My mother is a realist, and she’s had biological and adoptive children, and she said it’s no different: No matter what, they’re putting a stranger into your arms. You don’t know them yet.
KATHERINE HEIGLEven if you plan a marriage and a family, you are never quite prepared for the reality versus how you imagined it. In a lot of ways it’s better, and in a lot of ways it’s worse. That’s life, right?
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When I see some of the people who are glorified in magazines these days – who are so thin it’s bordering on sickness – I just feel exhausted.
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If I start going back to church, I’d have to stop the smoking and drinking, and I wouldn’t be able to curse any more.
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I’m not out burning bras, but I’m very opinionated about women owning their power.
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I decided I was sick of trying to figure out what everybody else wanted, and I should just decide what I want, and be honest, and not spend all my time guessing.
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I like going on location for films.
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Guys are kind of retarded until they’re about 30.
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A lot of children don’t find forever homes because they’re on that special-needs list, even if it’s because of something as simple as her mother smoked cigarettes for a month, not knowing she was pregnant.
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Isn’t it so weird the day you wake up and you’re just going with the flow? And you just suddenly are a mom.
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My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.
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I can’t cultivate a relationship with my child if it’s between takes. I tried that on a movie and realized, ‘This is not going to work.’ It will work some of the year, but not 12 months a year.
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I think a lot of women innately know how to play their hand. I’m not a big one for the rules.
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I always assume I look better than I actually do. I’ll feel pretty good about myself when I leave the house, then I’ll see a picture and think, ‘Crap, I had no idea that’s what I was looking like.’
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I haven’t been to rehab, I don’t do anything eccentric – I’m really boring.
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I’m the most uncoordinated clumsy, klutzy person. I always had a bruise, I always tripped and fell.
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I’m terrible with patience.
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