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Quotes by Actress

"Being diabetic was not what I thought of as being normal, and I feared the stigma of having to take medicine and having people stick me with a needle."
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Nell Carter
"Being diabetic was not what I thought of as being normal, and I feared the stigma of having to take medicine and having people stick me with a needle."
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"My brother's been producing rap music and hip-hop for maybe 10 years."
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Tina Yothers
"My brother's been producing rap music and hip-hop for maybe 10 years."
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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 wanted to be a doctor when I was a kid, but I started doing theater in high school because it was a requirement. At first, I was completely irritated. But I ended up loving it."
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Sophia Bush
"I wanted to be a doctor when I was a kid, but I started doing theater in high school because it was a requirement. At first, I was completely irritated. But I ended up loving it."
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"Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana."
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Lana Turner
"Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana."
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"It's great when you find somebody you're compatible with, but I'm really into separate bedrooms. You live your life and I live mine."
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Claudia Christian
"It's great when you find somebody you're compatible with, but I'm really into separate bedrooms. You live your life and I live mine."
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"You hear stories like that of Canadians trying to get in, but when you go back home, you don't expect that."
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Caroline Dhavernas
"You hear stories like that of Canadians trying to get in, but when you go back home, you don't expect that."
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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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"I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long."
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Shelley Winters
"I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long."
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"If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing."
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Ingrid Bergman
"If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing."
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"I think a big part of our attraction to sport movies are the stories contained within the sports."
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Rachel Griffiths
"I think a big part of our attraction to sport movies are the stories contained within the sports."
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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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"Stage work, that's all I have in my background. Wasteland was my first TV experience. Dawson's was my first long-term, I mean the entire season of 22 episodes."
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Sasha Alexander
"Stage work, that's all I have in my background. Wasteland was my first TV experience. Dawson's was my first long-term, I mean the entire season of 22 episodes."
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"OK, he and Katie fell in love, they're getting married. Why is this in the news? Why is this a big deal? Is there something unusual about meeting someone and falling in love?"
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Mimi Rogers
"OK, he and Katie fell in love, they're getting married. Why is this in the news? Why is this a big deal? Is there something unusual about meeting someone and falling in love?"
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"If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the other side, you freeze. I try to trust that it will work out in the end."
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Jennifer Connelly
"If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the other side, you freeze. I try to trust that it will work out in the end."
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"I've been on stage since I was 7. That's where I'd rather be than anywhere else. Just because you can do a bunch of things doesn't mean you are a bunch of things. I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer."
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Bebe Neuwirth
"I've been on stage since I was 7. That's where I'd rather be than anywhere else. Just because you can do a bunch of things doesn't mean you are a bunch of things. I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer."
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"I'm not going to become anybody I don't want to become."
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Kristen Bell
"I'm not going to become anybody I don't want to become."
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"Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination."
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Lily Tomlin
"Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination."
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"It's so funny how my name has always been such a big deal. When I was growing up, my family was always moving. I had to meet new people all the time. And they'd laugh."
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Calista Flockhart
"It's so funny how my name has always been such a big deal. When I was growing up, my family was always moving. I had to meet new people all the time. And they'd laugh."
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"I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture."
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Christine Baranski
"I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture."
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"If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want - except neurosurgery."
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Sharon Stone
"If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want - except neurosurgery."
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"Even though I had a lucrative contract with MGM, I had a husband who was drinking and gambling our money away faster than I could make it."
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Esther Williams
"Even though I had a lucrative contract with MGM, I had a husband who was drinking and gambling our money away faster than I could make it."
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"Women loved that part 'cause K.C. was just sassy."
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Marg Helgenberger
"Women loved that part 'cause K.C. was just sassy."
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"Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private."
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Francesca Annis
"Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private."
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"M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect."
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Loretta Swit
"M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect."
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"Young Jimmy Dean fell off the world as suddenly as he had come."
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Mercedes McCambridge
"Young Jimmy Dean fell off the world as suddenly as he had come."
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"It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say."
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Laura Dern
"It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say."
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"We've played producers almost our entire lives in everything else we've created. But when working on a feature and even dealing with something like Warner Bros. or another production company, or other details that you can worry about - we definitely learned a lot."
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Mary-Kate Olsen
"We've played producers almost our entire lives in everything else we've created. But when working on a feature and even dealing with something like Warner Bros. or another production company, or other details that you can worry about - we definitely learned a lot."
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"Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it."
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Maureen O'Hara
"Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it."
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"The odd thing is, I don't consider what I do work, because it's what I love. But it is also an enormous amount of pressure, and you have to work an enormous amount of hours."
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Maria Menounos
"The odd thing is, I don't consider what I do work, because it's what I love. But it is also an enormous amount of pressure, and you have to work an enormous amount of hours."
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"The events with Henry III happened, obviously the way it happened, liberties were taken."
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Catherine McCormack
"The events with Henry III happened, obviously the way it happened, liberties were taken."
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"The Lion King always makes me cry, especially when Simba's father gets trampled."
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Vanessa Hudgens
"The Lion King always makes me cry, especially when Simba's father gets trampled."
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"It's the most prestigious dog show in the country. We love dogs, and we're having a blast out here."
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Melissa Rivers
"It's the most prestigious dog show in the country. We love dogs, and we're having a blast out here."
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"It is something actresses need to go through and I think they look forward to being naked in a movie. I don't know why, but it is something you need to exhaust from yourself."
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Sophie Marceau
"It is something actresses need to go through and I think they look forward to being naked in a movie. I don't know why, but it is something you need to exhaust from yourself."
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"When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term."
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Gene Tierney
"When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term."
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"As far as advice, that will be in my next book, my next collection. I certainly never like to instruct anyone, but just say as I feel. That's the same as advice, isn't it?"
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Fay Wray
"As far as advice, that will be in my next book, my next collection. I certainly never like to instruct anyone, but just say as I feel. That's the same as advice, isn't it?"
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"As much success came to him, my father stayed true to his promise. He built the hospital to help the most helpless children with catastrophic illnesses."
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Marlo Thomas
"As much success came to him, my father stayed true to his promise. He built the hospital to help the most helpless children with catastrophic illnesses."
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"It's a lot easier, I think, to be an actor in a movie than to spin a joke on a sitcom."
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Nicole Sullivan
"It's a lot easier, I think, to be an actor in a movie than to spin a joke on a sitcom."
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"You can perform all kind of characters but you cannot change what people feel for you."
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Sophie Marceau
"You can perform all kind of characters but you cannot change what people feel for you."
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"I want to keep my attractiveness as long as I can. It has to do with vitality and energy and interest."
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Jacqueline Bisset
"I want to keep my attractiveness as long as I can. It has to do with vitality and energy and interest."
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"The older one gets in this profession, the more people there are with whom one would never work again."
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Liv Ullmann
"The older one gets in this profession, the more people there are with whom one would never work again."
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"I have never, ever, had an acting partnership that was a safe, as full, and as exciting as the one I had with Tony. I didn't want to go through life without having a chance to taste it again."
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Genie Francis
"I have never, ever, had an acting partnership that was a safe, as full, and as exciting as the one I had with Tony. I didn't want to go through life without having a chance to taste it again."
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"You don't realize how much a part of your character is part of yourself until you are no longer playing that character."
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Julie Benz
"You don't realize how much a part of your character is part of yourself until you are no longer playing that character."
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"Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships."
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Natalie Wood
"Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships."
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"The age I'm at now, you go from being a young girl to suddenly you blossom into a woman. You ripen, you know? And then you start to rot."
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Liv Tyler
"The age I'm at now, you go from being a young girl to suddenly you blossom into a woman. You ripen, you know? And then you start to rot."
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"Being is like pretending."
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Mira Sorvino
"Being is like pretending."
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"Of all the things I do, acting is the thing that grabs most, but there's another level on which it strikes me as being a little silly. In the end you're dressing up and deciding to be somebody."
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Jane Asher
"Of all the things I do, acting is the thing that grabs most, but there's another level on which it strikes me as being a little silly. In the end you're dressing up and deciding to be somebody."
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"I'm different, and my manner invites questions. I'm never afraid to answer."
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Marlee Matlin
"I'm different, and my manner invites questions. I'm never afraid to answer."
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"I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf."
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Camryn Manheim
"I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf."
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"I don't like going where I've already been. Life is a myriad of territories to discover. I don't want to waste time with what I already know."
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Jeanne Moreau
"I don't like going where I've already been. Life is a myriad of territories to discover. I don't want to waste time with what I already know."
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