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"I've always known I would be a success, but I was surprised at the way it came."
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Eva Gabor
"I've always known I would be a success, but I was surprised at the way it came."
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"Filming scenes like that are always odd but I feel comfortable with Josh and care about him a great deal, so it could be much worse. Scenes like that are just part of the job."
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Nikki Cox
"Filming scenes like that are always odd but I feel comfortable with Josh and care about him a great deal, so it could be much worse. Scenes like that are just part of the job."
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"I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life."
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Marlo Thomas
"I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life."
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"I kept bugging them about making it more upscale, because I felt Abby, through her cleverness and business sense, was a character who would move up. And that's what she did."
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Donna Mills
"I kept bugging them about making it more upscale, because I felt Abby, through her cleverness and business sense, was a character who would move up. And that's what she did."
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"We get along really well, but TV and film aren't reality. We're best friends, but we do have our fights!"
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Mary-Kate Olsen
"We get along really well, but TV and film aren't reality. We're best friends, but we do have our fights!"
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"I'm trying to eliminate every vestige of my own personality, style, approach and get into somebody else's skin. Sometimes I feel I've accomplished it. But when I don't, I'm nobody at all, having left myself at home."
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Judy Holliday
"I'm trying to eliminate every vestige of my own personality, style, approach and get into somebody else's skin. Sometimes I feel I've accomplished it. But when I don't, I'm nobody at all, having left myself at home."
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"I'm very fond of doing movies where men fight over me. I don't get to do enough."
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Anjelica Huston
"I'm very fond of doing movies where men fight over me. I don't get to do enough."
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"Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him."
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Marilyn Monroe
"Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him."
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"But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling."
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Olivia Wilde
"But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling."
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"My acting is still being recognized for the fact that I wasn't nominated."
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Eva Longoria
"My acting is still being recognized for the fact that I wasn't nominated."
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"I have a real problem with stillness. With just stopping and being quiet."
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Gillian Anderson
"I have a real problem with stillness. With just stopping and being quiet."
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"I loved working on Of Mice and Men. It was a wonderful group of people. John Malkovich is to me one of the best actors around right now-and a lot of fun to work with."
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Sherilyn Fenn
"I loved working on Of Mice and Men. It was a wonderful group of people. John Malkovich is to me one of the best actors around right now-and a lot of fun to work with."
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"A lot of more modern films seem to just be out for violence or sex or what have you, without relating it to what's going within human beings. But every now and then one comes along that does that, and it's a joy."
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Kim Hunter
"A lot of more modern films seem to just be out for violence or sex or what have you, without relating it to what's going within human beings. But every now and then one comes along that does that, and it's a joy."
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"I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day."
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Jodie Foster
"I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day."
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"I have a tendency to go through my life at full speed and as a one-man band, and so I don't generally stop and take in other people enough to develop many relationships. I'm starting to regret that a bit. I want to change it."
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Gillian Anderson
"I have a tendency to go through my life at full speed and as a one-man band, and so I don't generally stop and take in other people enough to develop many relationships. I'm starting to regret that a bit. I want to change it."
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"What I'm saying is that I tried very hard to give them my reality and my reality is kind of interesting."
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Liza Minnelli
"What I'm saying is that I tried very hard to give them my reality and my reality is kind of interesting."
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"Star Wars hasn't changed my life at all."
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Natalie Portman
"Star Wars hasn't changed my life at all."
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"I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember Russell coming to my rescue, once. I watched Eric evolve before everyone's eyes. Maurice loved what he did, so. He treated his character with respect, down to the costuming."
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Madeleine Stowe
"I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember Russell coming to my rescue, once. I watched Eric evolve before everyone's eyes. Maurice loved what he did, so. He treated his character with respect, down to the costuming."
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"I've been happily married to Chris for almost 20 years."
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Jamie Lee Curtis
"I've been happily married to Chris for almost 20 years."
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"We each own one car, and we have a reasonable house. It's a lovely place to be, but it's not extravagant."
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Reese Witherspoon
"We each own one car, and we have a reasonable house. It's a lovely place to be, but it's not extravagant."
Car,
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"I work out the other bits, too, but I need to know what I look like, very early on. And then it's like a template; I'll fill that person out. If I get that out of the way, then I'm all right."
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Judi Dench
"I work out the other bits, too, but I need to know what I look like, very early on. And then it's like a template; I'll fill that person out. If I get that out of the way, then I'm all right."
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"My husband says I can do anything I put my mind to, but the truth i, the only thing I want to do is act."
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Kathleen Turner
"My husband says I can do anything I put my mind to, but the truth i, the only thing I want to do is act."
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"I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy."
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Jennifer Connelly
"I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy."
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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 used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better."
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Glenda Jackson
"I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better."
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"The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it."
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Joan Collins
"The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it."
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"You know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what children do with Barbie dolls - it's a bit scary, actually."
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Cate Blanchett
"You know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what children do with Barbie dolls - it's a bit scary, actually."
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"I used to travel in tennis shoes; I am just not allowed to anymore. I'm an old hippie from San Francisco."
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Amy Irving
"I used to travel in tennis shoes; I am just not allowed to anymore. I'm an old hippie from San Francisco."
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"After Leaving Las Vegas I did assume that things would get a lot easier than they've been. But it's just been a mirror of the way my career's been from the beginning, so for it to have changed would have been strange. My career has never been perfect."
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Elisabeth Shue
"After Leaving Las Vegas I did assume that things would get a lot easier than they've been. But it's just been a mirror of the way my career's been from the beginning, so for it to have changed would have been strange. My career has never been perfect."
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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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"At times those skills were really hard to do because not only was I having to contend with the camera, but I was having to learn these new skills and the ball was always kind of doing what you didn't want it to do. So it got a little bit frustrating at times but we got there."
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Parminder Nagra
"At times those skills were really hard to do because not only was I having to contend with the camera, but I was having to learn these new skills and the ball was always kind of doing what you didn't want it to do. So it got a little bit frustrating at times but we got there."
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"I had never done Shakespeare before, but I don't think you can be an actor and not do it. There were moments when I thought, I'm just not going to be able to pull this off."
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Jessica Lange
"I had never done Shakespeare before, but I don't think you can be an actor and not do it. There were moments when I thought, I'm just not going to be able to pull this off."
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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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"This bikini made me a success."
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Ursula Andress
"This bikini made me a success."
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"Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life."
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Bette Davis
"Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life."
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"What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait."
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Hattie McDaniel
"What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait."
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"Sometimes parts just come along when it's the perfect time for you to do them."
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Jessica Lange
"Sometimes parts just come along when it's the perfect time for you to do them."
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"As an actress, it appeals to me because I love the idea of playing those in-between moments, the sort of behavioral stuff that one might not normally see."
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Julia Louis Dreyfus
"As an actress, it appeals to me because I love the idea of playing those in-between moments, the sort of behavioral stuff that one might not normally see."
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"Doctor Who is like any long-running series in that the cast tend to look to the star to set the general tone. Rehearsals and filming could be a lot of fun."
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Sarah Sutton
"Doctor Who is like any long-running series in that the cast tend to look to the star to set the general tone. Rehearsals and filming could be a lot of fun."
Fun,
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"I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent."
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Marie Windsor
"I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent."
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"A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it."
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Maggie Gyllenhaal
"A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it."
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"I think Channel One was very integral in my career."
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Maria Menounos
"I think Channel One was very integral in my career."
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"I've been working some really long hours for the last five or six years. Anybody who works on series television knows, and especially women because women spend probably two hours more than the guys with all their hair and makeup crap."
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Victoria Pratt
"I've been working some really long hours for the last five or six years. Anybody who works on series television knows, and especially women because women spend probably two hours more than the guys with all their hair and makeup crap."
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"I also have a film coming up called Breaking Up, and my part in that was not written for a Latina, and my character is not particularly pretty or sexy or exotic."
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Salma Hayek
"I also have a film coming up called Breaking Up, and my part in that was not written for a Latina, and my character is not particularly pretty or sexy or exotic."
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"I think that people are definitely interested in the idea that Joan has conversations with God."
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Amber Tamblyn
"I think that people are definitely interested in the idea that Joan has conversations with God."
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"I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl."
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Anne Hathaway
"I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl."
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"It's hard to be scared when there are 80 people around you."
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Clea Duvall
"It's hard to be scared when there are 80 people around you."
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"I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean."
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Jodie Foster
"I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean."
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"I used to teach dance lessons."
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Eartha Kitt
"I used to teach dance lessons."
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"I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination."
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Daphne Zuniga
"I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination."
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