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Quotes by Actress

"I ran into Ellen at a photo shoot. She took my breath away. That had never happened to me in my life."
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Portia de Rossi
"I ran into Ellen at a photo shoot. She took my breath away. That had never happened to me in my life."
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"Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life."
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Jeanne Moreau
"Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life."
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"It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life, my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And knowing we were all there to raise money for Gay Men's Health Crisis made the evening an extraordinary experience."
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Bernadette Peters
"It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life, my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And knowing we were all there to raise money for Gay Men's Health Crisis made the evening an extraordinary experience."
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"Around 7 years old, we girls took dancing lessons, joined the Brownies, the Girl Scouts, the 4H Club."
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Ruth Buzzi
"Around 7 years old, we girls took dancing lessons, joined the Brownies, the Girl Scouts, the 4H Club."
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"I have made a public statement about me and Ralph by being seen with him. I don't need to make any other. You can live the way you want."
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Francesca Annis
"I have made a public statement about me and Ralph by being seen with him. I don't need to make any other. You can live the way you want."
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"I think I'm a better actress for having friends and interests outside the theatre. I wouldn't want to live my life surrounded by other actors all the time."
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Penelope Keith
"I think I'm a better actress for having friends and interests outside the theatre. I wouldn't want to live my life surrounded by other actors all the time."
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"For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice follows everything about you... who you are.'"
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Betty Buckley
"For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice follows everything about you... who you are.'"
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"Why would I lose sleep when I really need valuable sleep just to recuperate and come back and do my job?"
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Christine Baranski
"Why would I lose sleep when I really need valuable sleep just to recuperate and come back and do my job?"
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"The biggest challenge was that we had to shoot so quickly and with such a limited budget."
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Debbie Allen
"The biggest challenge was that we had to shoot so quickly and with such a limited budget."
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"Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us."
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Maude Adams
"Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us."
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"Film is different for me now. If the money is good and it's not totally revolting, I'll do it."
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Claire Bloom
"Film is different for me now. If the money is good and it's not totally revolting, I'll do it."
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"You can never really judge your work because once it's done, it's done."
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Charlotte Rampling
"You can never really judge your work because once it's done, it's done."
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"Women have this obsession with shoes."
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Alexandra Paul
"Women have this obsession with shoes."
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"People are forever finding something wrong with you."
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Brigitte Bardot
"People are forever finding something wrong with you."
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"Occasionally if you do something extraordinary, the crew responds with spontaneous applause, but that's very rare."
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Claudia Christian
"Occasionally if you do something extraordinary, the crew responds with spontaneous applause, but that's very rare."
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"It's hard for women to talk about these things, and for the doctors to really talk about it too, and to even have the knowledge of what's going on. That's why I'm doing this and urging women to speak out and talk to their doctors frankly."
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Cybill Shepherd
"It's hard for women to talk about these things, and for the doctors to really talk about it too, and to even have the knowledge of what's going on. That's why I'm doing this and urging women to speak out and talk to their doctors frankly."
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"I find very often that very ugly women have really handsome men and vice versa because they don't have any competition. Sometimes handsome men have avoided me."
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Hedy Lamarr
"I find very often that very ugly women have really handsome men and vice versa because they don't have any competition. Sometimes handsome men have avoided me."
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"My father was a good preacher and had a little bit of drama."
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Jayne Meadows
"My father was a good preacher and had a little bit of drama."
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"There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life."
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Pamela Stephenson
"There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life."
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"You know, women have a history of just being - we've been told all our lives not to say - in the fifties you couldn't say birth or even be pregnant hardly on television - and then gradually things have changed."
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Cybill Shepherd
"You know, women have a history of just being - we've been told all our lives not to say - in the fifties you couldn't say birth or even be pregnant hardly on television - and then gradually things have changed."
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"Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante."
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Debi Mazar
"Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante."
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"When Bound was released, Boys don't Cry wasn't out yet. Therefore it was very taboo to play a lesbian. I loved the part, because girls never get to play the typical guy parts."
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Gina Gershon
"When Bound was released, Boys don't Cry wasn't out yet. Therefore it was very taboo to play a lesbian. I loved the part, because girls never get to play the typical guy parts."
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"When all of a sudden, people say, 'Wow, you look nice,' and carry on, it's shocking. Really awkward."
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Nikki Cox
"When all of a sudden, people say, 'Wow, you look nice,' and carry on, it's shocking. Really awkward."
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"It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done."
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Judi Dench
"It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done."
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"I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I've spent my entire life trying to get over it."
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Judy Garland
"I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I've spent my entire life trying to get over it."
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"I've been devoted to Alison Krauss for many, many years."
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Ashley Judd
"I've been devoted to Alison Krauss for many, many years."
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"I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all."
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Barbra Streisand
"I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all."
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"My agent was ambitious for me. But going out and chasing it? No, I'd rather work in my vegetable garden or play with my kid. I guess I'm kind of boring."
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Kathleen Quinlan
"My agent was ambitious for me. But going out and chasing it? No, I'd rather work in my vegetable garden or play with my kid. I guess I'm kind of boring."
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"It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on."
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Marilyn Monroe
"It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on."
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"Not that I want everything right now; but I do want everything."
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Nastassja Kinski
"Not that I want everything right now; but I do want everything."
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"God, George Bush makes me want to slash my wrists. He's so embarrassing I have to leave the room when he's on the news. What a monkey."
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Margot Kidder
"God, George Bush makes me want to slash my wrists. He's so embarrassing I have to leave the room when he's on the news. What a monkey."
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"Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period."
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Felicity Kendal
"Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period."
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"I applaud my mother now for getting me through that time and making me believe in myself."
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Leah Remini
"I applaud my mother now for getting me through that time and making me believe in myself."
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"To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it."
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Jeanne Moreau
"To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it."
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"I've been involved with sports my whole life, which made clothes and makeup and handbags not that important as a kid. I just didn't care."
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Jessica Biel
"I've been involved with sports my whole life, which made clothes and makeup and handbags not that important as a kid. I just didn't care."
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"We have a good arrangement. Roman lies to me and I pretend to believe him."
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Sharon Tate
"We have a good arrangement. Roman lies to me and I pretend to believe him."
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"All of my life people have thought of me as Bing Crosby's daughter. Now they'll remember me as the person who shot J.R."
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Mary Crosby
"All of my life people have thought of me as Bing Crosby's daughter. Now they'll remember me as the person who shot J.R."
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"I knew Rita Hayworth only enough to know that she was just a tender, sensitive, beautiful human being. A lovely person. Very gentle. She would never stand up for her rights."
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Kim Novak
"I knew Rita Hayworth only enough to know that she was just a tender, sensitive, beautiful human being. A lovely person. Very gentle. She would never stand up for her rights."
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"Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star."
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Liza Minnelli
"Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star."
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"But I don't think that it's a form of family that I would be comfortable in. I've found a way to this character and this family, but I still believe that a marriage is between two people and not seven or three."
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Jeanne Tripplehorn
"But I don't think that it's a form of family that I would be comfortable in. I've found a way to this character and this family, but I still believe that a marriage is between two people and not seven or three."
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"By the time May rolls around, I'm probably going to want to spend a month on an island. But if Steven Spielberg or Steven Soderbergh or any number of directors were to say 'Hey, there's this role, are you interested?' I'd be there in a flash."
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Marg Helgenberger
"By the time May rolls around, I'm probably going to want to spend a month on an island. But if Steven Spielberg or Steven Soderbergh or any number of directors were to say 'Hey, there's this role, are you interested?' I'd be there in a flash."
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"There are things that you can do today that, years ago, there was nothing. The community today needs to know that with MRI and the current medications the view is good."
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Teri Garr
"There are things that you can do today that, years ago, there was nothing. The community today needs to know that with MRI and the current medications the view is good."
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"If only every man who sees my films did not get the impression he can make love to me, I would be a lot happier."
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Brigitte Bardot
"If only every man who sees my films did not get the impression he can make love to me, I would be a lot happier."
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"You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman."
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Charlize Theron
"You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman."
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"Watching Jaws just scared the living daylights out of me when I was young. I know a lot of people my age who are still petrified of sharks because of that film."
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Ashley Scott
"Watching Jaws just scared the living daylights out of me when I was young. I know a lot of people my age who are still petrified of sharks because of that film."
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"I thought that somehow your life would be much different when you're famous... and it's not. You just buy more stuff."
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Nicole Sullivan
"I thought that somehow your life would be much different when you're famous... and it's not. You just buy more stuff."
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"Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference."
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Meryl Streep
"Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference."
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"It's a great way to start the day, hearing you've been nominated for an Emmy. It's just thrilling."
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Allison Janney
"It's a great way to start the day, hearing you've been nominated for an Emmy. It's just thrilling."
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"But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques - which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in."
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Parminder Nagra
"But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques - which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in."
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"Which is why I felt I was truly blessed this year, with leads in two nice films, and also the luxury of being able to do a studio film and an independent afterwards was fantastic."
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Rachel True
"Which is why I felt I was truly blessed this year, with leads in two nice films, and also the luxury of being able to do a studio film and an independent afterwards was fantastic."
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