Daphne Zuniga Quotes

#1. Fernanda Andrade and Daphne Zuniga are two beautiful, inspiring women I met and became very close with while living in L.A. Daphne's father is from Central America, and Fernanda is originally from Brazil.

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#2. I usually get recognized for Spaceballs.

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#3. I spent most of my adult life looking for romantic love.

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#4. People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power.

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#5. I'm a late bloomer. Being a late bloomer is a problem when you decide at 40 you want to have children.

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#6. Whatever the emotion is, I have learned over the years to give it space, which is also why I love acting.

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#7. Hey! I don't have to put up with this! I'm rich!

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#8. Where I'm just sort of shocked into the revelation, once again, of this planet is a living organism; this living thing, being alive, is a living thing. It's every breath you take. That was the last one. It'll never come back. You are riding on this wave of awareness, second to second to second.

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#9. In one sense, I felt not seen and heard enough as a child. At the very same time, I'm watching her and modeling her. At seventeen, I left to go to Hollywood to pursue my dream, as if there was no other option. I only learned that, the gift of it, recently. And I often forget it.

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#10. The planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature.

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#11. You don't have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that's where the beauty comes from.

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#12. Tim Robbins had real confidence in college. He literally stole actors from the theater department at UCLA to be in his plays. The department heads got so mad at him.

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#13. She's a real adventurer, my mother.

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#14. Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper.

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#15. I stopped dating for six months a year ago. Dating requires a lot of energy and focus.

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#16. I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination.

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#17. To play a bag woman is brave for any woman.

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#18. The one that I really call love is when I feel like everything's okay. That state of, it's all right here.

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#19. How many times have I been in my therapist's office, saying, "I think I'm smarter than this! I've been down this road! I've learned this lesson!" And she's like, "Yeah, and you're learning it a little bit deeper."

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#20. Start to become active in what u love DOING. People admire action, courage&real happiness far more than they admire a size 2

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#21. I cannot tell you how happy and in love I am with everything.

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#22. It's not like it's perfect at all. But it's there. The love, it's there. The respect. The day to day has to bring you ease and comfort and safety. The waking up in the morning and going to bed at night, and everything in between has to bring you that. Or else what is the point?

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#23. I've been on shows that go for shock value.

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#24. My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.

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#25. One out of six women are toxic with mercury. Mercury comes out of coal plants and chlorine plants. I am toxic, I deal with symptoms, children are born with, you know, autism - there is an epidemic in this country. This is like, the air that we breath.

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#26. Your vulnerability is your power.

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#27. You feel touched and honored and alive when you give to someone.

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#28. Early on, my emotional work had to do with feeling unheard and invisible.

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#29. This leaf here took forever to become that perfect leaf. We're that. We're work in progress. That's actually being alive.

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#30. When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons!

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#31. I started dating older men, and I would fall in love with them. I thought they could teach me about life.

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#32. Before I do a movie, I watch Meryl Streep movies over and over. It's not to mimic her. It's to remind myself to be more committed.

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#33. Where the terror is, is where you must go.

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#34. I love men in bed when they are sleeping. But then they have to go and wake up.

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#35. People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening.

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#36. That's what meditation is. You just sit with yourself.

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#37. When you face your fears, you are free of them. There's nothing in the world I need to hide from again.

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#38. Without vulnerability, you're not really alive.

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#39. People go to movies or listen to music because they want to be inspired.

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