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Quotes by Actress

"The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports pages."
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Esther Williams
"The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports pages."
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"It used to be only on TV that women could lead, that a show could be based on a woman."
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Sarah Michelle Gellar
"It used to be only on TV that women could lead, that a show could be based on a woman."
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"I came on to the film with a very happy-go-lucky attitude which I think my character, Charlie, did when she went into the house. I expected it to be good, and then slowly things started to change for us all."
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Jennifer Sky
"I came on to the film with a very happy-go-lucky attitude which I think my character, Charlie, did when she went into the house. I expected it to be good, and then slowly things started to change for us all."
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"Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it's very easily manipulated."
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Jena Malone
"Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it's very easily manipulated."
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"Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away."
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Carol Burnett
"Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away."
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"There was a period of time in America where the advertising world actually went to the housewives of America and had them write jingles that would appeal to them. It was actually brilliant marketing."
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Julianne Moore
"There was a period of time in America where the advertising world actually went to the housewives of America and had them write jingles that would appeal to them. It was actually brilliant marketing."
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"I have a lot of variety within me, and the dream role, I think, is actually a compilation of parts that express different aspects of my persona and personal interests."
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Ashley Judd
"I have a lot of variety within me, and the dream role, I think, is actually a compilation of parts that express different aspects of my persona and personal interests."
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"My daughter is a freshman in college and my son is - well, our daughter and our son - is a sophomore in college. So they come home on selected weekends, they come home on vacations and they're home in the summer, although they have jobs."
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Erika Slezak
"My daughter is a freshman in college and my son is - well, our daughter and our son - is a sophomore in college. So they come home on selected weekends, they come home on vacations and they're home in the summer, although they have jobs."
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"It's about, I did talk about my life in broad strokes and what home meant to me in order to really explore the subject of home and can you go back and what that means for people in that sense of community that we've lost."
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Sela Ward
"It's about, I did talk about my life in broad strokes and what home meant to me in order to really explore the subject of home and can you go back and what that means for people in that sense of community that we've lost."
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"Dancing on 'Dancing With The Stars' really broadened my fan base. I jumped off the stage backwards one week, and so many women come up to me now and say, 'You're so brave. I can't believe you put yourself out there like that'. If that inspires some girl out there, then great, because boys aren't the only ones who get to have fun. We get to have fun too."
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Monique Coleman
"Dancing on 'Dancing With The Stars' really broadened my fan base. I jumped off the stage backwards one week, and so many women come up to me now and say, 'You're so brave. I can't believe you put yourself out there like that'. If that inspires some girl out there, then great, because boys aren't the only ones who get to have fun. We get to have fun too."
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"I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out."
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Candice Bergen
"I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out."
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"I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dead in a week."
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Karen Black
"I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dead in a week."
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"But you base everything on people you know."
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Gena Rowlands
"But you base everything on people you know."
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"I'm attracted to roles where I don't have to wear makeup."
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Robin Tunney
"I'm attracted to roles where I don't have to wear makeup."
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"Lack of time is a real health killer."
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Marilu Henner
"Lack of time is a real health killer."
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"I'm reachable for people, I'm not out of their league. I'm just a normal girl."
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Alicia Silverstone
"I'm reachable for people, I'm not out of their league. I'm just a normal girl."
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"My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them."
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Jennifer O'Neill
"My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them."
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"I have many valentines. My mom and my sister and my directors. I got calls from all of them. And my friends. I respect what Valentine's Day stands for because it is about love."
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Michelle Trachtenberg
"I have many valentines. My mom and my sister and my directors. I got calls from all of them. And my friends. I respect what Valentine's Day stands for because it is about love."
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"For me, Los Angeles, New York, where I don't know my neighbors, where people don't necessarily care if they know their neighbors, I'm missing things that truly fed my soul when I was younger, the exchanges between people, the caring and the shared history with people."
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Sela Ward
"For me, Los Angeles, New York, where I don't know my neighbors, where people don't necessarily care if they know their neighbors, I'm missing things that truly fed my soul when I was younger, the exchanges between people, the caring and the shared history with people."
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"Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it."
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Brigitte Bardot
"Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it."
Age,
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"I feel like I haven't done my best work yet."
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Liza Minnelli
"I feel like I haven't done my best work yet."
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"I actually turned down an opportunity for a private interview with Adolph Hitler."
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Dorothy Kilgallen
"I actually turned down an opportunity for a private interview with Adolph Hitler."
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"My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends."
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Amber Tamblyn
"My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends."
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"I loved Veronica right off the bat. She was so strong and I think it is so important because there are so few shows that portray women, especially young women, as being strong and being able to stand up for themselves."
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Kristen Bell
"I loved Veronica right off the bat. She was so strong and I think it is so important because there are so few shows that portray women, especially young women, as being strong and being able to stand up for themselves."
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"When I was younger, I think I intimidated people much more because I was far more insecure."
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Claire Forlani
"When I was younger, I think I intimidated people much more because I was far more insecure."
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"Some things you know about, you know what the ingredients are - maybe not all of them. But it's up to you to put in the amount. It's up to the director to nag you until you get it right."
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Judi Dench
"Some things you know about, you know what the ingredients are - maybe not all of them. But it's up to you to put in the amount. It's up to the director to nag you until you get it right."
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"I like to go to openings when I'm in it, or friends are in it."
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Kathleen Quinlan
"I like to go to openings when I'm in it, or friends are in it."
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"Hopefully this movie will help people understand that if a child is never given the tools to know how to love others and love and respect themselves, this is what happens."
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Jami Gertz
"Hopefully this movie will help people understand that if a child is never given the tools to know how to love others and love and respect themselves, this is what happens."
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"I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent."
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Victoria Principal
"I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent."
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"It was so much fun to play, that I've now had a taste for it and want to play more villains now."
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Piper Perabo
"It was so much fun to play, that I've now had a taste for it and want to play more villains now."
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"Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks."
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Sophia Bush
"Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks."
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"I'm totally on a mission to find my signature scent, but I'm too mercurial."
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Lexa Doig
"I'm totally on a mission to find my signature scent, but I'm too mercurial."
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"Now I know why guys like to hug girls. You guys just want to cop a feel. I can't believe that I've fallen for it all these years!"
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Sherilyn Fenn
"Now I know why guys like to hug girls. You guys just want to cop a feel. I can't believe that I've fallen for it all these years!"
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"Even befor doing this film, I've always been interested in mythology."
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Rachel True
"Even befor doing this film, I've always been interested in mythology."
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"My kids and my family are number one; I enjoy them the most."
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Jami Gertz
"My kids and my family are number one; I enjoy them the most."
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"Our show was - it remained - you know, kids could watch it and laugh at it. And they wouldn't know - they wouldn't get the jokes. But they would laugh at it. So they tell me now they have grown up and they're watching it. Now they get the jokes. But we didn't say anything blatant."
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Rue McClanahan
"Our show was - it remained - you know, kids could watch it and laugh at it. And they wouldn't know - they wouldn't get the jokes. But they would laugh at it. So they tell me now they have grown up and they're watching it. Now they get the jokes. But we didn't say anything blatant."
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"I do not believe that I fell in love with a woman because I was abused."
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Anne Heche
"I do not believe that I fell in love with a woman because I was abused."
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"This season is a lot funnier, not as dark, mainly because, well, she has accepted the fact that she is dead. She knows she cannot go back to where she was when she was alive."
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Ellen Muth
"This season is a lot funnier, not as dark, mainly because, well, she has accepted the fact that she is dead. She knows she cannot go back to where she was when she was alive."
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"There were days that I worked all the time, without a layoff, or a rest, finishing one picture and reporting for another sometimes on the same day."
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Gene Tierney
"There were days that I worked all the time, without a layoff, or a rest, finishing one picture and reporting for another sometimes on the same day."
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"I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I Love Lucy or the Carol Burnett Show."
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Debra Messing
"I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I Love Lucy or the Carol Burnett Show."
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"Even though I don't feel I need approval, it's still important to me to give a good performance. I'm hard on myself."
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Michelle Pfeiffer
"Even though I don't feel I need approval, it's still important to me to give a good performance. I'm hard on myself."
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"I was very active in the peace movement, still am."
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Margot Kidder
"I was very active in the peace movement, still am."
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"That's why I'm an actress - escaping into a world."
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Julie Walters
"That's why I'm an actress - escaping into a world."
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"On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people."
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Camryn Manheim
"On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people."
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"I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one."
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Mae West
"I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one."
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"I usually have 10 different animation projects going at a time."
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Tara Strong
"I usually have 10 different animation projects going at a time."
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"Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time."
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Mercedes McCambridge
"Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time."
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"I like to work. I enjoy once a year, doing a film."
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Hope Davis
"I like to work. I enjoy once a year, doing a film."
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"My only true harmony lies deep within my soul, wherever that is. I know that somehow I am in tune with the universe."
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Mercedes McCambridge
"My only true harmony lies deep within my soul, wherever that is. I know that somehow I am in tune with the universe."
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"I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me."
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Mira Sorvino
"I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me."
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