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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."
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Audrey Tautou
"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."
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"I work hard, and I tend to play hard. I very seldom rest hard."
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Jacqueline Bisset
"I work hard, and I tend to play hard. I very seldom rest hard."
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"My body started to shut down. I got really, really ill. When you're starving yourself, you can't concentrate. I was like a walking zombie, like the walking dead. I was just consumed with what I would eat, what I wouldn't eat."
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Tracey Gold
"My body started to shut down. I got really, really ill. When you're starving yourself, you can't concentrate. I was like a walking zombie, like the walking dead. I was just consumed with what I would eat, what I wouldn't eat."
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"I was this person with this weird last name from New York that no one had ever heard of. But my screen test I guess, according to him, was the best. So I got the part, which was incredible."
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Mary Steenburgen
"I was this person with this weird last name from New York that no one had ever heard of. But my screen test I guess, according to him, was the best. So I got the part, which was incredible."
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"I've been messing around in the studio the last couple of years. But I don't want to worry about being taken seriously as a singer. It just really feels good to do it."
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Rebecca Romijn
"I've been messing around in the studio the last couple of years. But I don't want to worry about being taken seriously as a singer. It just really feels good to do it."
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"I really enjoyed doing the voice of Nose Marie on the cartoon series Pound Puppies. Fun, FUN cast."
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Ruth Buzzi
"I really enjoyed doing the voice of Nose Marie on the cartoon series Pound Puppies. Fun, FUN cast."
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"Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right."
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Fay Wray
"Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right."
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"Look your best - who said love is blind?"
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Mae West
"Look your best - who said love is blind?"
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"One of my good friends is Christian, goes to church every Sunday, very religious. I'm fine with that and I will never judge her."
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Amber Tamblyn
"One of my good friends is Christian, goes to church every Sunday, very religious. I'm fine with that and I will never judge her."
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"I always took it for granted that there would be life after Hollywood."
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Esther Williams
"I always took it for granted that there would be life after Hollywood."
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"I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old."
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Laura San Giacomo
"I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old."
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"All girls hit that phase where they like the bad boy. I grew out of that really young and I have a wonderful guy in my life who's not a bad boy at all. I like the satiric, consistent nice guy."
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Kristen Bell
"All girls hit that phase where they like the bad boy. I grew out of that really young and I have a wonderful guy in my life who's not a bad boy at all. I like the satiric, consistent nice guy."
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"I felt like I was flying without a net. But once I realized that the audience was my partner, I was flying a jet, because the people would allow me to develop the character on stage."
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Loretta Swit
"I felt like I was flying without a net. But once I realized that the audience was my partner, I was flying a jet, because the people would allow me to develop the character on stage."
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"I think I can deceive people. I'm like, the nice, sweet girl when you meet me. And I don't have any bad intentions. But I'm a bad girl too."
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Alicia Silverstone
"I think I can deceive people. I'm like, the nice, sweet girl when you meet me. And I don't have any bad intentions. But I'm a bad girl too."
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"You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself."
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Victoria Principal
"You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself."
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"I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies."
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June Allyson
"I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies."
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"My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand."
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Barbra Streisand
"My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand."
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"Dogs are very, very pleasant with people that they're connected to."
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Kristin Davis
"Dogs are very, very pleasant with people that they're connected to."
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"And it blew my mind when I started to get wind of the fact that they actually liked me being around. That was humbling, because Kentucky basketball is a big deal, and I am not the biggest fan - I am just the most notorious one."
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Ashley Judd
"And it blew my mind when I started to get wind of the fact that they actually liked me being around. That was humbling, because Kentucky basketball is a big deal, and I am not the biggest fan - I am just the most notorious one."
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"It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth."
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Sharon Stone
"It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth."
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"So now I'm left with cigarettes, and I'm trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I'll be done."
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Diane Lane
"So now I'm left with cigarettes, and I'm trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I'll be done."
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"As we were leaving the Huron camp, it was awkward filming. I think that the Huron watching us was there to create tension - maybe we wouldn't get out. Nothing complicated."
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Madeleine Stowe
"As we were leaving the Huron camp, it was awkward filming. I think that the Huron watching us was there to create tension - maybe we wouldn't get out. Nothing complicated."
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"Supermodels are over, and the new picture girl has become the television actress."
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Portia de Rossi
"Supermodels are over, and the new picture girl has become the television actress."
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"I'm contemplating moving to London for a period of time. I've been in Los Angeles for 15 years and I'm really tired of it. I'm continually uninspired by what's being sent to me. Even by huge films that they're doing there. They're just awful."
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Sherilyn Fenn
"I'm contemplating moving to London for a period of time. I've been in Los Angeles for 15 years and I'm really tired of it. I'm continually uninspired by what's being sent to me. Even by huge films that they're doing there. They're just awful."
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"I do think I'm lucky I met Michael. Not just Michael Douglas the actor and producer with two Oscars on the shelf, but Michael Douglas, the love of my life. I really do think it was meant to happen."
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Catherine Zeta-Jones
"I do think I'm lucky I met Michael. Not just Michael Douglas the actor and producer with two Oscars on the shelf, but Michael Douglas, the love of my life. I really do think it was meant to happen."
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"I'm still really close with everyone at home and their parents - and their brothers and sisters. I was so, so, so lucky to grow up as part of a community and I don't take that for granted. I try very hard to stay part of it."
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Jennifer Garner
"I'm still really close with everyone at home and their parents - and their brothers and sisters. I was so, so, so lucky to grow up as part of a community and I don't take that for granted. I try very hard to stay part of it."
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"You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?"
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Charlotte Gainsbourg
"You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?"
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"Emilio Estevez was definitely my first love."
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Demi Moore
"Emilio Estevez was definitely my first love."
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"My parents wanted me to go to law school."
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Sasha Alexander
"My parents wanted me to go to law school."
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"My best friend growing up really put the bug in my ear about acting. We created this one hour-and-a-half improv play when we were 10 or 11 and performed it at the library. We just played off each other so well and had the best time doing it and the funniest part was, we wound up having packed houses, other people loved it too."
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Katherine Moennig
"My best friend growing up really put the bug in my ear about acting. We created this one hour-and-a-half improv play when we were 10 or 11 and performed it at the library. We just played off each other so well and had the best time doing it and the funniest part was, we wound up having packed houses, other people loved it too."
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"We really have a lot of fun at these sessions, we all get along and kid around with each other throughout the job."
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Tara Strong
"We really have a lot of fun at these sessions, we all get along and kid around with each other throughout the job."
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"Dick Clark really didn't make rock 'n roll safe for America, as many people think."
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Annette Funicello
"Dick Clark really didn't make rock 'n roll safe for America, as many people think."
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"Men, we don't need you to be a knight in shining armor. We just need you to be a little bit brave, just a little bit. And some of them are, and that's what he does."
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Virginia Madsen
"Men, we don't need you to be a knight in shining armor. We just need you to be a little bit brave, just a little bit. And some of them are, and that's what he does."
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"I never watch TV. I'm a Radio Four addict. I love listening to music too."
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Louise Jameson
"I never watch TV. I'm a Radio Four addict. I love listening to music too."
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"I spent 10 years in New York doing theater."
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Kristen Johnston
"I spent 10 years in New York doing theater."
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"Nobody took me too seriously but I was grown up even as a baby."
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Sharon Stone
"Nobody took me too seriously but I was grown up even as a baby."
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"In my teens or twenties I wanted to do Blanche. Now I'm over that. Those roles are not attracting me now. Which is odd, because that's what most every actress would want to go do."
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Delta Burke
"In my teens or twenties I wanted to do Blanche. Now I'm over that. Those roles are not attracting me now. Which is odd, because that's what most every actress would want to go do."
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"To work on the actual location I think is great. This thing of going to Canada and pretending you're in New York, it's terrible."
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Jessica Lange
"To work on the actual location I think is great. This thing of going to Canada and pretending you're in New York, it's terrible."
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"To use language is to enter into the territory of categories, which are as necessary as they are dangerous."
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Rebecca Solnit
"To use language is to enter into the territory of categories, which are as necessary as they are dangerous."
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"I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition, essays, English Lit and all of that."
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Joan Collins
"I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition, essays, English Lit and all of that."
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"I've lost my faith in science."
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Bette Davis
"I've lost my faith in science."
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"I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I'll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don't taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me."
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Angelina Jolie
"I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I'll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don't taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me."
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"From the time I was very young, maybe five or six, I thought a lot about being an actress. I didn't tell my friends about my ambitions, though, especially when I got older, because I thought they would not receive them well. I never talked about what I wanted to do."
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Louise Fletcher
"From the time I was very young, maybe five or six, I thought a lot about being an actress. I didn't tell my friends about my ambitions, though, especially when I got older, because I thought they would not receive them well. I never talked about what I wanted to do."
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"Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started."
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Neve Campbell
"Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started."
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"It's a sin to have your films not to make money."
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Ellen Burstyn
"It's a sin to have your films not to make money."
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"I loved psychology and I loved history."
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Joely Fisher
"I loved psychology and I loved history."
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"I wouldn't mind being in an American film for a laugh, but I certainly don't want to be in Thingy Blah Blah 3, if you know what I mean."
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Audrey Tautou
"I wouldn't mind being in an American film for a laugh, but I certainly don't want to be in Thingy Blah Blah 3, if you know what I mean."
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"In the bare room under the old library on the hill in the town at the tip of the small peninsula on the cold island so far from everything else, I lived among strangers and birds."
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Rebecca Solnit
"In the bare room under the old library on the hill in the town at the tip of the small peninsula on the cold island so far from everything else, I lived among strangers and birds."
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"My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers - all smoking related."
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Loni Anderson
"My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers - all smoking related."
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"And that's what the audience was feeling too, as they watched the show and as they watch it now. And overriding all of that is the way it was written. It was written honestly. There was never any manufactured laugh. There was never compromising of character."
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Mary Tyler Moore
"And that's what the audience was feeling too, as they watched the show and as they watch it now. And overriding all of that is the way it was written. It was written honestly. There was never any manufactured laugh. There was never compromising of character."
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