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"I moved to New York from California when I was 11, so initially I was seen as the California person for a while. I didn't feel like I was popular, but I did feel confident."
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"I wasn't the most popular girl in school by any means."

"I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird."

"It's marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last."

"So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be."

"I don't use the twang bar anymore. It's become too popular."

"What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right."

"I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick."

"I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different."
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"Women were real box office stars in the '40s, more so than men. People loved to see women's films. I think it was better then, except for the studio system."

"I've had a very interesting career. I get to do amazing things and work with amazing people and travel and learn languages - things most people don't get the opportunity to do."

"My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive."

"I understand what it feels like not to like aspects of yourself. There have been times that I have felt really terrible about the way I look. I have the seed of that feeling."

"I put on the fat suit and went outside and walked around. I was really nervous about being found out, but nobody would even make eye contact with me. It really upset me."

"I'm an artist, and the need to get inside myself and be creative and be other people is a part of who I am. I don't imagine I'll abandon that completely."

"When you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you."

"There's something that sort of weirds me out about actors who want to be rock stars, and the other way around too."

"In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film."
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