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"I wanted to be a theater actress, but I thought it would be easier to get to New York and the theater if I had a name than if I just walked the streets as a little girl from California."
Thought

"I'm amazed. When I was 40, I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60, I was still going strong and enjoying everything."
Thought

"I have enjoyed acting very much, because I know it's not for real!"
Acting

"When I went back to New York with somewhat of a name, they didn't want movie actresses."
Name

"In the '60s, '70s and '80s, everybody was pretty tense on the set."
Pretty

"I quit after my seven-year contract with Universal was up. I quit for 33 years."
Years

"I had been told by so many people that I was going to be nominated, that I should be nominated, that there wasn't any question about my being nominated. I don't think it was a surprise."
People

"I love working."
Love

"Claude Rains was what we call an actor's actor. He was very involved with himself and his performance."
Performance

"The John Ford pictures I made are highly regarded, but at the time they didn't seem like that."
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"In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame."
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"I'm most comfortable in my birthday suit."
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"On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles."
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"I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind."
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"I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too."
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"On my birthday, I was in Milan for the collections."
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"I have had fans make me the big picture collages of the photo books; I have had fans send me birthday cakes... sing to me on my voicemail. I have had fans flash me. I have had older fans give me their bras and underwear onstage."
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"Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same."
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"I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face."
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"Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints."
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