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Quotes by Actress

"If you've earned a position, be proud of it. Don't hide it. I want to be recognized. When I hear people say, 'There's Joan Crawford!' I turn around and say, 'Hi! How are you!'"
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Joan Crawford
"If you've earned a position, be proud of it. Don't hide it. I want to be recognized. When I hear people say, 'There's Joan Crawford!' I turn around and say, 'Hi! How are you!'"
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"It was great to work in Ireland because it's such a beautiful country, but it's not particularly easy to film in because the weather changes all the time."
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Anjelica Huston
"It was great to work in Ireland because it's such a beautiful country, but it's not particularly easy to film in because the weather changes all the time."
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"When you don't have anybody to take care of you, then you could go both ways: You could do whatever you want, or you could take charge and be your own parent."
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Jennifer Lawrence
"When you don't have anybody to take care of you, then you could go both ways: You could do whatever you want, or you could take charge and be your own parent."
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"A lot of exercise is mindless; you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you're aware in anything you do - and it doesn't have to be yoga - it changes you. Being present changes you."
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Mariel Hemingway
"A lot of exercise is mindless; you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you're aware in anything you do - and it doesn't have to be yoga - it changes you. Being present changes you."
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"Acting in films hasn't changed me. I feel exactly the same."
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Shelley Duvall
"Acting in films hasn't changed me. I feel exactly the same."
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"My mother was there every day of the production. You know what? My mother and I are so close, she really understands the fact that I am 18 and I am maturing. I guess I am not your average 18 year-old."
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Michelle Trachtenberg
"My mother was there every day of the production. You know what? My mother and I are so close, she really understands the fact that I am 18 and I am maturing. I guess I am not your average 18 year-old."
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"Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses."
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Elizabeth Taylor
"Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses."
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"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."
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Judith Light
"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."
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"I don't live that much with the character. I find it hard enough having to spend so many hours with the character during the day."
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Catherine Deneuve
"I don't live that much with the character. I find it hard enough having to spend so many hours with the character during the day."
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"When a child is bruised physically or emotionally, parents often reward him with a treat."
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Marilu Henner
"When a child is bruised physically or emotionally, parents often reward him with a treat."
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"It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed."
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Farrah Fawcett
"It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed."
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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."
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Maggie Gyllenhaal
"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."
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"I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent."
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Jeanne Moreau
"I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent."
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"I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well."
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Lindsay Lohan
"I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well."
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"It's my motor, it's the thing that keeps me going and so when I have these auditions for these big movies, I can depend on myself because I've been working consistently."
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Nia Long
"It's my motor, it's the thing that keeps me going and so when I have these auditions for these big movies, I can depend on myself because I've been working consistently."
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"This is a free country, and nobody should be criticized for their political beliefs. We're all allowed to have our opinions."
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Shannen Doherty
"This is a free country, and nobody should be criticized for their political beliefs. We're all allowed to have our opinions."
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"At the beginning Scully was much more sceptical than she is now."
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Gillian Anderson
"At the beginning Scully was much more sceptical than she is now."
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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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"I think that you love who you love, and there are people who you love that people aren't going to understand why, and that sort of doesn't really matter."
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Piper Perabo
"I think that you love who you love, and there are people who you love that people aren't going to understand why, and that sort of doesn't really matter."
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"My understanding is that Olivia had no idea what was going on."
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Crystal Chappell
"My understanding is that Olivia had no idea what was going on."
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"I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it."
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Marlo Thomas
"I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it."
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"Entrepreneurs don't just like to win, they live to win. Winning is not just their habit but also their lifestyle."
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Farshad Asl
"Entrepreneurs don't just like to win, they live to win. Winning is not just their habit but also their lifestyle."
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"Your habits guide and sculpt your path. The same process that builds habits can break habits."
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Farshad Asl
"Your habits guide and sculpt your path. The same process that builds habits can break habits."
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"I had never watched a law show prior to being cast on The Practice."
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Lara Flynn Boyle
"I had never watched a law show prior to being cast on The Practice."
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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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"Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work."
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Juliette Lewis
"Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work."
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"When I first began to write, I had been a child for most of my life, and my childhood memories were vivid and potent, and the forces that shaped me, Most of them have grown fainter with time, and whenever I write one down, I give it away: it ceases to have the shadowy life of memory and becomes fixed in letters: it ceases to be mine; it loses that mobile unreliability of the live."
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Rebecca Solnit
"When I first began to write, I had been a child for most of my life, and my childhood memories were vivid and potent, and the forces that shaped me, Most of them have grown fainter with time, and whenever I write one down, I give it away: it ceases to have the shadowy life of memory and becomes fixed in letters: it ceases to be mine; it loses that mobile unreliability of the live."
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"Something pretty... that's just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don't worry about it."
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Jeanne Moreau
"Something pretty... that's just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don't worry about it."
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"I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting."
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Jackie Weaver
"I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting."
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"When a man and a woman see each other and like each other they ought to come together - wham - like a couple of taxis on Broadway, not sit around analyzing each other like two specimens in a bottle."
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Thelma Ritter
"When a man and a woman see each other and like each other they ought to come together - wham - like a couple of taxis on Broadway, not sit around analyzing each other like two specimens in a bottle."
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"I'm more proud of quitting smoking than of anything else I've done in my life, including winning an Oscar."
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Christine Lahti
"I'm more proud of quitting smoking than of anything else I've done in my life, including winning an Oscar."
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"Watch me when people say deaf and dumb, or deaf mute, and I give them a look like you might get if you called Denzel Washington the wrong name."
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Marlee Matlin
"Watch me when people say deaf and dumb, or deaf mute, and I give them a look like you might get if you called Denzel Washington the wrong name."
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"The lesion is in the area of my brain that is responsible for motor function, so I have continual chronic pain in my left arm from elbow to fingertips and the right side of my body from my ear to my breast area."
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Karen Duffy
"The lesion is in the area of my brain that is responsible for motor function, so I have continual chronic pain in my left arm from elbow to fingertips and the right side of my body from my ear to my breast area."
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"A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night."
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Marilyn Monroe
"A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night."
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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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"You can take wonderfully talented actors, wonderfully talented writers and producers, and, uh, do a wonderful show!... but if it doesn't hit with the public in two minutes, it's bye-bye."
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Charlotte Rae
"You can take wonderfully talented actors, wonderfully talented writers and producers, and, uh, do a wonderful show!... but if it doesn't hit with the public in two minutes, it's bye-bye."
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"I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre."
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Cate Blanchett
"I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre."
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"We have developed this unbelievable ability to deny. We have to. If we didn't, we'd go crazy."
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Patty Duke
"We have developed this unbelievable ability to deny. We have to. If we didn't, we'd go crazy."
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"You can take charge, kick ass, do whatever you have to do and it's okay. You can blow people up. These are things that are okay for cartoon characters to do."
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Joan Severance
"You can take charge, kick ass, do whatever you have to do and it's okay. You can blow people up. These are things that are okay for cartoon characters to do."
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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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"Although working with Amitabh Bacchan was a different experience altogether, I just enjoyed it."
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Soundarya
"Although working with Amitabh Bacchan was a different experience altogether, I just enjoyed it."
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"I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player."
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Karen Black
"I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player."
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"I knew Secrets and Lies was a great film, but I didn't expect it to get the attention it did because none of his other films had and I thought they were just as good."
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Brenda Blethyn
"I knew Secrets and Lies was a great film, but I didn't expect it to get the attention it did because none of his other films had and I thought they were just as good."
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"The film Punch - Drunk Love is how you see the world when you're in love. You don't see somebody's psychological baggage necessarily, you see the person walking out of the light."
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Emily Watson
"The film Punch - Drunk Love is how you see the world when you're in love. You don't see somebody's psychological baggage necessarily, you see the person walking out of the light."
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"There were times when there were parts that I was sure I got and then I didn't, and I did get upset. But at this point, it doesn't affect me in the least because I know how the business works."
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Ellen Muth
"There were times when there were parts that I was sure I got and then I didn't, and I did get upset. But at this point, it doesn't affect me in the least because I know how the business works."
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"To have gone through so much work to heal myself and have my mother not acknowledge in any way that she was sorry for what had happened to me, broke my heart."
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Anne Heche
"To have gone through so much work to heal myself and have my mother not acknowledge in any way that she was sorry for what had happened to me, broke my heart."
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"The British are so funny. It's like they can't believe I lived in Hackney. 'You could live in Bondi Beach. Why would you want to live in 'Ackney?' But Hackney's fantastic. I'm serious. There are so many artists there. I loved the markets, the parks, the pubs, the diversity. It was a cultural melting-pot."
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Rose Byrne
"The British are so funny. It's like they can't believe I lived in Hackney. 'You could live in Bondi Beach. Why would you want to live in 'Ackney?' But Hackney's fantastic. I'm serious. There are so many artists there. I loved the markets, the parks, the pubs, the diversity. It was a cultural melting-pot."
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"I had not starred in an independent film and it's about a woman who owned a hair salon."
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Jenifer Lewis
"I had not starred in an independent film and it's about a woman who owned a hair salon."
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"If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try."
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Meryl Streep
"If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try."
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"I love to fly. I always wanted to fly. It's been one of my dreams since I was 3 years old. I remember saying to my mom, 3 years old, every day, 'I can fly!' Living on the ninth floor, it was dangerous."
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Elena Anaya
"I love to fly. I always wanted to fly. It's been one of my dreams since I was 3 years old. I remember saying to my mom, 3 years old, every day, 'I can fly!' Living on the ninth floor, it was dangerous."
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