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"An actress, around 40, on television, that's where you get the most torture, I think."
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"I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television."
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"Everything is changing in squash. Lots of television coverage and the game has become very professional."
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"Television is a medium because anything well done is rare."
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"I am currently talking to one of the studios about making American Star as a TV series."
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"I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories."
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"I don't even own a television. I'm proud of that."
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"We're just dealing with the kind of warp and woof of television ratings."
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"I'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's very weird, very confusing."
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"Cutting edge, breakthrough, television. That's what we want to do."
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"Book - what they make a movie out of for television."
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"I have no affectation when I speak."
Affectation
"On network TV, I'm still Phoebe to people, and it would be hard to convince them otherwise in the bright lights of a sitcom."
People
"You become a celebrity, not because of your work or what you do, but because you have no privacy."
Work
"I knew an actor's career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can't be your whole identity; otherwise, you're doomed."
Business
"I found the right man, got married, and just had to keep not reinventing myself, just deciding that it doesn't matter what you are if you are a good person."
Man
"I'll accept being Phoebe to people for a while longer, given how much fun it was. That's totally fair."
People
"My hair got lighter, and I gradually went blonde. I liked it. Had more fun. But my image of myself in my head is this dark-haired person."
Fun
"I actually made an effort to reject acting, to shove it out of my body, because I didn't want my kids to have an actress as a mother-to have, like, a silly person."
Mother
"Watching a person lose their dignity used to be uncomfortable, and now it's an expected part of the program that we're becoming comfortable with."
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"Shirley MacLaine said, You're so funny, then gave me a hug. Everything went white. I couldn't hear, I couldn't see. I thought I was going to pass out."
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