Cynthia Nixon Quotes

• Women’s health needs to be front and center – it often isn’t, but it needs to be.

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• Women are half the population and they know how to take care of themselves, if they are only given access to health care.

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• While I don’t often use the word, the technically precise term for my orientation is bisexual. I believe bisexuality is not a choice, it is a fact. What I have ‘chosen’ is to be in a gay relationship.

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• What I do for exercise sort of depends on what’s happening in the rest of my life.

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• Unlike me, a lot of child actors are very short, which is why they work. So when they’re 15 they can play 11 or when they’re 18 they can play 14. They look young for so long, they have abilities a much younger kid wouldn’t have.

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• We’ve all seen the mom who devotes all her time and attention to her child and is so hungry for adult interaction that as soon as she’s around another adult, she’s not paying attention anymore.

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• There are a lot of myths about gay people.

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• The recognition factor is so much higher when I’m a redhead, so when I’m a blonde I can pass under the radar a lot more easily.

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• The idea of making access to safe abortions harder and more expensive and more difficult, having to travel across state lines – that puts women’s health and lives in jeopardy, which is something I think no one wants.

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  Tags in Difficult, Expensive

• Some friends of mine who are actors feel directing shuts them down and kills all their impulses, but the worst thing for me is if I feel a director hasn’t noticed.

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• Nobody ever really thought of me as s*xy, right? They thought of me as smart and quirky.

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• My private life is private.

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• My girlfriend is much better than I am at working hard then resting, and she demands that from me, too. She insists on having time when we don’t do anything. We leave the housework and watch a movie.

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  Tags in Movie, Working, Anything

• My mother has battled breast cancer three times.

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• Most child actors, once they hit 18, once they hit 21, that’s it. Even teenage kids often don’t make the transition.

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  In terms of s*xual orientation I don’t really feel I’ve changed. I don’t feel there was a hidden part of my s*xuality that I wasn’t aware of. I’d been with men all my life, and I’d never fallen in love with a woman. But when I did, it didn’t seem so strange.

   

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• In a school where everyone is famous or rich or whatever, you have a culture, ‘What does your dad do?’ ‘What does your mom do?’

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• I’ve seen wonderful stay-at-home moms and moms who could use a little improving.

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  Tags in Improving, Wonderful

• If you make the decision to send your kid to public school don’t even look at private schools. Just shut the door. Just turn off the TV. And then you don’t even have to worry about preschool. You have to worry about what’s good for your kid, but you don’t have to worry about how to position yourself.

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  Topics in Decision

  Tags in Yourself, Private

• I’m so not a financial person.

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Cynthia Nixon (58)

Birth:	9th April, 1966
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress

About

Cynthia Ellen Nixon was born in New York City, New York. She is an American actress, best known for her portrayal of Miranda Hobbes in the HBO series Sex and the City, the film Sex and the City, and its sequel Sex and the City 2. She has won two Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, and a Tony Award. She graduated from Hunter College High School and attended Barnard College. She began her acting career in 1979 in the after school special The Seven Wishes of a Rich Kid, before making her Broadway debut in the 1980 revival of The Philadelphia Story. She reprised the role for the 2004 sequel Tanner on Tanner.

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