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"I think getting drunk is the key to flying comfortably. A couple of bloody marys or several glasses of champagne, and suddenly it's like you're on a roller coaster."
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Amanda Peet
"I think getting drunk is the key to flying comfortably. A couple of bloody marys or several glasses of champagne, and suddenly it's like you're on a roller coaster."
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"I don't think I would ever have been able to be an actress had I not started at nine years old. I would have been the last person to stand up and say, 'I'd like to star in the play.'"
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Kristen Stewart
"I don't think I would ever have been able to be an actress had I not started at nine years old. I would have been the last person to stand up and say, 'I'd like to star in the play.'"
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"Because a lot of straight people think I'm nuts."
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Pia Zadora
"Because a lot of straight people think I'm nuts."
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"I didn't think I was an actor and fought it for a long time. Nobody paid for that but me."
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Kathleen Quinlan
"I didn't think I was an actor and fought it for a long time. Nobody paid for that but me."
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"I still sweat bullets if I go on The Tonight Show, but I tell myself, You can either have fun tonight or you can be shy and miserable. You ask my friends or anyone I work with now - nobody would say I was shy."
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Lara Flynn Boyle
"I still sweat bullets if I go on The Tonight Show, but I tell myself, You can either have fun tonight or you can be shy and miserable. You ask my friends or anyone I work with now - nobody would say I was shy."
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"Success is a great deodorant."
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Elizabeth Taylor
"Success is a great deodorant."
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"Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick."
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Candice Bergen
"Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick."
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"Whether you're on TV or on the stage, you have to work hard to stay fresh, real, and full of energy. You can't settle back. You always have to stay on your toes."
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Blythe Danner
"Whether you're on TV or on the stage, you have to work hard to stay fresh, real, and full of energy. You can't settle back. You always have to stay on your toes."
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"There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich."
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Marlene Dietrich
"There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich."
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"Stress is an important dragon to slay - or at least tame - in your life."
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Marilu Henner
"Stress is an important dragon to slay - or at least tame - in your life."
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"I find that when I play reality-based characters, it is only as fun for me if I have a lot of time to do research. If I don't it just isn't exciting but if I do, it can be fun because I can learn about that person and the world that they live in and I can become somebody else."
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Daryl Hannah
"I find that when I play reality-based characters, it is only as fun for me if I have a lot of time to do research. If I don't it just isn't exciting but if I do, it can be fun because I can learn about that person and the world that they live in and I can become somebody else."
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"Life will force you to make changes you never wanted to make."
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Lorna Luft
"Life will force you to make changes you never wanted to make."
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"But Paulie gives all of herself away, and so to create a love like that and a person who would give themselves away was what I thought was going to be difficult. I was little scared of such a challenge."
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Piper Perabo
"But Paulie gives all of herself away, and so to create a love like that and a person who would give themselves away was what I thought was going to be difficult. I was little scared of such a challenge."
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"I am not a fanatic about anything. I do what I can do when I've got the time."
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Francesca Annis
"I am not a fanatic about anything. I do what I can do when I've got the time."
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"Since Michael died I think I've worked constantly. Friends and colleagues are very sustaining. They're the people who get you through it... It's no good to be on your own."
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Judi Dench
"Since Michael died I think I've worked constantly. Friends and colleagues are very sustaining. They're the people who get you through it... It's no good to be on your own."
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"My mother's been married many, many times and grew up believing in love like that. It's remarkable."
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Sherilyn Fenn
"My mother's been married many, many times and grew up believing in love like that. It's remarkable."
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"So, do I think I'm missing something? I really don't, and I think that comes with age."
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Jami Gertz
"So, do I think I'm missing something? I really don't, and I think that comes with age."
Age,
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"I also love Dido and Nelly Furtado and people who are really into their music like that. And I love Renee Zellweger."
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Hilary Duff
"I also love Dido and Nelly Furtado and people who are really into their music like that. And I love Renee Zellweger."
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"We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."
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Angelina Jolie
"We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."
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"Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience."
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Victoria Pratt
"Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience."
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"I've obviously made a very nice amount of money. I have a very nice lifestyle. I get to do what I love. Very few actors get to do that, and even fewer are lucky enough to work steadily for 24 years."
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Erika Slezak
"I've obviously made a very nice amount of money. I have a very nice lifestyle. I get to do what I love. Very few actors get to do that, and even fewer are lucky enough to work steadily for 24 years."
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"I was looked at as weird, odd, not fitting in with the Hollywood crowd."
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Morgan Brittany
"I was looked at as weird, odd, not fitting in with the Hollywood crowd."
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"I have a responsibility to nurture and shepherd my talent and when I'm living the parts of my life not related to that I feel I have the right to be left alone."
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Ashley Judd
"I have a responsibility to nurture and shepherd my talent and when I'm living the parts of my life not related to that I feel I have the right to be left alone."
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"I think Ellenor is embarrassed and ashamed and has devoted all of her energy to the law and to helping other people get justice because it's too difficult for her to face her own struggle for justice."
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Camryn Manheim
"I think Ellenor is embarrassed and ashamed and has devoted all of her energy to the law and to helping other people get justice because it's too difficult for her to face her own struggle for justice."
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"I am dumb when it comes to learning dance steps."
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Mia Kirshner
"I am dumb when it comes to learning dance steps."
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"I think most actors like to be liked."
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Anjelica Huston
"I think most actors like to be liked."
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"It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and must have felt gratitude to the movement for the opportunities that the work we have done has afforded them."
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Betty Buckley
"It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and must have felt gratitude to the movement for the opportunities that the work we have done has afforded them."
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"Beauty lasts five minutes. Maybe longer if you have a good plastic surgeon."
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Tia Carrere
"Beauty lasts five minutes. Maybe longer if you have a good plastic surgeon."
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"It's been very nice. I haven't gotten out too much because we've been working a lot but other wise the people have been very nice and I've had a good time."
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Bo Derek
"It's been very nice. I haven't gotten out too much because we've been working a lot but other wise the people have been very nice and I've had a good time."
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"I want my life to effect the balance to the positive."
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Mira Sorvino
"I want my life to effect the balance to the positive."
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"My best attribute is knowing when not to answer stupid questions."
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Gina Gershon
"My best attribute is knowing when not to answer stupid questions."
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"I needed to move, but I haven't had the time to find a place to go."
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Elisabeth Rohm
"I needed to move, but I haven't had the time to find a place to go."
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"We don't have a laugh track, which helped Seinfeld a lot, and did kind of tell people when to laugh. It just made it a lot easier. Our show doesn't have that, so it's hard for Middle America to catch on."
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Alia Shawkat
"We don't have a laugh track, which helped Seinfeld a lot, and did kind of tell people when to laugh. It just made it a lot easier. Our show doesn't have that, so it's hard for Middle America to catch on."
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"The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film."
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Shirley Knight
"The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film."
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"I have a home in Salt Lake, and I have a home in Malibu, at the beach."
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Roma Downey
"I have a home in Salt Lake, and I have a home in Malibu, at the beach."
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"Sometimes you like the personal adventure implicit in the making of a film, and sometimes you like your part in a film, and sometimes you like the final result."
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Jacqueline Bisset
"Sometimes you like the personal adventure implicit in the making of a film, and sometimes you like your part in a film, and sometimes you like the final result."
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"Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it."
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Natalie Portman
"Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it."
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"This CD became something of a personal journey for me. The tone of the whole CD is uplifting and inspirational. It's an upper. We have enough downers in the world."
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Roma Downey
"This CD became something of a personal journey for me. The tone of the whole CD is uplifting and inspirational. It's an upper. We have enough downers in the world."
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"It's going to be over soon, so I don't really have time to get busy."
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Ursula Andress
"It's going to be over soon, so I don't really have time to get busy."
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"And they were writing scripts where Christine had hit the glass ceiling. And I always thought Christine would never hit the glass ceiling. I thought her dreams would take her. Maybe her dreams wouldn't take her where she wanted, but she still had her dreams."
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Sharon Gless
"And they were writing scripts where Christine had hit the glass ceiling. And I always thought Christine would never hit the glass ceiling. I thought her dreams would take her. Maybe her dreams wouldn't take her where she wanted, but she still had her dreams."
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"Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique."
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Hattie McDaniel
"Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique."
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"I am a makeup junkie... Yves St. Laurent, Christian Dior, and anything else that looks good."
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Julia Barr
"I am a makeup junkie... Yves St. Laurent, Christian Dior, and anything else that looks good."
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"We've always been fans of a good mystery; we think all kids are, and there weren't any good mysteries out there these days for kids, so that's why we decided to do them."
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Mary-Kate Olsen
"We've always been fans of a good mystery; we think all kids are, and there weren't any good mysteries out there these days for kids, so that's why we decided to do them."
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"I think I've always been good so God wouldn't strike me dead."
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Heather Locklear
"I think I've always been good so God wouldn't strike me dead."
God,
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"I came from dinner, went downtown with my friends, the elevator was down, I ran down the hall toward my room at 10 at night, having had two glasses of wine."
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Jill Clayburgh
"I came from dinner, went downtown with my friends, the elevator was down, I ran down the hall toward my room at 10 at night, having had two glasses of wine."
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"People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves. I think that applies to their chosen profession, friends and relationships. It goes for your health too. If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everything should work out pretty well."
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Bebe Neuwirth
"People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves. I think that applies to their chosen profession, friends and relationships. It goes for your health too. If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everything should work out pretty well."
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"I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate the pieces that stand out to you."
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Radha Mitchell
"I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate the pieces that stand out to you."
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"Usually, it gets worse and worse as they downsize your character; mine just kept getting better."
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Christine Baranski
"Usually, it gets worse and worse as they downsize your character; mine just kept getting better."
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"I want to be remembered for the work that I've done, rather than the car accidents that I've gotten into, the men that I've not dated - or the man that I have."
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Lindsay Lohan
"I want to be remembered for the work that I've done, rather than the car accidents that I've gotten into, the men that I've not dated - or the man that I have."
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"People think, 'Wow, you're an actress, so people must be really nice to you and kiss your ass.' NOBODY kisses my ass."
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Alicia Silverstone
"People think, 'Wow, you're an actress, so people must be really nice to you and kiss your ass.' NOBODY kisses my ass."
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