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"Every story was being made up. My true friends weren't the ones speaking. It was people who never knew me, making up stories. Even my local paper put a $1,000 bounty out for information about my whereabouts."
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Marla Maples
"Every story was being made up. My true friends weren't the ones speaking. It was people who never knew me, making up stories. Even my local paper put a $1,000 bounty out for information about my whereabouts."
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"I love it when ugliness is beautiful. I love character flaws."
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Marcia Gay Harden
"I love it when ugliness is beautiful. I love character flaws."
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"I love acting. But I love being a mother. To be a full mother and a full person, you have to do what you love, and that's acting. But I like the best of both worlds."
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Tracey Gold
"I love acting. But I love being a mother. To be a full mother and a full person, you have to do what you love, and that's acting. But I like the best of both worlds."
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"I wanted to be the kind of woman who would attract a certain kind of man that I could respect. That was my thinking. It had to do with the kind of couple I would be a part of."
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Lisa Kudrow
"I wanted to be the kind of woman who would attract a certain kind of man that I could respect. That was my thinking. It had to do with the kind of couple I would be a part of."
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"Unfortunately, since the Sept. 11 tragedy, our business is not doing too well."
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Hunter Tylo
"Unfortunately, since the Sept. 11 tragedy, our business is not doing too well."
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"I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes."
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Bette Midler
"I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes."
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"On network TV, I'm still Phoebe to people, and it would be hard to convince them otherwise in the bright lights of a sitcom."
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Lisa Kudrow
"On network TV, I'm still Phoebe to people, and it would be hard to convince them otherwise in the bright lights of a sitcom."
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"My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends."
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Gloria Swanson
"My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends."
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"Only in your imagination can you revise."
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Fay Wray
"Only in your imagination can you revise."
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"Billy Campbell who is... I... truly one of the most talented actors today."
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Sela Ward
"Billy Campbell who is... I... truly one of the most talented actors today."
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"We never expected the show to be this great. We think it is successful because kids can identify."
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Thuy Trang
"We never expected the show to be this great. We think it is successful because kids can identify."
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"The director, of course, was Bob Fosse. But again, I worked with my father to prepare for the role."
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Liza Minnelli
"The director, of course, was Bob Fosse. But again, I worked with my father to prepare for the role."
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"In terms of my own film experience, I'm definitely used to morose and very heavy, heavy dramas."
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Mia Kirshner
"In terms of my own film experience, I'm definitely used to morose and very heavy, heavy dramas."
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"So I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it would be too intimidating for the other producers and the other men who worked on the show. In other words, I had the power, but I gave them the title."
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Marlo Thomas
"So I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it would be too intimidating for the other producers and the other men who worked on the show. In other words, I had the power, but I gave them the title."
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"I don't think when people sign up for a life of doing something they love to do they should have to sign up for a complete loss of privacy. I understand a little loss of privacy coming with the job."
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Sarah Chalke
"I don't think when people sign up for a life of doing something they love to do they should have to sign up for a complete loss of privacy. I understand a little loss of privacy coming with the job."
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"And I can relate to that, because I went to an all white school, so I knew what that was like. And it was hard at the time, but anything that's difficult you learn from, don't you?"
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Rachel True
"And I can relate to that, because I went to an all white school, so I knew what that was like. And it was hard at the time, but anything that's difficult you learn from, don't you?"
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"I understand how hard it is to talk to people about MS. You don't want pity or random advice."
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Teri Garr
"I understand how hard it is to talk to people about MS. You don't want pity or random advice."
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"I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination."
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Patty Duke
"I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination."
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"I do it because I love acting, I love working, and whether it's radio, television, films, theater, I don't care as long as I can get out there and do it."
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Joan Collins
"I do it because I love acting, I love working, and whether it's radio, television, films, theater, I don't care as long as I can get out there and do it."
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"My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor."
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Victoria Pratt
"My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor."
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"When I make an American movie it's going to come out all over the world-it doesn't happen the same way for an Italian film or a French film."
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Monica Bellucci
"When I make an American movie it's going to come out all over the world-it doesn't happen the same way for an Italian film or a French film."
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"It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre."
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Frances McDormand
"It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre."
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"I am taking belly dancing now. My hips are double-jointed, so I can do it really easily."
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Alexa Vega
"I am taking belly dancing now. My hips are double-jointed, so I can do it really easily."
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"I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think it must be every housewife's dream, to be an actress part-time."
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Meg Tilly
"I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think it must be every housewife's dream, to be an actress part-time."
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"I can't imagine actually singing on this show like I did on 'Felicity,' but it would be kind of funny."
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Amy Jo Johnson
"I can't imagine actually singing on this show like I did on 'Felicity,' but it would be kind of funny."
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"Since I have fair skin, I have to stay out of the sun. I can't stand the sun. I dyed my hair red for a while during the 1990s but I'm actually a natural blonde."
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Nicole Kidman
"Since I have fair skin, I have to stay out of the sun. I can't stand the sun. I dyed my hair red for a while during the 1990s but I'm actually a natural blonde."
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"I think there's an anxiety in life where we automatically tend to look to the next thing or we're complaining about the past. Worrying is not going to make it happen or not happen."
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Sherilyn Fenn
"I think there's an anxiety in life where we automatically tend to look to the next thing or we're complaining about the past. Worrying is not going to make it happen or not happen."
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"I've always been able to decide what was more important at different points in my life, but I never gave up personal things to work, never."
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Catherine Deneuve
"I've always been able to decide what was more important at different points in my life, but I never gave up personal things to work, never."
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"I developed a nutty attitude where I'd think, If some guy really loves me he doesn't care if I'm fat. I'd come up with all these stupid reasons why it would be OK to be fat."
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Kirstie Alley
"I developed a nutty attitude where I'd think, If some guy really loves me he doesn't care if I'm fat. I'd come up with all these stupid reasons why it would be OK to be fat."
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"When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary."
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Olympia Dukakis
"When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary."
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"I never mind scrubbing floors, vacuuming or bending and carrying stuff. Each time I do it I think, this is instead of going to the gym."
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Joanna Lumley
"I never mind scrubbing floors, vacuuming or bending and carrying stuff. Each time I do it I think, this is instead of going to the gym."
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"Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting."
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Marlene Dietrich
"Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting."
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"You may not seem able to change some outer circumstances but you can start by changing your inner experience of life and yourself."
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Joy Page
"You may not seem able to change some outer circumstances but you can start by changing your inner experience of life and yourself."
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"If you've looked at all the glamour magazines lately, all the covers are actresses. If they are on those covers, they are going to try to emulate models. That's just the way it is."
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Portia de Rossi
"If you've looked at all the glamour magazines lately, all the covers are actresses. If they are on those covers, they are going to try to emulate models. That's just the way it is."
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"I really, really love Hilary Clinton. I think she's very cool. She's out there and she's involved."
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Sandra Bernhard
"I really, really love Hilary Clinton. I think she's very cool. She's out there and she's involved."
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"Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings."
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Kelly LeBrock
"Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings."
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"I'm learning to play by the rules. I sort of hate to think of it that way, but that's how it is. I'm really learning to function out there and in such a way that I don't need to drink."
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Dana Plato
"I'm learning to play by the rules. I sort of hate to think of it that way, but that's how it is. I'm really learning to function out there and in such a way that I don't need to drink."
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"I've always wanted to do this, so it really is a dream come true."
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Jeri Ryan
"I've always wanted to do this, so it really is a dream come true."
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"I love playing bitches. There's a lot of bitch in every woman - a lot in every man."
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Joan Crawford
"I love playing bitches. There's a lot of bitch in every woman - a lot in every man."
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"I am a grandmother now, and that means age is creeping on, creeping on."
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Lillie Langtry
"I am a grandmother now, and that means age is creeping on, creeping on."
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"There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy."
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Sally Field
"There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy."
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"I remember that all of a sudden, the car felt like I couldn't control it. It was absolutely the most horrifying experience. We rolled over, off the freeway. I think there was something wrong with the car."
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Tracey Gold
"I remember that all of a sudden, the car felt like I couldn't control it. It was absolutely the most horrifying experience. We rolled over, off the freeway. I think there was something wrong with the car."
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"I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say."
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Ingrid Bergman
"I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say."
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"If we had a hard time, my mother would sit me down and we would talk about it, and she kept talking and kept processing until we started to laugh about it."
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Liza Minnelli
"If we had a hard time, my mother would sit me down and we would talk about it, and she kept talking and kept processing until we started to laugh about it."
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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'm just talking specifically of women's friendships. If two women go to a bar and they are fighting over men, it makes it much easier for the men. If two women are very close and they act as it makes it very difficult for the men to pull one over on anybody."
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Jennifer Beals
"I'm just talking specifically of women's friendships. If two women go to a bar and they are fighting over men, it makes it much easier for the men. If two women are very close and they act as it makes it very difficult for the men to pull one over on anybody."
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"I remember hitting Sarah Michelle Gellar with a right hook during my first week on the job. It was awful. They usually pair actors with stunt doubles to avoid things like that."
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Eliza Dushku
"I remember hitting Sarah Michelle Gellar with a right hook during my first week on the job. It was awful. They usually pair actors with stunt doubles to avoid things like that."
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"Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think that's because we were trained - until now - in theatre."
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Brenda Blethyn
"Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think that's because we were trained - until now - in theatre."
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"I never did go back to acting class. I was too busy working."
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Kirstie Alley
"I never did go back to acting class. I was too busy working."
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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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