"I understand that if you set out to be a celebrity, then you asked for it, but all I wanted to be was an actor."

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"I understand that if you set out to be a celebrity, then you asked for it, but all I wanted to be was an actor."

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"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."

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"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."

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"It changed me more than anything else. You don't want to get to that place where you're the adult and you're palpably in the next generation. And, this shoved me into that."

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"My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem."

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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."

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"My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much."

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"My dad always said he couldn't remember a time when I did not want to act."

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

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"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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