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Quotes by Actress

"The only thing I like about being an actress is acting."
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Elizabeth Ashley
"The only thing I like about being an actress is acting."
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"There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level."
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Parker Posey
"There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level."
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"Most original viewers of the Mickey Mouse Club didn't face the crush of family and social problems children have today."
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Annette Funicello
"Most original viewers of the Mickey Mouse Club didn't face the crush of family and social problems children have today."
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"I don't know much about football but everyone seems to say that it is all about possession."
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Julie Harris
"I don't know much about football but everyone seems to say that it is all about possession."
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"I had never watched a law show prior to being cast on The Practice."
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Lara Flynn Boyle
"I had never watched a law show prior to being cast on The Practice."
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"This has taught me that being pleasant is always so much more productive, for I know well the rewards for being good-natured."
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Marie Windsor
"This has taught me that being pleasant is always so much more productive, for I know well the rewards for being good-natured."
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"Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents."
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Katharine Hepburn
"Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents."
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"I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting."
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Jackie Weaver
"I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting."
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"Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism."
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Bette Davis
"Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism."
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"No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone."
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Salma Hayek
"No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone."
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"People always ask me, how do you do everything you do?"
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Susan Lucci
"People always ask me, how do you do everything you do?"
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"It is very difficult for girls. They're told to look one way, but to act another way."
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Glenn Close
"It is very difficult for girls. They're told to look one way, but to act another way."
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"The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused."
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Shirley MacLaine
"The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused."
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"I can not remember even thinking that I was deaf when I was dancing."
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Stephanie Beacham
"I can not remember even thinking that I was deaf when I was dancing."
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"There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch."
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Bette Davis
"There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch."
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"And so I was doing that and starving and somebody said you should model and I ran when they told me how much money you could make and I did a television commercial the first job."
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Sela Ward
"And so I was doing that and starving and somebody said you should model and I ran when they told me how much money you could make and I did a television commercial the first job."
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"The lesion is in the area of my brain that is responsible for motor function, so I have continual chronic pain in my left arm from elbow to fingertips and the right side of my body from my ear to my breast area."
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Karen Duffy
"The lesion is in the area of my brain that is responsible for motor function, so I have continual chronic pain in my left arm from elbow to fingertips and the right side of my body from my ear to my breast area."
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"Where there is age there is evolution, where there is life there is growth."
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Anjelica Huston
"Where there is age there is evolution, where there is life there is growth."
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"If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one."
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Frances Farmer
"If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one."
Act,
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"A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night."
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Marilyn Monroe
"A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night."
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"I had never seen much of Star Trek, or any other science fiction, before I was cast. But Seven's wonderful."
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Jeri Ryan
"I had never seen much of Star Trek, or any other science fiction, before I was cast. But Seven's wonderful."
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"The most memorable night of The Judy Garland Show for me was the night my mother pulled me out of the audience and sang to me onstage."
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Lorna Luft
"The most memorable night of The Judy Garland Show for me was the night my mother pulled me out of the audience and sang to me onstage."
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"They wanted to make her less rural, less of a cartoon. Not that Southern woman are cartoonish - they're the strongest women in this country, but with Val they wanted to take the stereotypical things out."
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Joan Van Ark
"They wanted to make her less rural, less of a cartoon. Not that Southern woman are cartoonish - they're the strongest women in this country, but with Val they wanted to take the stereotypical things out."
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"It's weird, It's really weird to be called a breakout star. And some people are referring to my show as the new 'Friends', which I can't really even wrap my head around."
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Lizzy Caplan
"It's weird, It's really weird to be called a breakout star. And some people are referring to my show as the new 'Friends', which I can't really even wrap my head around."
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"We have developed this unbelievable ability to deny. We have to. If we didn't, we'd go crazy."
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Patty Duke
"We have developed this unbelievable ability to deny. We have to. If we didn't, we'd go crazy."
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"I had a one day slip, Matt. So what do you do? You get up and you go on, and you try not to do it again."
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Liza Minnelli
"I had a one day slip, Matt. So what do you do? You get up and you go on, and you try not to do it again."
Day,
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"I think I can speak for all four of us on the show here. We all consider ourselves to be feminists and we get very upset when people don't think we are. We're like, where did this come from? Of course we are."
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Kristin Davis
"I think I can speak for all four of us on the show here. We all consider ourselves to be feminists and we get very upset when people don't think we are. We're like, where did this come from? Of course we are."
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"In the United States women develop MS at approximately twice the rate men do, and no one can explain why women are affected most often from the waist down."
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Annette Funicello
"In the United States women develop MS at approximately twice the rate men do, and no one can explain why women are affected most often from the waist down."
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"I've never been good in the financial and business arenas. I handle the creative side of things."
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Daryl Hannah
"I've never been good in the financial and business arenas. I handle the creative side of things."
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"There were times when there were parts that I was sure I got and then I didn't, and I did get upset. But at this point, it doesn't affect me in the least because I know how the business works."
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Ellen Muth
"There were times when there were parts that I was sure I got and then I didn't, and I did get upset. But at this point, it doesn't affect me in the least because I know how the business works."
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"That's something I go through every day - you know - Am I good enough to act?"
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Shannen Doherty
"That's something I go through every day - you know - Am I good enough to act?"
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"The type of contract between players and producers is, I feel, antiquated in form and abstract in concept. We have no privacies which producers cannot invade, they trade us like cattle, boss us like children."
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Teresa Wright
"The type of contract between players and producers is, I feel, antiquated in form and abstract in concept. We have no privacies which producers cannot invade, they trade us like cattle, boss us like children."
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"I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work."
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Sally Field
"I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work."
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"People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries."
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Victoria Abril
"People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries."
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"I had not starred in an independent film and it's about a woman who owned a hair salon."
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Jenifer Lewis
"I had not starred in an independent film and it's about a woman who owned a hair salon."
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"I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants."
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Catherine Deneuve
"I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants."
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"Your faith in yourself is all you will ever have. Don't let anyone take it away from you, ever."
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Holly Marie Combs
"Your faith in yourself is all you will ever have. Don't let anyone take it away from you, ever."
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"An audience is going to be able to find a little bit of Dorothy in themselves and relate to this woman.: roles like Dorothy Day are so rare in Hollywood."
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Moira Kelly
"An audience is going to be able to find a little bit of Dorothy in themselves and relate to this woman.: roles like Dorothy Day are so rare in Hollywood."
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"It's hard to notice things without people noticing me and that takes some getting used to."
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Edie Falco
"It's hard to notice things without people noticing me and that takes some getting used to."
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"I'm an awful driver. I'm not going to lie about it. I'm not a good driver. I tried for a long time to pretend that I was. There's a lot of road rage and a lot of times it's directed at something I've done on the road."
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Kristen Bell
"I'm an awful driver. I'm not going to lie about it. I'm not a good driver. I tried for a long time to pretend that I was. There's a lot of road rage and a lot of times it's directed at something I've done on the road."
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"You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me. That's why films like Fight Club were so important to me because I think I confounded certain stereotypes and limited perceptions of what I could do as an actress."
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Helena Bonham Carter
"You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me. That's why films like Fight Club were so important to me because I think I confounded certain stereotypes and limited perceptions of what I could do as an actress."
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"We were in a relationship for eight years, and we maybe saw each other, total, for a year."
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Izabella Scorupco
"We were in a relationship for eight years, and we maybe saw each other, total, for a year."
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"I want to feel my life while I'm in it."
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Meryl Streep
"I want to feel my life while I'm in it."
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"I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it."
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Bette Davis
"I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it."
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"I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like, 'But, Daddy, he's a musician!'."
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Olivia Wilde
"I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like, 'But, Daddy, he's a musician!'."
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"We've been back since July, but I spent some time with the family in the south of France over the summer. We rented a house with another couple and took it easy."
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Laura Innes
"We've been back since July, but I spent some time with the family in the south of France over the summer. We rented a house with another couple and took it easy."
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"Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?"
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Brigitte Bardot
"Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?"
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"I feel lucky. I think acting can help to keep you young. It does make you feel there's meaning in your life."
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Jane Badler
"I feel lucky. I think acting can help to keep you young. It does make you feel there's meaning in your life."
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"When I'm not involved in an acting job I try to run 10 miles a day."
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Joan Van Ark
"When I'm not involved in an acting job I try to run 10 miles a day."
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"Tim on the show does a lot of that posturing, of course, and feels sort of threatened by women. But even at that, you do see him cooking, and ultimately he's a good father because he spends a lot of time with the boys."
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Patricia Richardson
"Tim on the show does a lot of that posturing, of course, and feels sort of threatened by women. But even at that, you do see him cooking, and ultimately he's a good father because he spends a lot of time with the boys."
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