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Quotes by Actress

"I am proud to be a role model for my viewers. I am finding out that helping victims is as or more rewarding the all the awards I wins."
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Mariska Hargitay
"I am proud to be a role model for my viewers. I am finding out that helping victims is as or more rewarding the all the awards I wins."
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"Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting."
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Loni Anderson
"Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting."
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"Being someone I'm not for a period of time and loving every minute of being in someone else's skin."
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Jessica Biel
"Being someone I'm not for a period of time and loving every minute of being in someone else's skin."
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"I can't remember a time when I wasn't singing."
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Dinah Shore
"I can't remember a time when I wasn't singing."
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"Sex is like washing your face - just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it."
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Sophia Loren
"Sex is like washing your face - just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it."
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"I'm not for gratuitous nudity, but if there's humor, I don't have a problem."
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Rebecca Romijn
"I'm not for gratuitous nudity, but if there's humor, I don't have a problem."
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"So wearing a corset certainly changes your state of mind."
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Radha Mitchell
"So wearing a corset certainly changes your state of mind."
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"I think all industries are sexist in nature and I don't think the film industry is any different."
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Christine Lahti
"I think all industries are sexist in nature and I don't think the film industry is any different."
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"Every time I work with a European director, I find they hire the person that captures the spirit of the role. Americans tend to hire the best face. The person that looks more like the role, whether they can perform the role or not is a bonus."
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Elizabeth Pena
"Every time I work with a European director, I find they hire the person that captures the spirit of the role. Americans tend to hire the best face. The person that looks more like the role, whether they can perform the role or not is a bonus."
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"You can stay in therapy your whole life, but you've got to live life and not talk about life."
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Tracey Gold
"You can stay in therapy your whole life, but you've got to live life and not talk about life."
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"Really try to follow what it is that you want to do and what your heart is telling you to do."
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Jennifer Aniston
"Really try to follow what it is that you want to do and what your heart is telling you to do."
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"I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine."
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Marlee Matlin
"I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine."
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"Who can worry about a career? Have a life."
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Frances McDormand
"Who can worry about a career? Have a life."
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"I remember hearing someone say that good acting is more about taking off a mask than putting one on, and in movie acting, certainly that's true. With the camera so close, you can see right down into your soul, hopefully. So being able to do that in a way is terrifying, and in another way, truly liberating. And I like that about it."
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Annette Bening
"I remember hearing someone say that good acting is more about taking off a mask than putting one on, and in movie acting, certainly that's true. With the camera so close, you can see right down into your soul, hopefully. So being able to do that in a way is terrifying, and in another way, truly liberating. And I like that about it."
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"You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself."
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Carol Burnett
"You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself."
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"I'd do pretty much anything to get back on stage. I'd like to develop a new musical. I nearly had a heart attack when I heard that they're developing John Waters' Cry-Baby because that is so amazing and super and wonderful and I wish that I could be involved. But it's not the right time and I understand that. But I hear things like that and I get that little tingle in my stomach."
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Kristen Bell
"I'd do pretty much anything to get back on stage. I'd like to develop a new musical. I nearly had a heart attack when I heard that they're developing John Waters' Cry-Baby because that is so amazing and super and wonderful and I wish that I could be involved. But it's not the right time and I understand that. But I hear things like that and I get that little tingle in my stomach."
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"Very few people run around and get amnesia and have comas and come out of them and do all the silly of people have strokes and have comas and come out of them and do all the silly things we do on soaps."
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Erika Slezak
"Very few people run around and get amnesia and have comas and come out of them and do all the silly of people have strokes and have comas and come out of them and do all the silly things we do on soaps."
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"I did the figure of Diana in V, a cult TV show seen all over the world."
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Jane Badler
"I did the figure of Diana in V, a cult TV show seen all over the world."
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"Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before."
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Julie Walters
"Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before."
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"When you work with Sir Anthony there are days when he will do a lot of takes if he's really enjoying a scene."
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Claire Forlani
"When you work with Sir Anthony there are days when he will do a lot of takes if he's really enjoying a scene."
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"It's fantastic because I've been living thousands of lives, not only my life."
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Claudia Cardinale
"It's fantastic because I've been living thousands of lives, not only my life."
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"Am I being typecast as a horrible person? I don't know. I don't think so. But if it happens, I'd rather get to play that, because there's nothing fun about being sweet. Sweet can be so boring, so I'd be happy staying away from that."
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January Jones
"Am I being typecast as a horrible person? I don't know. I don't think so. But if it happens, I'd rather get to play that, because there's nothing fun about being sweet. Sweet can be so boring, so I'd be happy staying away from that."
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"I like movies that make you think."
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Robin Wright Penn
"I like movies that make you think."
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"I am enormously honored to be one of the spokesmen of the New Age Womens Health Campaign, so you'll be seeing me in public service announcements and public appearances supporting the campaign."
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Karen Duffy
"I am enormously honored to be one of the spokesmen of the New Age Womens Health Campaign, so you'll be seeing me in public service announcements and public appearances supporting the campaign."
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"The love scenes that worked, regardless of the director, were the ones where the actors weren't fearful. When somebody was fearful, you could see it right away. It takes you out of the story, and that's to be avoided at all costs."
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Jennifer Beals
"The love scenes that worked, regardless of the director, were the ones where the actors weren't fearful. When somebody was fearful, you could see it right away. It takes you out of the story, and that's to be avoided at all costs."
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"There are amazing schools and amazing educators that are doing a wonderful job. And then there are a lot of educators that are not prepared to deal with inclusive education. They haven't been trained. It's really quite lovely and easy when you understand how to do it."
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Laura San Giacomo
"There are amazing schools and amazing educators that are doing a wonderful job. And then there are a lot of educators that are not prepared to deal with inclusive education. They haven't been trained. It's really quite lovely and easy when you understand how to do it."
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"And I had a big opportunity with Richard Brooks, The Professionals, which is really a magnificent movie."
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Claudia Cardinale
"And I had a big opportunity with Richard Brooks, The Professionals, which is really a magnificent movie."
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"I'd like to play characters who are older - I don't want to be playing 14-year-olds too much longer."
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Alison Lohman
"I'd like to play characters who are older - I don't want to be playing 14-year-olds too much longer."
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"I'll do humor about myself, I'll poke fun and everything, but that's me and I can do it to me. I think it's cruel to do it to somebody else."
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Delta Burke
"I'll do humor about myself, I'll poke fun and everything, but that's me and I can do it to me. I think it's cruel to do it to somebody else."
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"I consider my mom and all my sisters my friends."
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Alexa Vega
"I consider my mom and all my sisters my friends."
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"I actually would love to live in New York. But I need land; I need space. I'd love to move to a place where I could have a lot of land and a goat."
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Lusia Strus
"I actually would love to live in New York. But I need land; I need space. I'd love to move to a place where I could have a lot of land and a goat."
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"I'm a firm believer in putting your money where your mouth is."
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Teri Hatcher
"I'm a firm believer in putting your money where your mouth is."
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"I love theater."
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Kristin Davis
"I love theater."
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"I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year."
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Bette Davis
"I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year."
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"We transported eight giraffes, and there are now nine because one gave birth to a male shortly afterwards. They carry their pregnancies very well-they all looked the same."
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Joanna Lumley
"We transported eight giraffes, and there are now nine because one gave birth to a male shortly afterwards. They carry their pregnancies very well-they all looked the same."
Now,
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"I'd go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn't know who I was. And things just get really dark."
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Angelina Jolie
"I'd go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn't know who I was. And things just get really dark."
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"Thirty years ago, there was definitely a huge difference between men and women, and the man wanting to feel like the protector, and not scare the wife."
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Robin Tunney
"Thirty years ago, there was definitely a huge difference between men and women, and the man wanting to feel like the protector, and not scare the wife."
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"I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless."
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Bette Davis
"I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless."
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"Yes, I always played the bad woman. I actually did."
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Barbara Billingsley
"Yes, I always played the bad woman. I actually did."
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"They weren't impatient for the boys to turn into cartoons again. They awarded sympathy, gave compassion. Because deep down they had found parts of themselves in the characters. You said it George."
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Audrey Meadows
"They weren't impatient for the boys to turn into cartoons again. They awarded sympathy, gave compassion. Because deep down they had found parts of themselves in the characters. You said it George."
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"You know you have more to offer, and it gets frustrating when you aren't given the chance."
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Mindy Cohn
"You know you have more to offer, and it gets frustrating when you aren't given the chance."
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"In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people."
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Judy Garland
"In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people."
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"NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits."
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Joanna Lumley
"NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits."
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"Your hands, your eyes, your voice, your thoughts are your servants."
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Loretta Young
"Your hands, your eyes, your voice, your thoughts are your servants."
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"Once you've reached the point where you can pay rent, you can go to the vet and you can go to the grocery store, after that point it's all the same. I don't have the appetite for a decadent lifestyle."
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Renee Zellweger
"Once you've reached the point where you can pay rent, you can go to the vet and you can go to the grocery store, after that point it's all the same. I don't have the appetite for a decadent lifestyle."
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"I don't know why people keep banging on about the '60s. I came from a conventional family and I didn't go off with different people - I rather wish I had now, seeing all the fun everyone else was having."
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Jane Birkin
"I don't know why people keep banging on about the '60s. I came from a conventional family and I didn't go off with different people - I rather wish I had now, seeing all the fun everyone else was having."
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"I'd like to go to Brazil I think. Do a little South America trip."
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Kristanna Loken
"I'd like to go to Brazil I think. Do a little South America trip."
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"What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad."
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Gene Tierney
"What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad."
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"I really loved Twin Peaks. When I saw the two-hour pilot, they screened it in the big theatre. I said, I don't know what is going to happen. I'm in this and I don't understand it. This is never going to sell. Who's going to watch this thing?"
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Sherilyn Fenn
"I really loved Twin Peaks. When I saw the two-hour pilot, they screened it in the big theatre. I said, I don't know what is going to happen. I'm in this and I don't understand it. This is never going to sell. Who's going to watch this thing?"
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"Directors and writers have a lot of stress as well, because they have people they answer to."
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Alexis Bledel
"Directors and writers have a lot of stress as well, because they have people they answer to."
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