting school in England, I've been playing around with cigarettes.

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That's probably the biggest secret of acting: If the actor believes it themselves, they can make you believe it.

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The climate informs the character.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actress

Born: September 14th, 1960

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