I went through a difficult period. I kind of flipped out for a while. I’d do a high-fashion face-cream commercial and then run off to be a frumpy housewife for a J.C. Penney ad. I didn’t know who I was. Finally I resolved that I was all of those people, and that if I’d been able to convince other people of that, I had the potential to be a pretty good actress.
-- (TV Guide interview, 1983)
I'm the kind of person that, although I'm intelligent, I have to live through it before I can decide if something is right or not.
-- (TV Now interview by Tony Bray)
(on the impression she made on young men)
The number one line I get: (low breathy tone) "You were my first." I hate to ask first what, but I was their first. I have a girlfriend who thinks I should have a t-shirt saying, "I Was Your First."
Wilma never really got a chance to kick ass. She was in the position of being the head of the Earth Defenses and most of the time she was going, "Buck, are you all right?"
-- (Derek McCaw interview for FanboyPlanet.com)
When it came to shooting my ray gun, I shout, 'BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!'
The director and the entire crew cracked up laughing!
The director said to me, 'No, Erin, we'll put the special effects in later on'. For me, though, it was shoot 'em up time; it was cowboys and Indians!'
-- (Starburst interview, with David Bassom)
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