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"There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs."
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Kristin Scott Thomas
"There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs."
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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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"Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star. We had no idea that other people would think we were special, because there was no other lifestyle to compare it to."
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Liza Minnelli
"Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star. We had no idea that other people would think we were special, because there was no other lifestyle to compare it to."
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"What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?"
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Kathleen Turner
"What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?"
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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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"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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"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'm fighting the label of "Black" actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies."
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Whoopi Goldberg
"I'm fighting the label of "Black" actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies."
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"One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions."
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Cornelia Otis Skinner
"One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions."
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"I'm very grateful for the platform that I've had in my life to speak out about the things I care about."
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Anne Heche
"I'm very grateful for the platform that I've had in my life to speak out about the things I care about."
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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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"My favorite thing in the world is a box of fine European chocolates which is, for sure, better than sex."
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Alicia Silverstone
"My favorite thing in the world is a box of fine European chocolates which is, for sure, better than sex."
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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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"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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"Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.'"
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Sarah Bernhardt
"Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.'"
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"The name game is frustrating. Agents will say, They love you, but they're going to offer it to Julia Roberts first."
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Mira Sorvino
"The name game is frustrating. Agents will say, They love you, but they're going to offer it to Julia Roberts first."
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"But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge."
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Rachael Leigh Cook
"But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge."
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"Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing."
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Jane Birkin
"Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing."
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"Yeah, I started when I was 6 years old. My brother and sister would get all of these presents at Christmas time from the cast and crew of their show and I was jealous. So I decided that I had to become an actor."
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Sara Gilbert
"Yeah, I started when I was 6 years old. My brother and sister would get all of these presents at Christmas time from the cast and crew of their show and I was jealous. So I decided that I had to become an actor."
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"If I had a great body, I'd be naked all the time."
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Claire Forlani
"If I had a great body, I'd be naked all the time."
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"Don't be afraid to look silly."
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Tara Strong
"Don't be afraid to look silly."
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"Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist."
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Helen Reddy
"Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist."
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"I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed."
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Gene Tierney
"I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed."
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"I was in Yorkshire. We were a family of five and I used to be sent sometimes to get the rations for the week and I was easily able to carry them back. It was like one egg and a tiny bit of tea."
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Judi Dench
"I was in Yorkshire. We were a family of five and I used to be sent sometimes to get the rations for the week and I was easily able to carry them back. It was like one egg and a tiny bit of tea."
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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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"My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman."
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Lena Horne
"My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman."
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"We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!"
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Tara Strong
"We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!"
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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 choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping."
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Lorna Luft
"I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping."
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"I am now at an age when they wanted me to play her mother."
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Isabella Rossellini
"I am now at an age when they wanted me to play her mother."
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"Everybody is just at the start of this huge process of trying to unravel what's going on with the 4,400, where they've been and why they're back and what they're trying to do with us in the present. And we're trying to work out what messages they're sending us."
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Jacqueline McKenzie
"Everybody is just at the start of this huge process of trying to unravel what's going on with the 4,400, where they've been and why they're back and what they're trying to do with us in the present. And we're trying to work out what messages they're sending us."
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"Ever since I was a little kid, whenever my parents would have company over, I would put on shows, whether they would be magic shows, singing shows, dancing shows, little skits."
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Ellen Muth
"Ever since I was a little kid, whenever my parents would have company over, I would put on shows, whether they would be magic shows, singing shows, dancing shows, little skits."
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"I'd love to be the first one to say this, but it automatically turns into - we all have those responsibilities that we ignore because we don't feel like they're ours."
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Rosario Dawson
"I'd love to be the first one to say this, but it automatically turns into - we all have those responsibilities that we ignore because we don't feel like they're ours."
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"I'm fine, but I'm bipolar. I'm on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day. This constantly puts me in touch with the illness I have. I'm never quite allowed to be free of that for a day. It's like being a diabetic."
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Carrie Fisher
"I'm fine, but I'm bipolar. I'm on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day. This constantly puts me in touch with the illness I have. I'm never quite allowed to be free of that for a day. It's like being a diabetic."
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"How could you have had such a wonderful life as me if there wasn't a God directing?"
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Maureen O'Hara
"How could you have had such a wonderful life as me if there wasn't a God directing?"
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"When I go, if there's a tombstone it will say, She doesn't give in. She doesn't give up. And she never takes no for an answer."
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Doris Roberts
"When I go, if there's a tombstone it will say, She doesn't give in. She doesn't give up. And she never takes no for an answer."
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"The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying."
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Olivia De Havilland
"The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying."
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"In the studio, if they need to come down to the floor, things are a bit pushy, although it is easier for them to say things directly rather than through about five people."
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Sarah Sutton
"In the studio, if they need to come down to the floor, things are a bit pushy, although it is easier for them to say things directly rather than through about five people."
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"I had no desire to be an film actress, to always play somebody else, to be always beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me."
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Marlene Dietrich
"I had no desire to be an film actress, to always play somebody else, to be always beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me."
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"I work to stay alive."
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Bette Davis
"I work to stay alive."
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"I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them."
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Helen Reddy
"I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them."
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"It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved and he had this very open charm that made people feel they had a personal relationship with him."
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Kate Beckinsale
"It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved and he had this very open charm that made people feel they had a personal relationship with him."
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"People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all."
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Joy Page
"People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all."
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"I know what actors fear, what they like; I know how to get things out of them and I listen to them better, since I've been there."
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Joan Chen
"I know what actors fear, what they like; I know how to get things out of them and I listen to them better, since I've been there."
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"Going to another country you're not in your house, you're with people you've never met before, and I think it's definitely a good growing experience."
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Amanda Bynes
"Going to another country you're not in your house, you're with people you've never met before, and I think it's definitely a good growing experience."
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"I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts."
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Sally Field
"I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts."
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"You're talking to someone who has been married to various people for the last 40 years of her life. Dating is not really something familiar. I've never really been a dater."
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Stockard Channing
"You're talking to someone who has been married to various people for the last 40 years of her life. Dating is not really something familiar. I've never really been a dater."
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"The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure."
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Annette Funicello
"The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure."
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"I think we have to be careful about what we label as a prerequisite for spirituality. I don't think you have to know a lot to have a spiritual life, but knowing gives life richness."
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Olympia Dukakis
"I think we have to be careful about what we label as a prerequisite for spirituality. I don't think you have to know a lot to have a spiritual life, but knowing gives life richness."
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"It was my first scene in any movie and my only scene in Kramer vs. Kramer. I was petrified."
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"It was my first scene in any movie and my only scene in Kramer vs. Kramer. I was petrified."
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