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Quotes by Actress

"Any time you've got nothing to do and lots of time to do it come on up."
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Mae West
"Any time you've got nothing to do and lots of time to do it come on up."
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"The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you."
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Liza Minnelli
"The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you."
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"Well, I don't know what Ron has in mind, but I do know about the arc of the show. Looking at how intuitive and instinctive Eddie and I play, that is the sort of thing that leads into sexual chemistry. I wouldn't be surprised if it emerged."
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Mary McDonnell
"Well, I don't know what Ron has in mind, but I do know about the arc of the show. Looking at how intuitive and instinctive Eddie and I play, that is the sort of thing that leads into sexual chemistry. I wouldn't be surprised if it emerged."
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"With two leftover husbands to account for, my wicked soul has just about shriveled and died."
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Mercedes McCambridge
"With two leftover husbands to account for, my wicked soul has just about shriveled and died."
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"I no longer need to be someone's wife. I'm doing okay as I am."
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Linda Evans
"I no longer need to be someone's wife. I'm doing okay as I am."
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"Entrepreneurs persevere until it pays off. One good day can make up for an entire month, and one good month can make up for an entire year. Don't give up. The isn't over 'till it's over!"
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Farshad Asl
"Entrepreneurs persevere until it pays off. One good day can make up for an entire month, and one good month can make up for an entire year. Don't give up. The isn't over 'till it's over!"
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"Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me."
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Ingrid Bergman
"Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me."
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"There's no environment. Use your imagination. There's no fourth wall, whether it's the first time you've told this story about her life, or the sixth time."
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Jill Clayburgh
"There's no environment. Use your imagination. There's no fourth wall, whether it's the first time you've told this story about her life, or the sixth time."
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"Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of."
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Zhang Ziyi
"Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of."
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"Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel."
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Melina Mercouri
"Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel."
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"I think sleep's really important. I value it as much as waking up and having a full day."
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Jena Malone
"I think sleep's really important. I value it as much as waking up and having a full day."
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"I used to go home at night and just shake, because I had no idea that's what acting was gonna be."
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Mary Mastrantonio
"I used to go home at night and just shake, because I had no idea that's what acting was gonna be."
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"I have no desire to play most of the roles being offered."
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Kathleen Turner
"I have no desire to play most of the roles being offered."
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"Yeah, I've had the privilege to know a lot of really talented people."
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Ashley Judd
"Yeah, I've had the privilege to know a lot of really talented people."
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"Yeah, well my name is Bai Ling. That means white spirit, and I really feel like sometimes I'm not existing."
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Bai Ling
"Yeah, well my name is Bai Ling. That means white spirit, and I really feel like sometimes I'm not existing."
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"Most men are not that evolved."
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Rosanna Arquette
"Most men are not that evolved."
Men,
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"Michael died five years ago this January, and the first thing that really struck me about the script was the part about her peeling off from the funeral and just getting into a rowboat and having a real kind of cry where nobody was."
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Judi Dench
"Michael died five years ago this January, and the first thing that really struck me about the script was the part about her peeling off from the funeral and just getting into a rowboat and having a real kind of cry where nobody was."
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"I can't stand being around anal people, especially anal people with big egos."
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Laura Prepon
"I can't stand being around anal people, especially anal people with big egos."
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"I was moaning and grieving as if I lost one of my own children. It was probably one of the most real feelings I ever had on the show. I was just sitting there wailing with no lines. I was beat after that storyline."
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Hunter Tylo
"I was moaning and grieving as if I lost one of my own children. It was probably one of the most real feelings I ever had on the show. I was just sitting there wailing with no lines. I was beat after that storyline."
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"For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros."
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Ethel Barrymore
"For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros."
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"A lot of people didn't realize that I acted before I did anything else."
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Maria Menounos
"A lot of people didn't realize that I acted before I did anything else."
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"Seriously, though, I think I never ceased to be grateful of the fact that I am able to do a job that I really love - I never got over that."
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Judi Dench
"Seriously, though, I think I never ceased to be grateful of the fact that I am able to do a job that I really love - I never got over that."
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"The actors nowadays, both young men and young ladies, don't always wear their period clothes as well as they might. They tend to stomp around a bit in them."
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Julie Harris
"The actors nowadays, both young men and young ladies, don't always wear their period clothes as well as they might. They tend to stomp around a bit in them."
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"A bedroom requires a bed. Everything else was extravagance. Well, he had a bed all right."
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Audrey Meadows
"A bedroom requires a bed. Everything else was extravagance. Well, he had a bed all right."
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"Most child actors go through that. Unless you can transition into an adult star, your career is over."
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Morgan Brittany
"Most child actors go through that. Unless you can transition into an adult star, your career is over."
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"Our 1 million members across the country will be watching closely to see if the video game industry hides behind a First Amendment veil in order to exploit children for the sake of corporate profit."
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Connie Sellecca
"Our 1 million members across the country will be watching closely to see if the video game industry hides behind a First Amendment veil in order to exploit children for the sake of corporate profit."
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"I'd be nervous about skiing, wondering what I'd do if I felt shaky on top of a mountain; but other diabetics do ski, so there's no reason I couldn't."
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Dana Hill
"I'd be nervous about skiing, wondering what I'd do if I felt shaky on top of a mountain; but other diabetics do ski, so there's no reason I couldn't."
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"The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test."
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Joan Chen
"The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test."
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"Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that my breasts are not down to my knees when I'm undressed in front of my husband."
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Patricia Heaton
"Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that my breasts are not down to my knees when I'm undressed in front of my husband."
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"It's fascinating for us women to begin looking at our lives in five-year plans. It really does help you keep on track. If that's too hard, start with a two-year plan."
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Marlo Thomas
"It's fascinating for us women to begin looking at our lives in five-year plans. It really does help you keep on track. If that's too hard, start with a two-year plan."
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"I want to be a person who makes a quiet difference."
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Ali MacGraw
"I want to be a person who makes a quiet difference."
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"TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary; with independent films, you just can't."
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Jessica Lange
"TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary; with independent films, you just can't."
Age,
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"Women should stop going for the bad guys, stop looking so far when the good ones are right there."
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Jennifer Aniston
"Women should stop going for the bad guys, stop looking so far when the good ones are right there."
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"I'm more selective now I've got a family. I don't want to work all the time. My daughter's 12; I don't want to miss out on her life. Soon she'll be a teenager; she won't want me around."
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Julie Walters
"I'm more selective now I've got a family. I don't want to work all the time. My daughter's 12; I don't want to miss out on her life. Soon she'll be a teenager; she won't want me around."
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"Delighted," Jess said. "I think all houses should be stuffed with books. It makes them--""Homes?" the doctor finished. "You are quite the heretic, for someone in a Library uniform.""Guilty."
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Rachel Caine
"Delighted," Jess said. "I think all houses should be stuffed with books. It makes them--""Homes?" the doctor finished. "You are quite the heretic, for someone in a Library uniform.""Guilty."
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"I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box."
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Bette Davis
"I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box."
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"When you're that tall, people talk about it all the time."
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Kristen Johnston
"When you're that tall, people talk about it all the time."
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"Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history. It's like you're touching the essence, the very substance of life."
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Kim Novak
"Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history. It's like you're touching the essence, the very substance of life."
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"I was a handful growing up."
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Olivia Wilde
"I was a handful growing up."
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"People have an awful lot of problems that society has put on them and a lot to work through because of it."
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Dana Plato
"People have an awful lot of problems that society has put on them and a lot to work through because of it."
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"When I do something I give everything, so it has to be something that I really want to go for."
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Izabella Scorupco
"When I do something I give everything, so it has to be something that I really want to go for."
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"It's heartbreaking but we're trying to get over it. As disappointed as we were, I think that somehow you have to find a way to think that it happened for a reason."
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Caroline Dhavernas
"It's heartbreaking but we're trying to get over it. As disappointed as we were, I think that somehow you have to find a way to think that it happened for a reason."
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"I suppose if I wanted to be the girl next door, I could have been. I think America is confused by someone who appears to be sexual and spiritual at the same time."
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Sally Kirkland
"I suppose if I wanted to be the girl next door, I could have been. I think America is confused by someone who appears to be sexual and spiritual at the same time."
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"Sitting at the table during Color Purple and looking up and suddenly realizing I was acting in front of Steven Spielberg, was pretty cool. It was pretty good."
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Whoopi Goldberg
"Sitting at the table during Color Purple and looking up and suddenly realizing I was acting in front of Steven Spielberg, was pretty cool. It was pretty good."
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"It's so much harder to keep your clothes on than take them off in this business. Even in Exotica, they wanted more nudity, but I didn't feel comfortable."
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Mia Kirshner
"It's so much harder to keep your clothes on than take them off in this business. Even in Exotica, they wanted more nudity, but I didn't feel comfortable."
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"It's easy to play a bad girl: You just do everything you've been told not to do, and you don't have to deal with the consequences, because it's only acting."
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Eliza Dushku
"It's easy to play a bad girl: You just do everything you've been told not to do, and you don't have to deal with the consequences, because it's only acting."
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"The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields."
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Shirley Temple
"The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields."
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"Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and that someday I would arrive at it."
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Camryn Manheim
"Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and that someday I would arrive at it."
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"The best part of learning any profession, when you're really going through those huge stretching escalated times of learning and energy, is when you want to do it so much."
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Diane Cilento
"The best part of learning any profession, when you're really going through those huge stretching escalated times of learning and energy, is when you want to do it so much."
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"Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret."
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Marlene Dietrich
"Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret."
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