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"No, I don't tolerate pressure from anyone about anything."
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Ashley Judd
"No, I don't tolerate pressure from anyone about anything."
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"Growing up, all I did was work and vacation, but I loved it, no one pushed me into anything. The thing was I developed no special skills. I don't have any resentment because I am a performer and I've always felt that, but it did take its toll socially."
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Dana Plato
"Growing up, all I did was work and vacation, but I loved it, no one pushed me into anything. The thing was I developed no special skills. I don't have any resentment because I am a performer and I've always felt that, but it did take its toll socially."
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"But what I like to sing mostly is blues and cabaret style."
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Moira Kelly
"But what I like to sing mostly is blues and cabaret style."
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"Dance is certainly a sport, and they are phenomenal athletes, and they're also artists."
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Neve Campbell
"Dance is certainly a sport, and they are phenomenal athletes, and they're also artists."
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"I want to work for a long, long time and keep growing in my work, and if I am very lucky and very blessed, maybe somewhere along the line there will be one movie in there that becomes a classic."
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Salma Hayek
"I want to work for a long, long time and keep growing in my work, and if I am very lucky and very blessed, maybe somewhere along the line there will be one movie in there that becomes a classic."
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"I've been on the show for six years and I don't even know what her history is. I sort of make things up in my mind, but I think it's hard for an audience to follow and invest in a character when they don't have the details."
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Crystal Chappell
"I've been on the show for six years and I don't even know what her history is. I sort of make things up in my mind, but I think it's hard for an audience to follow and invest in a character when they don't have the details."
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"I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it."
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Audrey Hepburn
"I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it."
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"It's the most prestigious dog show in the country. We love dogs, and we're having a blast out here."
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Melissa Rivers
"It's the most prestigious dog show in the country. We love dogs, and we're having a blast out here."
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"Between them, my parents had 10 marriages."
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Lorna Luft
"Between them, my parents had 10 marriages."
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"Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much."
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Joan Collins
"Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much."
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"I demanded two weeks of rehearsal because to me as an actor, that's the most important time."
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Christine Lahti
"I demanded two weeks of rehearsal because to me as an actor, that's the most important time."
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"I think there is something for all of us where you find a balance in your life, where you feel that everything you do isn't about your own creature comforts or satisfying your own appetites. Some of it has to be directed outward and there is a huge satisfaction in that."
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Wendie Malick
"I think there is something for all of us where you find a balance in your life, where you feel that everything you do isn't about your own creature comforts or satisfying your own appetites. Some of it has to be directed outward and there is a huge satisfaction in that."
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"Everybody's got a job to do, and I do mine as best I can."
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Marlee Matlin
"Everybody's got a job to do, and I do mine as best I can."
Job,
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"I'm back to doing everything I used to, loving life as ever."
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Donna Mills
"I'm back to doing everything I used to, loving life as ever."
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"Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships."
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Natalie Wood
"Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships."
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"I also liked Daniel Craig. He's not like any other Bond. So we'll see. In 10 years I might be cursed for doing it, but I'm very grateful for what it has done for me."
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Eva Green
"I also liked Daniel Craig. He's not like any other Bond. So we'll see. In 10 years I might be cursed for doing it, but I'm very grateful for what it has done for me."
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"When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt."
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Lucy Liu
"When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt."
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"I had mice that I kept as pets when I was very young, and I've always liked the way they look. Even rats. I'm not scared of them."
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Catherine Deneuve
"I had mice that I kept as pets when I was very young, and I've always liked the way they look. Even rats. I'm not scared of them."
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"I am ashamed to admit I watch a lot of reality shows like The Osbournes and The Bachelor."
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Sara Gilbert
"I am ashamed to admit I watch a lot of reality shows like The Osbournes and The Bachelor."
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"You can certainly keep a low public profile if you want to."
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Rosamund Pike
"You can certainly keep a low public profile if you want to."
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"The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop."
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Reese Witherspoon
"The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop."
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"However, I'm at a very comfortable place in my career and celebrity, in that I don't have to audition as extensively as I used to for roles but yet I'm not immediately recognizable."
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Claire Danes
"However, I'm at a very comfortable place in my career and celebrity, in that I don't have to audition as extensively as I used to for roles but yet I'm not immediately recognizable."
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"Mimicking people was something I did already."
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Jane Horrocks
"Mimicking people was something I did already."
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"I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America."
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Sarah Bernhardt
"I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America."
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"We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality."
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Judy Garland
"We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality."
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"No, I'm not! I'm not a tomboy! I love my makeup! That's not true! I'm not a tomboy!"
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Hilary Duff
"No, I'm not! I'm not a tomboy! I love my makeup! That's not true! I'm not a tomboy!"
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"I'm not computer literate. I e-mail. I know how to get on the Web, but I haven't crossed over into the internet world. I'm old-fashioned, I guess."
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Katie Holmes
"I'm not computer literate. I e-mail. I know how to get on the Web, but I haven't crossed over into the internet world. I'm old-fashioned, I guess."
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"But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for."
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Anna Neagle
"But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for."
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"I'm worried because of my mother, she's going to see my performance and she's quite hard. She's going to see me naked. And my Dad, woah. Yeah, they're going to see me like a woman, you know?"
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Eva Green
"I'm worried because of my mother, she's going to see my performance and she's quite hard. She's going to see me naked. And my Dad, woah. Yeah, they're going to see me like a woman, you know?"
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"I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect."
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Ava Gardner
"I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect."
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"It's funny, I had dinner with my dear friend John Spencer last night and I'm not in the first episode, but he's at the beginning of it and he was telling me about it and I thought this sounds very hot because I think this is definitely the last year of West Wing."
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Stockard Channing
"It's funny, I had dinner with my dear friend John Spencer last night and I'm not in the first episode, but he's at the beginning of it and he was telling me about it and I thought this sounds very hot because I think this is definitely the last year of West Wing."
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"Because of the power of television, I was visible to everybody all over the world. But there are many things in the theater that are more fulfilling and that I look forward to doing more. But really, I love it all: theater, film, television."
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Charlotte Rae
"Because of the power of television, I was visible to everybody all over the world. But there are many things in the theater that are more fulfilling and that I look forward to doing more. But really, I love it all: theater, film, television."
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"You do become very close like a family but because you see each other for such an intense period of time on the set everyday. You really don't end up socializing that much."
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Sela Ward
"You do become very close like a family but because you see each other for such an intense period of time on the set everyday. You really don't end up socializing that much."
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"What he's done is recognise the cinematic nature of the book. It's beautifully realised - it's a beat film."
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Tilda Swinton
"What he's done is recognise the cinematic nature of the book. It's beautifully realised - it's a beat film."
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"I sometimes feel like I could do another job. Anything. Maybe because as an actress you're playing different characters, everything feels possible."
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Juliette Binoche
"I sometimes feel like I could do another job. Anything. Maybe because as an actress you're playing different characters, everything feels possible."
Job,
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"I do like to work with young directors because it's such a difficult business that I think after directors have been around a while sometimes, not always, but sometimes their passion gets siphoned off because they get hurt."
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Ellen Burstyn
"I do like to work with young directors because it's such a difficult business that I think after directors have been around a while sometimes, not always, but sometimes their passion gets siphoned off because they get hurt."
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"Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once."
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Eva Gabor
"Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once."
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"People don't know this, but early in your career, you don't just glide on to The Tonight Show."
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Tea Leoni
"People don't know this, but early in your career, you don't just glide on to The Tonight Show."
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"So anyway, I've learned a lot about myself just in terms of acting but just work ethic and interesting things like full-page monologues or talking straight into camera, which I had never gotten to do before."
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Emma Stone
"So anyway, I've learned a lot about myself just in terms of acting but just work ethic and interesting things like full-page monologues or talking straight into camera, which I had never gotten to do before."
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"The internet to me is kind of like a black hole, and I never really go on it."
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Jennifer Lawrence
"The internet to me is kind of like a black hole, and I never really go on it."
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"I hate biographies which say, I was called to such and such an office, and he offered me so and so, and I got so and so money. I find that very tedious. The best biographies are written by other people."
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Leslie Caron
"I hate biographies which say, I was called to such and such an office, and he offered me so and so, and I got so and so money. I find that very tedious. The best biographies are written by other people."
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"Well I had my kids so young that I kind of feel that I'm a kid too and am growing up with them. The things they're interested in tend to really influence me."
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Reese Witherspoon
"Well I had my kids so young that I kind of feel that I'm a kid too and am growing up with them. The things they're interested in tend to really influence me."
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"I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is."
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Bea Arthur
"I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is."
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"Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes."
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Laura Dern
"Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes."
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"I have found that many other countries will buy off on anything American. As much as they hate us, they want to be us more than anything."
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April Winchell
"I have found that many other countries will buy off on anything American. As much as they hate us, they want to be us more than anything."
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"I am a liberated woman. And I do believe if a woman does equal work she should be paid equal money. But personally I am feminine and I do like male authority to lean on."
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Julie Andrews
"I am a liberated woman. And I do believe if a woman does equal work she should be paid equal money. But personally I am feminine and I do like male authority to lean on."
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"It's not about me, it's about my family. You don't answer questions for you, but for us. You learn to live beyond yourself."
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Jaclyn Smith
"It's not about me, it's about my family. You don't answer questions for you, but for us. You learn to live beyond yourself."
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"No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody."
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Jane Alexander
"No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody."
Art,
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"I think in life we want to challenge ourselves."
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Charlize Theron
"I think in life we want to challenge ourselves."
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"It devastates me now that I have been reduced to a Hollywood statistic - another joke marriage."
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Sophia Bush
"It devastates me now that I have been reduced to a Hollywood statistic - another joke marriage."
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