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Quotes by Actress

"I wanted to show people I can do things other than the sophisticated bitch."
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Christine Baranski
"I wanted to show people I can do things other than the sophisticated bitch."
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"We need a number of solutions - we need more efficiency and conservation. Efficiency is a big one. I think car companies need to do a lot better in producing more efficient cars. They have the technology, we just need to demand them as consumers."
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Daryl Hannah
"We need a number of solutions - we need more efficiency and conservation. Efficiency is a big one. I think car companies need to do a lot better in producing more efficient cars. They have the technology, we just need to demand them as consumers."
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"There are all kinds of other things I could do, things I would probably like, but only acting would give me emotional fulfillment."
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Mira Sorvino
"There are all kinds of other things I could do, things I would probably like, but only acting would give me emotional fulfillment."
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"Altman works in such an interesting way, letting things occur in the film even if he didn't particularly plan them."
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Julie Christie
"Altman works in such an interesting way, letting things occur in the film even if he didn't particularly plan them."
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"I have this very strange sensitive skin. If I put anything on it but this one product, it erupts into a rash."
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Rebecca De Mornay
"I have this very strange sensitive skin. If I put anything on it but this one product, it erupts into a rash."
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"Like at Halloween: I knew I'd arrived when I saw people dressing up on Halloween as my character."
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Jane Badler
"Like at Halloween: I knew I'd arrived when I saw people dressing up on Halloween as my character."
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"I think there's an ongoing effort involved in trying to get a bigger perspective, trying to let go of things that limit your capacity to love and be loved or your capacity to hear and to really speak."
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Meg Ryan
"I think there's an ongoing effort involved in trying to get a bigger perspective, trying to let go of things that limit your capacity to love and be loved or your capacity to hear and to really speak."
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"The thrill of being in front of a camera remains exactly the same."
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Julie Andrews
"The thrill of being in front of a camera remains exactly the same."
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"My life has been a series of emergencies."
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Lana Turner
"My life has been a series of emergencies."
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"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."
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Judy Garland
"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."
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"I adore clothes, I adore drinking. I just don't have the time or the inclination to totally indulge in it."
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Christine Baranski
"I adore clothes, I adore drinking. I just don't have the time or the inclination to totally indulge in it."
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"So the first season about halfway through he just sort of put us together and then broke us up all within one episode. One of the ideas is to have us do that once a year - to have everything blow up in our faces and not work out."
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Sarah Chalke
"So the first season about halfway through he just sort of put us together and then broke us up all within one episode. One of the ideas is to have us do that once a year - to have everything blow up in our faces and not work out."
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"We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the vegetables - the lettuce, the cucumbers, the onions, the green peppers - to maintain their identity. You appreciate differences."
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Jane Elliot
"We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the vegetables - the lettuce, the cucumbers, the onions, the green peppers - to maintain their identity. You appreciate differences."
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"The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks."
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Lorna Luft
"The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks."
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"I have the soul of a singer and do splendidly in the shower but the world will never hear it. Basically, I'm the only Irish person who can't carry a tune."
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Roma Downey
"I have the soul of a singer and do splendidly in the shower but the world will never hear it. Basically, I'm the only Irish person who can't carry a tune."
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"So, I think that Marilyn, what she gave the world, and in many ways Kennedy too, was that they had dreams and they didn't allow anybody to take away their dreams."
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Sally Kirkland
"So, I think that Marilyn, what she gave the world, and in many ways Kennedy too, was that they had dreams and they didn't allow anybody to take away their dreams."
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"It's really important to draw the line on what we do as actors."
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Anna Friel
"It's really important to draw the line on what we do as actors."
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"I didn't think I was fat. I just thought I didn't need to gain any weight. But I would drop weight and then I would be comfortable with that number. Then I would lose more weight and that would become my new number."
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Tracey Gold
"I didn't think I was fat. I just thought I didn't need to gain any weight. But I would drop weight and then I would be comfortable with that number. Then I would lose more weight and that would become my new number."
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"I think when you take away all, like, the premieres and press stuff and all the special effects, then you just come down to the fact that it's all about acting, and I think that has been the best bit for me."
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Emma Watson
"I think when you take away all, like, the premieres and press stuff and all the special effects, then you just come down to the fact that it's all about acting, and I think that has been the best bit for me."
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"I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely."
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Ava Gardner
"I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely."
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"I cannot write music. I cannot play the piano."
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Jayne Meadows
"I cannot write music. I cannot play the piano."
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"The fact that anyone would find me sexy is very, very flattering, but ridiculous. I so don't believe it. But I'm flattered. Truth is, I don't lift a finger to look sexy. Ever."
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Laura Prepon
"The fact that anyone would find me sexy is very, very flattering, but ridiculous. I so don't believe it. But I'm flattered. Truth is, I don't lift a finger to look sexy. Ever."
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"You're asking the wrong girl about fame. I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else."
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Nikki Cox
"You're asking the wrong girl about fame. I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else."
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"I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?"
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Mae West
"I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?"
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"We feel it's unacceptable to be fat, when it has nothing to do with who the person actually is."
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Gwyneth Paltrow
"We feel it's unacceptable to be fat, when it has nothing to do with who the person actually is."
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"While being called beautiful is extremely flattering, I would much rather be noticed for my work as an actress."
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Halle Berry
"While being called beautiful is extremely flattering, I would much rather be noticed for my work as an actress."
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"I'm writing a novel about two actresses who go to New York, because that's what I know about. One has lost touch with reality, disappears and is picked up by a man."
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Julie Walters
"I'm writing a novel about two actresses who go to New York, because that's what I know about. One has lost touch with reality, disappears and is picked up by a man."
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"I never forget, remember that. Not an action, not a name, not a face."
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Piper Laurie
"I never forget, remember that. Not an action, not a name, not a face."
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"Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead."
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Louise Brooks
"Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead."
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"I wrapped "Buffy" and I always felt on "Buffy" that they wanted to keep me younger for a specific reason. It seemed like I was getting younger every year that I was on the show. I think there was a reference to me being 15, then 14."
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Michelle Trachtenberg
"I wrapped "Buffy" and I always felt on "Buffy" that they wanted to keep me younger for a specific reason. It seemed like I was getting younger every year that I was on the show. I think there was a reference to me being 15, then 14."
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"You know, we have to take these characters - who, granted, have their separate personalities but, on a lot of levels, are pretty two-dimensional - and make them into people with flaws, with insecurities."
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Rachael Leigh Cook
"You know, we have to take these characters - who, granted, have their separate personalities but, on a lot of levels, are pretty two-dimensional - and make them into people with flaws, with insecurities."
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"I was lucky enough to be the lady that was asked to be Maria in the Sound Of Music, and that film was fortunate enough to be huge hit. The same with Mary Poppins. I got terribly lucky in that respect."
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Julie Andrews
"I was lucky enough to be the lady that was asked to be Maria in the Sound Of Music, and that film was fortunate enough to be huge hit. The same with Mary Poppins. I got terribly lucky in that respect."
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"I support anything to do with the welfare and rights of children in a huge way."
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Kelly Preston
"I support anything to do with the welfare and rights of children in a huge way."
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"I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel."
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Diane Lane
"I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel."
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"When you've been locked up in a mental institution, people are going to ask questions. It was OK, because I didn't have to act perfect all the time."
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Drew Barrymore
"When you've been locked up in a mental institution, people are going to ask questions. It was OK, because I didn't have to act perfect all the time."
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"I think 'Saturday Night Live', starting in the 1970s, really gave women an outlet to be funny. A lot of those women went on to have film careers, from Kristen Wiig now to Tina Fey and Gilda Radner."
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Emma Stone
"I think 'Saturday Night Live', starting in the 1970s, really gave women an outlet to be funny. A lot of those women went on to have film careers, from Kristen Wiig now to Tina Fey and Gilda Radner."
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"Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint."
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Gates McFadden
"Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint."
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"I loved working on Of Mice and Men. It was a wonderful group of people. John Malkovich is to me one of the best actors around right now-and a lot of fun to work with."
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Sherilyn Fenn
"I loved working on Of Mice and Men. It was a wonderful group of people. John Malkovich is to me one of the best actors around right now-and a lot of fun to work with."
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"The most rewarding thing is being on Broadway. I went into Cabaret as a replacement and was really challenged beyond anything I could have imagined."
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Brooke Shields
"The most rewarding thing is being on Broadway. I went into Cabaret as a replacement and was really challenged beyond anything I could have imagined."
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"It's a clique and I think a clique exists in every business. There's a circle of people that are guaranteed to open a movie and we all know their names and whether they're right or wrong for the role."
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Elizabeth Pena
"It's a clique and I think a clique exists in every business. There's a circle of people that are guaranteed to open a movie and we all know their names and whether they're right or wrong for the role."
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"If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?"
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Judy Garland
"If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?"
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"I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff."
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Laura Prepon
"I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff."
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"If I have any message for others, it is to go for help early and not to be a resistant patient."
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Patty Duke
"If I have any message for others, it is to go for help early and not to be a resistant patient."
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"What I love most about this crazy life is the adventure of it."
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Juliette Binoche
"What I love most about this crazy life is the adventure of it."
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"I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic."
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Natalie Wood
"I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic."
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"I had called her up a couple of weeks before then, because I had heard this vicious rumour that she did not like the movie. It was very upsetting for me. I am very sensitive to that, because I am portraying her life and did not want her to be unhappy."
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Charlize Theron
"I had called her up a couple of weeks before then, because I had heard this vicious rumour that she did not like the movie. It was very upsetting for me. I am very sensitive to that, because I am portraying her life and did not want her to be unhappy."
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"I don't look like Halle Berry. But chances are, she's going to end up looking like me."
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Whoopi Goldberg
"I don't look like Halle Berry. But chances are, she's going to end up looking like me."
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"I really came out to L.A. to take the money and run."
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Kristen Johnston
"I really came out to L.A. to take the money and run."
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"When you're 22 or 23, you think the world revolves around you, and I felt that way for a long time. But I just turned 30, and I love it! You realize, 'Whoa, baby, you ain't all that.' And you're not! You're just a woman out there doing something she loves."
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Jamie Luner
"When you're 22 or 23, you think the world revolves around you, and I felt that way for a long time. But I just turned 30, and I love it! You realize, 'Whoa, baby, you ain't all that.' And you're not! You're just a woman out there doing something she loves."
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"Yes I never go to the gym otherwise because I think it's a waste of time and the most boring thing on earth."
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Izabella Scorupco
"Yes I never go to the gym otherwise because I think it's a waste of time and the most boring thing on earth."
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