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"I was trying to be very at ease in this arrogant person, and very worldly, but something human came into the part. I hate to say that. I wanted to be totally worldly."
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Leslie Caron
"I was trying to be very at ease in this arrogant person, and very worldly, but something human came into the part. I hate to say that. I wanted to be totally worldly."
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"If you love living, you try to take care of the equipment."
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Sally Rand
"If you love living, you try to take care of the equipment."
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"It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes."
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Sally Field
"It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes."
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"Miramax can buy a small independent movie that isn't very good, but because it has great relationships with different theaters, it can get into a big theater."
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Marguerite Moreau
"Miramax can buy a small independent movie that isn't very good, but because it has great relationships with different theaters, it can get into a big theater."
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"Boys frustrate me. I hate all their indirect messages, I hate game playing. Do you like me or don't you? Just tell me so I can get over you."
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Kirsten Dunst
"Boys frustrate me. I hate all their indirect messages, I hate game playing. Do you like me or don't you? Just tell me so I can get over you."
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"You can't pay enough money to... cure that feeling of being broken and confused."
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Winona Ryder
"You can't pay enough money to... cure that feeling of being broken and confused."
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"I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong."
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Barbra Streisand
"I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong."
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"Security has no place in the life of an actress."
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Claire Bloom
"Security has no place in the life of an actress."
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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've learned you can make a mistake and the whole world doesn't end. I had to learn to allow myself to make a mistake without becoming defensive and unforgiving."
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Lisa Kudrow
"I've learned you can make a mistake and the whole world doesn't end. I had to learn to allow myself to make a mistake without becoming defensive and unforgiving."
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"I keep getting these extraordinary letteres, really weird ones from American sports stars - I've always thought you were one pretty lady and now that you're single I want to meet you for a drink."
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Elizabeth Hurley
"I keep getting these extraordinary letteres, really weird ones from American sports stars - I've always thought you were one pretty lady and now that you're single I want to meet you for a drink."
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"I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone."
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Tallulah Bankhead
"I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone."
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"If you have everything, then you don't want to go on. It's the lacking that makes you search for something better."
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Juliette Binoche
"If you have everything, then you don't want to go on. It's the lacking that makes you search for something better."
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"The hardest job an actor can do is all this pretend, all this screaming and being scared for your life."
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Kirsten Dunst
"The hardest job an actor can do is all this pretend, all this screaming and being scared for your life."
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"I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have to assimilate to understand the plot."
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Pia Zadora
"I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have to assimilate to understand the plot."
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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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"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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"There is no magic person out there, no perfect human being out there waiting for you."
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Helen Reddy
"There is no magic person out there, no perfect human being out there waiting for you."
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"I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot."
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Marilyn Monroe
"I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot."
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"No person in the world ever lost anything by being nice to me."
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Lillie Langtry
"No person in the world ever lost anything by being nice to me."
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"I have a friend that has five kids and she went through a trial separation with her husband, and she didn't have time to be upset. Every now and then, she'd call me on the cell phone and just cry."
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Faith Ford
"I have a friend that has five kids and she went through a trial separation with her husband, and she didn't have time to be upset. Every now and then, she'd call me on the cell phone and just cry."
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"I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now."
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Maggie Gyllenhaal
"I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now."
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"The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork."
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Pearl Bailey
"The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork."
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"An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything."
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Whoopi Goldberg
"An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything."
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"I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible."
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Yancy Butler
"I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible."
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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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"The positive emotions that arise in...unpromising circumstances demonstrate that social ties and meaningful work are deeply desired, readily improvised, and intensely rewarding. The very structure of our economy and society prevent these goals from being achieved."
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Rebecca Solnit
"The positive emotions that arise in...unpromising circumstances demonstrate that social ties and meaningful work are deeply desired, readily improvised, and intensely rewarding. The very structure of our economy and society prevent these goals from being achieved."
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"I've been around since I was 19, I won the Oscar when I was 21, I've had a couple of TV series. I've continued to work despite the predictions of some naysayers."
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Marlee Matlin
"I've been around since I was 19, I won the Oscar when I was 21, I've had a couple of TV series. I've continued to work despite the predictions of some naysayers."
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"I have no desire to carry a movie."
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Amy Sedaris
"I have no desire to carry a movie."
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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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"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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"I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music."
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Kelly Osbourne
"I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music."
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"I'm probably not going to play a junkie and that's OK because there are other people who will do it better."
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Rosamund Pike
"I'm probably not going to play a junkie and that's OK because there are other people who will do it better."
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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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"Why in the world would anyone want to photograph an old woman like me?"
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Lillie Langtry
"Why in the world would anyone want to photograph an old woman like me?"
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"I've done yoga, and I want to start Pilates soon."
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Monica Keena
"I've done yoga, and I want to start Pilates soon."
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"If I had my way everyone would have a psychiatrist. When the brain is sick and you must throw up, you do it by being purged in a psychiatrist's office."
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Hedy Lamarr
"If I had my way everyone would have a psychiatrist. When the brain is sick and you must throw up, you do it by being purged in a psychiatrist's office."
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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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"I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness."
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Frances Farmer
"I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness."
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"It was very natural for me to want to disappear into dark theater, I am really very shy. That is something that people never seem to fully grasp because, when you are an actor, you are meant to be an exhibitionist."
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Nicole Kidman
"It was very natural for me to want to disappear into dark theater, I am really very shy. That is something that people never seem to fully grasp because, when you are an actor, you are meant to be an exhibitionist."
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"Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life."
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Marilu Henner
"Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life."
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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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"Well ironically my last three roles have all been a mother. One was a Canadian film where the baby was taken away because she is a drug addict, in Irish Jam I play a mother to a four year old. I think in the future I'll be able to handle the role with a lot more depth."
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Anna Friel
"Well ironically my last three roles have all been a mother. One was a Canadian film where the baby was taken away because she is a drug addict, in Irish Jam I play a mother to a four year old. I think in the future I'll be able to handle the role with a lot more depth."
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"After two years of doing one show, you do get attached to everyone."
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Sarah Sutton
"After two years of doing one show, you do get attached to everyone."
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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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"This house was our dream-the gardens, the study, even the swimming pool. Even though I can't see John when I wake up in the morning, I can always feel him here with me."
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Shirley Knight
"This house was our dream-the gardens, the study, even the swimming pool. Even though I can't see John when I wake up in the morning, I can always feel him here with me."
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"I love to play games. I really like football, and I also like to ride horses."
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Mary-Kate Olsen
"I love to play games. I really like football, and I also like to ride horses."
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"They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and I thought, How nice!"
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Shirley Knight
"They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and I thought, How nice!"
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"I am interested in the art. I'm a professional woman."
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Claire Bloom
"I am interested in the art. I'm a professional woman."
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