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"For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses."
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"When choosing a profession, a person will have good incentive for personal development by choosing such a profession that represents a personal challenge."

"I'd rather not look for a job... to let a fine one find me. And that definitely wouldn't define me as a snob!"

"When at work, be diligent because there are many people who wish they had your job, but they couldn't since you are the one who got."

"Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese."

"Don't be too enthusiastic when choosing a profession " think of earningfor life too."

"He is loyal to his own career but only incidentally to anything or anyone else."

"A writer can live by his writing. If not so luxuriously as by other trades, then less luxuriously. The nature of the work he does all day will more affect his happiness than the quality of his dinner at night. Whatever be your calling, and however much it brings you in the year, you could still, you know, get more by cheating. We all suffer ourselves to be too much concerned about a little poverty; but such considerations should not move us in the choice of that which is to be the business and justification of so great a portion of our lives; and like the missionary, the patriot, or the philosopher, we should all choose that poor and brave career in which we can do the most and best for mankind."
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"The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked."


"I'm a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn't like to play myself."


"I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun."


"I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat that if I failed a single course I could forget about dancing."
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