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| • | "The prospect of starting a new play while ending a three-year marriage was not particularly appealing for Perkins, a Vermont native who now lives outside Los Angeles. 'It was a very hard decision for me to make', she says, lighting a cigarette", Toronto Star, Jul. 4, '88 |
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| • | "Speaking animatedly during an interview in her publicist's office, the chain-smoking, 29-year-old actress -- Tom Hanks' co-star in 'Big' -- displays yet another Elizabeth Perkins. This one is chatty, bemused, extremely articulate in discussing both her films and her career. Except for the occasional pause to light a cigarette, the words come in a steady wave", Los Angeles Times , Mar. 14, '90 |
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| • | "we visited the Perkins domicile, tucked into the leafy Los Angeles neighborhood of Hancock Park, where we discovered her amid two cats; her boyfriend, Maurice Phillips, who wrote and directed 'Enid Is Sleeping'; pots of coffee; and the haze of her cigarette smoke, which envelops her always, as though she were a Forties screen goddess, which she could have been and wishes she were. 'Joan Crawford,' she says, scoffing a bit. 'Not a very good actrees. But I love watching her reach for a light. Nobody could touch her there' ... 'I used to hop trains, smoke marijuana in the bathroom, steal English muffins from the dining hall' ... 'We were in the third day of final exams and strung out of coffee and cigarettes' PLAYBOY: What can you do well that few people suspect you can do at all? 'I can blow smoke rings out my ass'", Playboy , Dec. '90 |
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| • | "'It's funny you should catch me at this stage in my life', actress Elizabeth Perkins, 32, says between drags on a cigarette ... A frenetic lifestyle - 'dabbling' in drugs and alcohol - is in her past. She does still smoke", Chicago Tribune, Feb. 14, '93 |
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| • | "I love smoking. I quit when I was pregnant but it really relaxes me.", San Diego Union-Tribune (TV Guide), c. '93 |
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