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"It's really difficult for me. Language, I am sorry that I haven't. I think I just always expected that you learn a word in place of a word and when I discovered how difficult the grammar was and learning that was very discouraging for me."
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Bo Derek
"It's really difficult for me. Language, I am sorry that I haven't. I think I just always expected that you learn a word in place of a word and when I discovered how difficult the grammar was and learning that was very discouraging for me."
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"I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny."
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Illeana Douglas
"I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny."
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"My family was very, very receptive to all; all races, religions."
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Pam Grier
"My family was very, very receptive to all; all races, religions."
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"For me, first, it's finding quiet in my life - and I do that through yoga and meditation. It's also been a matter of changing the way I eat, because I think what we eat can inform who we are; food is a chemical and a drug to a certain extent."
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Mariel Hemingway
"For me, first, it's finding quiet in my life - and I do that through yoga and meditation. It's also been a matter of changing the way I eat, because I think what we eat can inform who we are; food is a chemical and a drug to a certain extent."
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"I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again."
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Gloria Swanson
"I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again."
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"I'm from the theater. I never wanted to be a star."
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Sherry Stringfield
"I'm from the theater. I never wanted to be a star."
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"I still have highs and lows, just like any other person. What's missing is the lack of control over the super highs, which became destructive, and the super lows, which are immediately destructive."
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Patty Duke
"I still have highs and lows, just like any other person. What's missing is the lack of control over the super highs, which became destructive, and the super lows, which are immediately destructive."
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"I don't buy the tabloids, but you're surrounded by it all and people tell you things they've read. I'd be sitting on a train looking over someone's shoulder and thinking: That's familiar... oh my God, it's me."
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Francesca Annis
"I don't buy the tabloids, but you're surrounded by it all and people tell you things they've read. I'd be sitting on a train looking over someone's shoulder and thinking: That's familiar... oh my God, it's me."
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"Because I was able to submerge myself into the character, I didn't have to go back and forth. You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it."
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Camilla Belle
"Because I was able to submerge myself into the character, I didn't have to go back and forth. You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it."
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"Before I started doing the film and when I found out I was going to be doing it, I just decided to pump up on the whole cardio stuff. Just in terms of stamina."
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Parminder Nagra
"Before I started doing the film and when I found out I was going to be doing it, I just decided to pump up on the whole cardio stuff. Just in terms of stamina."
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"I was doing a children's book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I'd been feeling - and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves."
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Jamie Lee Curtis
"I was doing a children's book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I'd been feeling - and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves."
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"Now that I'm more mature, in a funny way, I can even appreciate that I've bad to become more aware of my body. Since I've chosen acting as my career, I have to keep my weight down anyway-I've been used to it for years, so it's no problem. And there's nothing I can't do."
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Dana Hill
"Now that I'm more mature, in a funny way, I can even appreciate that I've bad to become more aware of my body. Since I've chosen acting as my career, I have to keep my weight down anyway-I've been used to it for years, so it's no problem. And there's nothing I can't do."
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"I love accents."
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Claire Forlani
"I love accents."
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"These things have a life of there own and never existed when I was growing up certainly worrying when one would get made. It's kind of amazing how that one movie kept living through all these years."
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Stockard Channing
"These things have a life of there own and never existed when I was growing up certainly worrying when one would get made. It's kind of amazing how that one movie kept living through all these years."
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"Everyone thrives most in his or her own unique environment."
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Marilu Henner
"Everyone thrives most in his or her own unique environment."
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"This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young. It's not an intellectual cinema in America."
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Jacqueline Bisset
"This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young. It's not an intellectual cinema in America."
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"A woman should be pink and cuddly for a man."
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Jayne Mansfield
"A woman should be pink and cuddly for a man."
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"To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid."
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Lara Flynn Boyle
"To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid."
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"We had our first earthquake over here recently. That was a bizarre feeling. I just became disoriented and I remember my dad freaking out. Nothing broke or anything."
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Ashley Scott
"We had our first earthquake over here recently. That was a bizarre feeling. I just became disoriented and I remember my dad freaking out. Nothing broke or anything."
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"I crashed my boyfriend's birthday when I was 12 years old. He didn't invite me and so I showed up."
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Isla Fisher
"I crashed my boyfriend's birthday when I was 12 years old. He didn't invite me and so I showed up."
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"In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes."
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Elizabeth Ashley
"In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes."
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"The idea is that we're doing it just for the joy of the actual physical experience. We may record something just for the fun of it, but the idea is just to be truly joyful and truly fun, especially for me, because I take myself too seriously all the time."
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Lauren Ambrose
"The idea is that we're doing it just for the joy of the actual physical experience. We may record something just for the fun of it, but the idea is just to be truly joyful and truly fun, especially for me, because I take myself too seriously all the time."
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"I just kind of opened up and said, 'I feel like a rag doll. I have hair and makeup people coming to my house every day and putting me in new, uncomfortable, weird dresses and expensive shoes, and I just shut down and raise my arms up for them to get the dress on, and pout my lips when they need to put the lipstick on.'"
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Jennifer Lawrence
"I just kind of opened up and said, 'I feel like a rag doll. I have hair and makeup people coming to my house every day and putting me in new, uncomfortable, weird dresses and expensive shoes, and I just shut down and raise my arms up for them to get the dress on, and pout my lips when they need to put the lipstick on.'"
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"I used to hate looking in the mirror. I've grown up into myself and now I'm happy with the way I look."
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Ashley Tisdale
"I used to hate looking in the mirror. I've grown up into myself and now I'm happy with the way I look."
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"I hope they make a show like M*A*S*H, which dealt with a lot of difficult subject matter but was very funny."
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Joan Severance
"I hope they make a show like M*A*S*H, which dealt with a lot of difficult subject matter but was very funny."
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"When I don't plumb the depths or the opportunities of each day, I don't have joy."
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Victoria Principal
"When I don't plumb the depths or the opportunities of each day, I don't have joy."
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"Some people might say I need to learn how to relax."
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Taryn Manning
"Some people might say I need to learn how to relax."
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"I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl."
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Robin Tunney
"I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl."
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"You know, my parents have always been incredibly supportive. I'm an only child, so we're very close. There's just the three of us. They're exceptional parents but also great friends. My father was able to take his hobby, photography, and turn it into a beautiful career. So when they saw how much I loved acting, they were 100 percent behind me."
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Sophia Bush
"You know, my parents have always been incredibly supportive. I'm an only child, so we're very close. There's just the three of us. They're exceptional parents but also great friends. My father was able to take his hobby, photography, and turn it into a beautiful career. So when they saw how much I loved acting, they were 100 percent behind me."
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"Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful."
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Jacqueline Bisset
"Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful."
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"Anything is possible in this world. I really believe that."
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Liza Minnelli
"Anything is possible in this world. I really believe that."
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"My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run."
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Carol Burnett
"My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run."
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"I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things by people who couldn't really do it, you can do some pretty wonderfully, imaginative horrific things to teachers."
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Diane Cilento
"I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things by people who couldn't really do it, you can do some pretty wonderfully, imaginative horrific things to teachers."
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"I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by another generation. Having been a teen idol of the '60s is great because you realize you left your generation with a smile and good memories."
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Connie Stevens
"I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by another generation. Having been a teen idol of the '60s is great because you realize you left your generation with a smile and good memories."
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"Everything I do now is a first."
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Hailee Steinfeld
"Everything I do now is a first."
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"I felt they had really moved the characters in a direction that was very interesting. The family had really felt the impact of what had happened to the."
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JoBeth Williams
"I felt they had really moved the characters in a direction that was very interesting. The family had really felt the impact of what had happened to the."
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"My children are the focal point of my life. I was asking for a little more time to spend with them."
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Hunter Tylo
"My children are the focal point of my life. I was asking for a little more time to spend with them."
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"I had a friend, and we always used to pretend to be twins. We had this fantasy about going to Hollywood together. We were about four."
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Radha Mitchell
"I had a friend, and we always used to pretend to be twins. We had this fantasy about going to Hollywood together. We were about four."
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"People are going to say what they want to say and think what they want to think, and I can't change their minds."
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Hilary Duff
"People are going to say what they want to say and think what they want to think, and I can't change their minds."
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"I can goof around with other people right up to when we shoot."
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Gillian Anderson
"I can goof around with other people right up to when we shoot."
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"Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral."
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Rosalind Russell
"Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral."
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"I've been in showbusiness all my life, but as an actress I have never been overly driven."
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Jamie Lee Curtis
"I've been in showbusiness all my life, but as an actress I have never been overly driven."
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"Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes."
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Meryl Streep
"Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes."
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"I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up."
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Jane Horrocks
"I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up."
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"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul."
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Judy Garland
"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul."
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"Mel is a great director because he's not just a director, he's an actor, so he knows how to direct actors. I loved working with him. He's great as a director. He's so intelligent. He's generous. I really loved him."
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Monica Bellucci
"Mel is a great director because he's not just a director, he's an actor, so he knows how to direct actors. I loved working with him. He's great as a director. He's so intelligent. He's generous. I really loved him."
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"There is something at work that's bigger than us. It's about having a trust in life and being at peace that things are happening the way they should. You do what you do as well as you can do it, and then you don't worry or agonize about the outcome."
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Sherilyn Fenn
"There is something at work that's bigger than us. It's about having a trust in life and being at peace that things are happening the way they should. You do what you do as well as you can do it, and then you don't worry or agonize about the outcome."
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"I thought it was very important that femininity wasn't lost."
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Donna Mills
"I thought it was very important that femininity wasn't lost."
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"I met Clinton at a benefit for teachers, which was a very good charity, but I met him for about 90 seconds, and I thought it was important to meet the leader of the free world. So I stood next to him for a photograph, and then apparently that's all it takes."
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Julie Bowen
"I met Clinton at a benefit for teachers, which was a very good charity, but I met him for about 90 seconds, and I thought it was important to meet the leader of the free world. So I stood next to him for a photograph, and then apparently that's all it takes."
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"I'm a lot luckier than most people, although I used to look at it the other way around-that so many people seemed luckier than me."
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Dana Hill
"I'm a lot luckier than most people, although I used to look at it the other way around-that so many people seemed luckier than me."
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