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"I don't know why Sinclair Lewis fell in love with me. He didn't get even the slightest response from me. But his letters were lovely. And the poems he wrote me were lovely. I used some of them in my book."
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Fay Wray
"I don't know why Sinclair Lewis fell in love with me. He didn't get even the slightest response from me. But his letters were lovely. And the poems he wrote me were lovely. I used some of them in my book."
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"When I accept a role, I feel that as an artist I have to submit completely to the tutelage of my director. And while I expect to be heard and encouraged and honored, at the end of the day, man, it's the way the director wants it."
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Ashley Judd
"When I accept a role, I feel that as an artist I have to submit completely to the tutelage of my director. And while I expect to be heard and encouraged and honored, at the end of the day, man, it's the way the director wants it."
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"I had an idea of what I thought was funny. It's kind of based on how I am."
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Jennifer Aniston
"I had an idea of what I thought was funny. It's kind of based on how I am."
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"I've lived three lifetimes in my short time."
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Fran Drescher
"I've lived three lifetimes in my short time."
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"So, not only am I panicking over the weekend if I need to know my lines, but also if can I get the kids to the zoo. Can I even go to church? I was asking for certain things that would allow me to plan my life a little better."
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Hunter Tylo
"So, not only am I panicking over the weekend if I need to know my lines, but also if can I get the kids to the zoo. Can I even go to church? I was asking for certain things that would allow me to plan my life a little better."
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"And that's what's beautiful to me, is he did not become a victim of it, and he didn't become a statistic, he just kind of kept on marching through, no matter what people threw at him."
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Mary Stuart Masterson
"And that's what's beautiful to me, is he did not become a victim of it, and he didn't become a statistic, he just kind of kept on marching through, no matter what people threw at him."
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"Some shows, like PPG, tape in a group session, which is always more fun because you can play off each other."
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Tara Strong
"Some shows, like PPG, tape in a group session, which is always more fun because you can play off each other."
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"I like to see love stories: romantic comedy or romantic drama."
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Pia Zadora
"I like to see love stories: romantic comedy or romantic drama."
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"So I was always passionate about it and felt that it was sort of the golden thread inside me in terms of what I was supposed to do in terms of work but I think I have relaxed a lot in terms of the actual experience and actually enjoy it more and enjoy the people more."
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Barbara Hershey
"So I was always passionate about it and felt that it was sort of the golden thread inside me in terms of what I was supposed to do in terms of work but I think I have relaxed a lot in terms of the actual experience and actually enjoy it more and enjoy the people more."
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"Child actors come off as work being their life and doing it 24/7, but I still have those days where it's totally, like, whatever: shopping, movies, adventures."
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Hailee Steinfeld
"Child actors come off as work being their life and doing it 24/7, but I still have those days where it's totally, like, whatever: shopping, movies, adventures."
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"I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to."
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Isabella Rossellini
"I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to."
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"In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening."
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Gene Tierney
"In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening."
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"Recently I heard a 'wise guy' story that I had a party at my home for twenty-five men. It's an interesting story, but I don't know twenty-five men I'd want to invite ta a party."
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Joan Crawford
"Recently I heard a 'wise guy' story that I had a party at my home for twenty-five men. It's an interesting story, but I don't know twenty-five men I'd want to invite ta a party."
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"The critics tend to forget their own answers after a while."
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Gina Gershon
"The critics tend to forget their own answers after a while."
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"I'm not all that big on rides. I sort of like bumper cars but I don't really go to Disneyland all that much unless if have nieces and nephews or people to take."
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Anjelica Huston
"I'm not all that big on rides. I sort of like bumper cars but I don't really go to Disneyland all that much unless if have nieces and nephews or people to take."
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"What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God."
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Eleanor Powell
"What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God."
God,
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"The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you."
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Liza Minnelli
"The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you."
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"Alone in the car with my social life all before and behind me, I was suspended in the beautiful solitude of the open road, in a kind of introspection that only outdoor space generates, for inside and outside are more intertwined than the usual distinctions allow. The emotion stirred by the landscape is piercing, a joy close to pain when the blue is deepest on the horizon or the clouds are doing those spectacular fleeting things so much easier to recall than to describe."
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Rebecca Solnit
"Alone in the car with my social life all before and behind me, I was suspended in the beautiful solitude of the open road, in a kind of introspection that only outdoor space generates, for inside and outside are more intertwined than the usual distinctions allow. The emotion stirred by the landscape is piercing, a joy close to pain when the blue is deepest on the horizon or the clouds are doing those spectacular fleeting things so much easier to recall than to describe."
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"Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent."
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Gloria Swanson
"Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent."
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"I lay in the bed at the hospital and said, 'let's see what I have left.' And I could see, I could speak, I could think, I could read. I simply tabulated my blessings, and that gave me a start."
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Dale Evans
"I lay in the bed at the hospital and said, 'let's see what I have left.' And I could see, I could speak, I could think, I could read. I simply tabulated my blessings, and that gave me a start."
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"It's part of the job to compensate for outfit."
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Victoria Pratt
"It's part of the job to compensate for outfit."
Job,
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"I'd also say having Jack's son Chris living with us from his 13th year on helped in raising Rick."
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Marie Windsor
"I'd also say having Jack's son Chris living with us from his 13th year on helped in raising Rick."
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"That was really cool. I got to kiss a little boy. I was 7 and he was 10, and his name is Thomas Curtis. He was the first boy I've ever kissed in my entire life and he was three years older than me."
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Dakota Fanning
"That was really cool. I got to kiss a little boy. I was 7 and he was 10, and his name is Thomas Curtis. He was the first boy I've ever kissed in my entire life and he was three years older than me."
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"First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people."
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Tea Leoni
"First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people."
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"I'm one of those people who figures that it will eventually sort itself out."
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Daryl Hannah
"I'm one of those people who figures that it will eventually sort itself out."
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"A lot of my friends are struggling musicians. Being a struggling actor, it's just frustrating because you're not allowed to do what you want to do."
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Gina Gershon
"A lot of my friends are struggling musicians. Being a struggling actor, it's just frustrating because you're not allowed to do what you want to do."
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"Sodomy is in the Bible, to be read in churches. I wouldn't rule it out of Mr. Bruce's act if he cares to comment on it."
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Dorothy Kilgallen
"Sodomy is in the Bible, to be read in churches. I wouldn't rule it out of Mr. Bruce's act if he cares to comment on it."
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"I'm a British intern going in. I'm hoping that John will just kind of tackle it from who this person is and what she's about rather than trying to go in on her culture. We need to move a step forward than that."
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Parminder Nagra
"I'm a British intern going in. I'm hoping that John will just kind of tackle it from who this person is and what she's about rather than trying to go in on her culture. We need to move a step forward than that."
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"I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do."
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Olympia Dukakis
"I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do."
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"I've always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me."
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Elizabeth Hurley
"I've always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me."
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"It's fascinating for us women to begin looking at our lives in five-year plans. It really does help you keep on track. If that's too hard, start with a two-year plan."
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Marlo Thomas
"It's fascinating for us women to begin looking at our lives in five-year plans. It really does help you keep on track. If that's too hard, start with a two-year plan."
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"TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary; with independent films, you just can't."
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Jessica Lange
"TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary; with independent films, you just can't."
Age,
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"If you had told me when I was 18 that I wouldn't have made it until I was 29, I would have said, Forget it."
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Helen Reddy
"If you had told me when I was 18 that I wouldn't have made it until I was 29, I would have said, Forget it."
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"There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance."
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Rachel Griffiths
"There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance."
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"The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind."
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Stella Adler
"The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind."
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"The Craft was what it was. People who respond to that movie respond to it really strongly."
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Robin Tunney
"The Craft was what it was. People who respond to that movie respond to it really strongly."
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"The busier you are, the more interesting you are. The more you're off doing your thing and loving your job and your life, that's fascinating."
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Claudia Christian
"The busier you are, the more interesting you are. The more you're off doing your thing and loving your job and your life, that's fascinating."
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"There are all kinds of letters and protests that come from, not surprisingly, Japanese fishermen, the fishermen's wives; there are student groups, all different types of people; the protest against the Americans' use of the Pacific for nuclear testing."
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Martha Smith
"There are all kinds of letters and protests that come from, not surprisingly, Japanese fishermen, the fishermen's wives; there are student groups, all different types of people; the protest against the Americans' use of the Pacific for nuclear testing."
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"Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure."
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Isabelle Adjani
"Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure."
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"We should be able to be ourselves. Make a political stand if you want to."
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Loretta Swit
"We should be able to be ourselves. Make a political stand if you want to."
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"It seems to me the most important issue in the LGBT community is the right to be queer-the right to be free of the heterosexual assumption."
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Jasmine Guy
"It seems to me the most important issue in the LGBT community is the right to be queer-the right to be free of the heterosexual assumption."
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"She loses 50 pounds in the film, and goes from fairly sane to totally out of her mind. So for the first part of the film I was wearing a 40 pound fat suit, which is very, very uncomfortable. But the worst part was the neck."
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Ellen Burstyn
"She loses 50 pounds in the film, and goes from fairly sane to totally out of her mind. So for the first part of the film I was wearing a 40 pound fat suit, which is very, very uncomfortable. But the worst part was the neck."
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"I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America."
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Parminder Nagra
"I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America."
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"Shirley Valentine is a beautiful character and so well written. What Shirley speaks and thinks is so logical."
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Loretta Swit
"Shirley Valentine is a beautiful character and so well written. What Shirley speaks and thinks is so logical."
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"I always loved my mother, felt loved, but she was judgmental. Her father in Ireland didn't approve of women generally, and she took on his values. She believed her own mother was foolish."
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Julie Walters
"I always loved my mother, felt loved, but she was judgmental. Her father in Ireland didn't approve of women generally, and she took on his values. She believed her own mother was foolish."
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"I think it's nice for women to try to be sexy for their man."
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Salma Hayek
"I think it's nice for women to try to be sexy for their man."
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"Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents."
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Tatyana Ali
"Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents."
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"I think that's the phenomenon of our time is that a lot of women keep themselves in good shape but that there's not a lot of accommodation or people out there to connect with and the technology."
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Stockard Channing
"I think that's the phenomenon of our time is that a lot of women keep themselves in good shape but that there's not a lot of accommodation or people out there to connect with and the technology."
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"I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely."
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Kim Basinger
"I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely."
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"I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don't like that. It's great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you're worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive."
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Angelina Jolie
"I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don't like that. It's great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you're worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive."
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