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If my son would only listen to my advice, he would lead a perfect life. I'll still be saying that to him when I'm 75. I like to imagine that I have the control, but he's a teenager, so that never really happens.

Virginia Madsen

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Virginia Madsen
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: September 11
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They were made up names in Dune that I didn't know how to pronounce, but I knew how I should sound because I was a sci-fi fan myself. I hadn't read the book, but I knew that I was the princess of the universe. I went in and sort of made her up, and David Lynch thought it matched and cast me.
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I've made more movies than anybody now.
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I always tell actors, Don't think of it as unemployment when you don't have a job. You have to think of it as being in preparation for your next job. You have to be always preparing for success.
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I really didn't like Batgirl. I was like, No, if I'm not gonna be Batman, I'm not gonna play. Maybe they could write an evil female super villain who takes over Batman, and nobody knows.
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Once your acting job is over, you just hope they have a good editor and they put together a good film.
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I like how wine continues to evolve, like if I opened a bottle of wine today it would taste different than if I'd opened it on any other day, because a bottle of wine is actually alive. And it's constantly evolving and gaining complexity.
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I spend a lot of time at my son’s school and I really wanted to do a movie that the kids could see. The good thing about being my age and not having to be the ingenue anymore is that I get to be a mom. I get to have kids in my movies.
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A radio play actually ended up being the first acting job I ever had. A lot of times when I'm on camera, I'm playing characters that are more like myself, and I don't get to do a lot of real character work. But when you're doing animation, you are the very epitome of colorful characters. I think I'm just really into make believe.
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I've spent the last few years just really actively pursuing comedy and that's something I always wanted to know how to do.
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Sadly, I really want to be Batman ... and I just never will be.
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I want every movie to be like a big family and a great adventure.
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Everything that I play as an actress is a different aspect of me.
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When you're the ingénue no one is really interested in you for that.
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The actor side of me loves to get dressed up and I feel like Cinderella when I'm in diamonds.
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Do something good for yourself today. You matter.
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When I was growing up, the really, really cool super heroes were all male - so I wanted to be them.
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I was always an actress, even as a little kid, and fantasy, horror, sci-fi stories are really all about playing make believe. I just never grew out of that.
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Dune was really my first Hollywood job. It was such a small part, but I opened the movie. I was about 19 years old and I had to make this speech, and I didn't understand most of the words because they were, you know, words from Dune.
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Voiceover work reminds me of old-time radio. When I was little I used to sneak and stay up at night and listen to Mystery Radio Theater - I loved all those old radio plays.
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Men, we don't need you in shining armor. We just need you a little bit brave, just a little bit brave.
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