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Quotes by Actress

"When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way you could be a good winner."
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Halle Berry
"When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way you could be a good winner."
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"In terms of being a role model, I didn't start out to be one. I don't go to work every day with that in mind. But, I do get a lot of fan mail from young girls."
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Victoria Pratt
"In terms of being a role model, I didn't start out to be one. I don't go to work every day with that in mind. But, I do get a lot of fan mail from young girls."
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"I love cats. I have a lot of cat tales, ha ha, so to speak. A lot of my cats come to me. They show up at my house. I'm kind of a cat lady that way."
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Gina Gershon
"I love cats. I have a lot of cat tales, ha ha, so to speak. A lot of my cats come to me. They show up at my house. I'm kind of a cat lady that way."
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"You have to support your children to have a healthy relationship."
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Connie Sellecca
"You have to support your children to have a healthy relationship."
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"The characters do have a life of their own; it's weird."
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Julie Walters
"The characters do have a life of their own; it's weird."
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"I've made six films since I made Secrets and Lies but I still live in London and I'd love to do theater."
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Brenda Blethyn
"I've made six films since I made Secrets and Lies but I still live in London and I'd love to do theater."
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"I knew that by getting behind the wheel of the car and having had something to drink, the responsibility laid on my shoulders."
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Tracey Gold
"I knew that by getting behind the wheel of the car and having had something to drink, the responsibility laid on my shoulders."
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"What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be."
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Ellen Burstyn
"What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be."
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"Women have been kicking ass for centuries."
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Yancy Butler
"Women have been kicking ass for centuries."
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"If you have to make mistakes, make them good and big, don't be middling if you can help it."
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Hildegard Knef
"If you have to make mistakes, make them good and big, don't be middling if you can help it."
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"It's completely different to work with a woman that is my age, maybe younger."
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Sherilyn Fenn
"It's completely different to work with a woman that is my age, maybe younger."
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"I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I'm a big shoe girl."
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Amy Adams
"I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I'm a big shoe girl."
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"Now that I'm more mature, in a funny way, I can even appreciate that I've bad to become more aware of my body. Since I've chosen acting as my career, I have to keep my weight down anyway-I've been used to it for years, so it's no problem. And there's nothing I can't do."
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Dana Hill
"Now that I'm more mature, in a funny way, I can even appreciate that I've bad to become more aware of my body. Since I've chosen acting as my career, I have to keep my weight down anyway-I've been used to it for years, so it's no problem. And there's nothing I can't do."
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"I told my mother at about the seventh year of therapy that I had been abused sexually by my father, and she hung up the phone on me."
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Anne Heche
"I told my mother at about the seventh year of therapy that I had been abused sexually by my father, and she hung up the phone on me."
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"I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them."
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Juliette Binoche
"I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them."
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"I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world."
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Angelina Jolie
"I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world."
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"You never find yourself until you face the truth."
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Pearl Bailey
"You never find yourself until you face the truth."
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"I can only pay my electric bill for my last two years on my acting."
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Piper Perabo
"I can only pay my electric bill for my last two years on my acting."
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"I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have."
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Jacqueline Bisset
"I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have."
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"I almost feel like Mars has been taking care of me for all of these years."
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Ann Robinson
"I almost feel like Mars has been taking care of me for all of these years."
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"At boarding school you had to wear your name across your chest and your back, and obviously I had a pretty funny name. It wasn't Brown or Smith or Hughes."
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Diane Cilento
"At boarding school you had to wear your name across your chest and your back, and obviously I had a pretty funny name. It wasn't Brown or Smith or Hughes."
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"They offered me one cover about 10 years ago, and I said, no, I can't do it. I'm happy to cover up now."
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Ursula Andress
"They offered me one cover about 10 years ago, and I said, no, I can't do it. I'm happy to cover up now."
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"I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business."
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Ida Lupino
"I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business."
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"I came from a real working-class show business family."
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Sally Field
"I came from a real working-class show business family."
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"Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be."
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Joy Page
"Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be."
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"Are we changing the idea of what beauty is? Let's hope so. I'm not the typical Hollywood beauty. Let's hope we're looking at the insides of people a little more."
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Anne Heche
"Are we changing the idea of what beauty is? Let's hope so. I'm not the typical Hollywood beauty. Let's hope we're looking at the insides of people a little more."
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"You know, my parents have always been incredibly supportive. I'm an only child, so we're very close. There's just the three of us. They're exceptional parents but also great friends. My father was able to take his hobby, photography, and turn it into a beautiful career. So when they saw how much I loved acting, they were 100 percent behind me."
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Sophia Bush
"You know, my parents have always been incredibly supportive. I'm an only child, so we're very close. There's just the three of us. They're exceptional parents but also great friends. My father was able to take his hobby, photography, and turn it into a beautiful career. So when they saw how much I loved acting, they were 100 percent behind me."
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"Women's virtue is man's greatest invention."
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Cornelia Otis Skinner
"Women's virtue is man's greatest invention."
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"It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain."
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Meg Ryan
"It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain."
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"If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends."
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Merry Browne
"If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends."
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"It gets really tricky giving advice. The older I get, the less advice I give."
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Anne Heche
"It gets really tricky giving advice. The older I get, the less advice I give."
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"The biggest reason most people fail is that they try to fix too much at once - join a gym, get out of debt, floss after meals and have thinner thighs in 30 days."
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Marilu Henner
"The biggest reason most people fail is that they try to fix too much at once - join a gym, get out of debt, floss after meals and have thinner thighs in 30 days."
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"Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third."
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Sarah Bernhardt
"Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third."
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"I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things by people who couldn't really do it, you can do some pretty wonderfully, imaginative horrific things to teachers."
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Diane Cilento
"I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things by people who couldn't really do it, you can do some pretty wonderfully, imaginative horrific things to teachers."
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"As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean."
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Jeanne Moreau
"As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean."
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"We don't relate to her too much because you don't want the heroic character to not be heroic."
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Radha Mitchell
"We don't relate to her too much because you don't want the heroic character to not be heroic."
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"Well my taste wasn't very good when I first started out. But later, when I began to appreciate the art of acting, I would say the actress I most admire is Vanessa Redgrave."
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Ellen Burstyn
"Well my taste wasn't very good when I first started out. But later, when I began to appreciate the art of acting, I would say the actress I most admire is Vanessa Redgrave."
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"I felt they had really moved the characters in a direction that was very interesting. The family had really felt the impact of what had happened to the."
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JoBeth Williams
"I felt they had really moved the characters in a direction that was very interesting. The family had really felt the impact of what had happened to the."
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"My agent sent me the script and I loved it. I wondered how they would turn me into a chimp. My agent said it would probably not entail to much time. Just some hair and make-up. I found out that it was not so simple."
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Kim Hunter
"My agent sent me the script and I loved it. I wondered how they would turn me into a chimp. My agent said it would probably not entail to much time. Just some hair and make-up. I found out that it was not so simple."
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"Bill Powell is the only intelligent actor I've ever met."
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Carole Lombard
"Bill Powell is the only intelligent actor I've ever met."
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"Most of the people I know in show business don't need anybody pushing them at all. They're extremely aggressive."
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Helen Reddy
"Most of the people I know in show business don't need anybody pushing them at all. They're extremely aggressive."
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"I had a friend, and we always used to pretend to be twins. We had this fantasy about going to Hollywood together. We were about four."
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Radha Mitchell
"I had a friend, and we always used to pretend to be twins. We had this fantasy about going to Hollywood together. We were about four."
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"She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker."
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Lara Flynn Boyle
"She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker."
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"People are going to say what they want to say and think what they want to think, and I can't change their minds."
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Hilary Duff
"People are going to say what they want to say and think what they want to think, and I can't change their minds."
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"I have always brought home stray animals - everything from squirrels to wild rabbits to foxes and turtles."
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Amy Weber
"I have always brought home stray animals - everything from squirrels to wild rabbits to foxes and turtles."
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"I can goof around with other people right up to when we shoot."
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Gillian Anderson
"I can goof around with other people right up to when we shoot."
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"I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine."
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Marlee Matlin
"I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine."
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"My greatest debt will always be to the movie-going public of yesterday and today, without whose love and devotion I would have had no story to tell."
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Gloria Swanson
"My greatest debt will always be to the movie-going public of yesterday and today, without whose love and devotion I would have had no story to tell."
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"I'm still trying to figure out what the right line is between myself and the people I play. Sometimes I go too far one way or too far the other."
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Maggie Gyllenhaal
"I'm still trying to figure out what the right line is between myself and the people I play. Sometimes I go too far one way or too far the other."
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"I don't think of it at the moment, but the roles that interest me are those of young people."
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Isabelle Adjani
"I don't think of it at the moment, but the roles that interest me are those of young people."
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