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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."

"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."

Kim Novak, American Actress

Life, History, Time, Old

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"I was a handful growing up."

"I was a handful growing up."

Olivia Wilde, American Actress

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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."

"People have an awful lot of problems that society has put on them and a lot to work through because of it."

Dana Plato, American Actress

Society, Work, People, Problems

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"When I do something I give everything, so it has to be something that I really want to go for."

"When I do something I give everything, so it has to be something that I really want to go for."

Izabella Scorupco, Polish Actress

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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."

"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."

Caroline Dhavernas, Canadian Actress

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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."

"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."

Sally Kirkland, American Actress

Time, America, Spiritual

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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."

"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."

Whoopi Goldberg, American Actress

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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."

"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."

Mia Kirshner, Canadian Actress

Business, Clothes, Nudity

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"Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down."

"Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down."

Frances McDormand, American Actress

Car, Men, Women, Battle

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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."

"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."

Eliza Dushku, American Actress

Acting, Consequences, Play

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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."

"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."

Shirley Temple, American Actress

Work, Conscience, Nations, United

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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."

"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."

Camryn Manheim, American Actress

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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."

"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."

Diane Cilento, Australian Actress

Energy, Learning, Profession, Want

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"To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face."

"To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face."

Liza Minnelli, American Actress

Business, May, Public, Reality

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"I wish you a tolerable Thursday. That's all any of us can hope for."

"I wish you a tolerable Thursday. That's all any of us can hope for."

April Winchell, American Actress

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"I'd love to be a man for a day, just to see what it's like."

"I'd love to be a man for a day, just to see what it's like."

Brittany Murphy, American Actress

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"Having children is what a woman is born for, really."

"Having children is what a woman is born for, really."

Nastassja Kinski, German Actress

Children, Woman

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"I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education."

"I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education."

Tallulah Bankhead, American Actress

Education, Bible, Liberal, Shakespeare

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"It's all about exploring the more unpredictable aspects in the character, not just fighting people."

"It's all about exploring the more unpredictable aspects in the character, not just fighting people."

Victoria Pratt, Canadian Actress

People, Character, Fighting

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"I got a heart tattooed on my foot. It's my first tattoo."

"I got a heart tattooed on my foot. It's my first tattoo."

Goldie Hawn, American Actress

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"My father dealt in stocks and shares and my mother also had a lot of time on her hands."

"My father dealt in stocks and shares and my mother also had a lot of time on her hands."

Hermione Gingold, English Actress

Time, Mother, Father

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"I'm an actor, that's my contribution."

"I'm an actor, that's my contribution."

Glenn Close, American Actress

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"I love improvisation."

"I love improvisation."

Nora Dunn, American Actress

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"Being a working mom is not easy. You have to be willing to screw up at every level."

"Being a working mom is not easy. You have to be willing to screw up at every level."

Jami Gertz, American Actress

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"I'm French, so I'm quite lazy about exercising, and I smoke. But I do love going for a run in the morning with my dog. That's all."

"I'm French, so I'm quite lazy about exercising, and I smoke. But I do love going for a run in the morning with my dog. That's all."

Eva Green, French Actress

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"I think people think we're all sipping martinis by the pool."

"I think people think we're all sipping martinis by the pool."

Maria Menounos, American Actress

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"If you fall in love with a country and its people, that makes any country warm to you."

"If you fall in love with a country and its people, that makes any country warm to you."

Jane Birkin, English Actress

Love, People, Country

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"There's no amount of money that would make me decide something for a career."

"There's no amount of money that would make me decide something for a career."

Eva Longoria, American Actress

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"Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you."

"Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you."

Jennifer O'Neill, American Actress

Forgiveness, Actions

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"Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper."

"Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper."

Daphne Zuniga, American Actress

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"Your opponents would love you to believe that it's hopeless, that you have no power, that there's no reason to act, that you can't win. Hope is a gift you don't have to surrender, a power you don't have to throw away."

"Your opponents would love you to believe that it's hopeless, that you have no power, that there's no reason to act, that you can't win. Hope is a gift you don't have to surrender, a power you don't have to throw away."

Rebecca Solnit, American Actress

Hope, Power, Action, Truth

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"My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number."

"My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number."

Jamie Lee Curtis, American Actress

Marriage, Mother, Years

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"I want to play a character I've never been before-a crazy serial killer like Charlize Theron in Monster. I'd love to have to shave my head."

"I want to play a character I've never been before-a crazy serial killer like Charlize Theron in Monster. I'd love to have to shave my head."

Jennifer Lawrence, American Actress

Love, Character, Play, Want

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"I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs waving an empty sherry bottle which is, of course, a typical scene from my daily life, so isn't much of a stretch."

"I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs waving an empty sherry bottle which is, of course, a typical scene from my daily life, so isn't much of a stretch."

Emma Thompson, English Actress

Life, Film, Stairs

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"Somewhere we turn ourselves into victims instead of being the powerful women we really are meant to be."

"Somewhere we turn ourselves into victims instead of being the powerful women we really are meant to be."

Judith Light, American Actress

Woman, Women, Being, Victims

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"All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent."

"All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent."

Jeanne Moreau, French Actress

Talent, Fiction

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"The split second she ceases to care is the only time a woman ceases to be attractive."

"The split second she ceases to care is the only time a woman ceases to be attractive."

Loretta Young, American Actress

Time, Care, Woman

46

"Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo."

"Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo."

Mary Pickford, Canadian Actress

46

"So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people."

"So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people."

Camryn Manheim, American Actress

Life, People, Being, Culture

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"We live in the land of opportunities. People come from all over the world to hustle and work their way up to places that they could only imagine or dream of."

"We live in the land of opportunities. People come from all over the world to hustle and work their way up to places that they could only imagine or dream of."

Farshad Asl, American Actress

Success, Opportunity, Work, Dream

46

"The gay community just recognizes what their closets are and we straight have to spend years trying to figure out which closet we are trapped in."

"The gay community just recognizes what their closets are and we straight have to spend years trying to figure out which closet we are trapped in."

Judith Light, American Actress

Community, Gay, Trying, Years

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"I don't believe in simply accumulating money, but I have the luxury to say that, because I have enough for all my needs."

"I don't believe in simply accumulating money, but I have the luxury to say that, because I have enough for all my needs."

Kathleen Turner, American Actress

Money, Luxury, Needs

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"Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness."

"Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness."

Isabelle Adjani, French Actress

Being, Nothing, Nothingness

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"When you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you."

"When you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you."

Gwyneth Paltrow, American Actress

People, Eye, Public

46

"I'm a firm believer that actors take to work who they aren't at home. People show their other self in their art or in their work."

"I'm a firm believer that actors take to work who they aren't at home. People show their other self in their art or in their work."

Robin Tunney, American Actress

Art, Work, Home, People

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"I sometimes think that theatre is a torture."

"I sometimes think that theatre is a torture."

Juliet Stevenson, English Actress

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"I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to have the power to help get the movies that I think are important made."

"I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to have the power to help get the movies that I think are important made."

Maggie Gyllenhaal, American Actress

Movies, Power, Effect, Help

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"It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes."

"It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes."

Anne Baxter, American Actress

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"The world fell apart. Sirhan Sirhan shot Bobby Kennedy. Why were people shooting all the Kennedys? Had the country gone mad?"

"The world fell apart. Sirhan Sirhan shot Bobby Kennedy. Why were people shooting all the Kennedys? Had the country gone mad?"

Lorna Luft, American Actress

People, Country, World

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"In France we have a law which doesn't allow the press to publish a photo that you didn't approve. It lets the paparazzi take the picture, but if they publish this picture, you have the choice to sue the newspaper. So me, I always sued them."

"In France we have a law which doesn't allow the press to publish a photo that you didn't approve. It lets the paparazzi take the picture, but if they publish this picture, you have the choice to sue the newspaper. So me, I always sued them."

Audrey Tautou, French Actress

Choice, France, Law, Press

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