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"I have photographs taken of me at the time I was addicted, and thought I looked good. I see them today and realize my eyes were dead."
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Kirstie Alley
"I have photographs taken of me at the time I was addicted, and thought I looked good. I see them today and realize my eyes were dead."
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"Criticism really used to hurt me. Most of these critics are usually frustrated artists, and they criticise other people's art because they can't do it themselves. It's a really disgusting job. They must feel horrible inside."
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Rosanna Arquette
"Criticism really used to hurt me. Most of these critics are usually frustrated artists, and they criticise other people's art because they can't do it themselves. It's a really disgusting job. They must feel horrible inside."
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"The little things that made up the fabric of the first six years of my life were suddenly ripped away, and I didn't have anyone around me who loved me. Not one single person."
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Julie Christie
"The little things that made up the fabric of the first six years of my life were suddenly ripped away, and I didn't have anyone around me who loved me. Not one single person."
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"I like music to soothe me."
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Helen Reddy
"I like music to soothe me."
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"You can change my mind, but you gotta work harder at it."
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Doris Roberts
"You can change my mind, but you gotta work harder at it."
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"A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day."
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Maggie Gyllenhaal
"A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day."
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"I thought that I was going to have to pay them to do what I wanted to do, that was how much fun I was having. You're 20 years old and you're hanging out with rock stars and going to fabulous parties, and then you talk about it!"
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Daisy Fuentes
"I thought that I was going to have to pay them to do what I wanted to do, that was how much fun I was having. You're 20 years old and you're hanging out with rock stars and going to fabulous parties, and then you talk about it!"
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"T Bone and I grew up together in Fort Worth, Texas. He had his own recording studio by the time he was seventeen years old. When we were both nineteen he made the first archival recording of my voice."
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Betty Buckley
"T Bone and I grew up together in Fort Worth, Texas. He had his own recording studio by the time he was seventeen years old. When we were both nineteen he made the first archival recording of my voice."
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"I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films."
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Jodie Foster
"I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films."
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"And then it was working with Bob Hoskins, who I had never worked with before - except radio. It was like being given a wonderful meal - full of the things you love most."
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Judi Dench
"And then it was working with Bob Hoskins, who I had never worked with before - except radio. It was like being given a wonderful meal - full of the things you love most."
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"I've had a normal life, but I have struggled to get here. It hasn't been handed to me and it hasn't been easy."
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Ashley Tisdale
"I've had a normal life, but I have struggled to get here. It hasn't been handed to me and it hasn't been easy."
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"If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational."
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Salma Hayek
"If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational."
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"In fact at home I sometimes like to be quiet and hear the sounds of the world outside."
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Brenda Blethyn
"In fact at home I sometimes like to be quiet and hear the sounds of the world outside."
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"I love to sing! To be in a movie with musical number is the coolest thing ever!"
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Ashley Tisdale
"I love to sing! To be in a movie with musical number is the coolest thing ever!"
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"I was very excited about the idea that I could be an idealist, that I could be my age, the eager beaver who had hope in the justice system and the one who gets disappointed just like the audience."
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Elisabeth Rohm
"I was very excited about the idea that I could be an idealist, that I could be my age, the eager beaver who had hope in the justice system and the one who gets disappointed just like the audience."
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"I have to live with both my selves as best I may."
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Brigitte Bardot
"I have to live with both my selves as best I may."
May,
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"Yeah, even a black comedy. Where it's a little eerie. I'd love to do that. But there are about three really fabulous ones on the air now and I don't know if I can do any better than that. I'd like to sort of forge new ground."
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Sharon Gless
"Yeah, even a black comedy. Where it's a little eerie. I'd love to do that. But there are about three really fabulous ones on the air now and I don't know if I can do any better than that. I'd like to sort of forge new ground."
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"It's amazing to me that young people will still pick up a cigarette."
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Loni Anderson
"It's amazing to me that young people will still pick up a cigarette."
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"I lost agents and managers because I turned down big movies that were smutty."
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Morgan Brittany
"I lost agents and managers because I turned down big movies that were smutty."
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"There's only two givens with choosing acting as a profession: one is you will always be unemployed, always, and it doesn't matter how much money you make, you're still always going to be unemployed; and that you have no power."
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Frances McDormand
"There's only two givens with choosing acting as a profession: one is you will always be unemployed, always, and it doesn't matter how much money you make, you're still always going to be unemployed; and that you have no power."
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"I wish we did have responsibility for the hair. I have been screwed up by the hair on many occasions."
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Julie Harris
"I wish we did have responsibility for the hair. I have been screwed up by the hair on many occasions."
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"People who call themselves actors and can't ever get work; they do need to get another profession."
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Estelle Parsons
"People who call themselves actors and can't ever get work; they do need to get another profession."
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"I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It's passing through you more than you're creating it. You're not the flower, but the vase which holds the flower."
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Juliette Binoche
"I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It's passing through you more than you're creating it. You're not the flower, but the vase which holds the flower."
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"It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen."
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Brigitte Bardot
"It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen."
Old,
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"Therefore reinforcing a stereotype, therefore thinking that the entire Indian culture is just made of people that are against their children's decisions."
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Parminder Nagra
"Therefore reinforcing a stereotype, therefore thinking that the entire Indian culture is just made of people that are against their children's decisions."
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"It was just this crazy craziness, and the fact that it was shot in Paris, and it had these incredible people in it. It was an easy thing to say yes to."
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Dianne Wiest
"It was just this crazy craziness, and the fact that it was shot in Paris, and it had these incredible people in it. It was an easy thing to say yes to."
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"Character roles definitely age better than your ingenues. You don't get to keep doing that."
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Catherine O'Hara
"Character roles definitely age better than your ingenues. You don't get to keep doing that."
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"In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don't keep them."
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Isabelle Adjani
"In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don't keep them."
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"Just because you donate sperm does not make you a father. I don't have a father. I would never give him the credit or acknowledge him as my father."
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Sarah Michelle Gellar
"Just because you donate sperm does not make you a father. I don't have a father. I would never give him the credit or acknowledge him as my father."
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"Juan Tripp was a friend. Good name for an airline man, huh? Juan Tripp after another?"
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Fay Wray
"Juan Tripp was a friend. Good name for an airline man, huh? Juan Tripp after another?"
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"But I don't think there's any reason to get married again, especially after what I've been through."
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Liza Minnelli
"But I don't think there's any reason to get married again, especially after what I've been through."
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"When I first started acting, and we would all sit down and talk about Shakespeare and how great it was. I thought well, I suppose it is."
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Judy Davis
"When I first started acting, and we would all sit down and talk about Shakespeare and how great it was. I thought well, I suppose it is."
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"And I grew up watching all the British ones so when you hear that from an early age, it makes it much easier than you guys who don't grow up with Australian television or British television."
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Rachel Griffiths
"And I grew up watching all the British ones so when you hear that from an early age, it makes it much easier than you guys who don't grow up with Australian television or British television."
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"They've turned this character into a human being."
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Melinda Clarke
"They've turned this character into a human being."
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"You feel completely in control when you hear a wave of laughter coming back at you that you have caused."
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Gilda Radner
"You feel completely in control when you hear a wave of laughter coming back at you that you have caused."
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"Every part I've done has been for one reason or another-money, or the part, or the director, or the location. I'd like to get one thing that's all of those combined."
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Joan Severance
"Every part I've done has been for one reason or another-money, or the part, or the director, or the location. I'd like to get one thing that's all of those combined."
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"I had to lie so much about sex, first when I was 15, because I wasn't supposed to be having it. And then when I got older, I lied to everybody I was having sex with, so I could have sex with other people."
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Cybill Shepherd
"I had to lie so much about sex, first when I was 15, because I wasn't supposed to be having it. And then when I got older, I lied to everybody I was having sex with, so I could have sex with other people."
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"If two people have only one thought between them, something is very wrong."
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Sarah Jessica Parker
"If two people have only one thought between them, something is very wrong."
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"I love comic book movies, and Marvel Comics obviously are the best."
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Maria Menounos
"I love comic book movies, and Marvel Comics obviously are the best."
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"I was born with a need to be the center of attention, and, of course, you're the center of the world when you're acting."
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Julie Christie
"I was born with a need to be the center of attention, and, of course, you're the center of the world when you're acting."
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"I had grown up accustomed to living a life of high drama."
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Lorna Luft
"I had grown up accustomed to living a life of high drama."
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"We were very rich culturally. One Sunday each month, we would do this thing called Chamber Pots at somebody's house. A classical music group would come over and we'd have dinner. There were thirty people - parents and kids - and we'd sit on the floor and listen to this beautiful music."
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Kristin Davis
"We were very rich culturally. One Sunday each month, we would do this thing called Chamber Pots at somebody's house. A classical music group would come over and we'd have dinner. There were thirty people - parents and kids - and we'd sit on the floor and listen to this beautiful music."
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"Robert Taylor was not only a splendid actor in a wide variety of roles but one of the most handsome men in the western world."
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Audrey Meadows
"Robert Taylor was not only a splendid actor in a wide variety of roles but one of the most handsome men in the western world."
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"When the picture was finished, they took me into the sound room and then I screamed more for about five minutes just steady screaming, and then they'd cut that in and add it."
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Fay Wray
"When the picture was finished, they took me into the sound room and then I screamed more for about five minutes just steady screaming, and then they'd cut that in and add it."
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"We do spend time talking about it and we puzzle through it together. We ride the roller coasters together - the high highs and the low lows."
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Kyra Sedgwick
"We do spend time talking about it and we puzzle through it together. We ride the roller coasters together - the high highs and the low lows."
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"I am not a has-been. I am a will be."
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Lauren Bacall
"I am not a has-been. I am a will be."
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"I really do hate to sing."
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Lena Horne
"I really do hate to sing."
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"I'm Anna May Wong. I come from old Hong Kong. But now I'm a Hollywood star."
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Anna May Wong
"I'm Anna May Wong. I come from old Hong Kong. But now I'm a Hollywood star."
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"I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It's like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I'd like to play strong women who are also very feminine."
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Angelina Jolie
"I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It's like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I'd like to play strong women who are also very feminine."
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"I cry out for order and find it only in art."
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Helen Hayes
"I cry out for order and find it only in art."
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