Quotes
“I don't see myself as famous. I'm still the girl who when people are looking at me, I'm thinking, 'What are they looking at?' I think about how I'm gonna be in 27 million or so houses each week, and that's a gift."
"I admire a lot of actors for their choices, but I sort of just want my own. I don't want to be like anybody."
“I'm so interested in seeing what my upcoming movies are going to be like. I love doing all of them. I've played a bunch of different roles--Latin, Italian, all-American, Southern--and been doing a bunch of different accents so far."
About Gary Sinise: “That's what inspires me — working with people like that. He's amazing."
About acting in her movie On-Line: "I was looking onto a screen, I had to be intimate with a face on the screen. It was pretty bizarre!"
"I do all kind of accents and I haven't had a coach yet."
"I admire Cate Blanchett, because she does so many different roles. Now people are starting to think outside the box with me. I've played Latino parts, but I'm Italian."
About her make-up artists: "People always go over the top with my lips."
About her childhood (as an only child and the loss of her father): "I stooped. I'd sit outside the building with my cousins, listen to the radio, talk shit on the phone. I stooped, you know?"
About her character on CSI: NY: "They're going to get personal with my character, which they've never done before with a character. I might even get a boyfriend on the show. I could use one. I'm single right now."
"Directors look at me and think, Brooklyn, rough and tough. But I can also hang out with Helen Mirren."
About the criticism on the CSI spin-offs: "I've heard all the bullshit. You know what I feel? I feel like, dude, relax. It's showbizz. Do you go home to your healthy family every night? Do you have clothes on your back? How dare you complain? But to say the franchise is diluted when they are still number one, I say, worry about your own show."
Vanessa Ferlito, Claudia on "24": Characters come and go on "24" and people are killed off all the time, but I still miss Claudia and wanted to learn more about her relationship with Jack. Even though she was often stuck with lines straight out of a telenovela, Ferlito made quite an impression with the little screen time she had. Said by Amy Amatangelo from TVgal.
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