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"In terms of being a role model, I didn't start out to be one. I don't go to work every day with that in mind. But, I do get a lot of fan mail from young girls."
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Victoria Pratt
"In terms of being a role model, I didn't start out to be one. I don't go to work every day with that in mind. But, I do get a lot of fan mail from young girls."
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"If you rest, you rust."
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Helen Hayes
"If you rest, you rust."
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"I was watching something the other day which started out with five guys walking towards you and one woman, and there you go-it's still being dominated by the male society."
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Joan Severance
"I was watching something the other day which started out with five guys walking towards you and one woman, and there you go-it's still being dominated by the male society."
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"I love New York. I love the multicultural vibe here. Los Angeles doesn't inspire me in any way. Everyone is in the same industry, yet you feel very isolated."
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Neve Campbell
"I love New York. I love the multicultural vibe here. Los Angeles doesn't inspire me in any way. Everyone is in the same industry, yet you feel very isolated."
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"If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path."
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Jeanne Moreau
"If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path."
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"I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I'm a big shoe girl."
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Amy Adams
"I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I'm a big shoe girl."
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"I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'Maybe there's a story in Joan of Arc's mother!' If I don't hurry up, her grandmother!"
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Ellen Burstyn
"I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'Maybe there's a story in Joan of Arc's mother!' If I don't hurry up, her grandmother!"
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"What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch."
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Jennifer Beals
"What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch."
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"One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions."
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Cornelia Otis Skinner
"One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions."
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"There will always be some kid who's the new Kurt Cobain writing great lyrics and singing from his soul. The problem is they're not marketing that anymore or putting it out there."
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Rosanna Arquette
"There will always be some kid who's the new Kurt Cobain writing great lyrics and singing from his soul. The problem is they're not marketing that anymore or putting it out there."
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"There's a great difference between being popular and being an artist."
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Shirley Knight
"There's a great difference between being popular and being an artist."
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"Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door."
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Brooke Shields
"Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door."
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"Where I am now, you're very much at everybody else's mercy. You have no control over your career in a lot of ways. It's just important to know what your own goals are, because that's empowering."
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Rose Byrne
"Where I am now, you're very much at everybody else's mercy. You have no control over your career in a lot of ways. It's just important to know what your own goals are, because that's empowering."
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"You'd think that I'd be dieting, but I'm not."
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Kelly Hu
"You'd think that I'd be dieting, but I'm not."
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"I don't drink, and I don't smoke. It's a personal preference. My mom has never drunk or smoked. I look up to my mom."
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Ashley Tisdale
"I don't drink, and I don't smoke. It's a personal preference. My mom has never drunk or smoked. I look up to my mom."
Mom,
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"Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people."
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Joan Collins
"Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people."
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"But I think it's more fulfilling to be working with people."
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Jean Stapleton
"But I think it's more fulfilling to be working with people."
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"I haven't ever gone to any Mensa meetings."
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Geena Davis
"I haven't ever gone to any Mensa meetings."
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"We're taught to take care of people we love, but sometimes you can't."
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Mariel Hemingway
"We're taught to take care of people we love, but sometimes you can't."
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"I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me."
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Barbra Streisand
"I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me."
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"I've always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer."
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Loni Anderson
"I've always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer."
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"I love swimming, tennis, and I am taking up golf. I am not serious about it, I just go to the range and practice. Other than that, I enjoy going to the movies and hanging out with my friends."
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Mila Kunis
"I love swimming, tennis, and I am taking up golf. I am not serious about it, I just go to the range and practice. Other than that, I enjoy going to the movies and hanging out with my friends."
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"I like to connect to people in the virtual world, exchanging thoughts and ideas, when in the physical world we might never have the opportunity to cross paths."
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Demi Moore
"I like to connect to people in the virtual world, exchanging thoughts and ideas, when in the physical world we might never have the opportunity to cross paths."
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"I can't do theatre in the US,' she says, 'because I don't have a green card."
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Jacqueline McKenzie
"I can't do theatre in the US,' she says, 'because I don't have a green card."
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"Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater."
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Shirley Knight
"Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater."
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"I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations."
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Barbra Streisand
"I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations."
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"51st State was one that I loved doing because the character was so out there, and in a way I was sad to leave the character behind. I'm afraid I could never be that cool in real life!"
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Emily Mortimer
"51st State was one that I loved doing because the character was so out there, and in a way I was sad to leave the character behind. I'm afraid I could never be that cool in real life!"
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"I enjoy hats. And when one has filthy hair, that is a good accessory."
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Julia Roberts
"I enjoy hats. And when one has filthy hair, that is a good accessory."
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"Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me."
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Meryl Streep
"Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me."
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"I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'"
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Olivia Wilde
"I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'"
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"Well, right now, technically, I have no breast cancer."
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Lynn Redgrave
"Well, right now, technically, I have no breast cancer."
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"Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best."
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Maude Adams
"Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best."
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"I like green or brown eyes. Tall but not overwhelmingly so. I like men who do yoga and meditate."
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Kristin Davis
"I like green or brown eyes. Tall but not overwhelmingly so. I like men who do yoga and meditate."
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"Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly."
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Elizabeth Hurley
"Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly."
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"After I do a big movie I get offered big movies. But I always do the weirdest indie."
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Robin Tunney
"After I do a big movie I get offered big movies. But I always do the weirdest indie."
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"I was raised Catholic and I'm Presbyterian now, but I've always been a Christian, regardless of denomination. I believe that Jesus is the way."
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Patricia Heaton
"I was raised Catholic and I'm Presbyterian now, but I've always been a Christian, regardless of denomination. I believe that Jesus is the way."
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"Regrettably, I do sometimes have to fight a tendency to be bitchy."
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Marie Windsor
"Regrettably, I do sometimes have to fight a tendency to be bitchy."
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"I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December, right?"
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Catherine O'Hara
"I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December, right?"
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"And I grew up watching all the British ones so when you hear that from an early age, it makes it much easier than you guys who don't grow up with Australian television or British television."
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Rachel Griffiths
"And I grew up watching all the British ones so when you hear that from an early age, it makes it much easier than you guys who don't grow up with Australian television or British television."
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"I think the original Matrix was really incredible. It was so original and it did so many innovative things with film. It was a much bigger film. Bound was just a smaller film. It was kind of like an old noir film."
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Gina Gershon
"I think the original Matrix was really incredible. It was so original and it did so many innovative things with film. It was a much bigger film. Bound was just a smaller film. It was kind of like an old noir film."
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"These days I have to be extra nice in stores. It never fails that whenever I look as bad as I can possibly look or I am sort of cranky because the store is out of something, that is precisely the time when someone one will recognize me and say: 'I really like your show.'"
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Lauren Graham
"These days I have to be extra nice in stores. It never fails that whenever I look as bad as I can possibly look or I am sort of cranky because the store is out of something, that is precisely the time when someone one will recognize me and say: 'I really like your show.'"
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"I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction."
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Mariel Hemingway
"I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction."
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"Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is."
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Mae West
"Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is."
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"Men want girls. Most men want little girls. They want them in film. They want to look at them. That's all they want. An evolved man is not going to look that way."
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Rosanna Arquette
"Men want girls. Most men want little girls. They want them in film. They want to look at them. That's all they want. An evolved man is not going to look that way."
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"You respect all of these people that you know in the business as actors. And they sort of turn around and say, we really like your work. It's a nice acknowledgment."
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Lucy Liu
"You respect all of these people that you know in the business as actors. And they sort of turn around and say, we really like your work. It's a nice acknowledgment."
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"Always be smarter than the people who hire you."
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Lena Horne
"Always be smarter than the people who hire you."
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"It's fine to have anal sex as long as you're not in high school."
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Mia Kirshner
"It's fine to have anal sex as long as you're not in high school."
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"I used Jimmy to give me what I needed to keep going and to know that I was on the right path with it. I thought I saw Jimmy's soul all the time we worked. He never covered his soul and I never covered mine. We saw into each other's souls, very definitely."
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Kim Novak
"I used Jimmy to give me what I needed to keep going and to know that I was on the right path with it. I thought I saw Jimmy's soul all the time we worked. He never covered his soul and I never covered mine. We saw into each other's souls, very definitely."
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"They tell me that it will be hard to find a man strong enough to love my own strength and independence, and not worry about being Mr. Diana Ross, but I disagree. I know absolutely that that man is somewhere out there."
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Diana Ross
"They tell me that it will be hard to find a man strong enough to love my own strength and independence, and not worry about being Mr. Diana Ross, but I disagree. I know absolutely that that man is somewhere out there."
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"In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star."
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Bette Davis
"In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star."
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