Quotes About Boundaries

Some people find that if they share a profession with their partner, they don't talk about anything else.

Being an actress does not mean that each thing that happens in my life has to be news or meant to be shared with others. Acting is a profession, and once I leave the sets, I want to be left alone.

I've never been out with any of the cast of Coronation Street. We're all very close friends so it's very much a professional attitude.

I feel as though we're living in a time where there is very little distinction paid between the personal and the professional.

There needs to be a demarcation between personal and professional lives.

Sometimes you need to put your own characteristics into the actor, and you take different things from the character that you admire - sometimes you can't see the boundaries anymore.

One of the difficult things, especially about blogging, is that you put all of your personal out there, into the political. And what's been difficult, for me at least, is trying to keep some of the personal for myself.

People seem to sometimes have a difficulty drawing that line between the character and the person.

When you're friends with someone, you can't just go out to dinner and say 'O.K., now this is a date.' You've got to do something very different.

Never dip lower than you can dip.

I can't be diplomatic or compromise or take crap from people, so I'd probably make an exit way before I even made a proper entry into Bollywood.

Every actress has a line she'll draw, where she'll say, 'This I will do and this I won't.' For me, everything has to be important to the story and the director has to be able to tell me why.

There are directors you never, ever want to get close to. Lubitsch was one. Outside of the work, I don't think I ever said five words to him. Mamet was pretty much the same thing. His mind is working all the time.

I'm not one to air my dirty laundry for the whole world.

I don't feel like we have to be dirty or anything crazy, but as far as competing, there's no limits.

No one has the right to dirty someone's personal space in any which way.

You do not have to do everything disagreeable that you have a right to do.

Geographic boundaries really begin to disappear with the Internet.

When you bite off only what you can chew, you're going to disappoint people. Guess what? Not your problem. You're not doing anything wrong.

If I disappoint someone, it's their loss for putting that expectation on me when they don't know me. I can't control what they want.

Me and my dad are friends. We're cool. I'll never be disappointed again, because I don't expect anything anymore from him. I just let him exist, and that's how we get along.

I know the audience wants to see me without clothes in my coming films. At the risk of disappointing them, let me say that it's simply not going to happen. I will not do any such film.

Living together places a huge burden on the other person to be lover, friend, entertainments manager, chef, domestic help, which is almost impossible and can lead to disappointment. If you don't live together, you spend more time with other people and ease the pressure off your lover.

I don't believe in open borders, I don't think that would work. I think economically they're a disaster. Therefore there's nothing wrong with strong borders.