"I'm trying to eliminate every vestige of my own personality, style, approach and get into somebody else's skin. Sometimes I feel I've accomplished it. But when I don't, I'm nobody at all, having left myself at home."

Home, Personality, Skin, Style

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"I'm trying to eliminate every vestige of my own personality, style, approach and get into somebody else's skin. Sometimes I feel I've accomplished it. But when I don't, I'm nobody at all, having left myself at home."

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"I suppose that if I could have quit, I would have, because in those days I never wanted to be an actress, the acting was something to do while I waited for a chance to study writing and directing. But I guess I was just meant to be an actress. Because, here I am."

Acting, Chance, Study, Writing

"I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy wrappers and labels on cereal and toothpaste boxes."

Books, Words

"I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg."

Losing,

"I was bargaining for time away from Hollywood, and Columbia was bargaining for money. I got what I wanted and they got what they wanted. They knew I was so anxious to do Born Yesterday that I'd have done it for a dollar. They gave me the next best thing."

Time, Money, Hollywood, Yesterday

"I hated the whole idea of being an actress. I used to throw up before every performance and cry afterward."

Idea, Performance, Being

"I want a part where I can use my own hair, my own voice, and maybe even be literate."

Hair, Voice, Want

"They weren't interested in entertainment. They were tough. I learned one trick, which was to be quieter than they were until they had to look at you. It took a lot of agressiveness."

Entertainment,

"I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my name in the past, it was certainly without knowledge that such an organization was subversive. I have always been essentially and foremost an American."

Knowledge, Lent, Name

"I'm trying to eliminate every vestige of my own personality, style, approach and get into somebody else's skin. Sometimes I feel I've accomplished it. But when I don't, I'm nobody at all, having left myself at home."

Home, Personality, Skin, Style

"Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously."

People, Acting, Expression

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"Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"Sometimes to be at home is like a nightmare by Stephen King."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"Mars will not be our new home; it will be our new hotel! Because for a new place to be our own home, we need to see the things we used to see: An autumn lake, a bird singing in the misty morning or even desert camels walking in the sunset!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Home, Loss, Belonging, Emotion

"One is not to win the world, he has to win the home (family)."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Home, Comfort, Nothing

"Nothing else has the power to calm, comfort, and care for you better than home."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"Our homes travel with us. They are wherever we feel loved and accepted."

Kamand Kojouri, Iranian Poet

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