Elisabeth Shue
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"Elisabeth Judson Shue" is an American actress, known for her roles in the films The Karate Kid (1984 film)/The Karate Kid (1984), Adventures in Babysitting (1987), Cocktail (1988 film)/Cocktail (1988), Back to the Future Part II (1989), Back to the Future Part III (1990), Leaving Las Vegas (1995), The Saint (film)/The Saint (1997), and Hollow Man (2000). She has won several acting awards and has been nominated for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award/Golden Globe and a BAFTA Award/BAFTA. In February 2012, she began starring as Julie Finlay in the CBS police drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

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Sadness, joy, wonder - all feelings come from a place of grounded strength that comes from trust in yourself. We spend so much time trying to control our feelings out of fear that something may happen, that somebody may not love us, or walk away or die. It's only when you stop living in that fear of what other people might do to you or how they will react, only then are you free to be alive.

I may be the girl next door, but you wouldn't want to live next to me.

After Leaving Las Vegas I did assume that things would get a lot easier than they've been. But it's just been a mirror of the way my career's been from the beginning, so for it to have changed would have been strange. My career has never been perfect.

I spent my whole life trying to play the games males play.

She has a wisdom beyond her years. But what I love about her most is that she is a girl. Her playfulness and her appreciation for where she is, is so strong that it re-inspires you. She has a beautiful imagination, and she believes the circumstances of the characters. She's in the moment, and she has great instincts, and she works hard. It's not just instinct. She's brilliant.

I was really so excited and thought, `If there's a part, I don't care what it is, I'm going to do it, just because I love her so much,'.

She is a little girl. Her playful spirit is very much alive when she's not working. Even when she is working, she comes, and she runs and hugs everybody in the morning, and her beautiful smile just sort of forces everybody, pushes them, to open up to the day.

She reminds you of the joyfulness that you felt when you first started and reminds you to never let that go.

Yeah, it was so good. I was so-o-o mean to her before [in Hide and Seek ]. Man, I felt bad because I love Elisabeth so much, but I got to be nice with her in this movie. That's what I like about doing movies because you get to do things and portray characters that you would never do or be like in your real life, ever.