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Quotes by Actress

"There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving."
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Phylicia Rashad
"There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving."
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"I directed a movie and now, I'm going to do the editing."
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Salma Hayek
"I directed a movie and now, I'm going to do the editing."
Now,
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"We will probably always be in business together."
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Mary-Kate Olsen
"We will probably always be in business together."
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"I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations."
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Edith Evans
"I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations."
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"To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time."
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Cornelia Otis Skinner
"To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time."
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"People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all."
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Maggie Smith
"People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all."
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"I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream."
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Victoria Principal
"I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream."
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"There was no way I could live in Hollywood and not become an actress."
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Eva Gabor
"There was no way I could live in Hollywood and not become an actress."
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"I already have a production company called J Squared and we're working on two projects."
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Jordana Brewster
"I already have a production company called J Squared and we're working on two projects."
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"If I never do another movie, I will have had the privilege of working on one of the big Hollywood movies with top people, creating a world that can only be described as totally cinematic."
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Christine Baranski
"If I never do another movie, I will have had the privilege of working on one of the big Hollywood movies with top people, creating a world that can only be described as totally cinematic."
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"That's human nature - the ups and downs."
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Jami Gertz
"That's human nature - the ups and downs."
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"Every story was being made up. My true friends weren't the ones speaking. It was people who never knew me, making up stories. Even my local paper put a $1,000 bounty out for information about my whereabouts."
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Marla Maples
"Every story was being made up. My true friends weren't the ones speaking. It was people who never knew me, making up stories. Even my local paper put a $1,000 bounty out for information about my whereabouts."
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"I love it when ugliness is beautiful. I love character flaws."
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Marcia Gay Harden
"I love it when ugliness is beautiful. I love character flaws."
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"I'll miss everyone on Dallas so much, but I have a wonderful career ahead of me. I can feel it."
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Mary Crosby
"I'll miss everyone on Dallas so much, but I have a wonderful career ahead of me. I can feel it."
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"I'm really excited, because the character, Jules, is a really awesome character. I'm really excited to be playing her, and overall, I'm really excited to be getting back to my acting roots."
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Maria Menounos
"I'm really excited, because the character, Jules, is a really awesome character. I'm really excited to be playing her, and overall, I'm really excited to be getting back to my acting roots."
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"I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes."
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Bette Midler
"I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes."
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"My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends."
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Gloria Swanson
"My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends."
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"Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour."
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Fran Drescher
"Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour."
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"We never expected the show to be this great. We think it is successful because kids can identify."
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Thuy Trang
"We never expected the show to be this great. We think it is successful because kids can identify."
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"I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause."
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Angelina Jolie
"I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause."
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"You're not ethnic enough. You're not fat enough. You're not thin enough. You're not blond enough. You're not dark enough. You're not young enough. You're not old enough."
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Nia Vardalos
"You're not ethnic enough. You're not fat enough. You're not thin enough. You're not blond enough. You're not dark enough. You're not young enough. You're not old enough."
Old,
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"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone."
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Audrey Hepburn
"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone."
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"What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it."
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Marlee Matlin
"What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it."
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"See into life, don't just look at it."
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Anne Baxter
"See into life, don't just look at it."
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"Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven."
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Salma Hayek
"Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven."
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"Awards don't really mean much."
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Uta Hagen
"Awards don't really mean much."
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"I often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I really am was Bonnie, which is kind of sad when you think how early in my career that was."
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Faye Dunaway
"I often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I really am was Bonnie, which is kind of sad when you think how early in my career that was."
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"The cool part about working for Disney is that they've allowed me to be a change agent."
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Christy Romano
"The cool part about working for Disney is that they've allowed me to be a change agent."
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"As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening."
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Felicity Kendal
"As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening."
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"George M. is where I met my dear friend Joel Grey. We connected at rehearsal one day during a five-minute break. We were both looking out the same window and we knew in five minutes that we'd made a connection."
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Bernadette Peters
"George M. is where I met my dear friend Joel Grey. We connected at rehearsal one day during a five-minute break. We were both looking out the same window and we knew in five minutes that we'd made a connection."
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"I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley."
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Anne Heche
"I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley."
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"To us marriage is first, everything else is second."
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Julie Benz
"To us marriage is first, everything else is second."
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"I think each role takes a little from you and circles around you for the rest of your life. I don't think you ever abandon any of them."
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Nicole Kidman
"I think each role takes a little from you and circles around you for the rest of your life. I don't think you ever abandon any of them."
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"My heart is so light that it's amazing. I get to play all this grief, all this loss, all this disaster and chaos. It's hysterically funny. I am very light."
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Linda Hamilton
"My heart is so light that it's amazing. I get to play all this grief, all this loss, all this disaster and chaos. It's hysterically funny. I am very light."
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"If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character."
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Taryn Manning
"If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character."
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"My parents are Italian and British. They live in Berkeley now - we all moved there four years ago."
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Claire Forlani
"My parents are Italian and British. They live in Berkeley now - we all moved there four years ago."
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"I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them."
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Fiona Shaw
"I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them."
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"Jim Brooks is a very powerful director and it was a lot of intense work."
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Tea Leoni
"Jim Brooks is a very powerful director and it was a lot of intense work."
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"I approach my character with the question: What would an animal think? How would an animal respond? A lot of times, it's quick action and no fear, and sometimes it's irrational fear. You don't always know."
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Victoria Pratt
"I approach my character with the question: What would an animal think? How would an animal respond? A lot of times, it's quick action and no fear, and sometimes it's irrational fear. You don't always know."
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"As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom."
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Linda Fiorentino
"As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom."
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"There are three rape scenes that I've had to act in, and none of them have gotten to film. I don't think it's something that should be promoted in any way."
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Joan Severance
"There are three rape scenes that I've had to act in, and none of them have gotten to film. I don't think it's something that should be promoted in any way."
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"When something is truly funny, it's funny all the time."
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Cloris Leachman
"When something is truly funny, it's funny all the time."
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"Meat is an inefficient way to eat. An acre of land can yield 20,000 pounds of potatoes, but that same acre would only graze enough cows to get 165 pounds of meat."
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Alexandra Paul
"Meat is an inefficient way to eat. An acre of land can yield 20,000 pounds of potatoes, but that same acre would only graze enough cows to get 165 pounds of meat."
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"It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn't end until about 1976. We all believed in Make Love, Not War. We were idealistic innocents, despite the drugs and sex."
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Margot Kidder
"It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn't end until about 1976. We all believed in Make Love, Not War. We were idealistic innocents, despite the drugs and sex."
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"You're over there in the corner either thinking about the dead dog or whatever, you're bringing up your personal life and you need the space, and then somebody throws you a joke. Especially if it's an emotional scene, you don't want the joke."
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Marcia Gay Harden
"You're over there in the corner either thinking about the dead dog or whatever, you're bringing up your personal life and you need the space, and then somebody throws you a joke. Especially if it's an emotional scene, you don't want the joke."
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"Sticking to your values, listening to your instincts, making your own choices is so important."
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Brittany Murphy
"Sticking to your values, listening to your instincts, making your own choices is so important."
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"An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know."
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Bette Davis
"An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know."
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"Diamonds are forever, my youth is not."
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Jill St. John
"Diamonds are forever, my youth is not."
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"It sounds so trite, but my private life is mine."
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Portia de Rossi
"It sounds so trite, but my private life is mine."
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"My first husband and I are still good friends and there is no earthly reason why I should not see him. Larry and I are very much in love."
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Vivien Leigh
"My first husband and I are still good friends and there is no earthly reason why I should not see him. Larry and I are very much in love."
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