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Quotes by Actress


"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."

"Entrepreneurship is where a noble cause meets the passion."

"Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and that someday I would arrive at it."

"It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it."

"Differences are scarier now. The dollar isn't so guaranteed if you don't follow what they see as the norm. But I don't moan about it. I just keep working."
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"What we need is more women writers, writing for older women. There are some actresses who have production companies and create their own material, and I truly admire that."

"Mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so maybe it was a way to shut me up."

"The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish."

"I thought my nose was too prominent so I had this corrected via plastic surgery in 1959."

"I do think you feel a little bit like you are preying on people's lives."

"It's not that, you know, when a relationship doesn't work and there are issues, you have to somehow work it out if there are children involved."

"I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look."

"To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good."

"That got me to L.A. and reintroduced me to my future husband."


"When I read the script, I was like, Hello, woman in a box. I had to explore that to the end."

"I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it."

"This has taught me that being pleasant is always so much more productive, for I know well the rewards for being good-natured."


"At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn't going away, it became scary and claustrophobic. Fame is a weird thing."

"I dropped the script in the fireplace, called my agent and said, they can jail me, sue me, but I'm never acting again, unless I can do something worthwhile."

"I've always loved acting with adults versus like the whole High School feel."

"It is very difficult for girls. They're told to look one way, but to act another way."

"That moment was very important because it was political. That's what has to be done, so they struck a deal. She figures his is a well-thought-out motivation that she felt was worthy trade-off. The motivation here is survival, and she has to think like a leader."
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