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Quotes by Actress

"I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs waving an empty sherry bottle which is, of course, a typical scene from my daily life, so isn't much of a stretch."
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Emma Thompson
"I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs waving an empty sherry bottle which is, of course, a typical scene from my daily life, so isn't much of a stretch."
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"My awards are lovely. I love to show them of."
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Doris Roberts
"My awards are lovely. I love to show them of."
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"All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent."
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Jeanne Moreau
"All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent."
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"I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being."
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Cameron Diaz
"I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being."
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"I took anatomy classes. I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists. I did the whole thing before using myself as a human guinea pig."
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Marilu Henner
"I took anatomy classes. I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists. I did the whole thing before using myself as a human guinea pig."
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"I had no real education because I was in and out of schools so I decided that I would completely change my look, change my image, change my name and move to New York."
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Morgan Brittany
"I had no real education because I was in and out of schools so I decided that I would completely change my look, change my image, change my name and move to New York."
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"Being an agent gave me a great sense of satisfaction."
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Victoria Principal
"Being an agent gave me a great sense of satisfaction."
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"I don't like giving speeches - I enjoy sitting on my rump."
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Karen Morley
"I don't like giving speeches - I enjoy sitting on my rump."
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"You promote your films; it's part of your job. You do the magazine covers and stuff, and then I try to live a really normal life. I definitely don't try to make it into any more craziness than it is."
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Kate Bosworth
"You promote your films; it's part of your job. You do the magazine covers and stuff, and then I try to live a really normal life. I definitely don't try to make it into any more craziness than it is."
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"Actually I did, because I saw the film like everyone else, ten years ago and I remembered some of it. I just wanted to see it, to kind of remember the tone a little bit."
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Julianne Moore
"Actually I did, because I saw the film like everyone else, ten years ago and I remembered some of it. I just wanted to see it, to kind of remember the tone a little bit."
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"It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior."
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Scarlett Johansson
"It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior."
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"I'm a firm believer that actors take to work who they aren't at home. People show their other self in their art or in their work."
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Robin Tunney
"I'm a firm believer that actors take to work who they aren't at home. People show their other self in their art or in their work."
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"The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year."
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Hedy Lamarr
"The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year."
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"I sometimes think that theatre is a torture."
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Juliet Stevenson
"I sometimes think that theatre is a torture."
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"All my references are 50 years old-when somebody shot J.R., you know? Oh my god, I'm 100!"
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Lauren Graham
"All my references are 50 years old-when somebody shot J.R., you know? Oh my god, I'm 100!"
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"The imaginary world has always been the most fun place for me to be."
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Claire Forlani
"The imaginary world has always been the most fun place for me to be."
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"I've become this sort of icon for the gay community. I don't like the position."
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Sandra Bernhard
"I've become this sort of icon for the gay community. I don't like the position."
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"He's my favorite! He wrote and produced, and starred in and cast all of his movies! Can you imagine? I get really excited when I talk about Charlie Chaplin."
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Emma Stone
"He's my favorite! He wrote and produced, and starred in and cast all of his movies! Can you imagine? I get really excited when I talk about Charlie Chaplin."
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"Nothing is sacred, right?"
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Mia Kirshner
"Nothing is sacred, right?"
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"I plays Joe's best friend. I am the only one he has ever been able to trust in his life, so I help him understand what happened to him when he was younger."
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Michelle Trachtenberg
"I plays Joe's best friend. I am the only one he has ever been able to trust in his life, so I help him understand what happened to him when he was younger."
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"It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress... period."
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Christine Lahti
"It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress... period."
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"I like friends who are honest and loyal. They also shouldn't be afraid to be a kid. I like having fun."
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Vanessa Hudgens
"I like friends who are honest and loyal. They also shouldn't be afraid to be a kid. I like having fun."
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"A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused."
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Shirley MacLaine
"A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused."
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"No not at all... it is rare for shows to make it as long as Once and Again... It was a pretty good run."
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Sela Ward
"No not at all... it is rare for shows to make it as long as Once and Again... It was a pretty good run."
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"I really enjoyed doing the voice of Nose Marie on the cartoon series Pound Puppies. Fun, FUN cast."
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Ruth Buzzi
"I really enjoyed doing the voice of Nose Marie on the cartoon series Pound Puppies. Fun, FUN cast."
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"I stay in tune with my family and God."
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Regina King
"I stay in tune with my family and God."
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"I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art."
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Halle Berry
"I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art."
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"I was an idiot in terms of career-building, but I had a great time."
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Sally Kellerman
"I was an idiot in terms of career-building, but I had a great time."
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"There's no changing your mind about whom you love. That's part of the tough thing about being in love - it's sort of undeniable."
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Piper Perabo
"There's no changing your mind about whom you love. That's part of the tough thing about being in love - it's sort of undeniable."
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"All girls hit that phase where they like the bad boy. I grew out of that really young and I have a wonderful guy in my life who's not a bad boy at all. I like the satiric, consistent nice guy."
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Kristen Bell
"All girls hit that phase where they like the bad boy. I grew out of that really young and I have a wonderful guy in my life who's not a bad boy at all. I like the satiric, consistent nice guy."
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"I was 23, and that was my first professional job. Anybody who has curly hair knows you don't want it to be brushed out because it becomes a never-ending tangle."
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Judy Davis
"I was 23, and that was my first professional job. Anybody who has curly hair knows you don't want it to be brushed out because it becomes a never-ending tangle."
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"We have a real role in how our own collective lives, our nation, and our world and society turn out. Seizing those opportunities is important, and disasters are sometimes one of those opportunities."
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Rebecca Solnit
"We have a real role in how our own collective lives, our nation, and our world and society turn out. Seizing those opportunities is important, and disasters are sometimes one of those opportunities."
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"I worked on my voice for Sweet Dreams, but only to match my speaking voice to Patsy's actual singing voice. That was my way into that character."
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Jessica Lange
"I worked on my voice for Sweet Dreams, but only to match my speaking voice to Patsy's actual singing voice. That was my way into that character."
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"I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies."
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June Allyson
"I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies."
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"We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios."
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Olivia De Havilland
"We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios."
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"The play is one of the very few pieces of great dramatic and comic writing that I have read in a long, long time. I was drawn to it because of the power of the writing, which gives me the actor a chance to explore many facets of myself."
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Linda Lavin
"The play is one of the very few pieces of great dramatic and comic writing that I have read in a long, long time. I was drawn to it because of the power of the writing, which gives me the actor a chance to explore many facets of myself."
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"The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle."
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Victoria Abril
"The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle."
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"I never took to Hollywood."
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Kathleen Turner
"I never took to Hollywood."
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"The bigness of the world is redemption. Despair compresses you into a small space, and a depression is literally a hollow in the ground. To dig deeper into the self, to go underground, is sometimes necessary, but so is the other route of getting out of yourself, into the larger world, into the openness in which you need not clutch your story and your troubles so tightly to your chest."
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Rebecca Solnit
"The bigness of the world is redemption. Despair compresses you into a small space, and a depression is literally a hollow in the ground. To dig deeper into the self, to go underground, is sometimes necessary, but so is the other route of getting out of yourself, into the larger world, into the openness in which you need not clutch your story and your troubles so tightly to your chest."
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"And it blew my mind when I started to get wind of the fact that they actually liked me being around. That was humbling, because Kentucky basketball is a big deal, and I am not the biggest fan - I am just the most notorious one."
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Ashley Judd
"And it blew my mind when I started to get wind of the fact that they actually liked me being around. That was humbling, because Kentucky basketball is a big deal, and I am not the biggest fan - I am just the most notorious one."
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"I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname."
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Rachel Weisz
"I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname."
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"The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince."
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Jodie Foster
"The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince."
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"I had such a great mom and I know that I'd never be that mom. I wouldn't want to bring a child into this world unless I could be."
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Lara Flynn Boyle
"I had such a great mom and I know that I'd never be that mom. I wouldn't want to bring a child into this world unless I could be."
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"I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had."
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Illeana Douglas
"I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had."
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"I guess there are very few actors that I've worked with that I would like to work with again. You never think you'll have that chance and, if we didn't do Italian Job together, there wouldn't be another one that could be right."
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Charlize Theron
"I guess there are very few actors that I've worked with that I would like to work with again. You never think you'll have that chance and, if we didn't do Italian Job together, there wouldn't be another one that could be right."
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"I wasn't a businesswoman, so I didn't know how to build a career."
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Sally Kellerman
"I wasn't a businesswoman, so I didn't know how to build a career."
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"What I really need is for people to know that I don't just do this, I do this and this and this and this. We all have creativity in us and we all are multi-dimensional and we are all interested in a lot of things and that women are fabulous. We can handle a lot of things."
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Suzanne Somers
"What I really need is for people to know that I don't just do this, I do this and this and this and this. We all have creativity in us and we all are multi-dimensional and we are all interested in a lot of things and that women are fabulous. We can handle a lot of things."
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"It's so great to love somebody and, out of that, to make a child. So that's my goal."
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Nastassja Kinski
"It's so great to love somebody and, out of that, to make a child. So that's my goal."
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"I think I can speak for all four of us on the show here. We all consider ourselves to be feminists and we get very upset when people don't think we are. We're like, where did this come from? Of course we are."
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Kristin Davis
"I think I can speak for all four of us on the show here. We all consider ourselves to be feminists and we get very upset when people don't think we are. We're like, where did this come from? Of course we are."
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"You don't direct ostriches, you herd them."
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Shelley Duvall
"You don't direct ostriches, you herd them."
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