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"I don't like everybody knowing what I'm doing, unless it's related to a movie. I don't like speaking to the press. I never did."
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"Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats."

"Washington is the only city in the world where you can go to a black-tie dinner and there at the foot of the table is a television set up to catch a press conference."

"The press is like a big bass, you just stick a hook in their mouth and they'll take it."

"Well, they didn't lack for topics after Hiroshima. Why should 9/11 slow them down? I know it got a lot of press, but it's just a few large buildings and aircraft, it's not like D-Day and the Seige of Berlin."

"If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I."

"I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press."
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"As long as people want to see me in movies, and as long as I find it interesting, I'll keep working."

"People in the fashion industry have used the press a lot more than people in the film industry, because you have nothing to sell except for the image: The image is everything."

"It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am."

"I went to America on holiday when I was 17 and, before I knew it, I'd been signed up by an agency and had these obligations I didn't understand, but which I couldn't say no to. This industry chose me. But I did choose to make it fulfilling."

"You check to see the facts are correct where business is concerned but if I read everything that was written about me, I'd end up feeling totally insecure about myself."

"I choose movies, I never choose roles. I look at the script. I look at the director. I look at the other actors - and then the role."

"A celebrity name is never enough for an intelligent mass market... truly successful businesses are born of passion and heartfelt interest."

"I don't believe we own our children, they're their own souls who make their own choices, we just guide and support them."
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