Daphne Zuniga Quotes

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.

The press is reporting things that are absolutely irrelevant to any of our lives and they are sensationalistic and it is damaging.

I had a kind of anger inside of me that made me want to prove myself all the time. I constantly got into fights and usually ended up in the principal`s office. My mother had her hands full with my sister and me. And yet those years taught me to be independent. I once thought that to be "normal" -- to have a mother, father, 2.7 kids and a dog -- was to be happy. I learned pretty quickly that wasn`t my "thing" at all. (on her troubled childhood)

I know that place of being an actor and wishing and wanting for things to happen for you, but the truth is that it happens inside.

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.

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

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!

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

The hardest part about doing Spaceballs (1987) was not laughing when they said "action". (2004, VH1`s "When Star Wars Ruled The World")

I usually get recognized for Spaceballs.

I`ve said that if we were going to do a reunion, they have to pay me the money they should have paid me when I did the original (on the prospect of participating in a "Melrose Place" reunion)

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

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.

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

To play a bag woman is brave for any woman.

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

I was a real pain in the ass actually, kind of obnoxious. Moving around a lot and being the "new kid" on the block affected me. My life wasn`t too normal in terms of Friday night dates and all that. (on her younger days)

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

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.

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

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

You don`t have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that`s where the beauty comes from.

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

Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper.

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

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

I`ve been on shows that go for shock value.

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