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Quotes by Actress

"I'd so much rather people think I was funny than pretty."
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Kristen Johnston
"I'd so much rather people think I was funny than pretty."
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"I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress."
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Valerie Bertinelli
"I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress."
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"Because of the high altitude, you get drunk really fast. So everyone's drunk all the time."
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Clea Duvall
"Because of the high altitude, you get drunk really fast. So everyone's drunk all the time."
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"On one night of my debut the Prince of Wales, the Princess, and the duchess of London came to see me. They loved me for what I was and what I gave them."
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Lillie Langtry
"On one night of my debut the Prince of Wales, the Princess, and the duchess of London came to see me. They loved me for what I was and what I gave them."
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"I've always liked new writing."
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Imelda Staunton
"I've always liked new writing."
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"I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers."
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Nancy Cartwright
"I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers."
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"Then there are the people who know me from the lectures. What I am really trying to do, what I need to accomplish at this time, is to fill in the gaps."
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Suzanne Somers
"Then there are the people who know me from the lectures. What I am really trying to do, what I need to accomplish at this time, is to fill in the gaps."
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"It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer than with a man. You know you can say, 'Don't grab me there: That's where my cellulite is'!"
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Naomi Watts
"It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer than with a man. You know you can say, 'Don't grab me there: That's where my cellulite is'!"
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"I think people have surgery for psychological reasons more than because of their looks."
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Francesca Annis
"I think people have surgery for psychological reasons more than because of their looks."
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"So, when the discussion about not using the term feminist came up at a conference workshop, I couldn't believe it. The more I listened, the more I felt the need to express my passion about my identity as a feminist."
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Betty Buckley
"So, when the discussion about not using the term feminist came up at a conference workshop, I couldn't believe it. The more I listened, the more I felt the need to express my passion about my identity as a feminist."
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"You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really."
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Janet Suzman
"You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really."
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"I need sex for a clear complexion, but I'd rather do it for love."
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Joan Crawford
"I need sex for a clear complexion, but I'd rather do it for love."
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"I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12."
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January Jones
"I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12."
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"That's where I got my start and where I'll continue to work, but I can't tell you the number of films between Drugstore Cowboy and Curly Sue that I auditioned for and wanted that didn't choose me."
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Kelly Lynch
"That's where I got my start and where I'll continue to work, but I can't tell you the number of films between Drugstore Cowboy and Curly Sue that I auditioned for and wanted that didn't choose me."
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"I knew an actor's career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can't be your whole identity; otherwise, you're doomed."
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Lisa Kudrow
"I knew an actor's career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can't be your whole identity; otherwise, you're doomed."
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"I am not getting any younger and am taking a new approach to life."
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Alfre Woodard
"I am not getting any younger and am taking a new approach to life."
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"But now I really don't want to work unless I really, really care about a project."
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Jodie Foster
"But now I really don't want to work unless I really, really care about a project."
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"I liked the way my character, Shane, was first introduced. You get introduced to her through this sexual action, and I thought that was so cool and just kind of summed up what she enjoys and who she is, to a certain extent. She's a complete sexual being and the great thing is that she doesn't apologize for it. It's just who she is. We rarely see women be able to do that on television."
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Katherine Moennig
"I liked the way my character, Shane, was first introduced. You get introduced to her through this sexual action, and I thought that was so cool and just kind of summed up what she enjoys and who she is, to a certain extent. She's a complete sexual being and the great thing is that she doesn't apologize for it. It's just who she is. We rarely see women be able to do that on television."
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"I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive."
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Julie Walters
"I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive."
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"It was a lot of pressure, but I loved working with Tim and I loved working with Adrian."
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Elizabeth Pena
"It was a lot of pressure, but I loved working with Tim and I loved working with Adrian."
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"I find it a turnoff whenever men aren't into some kind of sport. And, no, video games don't count. I dated a guy who was into video games, and I wanted to shoot myself."
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Eva Longoria
"I find it a turnoff whenever men aren't into some kind of sport. And, no, video games don't count. I dated a guy who was into video games, and I wanted to shoot myself."
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"Well it's hard to bracket it like that because everyone always thinks you either go to America and you come back, fail or succeed, but it doesn't work like that."
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Anna Friel
"Well it's hard to bracket it like that because everyone always thinks you either go to America and you come back, fail or succeed, but it doesn't work like that."
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"Running is my church."
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Joan Van Ark
"Running is my church."
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"Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days."
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Vanessa Hudgens
"Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days."
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"I've never had my heart broken."
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Sally Field
"I've never had my heart broken."
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"I've been sacrificing my life for my work for 30 years, and now I want it the other way around. I want to find work that fits into my life and that would be based here."
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Glenn Close
"I've been sacrificing my life for my work for 30 years, and now I want it the other way around. I want to find work that fits into my life and that would be based here."
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"I really love pets. They're like children. They know if you really love them or not. You can't fool them."
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Donna Douglas
"I really love pets. They're like children. They know if you really love them or not. You can't fool them."
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"My parents are both very funny but they're also relatively soft-spoken, normal human beings while I'm just a lunatic. I don't know where this loud, ballsy, hammy ridiculousness came from. I'm just glad I followed my goals and my parents did too. It's not like we even had a plan when I dragged my mom to Los Angeles."
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Emma Stone
"My parents are both very funny but they're also relatively soft-spoken, normal human beings while I'm just a lunatic. I don't know where this loud, ballsy, hammy ridiculousness came from. I'm just glad I followed my goals and my parents did too. It's not like we even had a plan when I dragged my mom to Los Angeles."
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"I just came into my own sexuality at thirty. I don't think it's something you can deeply experience at 18 or any time before that."
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Eva Longoria
"I just came into my own sexuality at thirty. I don't think it's something you can deeply experience at 18 or any time before that."
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"Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul."
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Annette Bening
"Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul."
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"And I love writing; I've been writing ever since I was seven."
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Jena Malone
"And I love writing; I've been writing ever since I was seven."
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"It takes me time to realize things; I'm a speedy person but a slow thinker."
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Julie Christie
"It takes me time to realize things; I'm a speedy person but a slow thinker."
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"You guys ask really long questions. In the U.S., they just want to know who you're sleeping with."
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Susan Sarandon
"You guys ask really long questions. In the U.S., they just want to know who you're sleeping with."
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"I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone."
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Audrey Hepburn
"I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone."
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"I love horror movies because they're really fun. They tap into those wonderful primal emotions."
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Margot Kidder
"I love horror movies because they're really fun. They tap into those wonderful primal emotions."
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"People are not recognisable, but places have to be recognisable."
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Ann Robinson
"People are not recognisable, but places have to be recognisable."
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"I love Les Beaux Peeps. Everyone in that band works together really well. I used to go out to see bands a lot; now it seems there just aren't any I like."
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Clea Duvall
"I love Les Beaux Peeps. Everyone in that band works together really well. I used to go out to see bands a lot; now it seems there just aren't any I like."
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"Are people angry with me? Sure, anything you do in your life, people are going to be angry at you."
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Anne Heche
"Are people angry with me? Sure, anything you do in your life, people are going to be angry at you."
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"You seldom get that in film where you're lucky if you get any say at all in the final cut."
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Greta Scacchi
"You seldom get that in film where you're lucky if you get any say at all in the final cut."
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"Back in the day after I won my first pageant there was an agency that was getting me work on the side."
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Maria Menounos
"Back in the day after I won my first pageant there was an agency that was getting me work on the side."
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"And we had a DJ - my childhood friend from Chicago came to be the DJ at our party out in LA. It was a party, rockin' and rolling, and it was dancing and fun. For me it was different; just to have family with us."
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Jami Gertz
"And we had a DJ - my childhood friend from Chicago came to be the DJ at our party out in LA. It was a party, rockin' and rolling, and it was dancing and fun. For me it was different; just to have family with us."
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"Everyone would talk about their diets and working out and what it made me do was go to craft services where all the food for the cast and crew was and I would eat."
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Kristin Davis
"Everyone would talk about their diets and working out and what it made me do was go to craft services where all the food for the cast and crew was and I would eat."
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"But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!"
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Anna Neagle
"But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!"
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"Well, I'm Czech, but Polish, Czech, no matter, it's my name."
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Kim Novak
"Well, I'm Czech, but Polish, Czech, no matter, it's my name."
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"I think Secretary's funny, it is about sex, and there's a lot of sex in it, sex is the key, but you're talking about a lot of other complicated things."
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Maggie Gyllenhaal
"I think Secretary's funny, it is about sex, and there's a lot of sex in it, sex is the key, but you're talking about a lot of other complicated things."
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"It was good for us, I suppose. Those kinds of times produce qualities in us that make us better for having had them. My parents were not getting along. My mother was quite intolerant of friendships that were being developed."
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Fay Wray
"It was good for us, I suppose. Those kinds of times produce qualities in us that make us better for having had them. My parents were not getting along. My mother was quite intolerant of friendships that were being developed."
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"I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun."
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Katharine Hepburn
"I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun."
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"When I was 18 I went to college for two years and didn't work for a year which was essential for me, because my identity had been so influenced by my being an actor and I think I just needed to discover what it was to be myself, divorced from all that responsibility."
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Claire Danes
"When I was 18 I went to college for two years and didn't work for a year which was essential for me, because my identity had been so influenced by my being an actor and I think I just needed to discover what it was to be myself, divorced from all that responsibility."
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"I think in small towns like this one, whether you're a man or a woman, you basically do what there is to do."
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Estelle Parsons
"I think in small towns like this one, whether you're a man or a woman, you basically do what there is to do."
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"I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person."
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Audrey Hepburn
"I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person."
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