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"I dropped out of college my junior year to do Saturday Night Live, and I didn't even consult my parents. They were very supportive because they had no choice."
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Julia Louis Dreyfus
"I dropped out of college my junior year to do Saturday Night Live, and I didn't even consult my parents. They were very supportive because they had no choice."
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"I don't go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack."
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Vanessa Hudgens
"I don't go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack."
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"I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll."
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Patty Duke
"I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll."
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"I love comedy, so you want to make them happy, make them laugh."
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Delta Burke
"I love comedy, so you want to make them happy, make them laugh."
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"If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!"
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Angelina Jolie
"If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!"
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"A good margarita, a good red wine, I like expensive alcohol, but not a lot of it. I don't like to throw up."
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Denise Richards
"A good margarita, a good red wine, I like expensive alcohol, but not a lot of it. I don't like to throw up."
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"The thing about Canada is, you're not really considered a Canadian actor unless you do something with the CBC."
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Lexa Doig
"The thing about Canada is, you're not really considered a Canadian actor unless you do something with the CBC."
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"The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children."
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Jessica Lange
"The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children."
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"It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality."
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Rosanna Arquette
"It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality."
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"You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you're in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don't fall in love with people because they're fun. It just happens."
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Kirsten Dunst
"You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you're in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don't fall in love with people because they're fun. It just happens."
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"The Parent Trap wouldn't have been as special without the remarkable performances by Hayley Mills."
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Maureen O'Hara
"The Parent Trap wouldn't have been as special without the remarkable performances by Hayley Mills."
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"If I had not passed through trial - through passion, one could say - through these years so painful and so rich, I don't believe I could take on my life and my career as I do today."
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Isabelle Adjani
"If I had not passed through trial - through passion, one could say - through these years so painful and so rich, I don't believe I could take on my life and my career as I do today."
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"My sister Liza and I have never felt that we were in competition."
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Lorna Luft
"My sister Liza and I have never felt that we were in competition."
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"Bite me, Goth princess, Shane called from the back. "Not literally or anything."Maybe you should say that to Michael."Not funny, Eve, Michael said.Eve raised her eyebrows and held her fingers up, measuring off about an inch. "Little bit, she said."
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Rachel Caine
"Bite me, Goth princess, Shane called from the back. "Not literally or anything."Maybe you should say that to Michael."Not funny, Eve, Michael said.Eve raised her eyebrows and held her fingers up, measuring off about an inch. "Little bit, she said."
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"I'm not trying to take Cate Blanchett down."
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Megan Fox
"I'm not trying to take Cate Blanchett down."
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"At one point, they offered me this part to play a drug-dealing, gun-selling butch lady. I don't know how to describe her but she had like a crew cut and stuff. I was like, 'Is this a joke?' And they said, 'No, we think it would be great because everyone would be like, 'Oh, look at what we've done to Charlotte.' I was like, 'Well I can't do that!'"
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Kristin Davis
"At one point, they offered me this part to play a drug-dealing, gun-selling butch lady. I don't know how to describe her but she had like a crew cut and stuff. I was like, 'Is this a joke?' And they said, 'No, we think it would be great because everyone would be like, 'Oh, look at what we've done to Charlotte.' I was like, 'Well I can't do that!'"
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"But now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see that in the science sphere of our lives there is new, there is progress."
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Janet Suzman
"But now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see that in the science sphere of our lives there is new, there is progress."
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"Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly."
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Julie Andrews
"Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly."
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"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down."
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Mary Pickford
"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down."
May,
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"I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork."
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Natalie Portman
"I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork."
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"If you want a place in the sun, you have to expect a few blisters."
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Loretta Young
"If you want a place in the sun, you have to expect a few blisters."
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"Claire, I-Look, my life is one long series of screw-ups and bad decisions, and I know that. I own that. But you...I just want you to be happy. And it cuts me when you're not.""I'm happy with you."She heard the smile in his voice this time. "So what do you really want? A storybook life in Vampireville, with your life on the line every day and a half?""I'm considering it," she said. And she was."
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Rachel Caine
"Claire, I-Look, my life is one long series of screw-ups and bad decisions, and I know that. I own that. But you...I just want you to be happy. And it cuts me when you're not.""I'm happy with you."She heard the smile in his voice this time. "So what do you really want? A storybook life in Vampireville, with your life on the line every day and a half?""I'm considering it," she said. And she was."
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"Good luck needs no explanation."
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Shirley Temple
"Good luck needs no explanation."
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"That goes against what I believe morally. That's adultery, and if I'm accused of that, no, that's not right. I have two kids who see that and remember that and judge me. It didn't happen, and it's not to be reported that way."
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Nicole Kidman
"That goes against what I believe morally. That's adultery, and if I'm accused of that, no, that's not right. I have two kids who see that and remember that and judge me. It didn't happen, and it's not to be reported that way."
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"Well, I don't think I've ever consciously come up with tricks and tools to, kind of, hide. I do think I'm a bit more vigilant, in terms of safety issues and things. And sometimes it is kind of nice to try to hold onto your anonymity."
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Calista Flockhart
"Well, I don't think I've ever consciously come up with tricks and tools to, kind of, hide. I do think I'm a bit more vigilant, in terms of safety issues and things. And sometimes it is kind of nice to try to hold onto your anonymity."
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"God always has another custard pie up his sleeve."
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Lynn Redgrave
"God always has another custard pie up his sleeve."
God,
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"I was a tomboy right from the time I was a kid and loved to be like that. I'd hate all the girlie things. Well my best friends as a kid have been boys. I get along best with the opposite sex. I guess that's the case with most people though!"
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Natasha Henstridge
"I was a tomboy right from the time I was a kid and loved to be like that. I'd hate all the girlie things. Well my best friends as a kid have been boys. I get along best with the opposite sex. I guess that's the case with most people though!"
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"I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine."
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Audrey Hepburn
"I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine."
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"Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University."
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Patricia Clarkson
"Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University."
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"You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself."
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Teri Garr
"You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself."
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"If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty."
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Jamie Lee Curtis
"If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty."
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"I'm pretty hard on myself in general."
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Natalie Portman
"I'm pretty hard on myself in general."
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"I have a disease, but I also have a lot of other things."
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Teri Garr
"I have a disease, but I also have a lot of other things."
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"To make a movie is very grueling at times. Long, long hours and cold weather."
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Sanaa Lathan
"To make a movie is very grueling at times. Long, long hours and cold weather."
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"As for ABC you can't take it personally. We had three good years."
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Sela Ward
"As for ABC you can't take it personally. We had three good years."
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"I majored in fashion design in school, and I have always wanted to design my own line of clothing, jewelry, and stuff like that; so this was just a step for me in that direction."
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Diana Ross
"I majored in fashion design in school, and I have always wanted to design my own line of clothing, jewelry, and stuff like that; so this was just a step for me in that direction."
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"I found it all very scary. This fairytale gets built around you - as if you've been walking through the streets and then Sydney Pollack sees you and goes, 'I'll put you in something!'"
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Julia Ormond
"I found it all very scary. This fairytale gets built around you - as if you've been walking through the streets and then Sydney Pollack sees you and goes, 'I'll put you in something!'"
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"This is where I have wasted the best years of my life."
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Greta Garbo
"This is where I have wasted the best years of my life."
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"My mother gave me singing lessons; that was totally painful, because I couldn't do what she wanted to hear. She used to say: there's more there, there's more voice but I just didn't want to give it to her."
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Linda Lavin
"My mother gave me singing lessons; that was totally painful, because I couldn't do what she wanted to hear. She used to say: there's more there, there's more voice but I just didn't want to give it to her."
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"Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue."
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Hermione Gingold
"Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue."
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"I prefer a kiss that is so much more than just a tongue in your mouth."
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Katherine Heigl
"I prefer a kiss that is so much more than just a tongue in your mouth."
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"Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what you don't eat."
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Gloria Swanson
"Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what you don't eat."
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"It finally became clear to me that they had no hopes of my ever walking again."
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Marie Windsor
"It finally became clear to me that they had no hopes of my ever walking again."
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"Your mind can't always tell the difference between pretend and reality if you pretend too long; or if you go too deep and really believe in what you're doing."
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Annabella Sciorra
"Your mind can't always tell the difference between pretend and reality if you pretend too long; or if you go too deep and really believe in what you're doing."
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"I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is."
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Jamie Lee Curtis
"I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is."
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"In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact."
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Marlene Dietrich
"In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact."
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"I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school."
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Camryn Manheim
"I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school."
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"Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in life that don't turn out the way you're given the impression that they will. And I think that's all kind of a con. But I think we've probably all been hurt."
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Sigourney Weaver
"Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in life that don't turn out the way you're given the impression that they will. And I think that's all kind of a con. But I think we've probably all been hurt."
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"People do eventually see something that's quality."
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Robin Tunney
"People do eventually see something that's quality."
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"Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun."
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Nancy Cartwright
"Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun."
Sun,
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