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"Women who wear kimonos, when the fight, they have to keep their knees together, and when they use a sword, they have to move the sleeves otherwise it gets caught."
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Lucy Liu
"Women who wear kimonos, when the fight, they have to keep their knees together, and when they use a sword, they have to move the sleeves otherwise it gets caught."
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"I have worked enough and I am happy to be touring the country speaking about living with MS to give people inspiration and motivation to help themselves."
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Teri Garr
"I have worked enough and I am happy to be touring the country speaking about living with MS to give people inspiration and motivation to help themselves."
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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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"A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view."
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Sophia Loren
"A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view."
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"For anyone with half a brain they can see that this play is about the human condition."
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Estelle Parsons
"For anyone with half a brain they can see that this play is about the human condition."
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"Dancing on 'Dancing With The Stars' really broadened my fan base. I jumped off the stage backwards one week, and so many women come up to me now and say, 'You're so brave. I can't believe you put yourself out there like that'. If that inspires some girl out there, then great, because boys aren't the only ones who get to have fun. We get to have fun too."
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Monique Coleman
"Dancing on 'Dancing With The Stars' really broadened my fan base. I jumped off the stage backwards one week, and so many women come up to me now and say, 'You're so brave. I can't believe you put yourself out there like that'. If that inspires some girl out there, then great, because boys aren't the only ones who get to have fun. We get to have fun too."
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"I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out."
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Candice Bergen
"I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out."
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"Cursive writing does not mean what I think it does."
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Nancy Cartwright
"Cursive writing does not mean what I think it does."
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"I'm pretty middle-of-the-road. There are some issues I'm more conservative on."
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Lisa Kudrow
"I'm pretty middle-of-the-road. There are some issues I'm more conservative on."
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"More often than what you're suggesting, I find people are surprised that I have an urban side to me."
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Ashley Judd
"More often than what you're suggesting, I find people are surprised that I have an urban side to me."
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"There is nothing more important in life than love."
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Barbra Streisand
"There is nothing more important in life than love."
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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 feel like I haven't done my best work yet."
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Liza Minnelli
"I feel like I haven't done my best work yet."
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"Deep down, I'm a Texas girl looking for that big romance every girl dreams about. Biologically, I look forward to being a cornerstone of a family. I'll be in my glory when I have a child on my knee."
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Renee Zellweger
"Deep down, I'm a Texas girl looking for that big romance every girl dreams about. Biologically, I look forward to being a cornerstone of a family. I'll be in my glory when I have a child on my knee."
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"I thought I wanted to be a brain surgeon until I realized all the schooling it required. I didn't like school very much so I had to come up with something else."
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Lexa Doig
"I thought I wanted to be a brain surgeon until I realized all the schooling it required. I didn't like school very much so I had to come up with something else."
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"If you take the more general role of going to local stations around the country in Montana or South Carolina or wherever, and start in the local news, it's a lot more difficult to get to the stories that you want to really cover."
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Maria Menounos
"If you take the more general role of going to local stations around the country in Montana or South Carolina or wherever, and start in the local news, it's a lot more difficult to get to the stories that you want to really cover."
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"I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies."
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Esther Williams
"I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies."
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"I put on the fat suit and went outside and walked around. I was really nervous about being found out, but nobody would even make eye contact with me. It really upset me."
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Gwyneth Paltrow
"I put on the fat suit and went outside and walked around. I was really nervous about being found out, but nobody would even make eye contact with me. It really upset me."
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"I'd like to go to Brazil I think. Do a little South America trip."
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Kristanna Loken
"I'd like to go to Brazil I think. Do a little South America trip."
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"We had a script that was really solid and we knew how we were going to shoot and how the energy of it was going to go. So it gave us a lot of freedom to use the camera as a character."
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Marguerite Moreau
"We had a script that was really solid and we knew how we were going to shoot and how the energy of it was going to go. So it gave us a lot of freedom to use the camera as a character."
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"I really loved Twin Peaks. When I saw the two-hour pilot, they screened it in the big theatre. I said, I don't know what is going to happen. I'm in this and I don't understand it. This is never going to sell. Who's going to watch this thing?"
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Sherilyn Fenn
"I really loved Twin Peaks. When I saw the two-hour pilot, they screened it in the big theatre. I said, I don't know what is going to happen. I'm in this and I don't understand it. This is never going to sell. Who's going to watch this thing?"
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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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"I've loved the escapism of being another person, slipping into another character for a little while."
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Jeri Ryan
"I've loved the escapism of being another person, slipping into another character for a little while."
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"I just cleared the slate and thought of her as a mother and went from there."
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Marg Helgenberger
"I just cleared the slate and thought of her as a mother and went from there."
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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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"Bad directors will tell you they absolutely know how to do it, and how it has to happen; there's this insecurity that leads them to feeling like they have to control everything."
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Molly Parker
"Bad directors will tell you they absolutely know how to do it, and how it has to happen; there's this insecurity that leads them to feeling like they have to control everything."
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"I didn't think I was an actor and fought it for a long time. Nobody paid for that but me."
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Kathleen Quinlan
"I didn't think I was an actor and fought it for a long time. Nobody paid for that but me."
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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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"I love acting, and it was really important to me to give it a real shot."
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Sarah Chalke
"I love acting, and it was really important to me to give it a real shot."
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"The weather was turning cold and I remember that Dante was using nothing but natural light as his electric department was away, prepping the scene in the cave. We stayed on that rock for the whole day."
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Madeleine Stowe
"The weather was turning cold and I remember that Dante was using nothing but natural light as his electric department was away, prepping the scene in the cave. We stayed on that rock for the whole day."
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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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"I'm 40 and I just got my first beauty campaign with Clairol Nice and Easy."
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Teri Hatcher
"I'm 40 and I just got my first beauty campaign with Clairol Nice and Easy."
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"I don't wanna play Karen. I just don't. I've kind of done this."
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Selma Blair
"I don't wanna play Karen. I just don't. I've kind of done this."
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"On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people."
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Camryn Manheim
"On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people."
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"Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't."
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Judy Holliday
"Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't."
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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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"There is no doubt that this film is autobiographical, but at the same time it also tries to portray an ordinary couple in a language that everyone can understand."
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Sophie Marceau
"There is no doubt that this film is autobiographical, but at the same time it also tries to portray an ordinary couple in a language that everyone can understand."
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"Of course it's difficult to top a box office success like Emmanuelle, so it will always be my most important work. But that's nothing to be ashamed of."
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Sylvia Kristel
"Of course it's difficult to top a box office success like Emmanuelle, so it will always be my most important work. But that's nothing to be ashamed of."
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"I don't quite jump for joy, but I am awfully glad to see him."
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Anne Bancroft
"I don't quite jump for joy, but I am awfully glad to see him."
Joy,
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"Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time."
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Eartha Kitt
"Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time."
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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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"I couldn't bear it if anyone knew I had hardly any self-confidence at all."
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Loretta Young
"I couldn't bear it if anyone knew I had hardly any self-confidence at all."
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"You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they're going to write in whatever clever manner they desire."
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Kim Basinger
"You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they're going to write in whatever clever manner they desire."
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"I'm not a violent person and I don't hit people."
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Shannen Doherty
"I'm not a violent person and I don't hit people."
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"When you fall head over heels for someone, you're not falling in love with who they are as a person; you're falling in love with your idea of love."
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Elisabeth Rohm
"When you fall head over heels for someone, you're not falling in love with who they are as a person; you're falling in love with your idea of love."
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"I realize now that I was a feminist and the minute I heard the word I certainly knew it meant me, but at that time I don't think we had the label yet. But there's no doubt about it that I was born a feminist."
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Marlo Thomas
"I realize now that I was a feminist and the minute I heard the word I certainly knew it meant me, but at that time I don't think we had the label yet. But there's no doubt about it that I was born a feminist."
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"It's very strong after the birth. It's extraordinary. You can't watch anything to do with kids being harmed."
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Julie Walters
"It's very strong after the birth. It's extraordinary. You can't watch anything to do with kids being harmed."
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"My mother's been married many, many times and grew up believing in love like that. It's remarkable."
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Sherilyn Fenn
"My mother's been married many, many times and grew up believing in love like that. It's remarkable."
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"But I love filmmaking - I'm not ashamed of that. You're sort of vilified if you say that in England."
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Minnie Driver
"But I love filmmaking - I'm not ashamed of that. You're sort of vilified if you say that in England."
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"Women have to air it out, hold on to it, work on it."
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Kim Delaney
"Women have to air it out, hold on to it, work on it."
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