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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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"Entrepreneurship is where a noble cause meets the passion."
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Farshad Asl
"Entrepreneurship is where a noble cause meets the passion."
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"I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me."
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Rosanna Arquette
"I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me."
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"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."
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Camryn Manheim
"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."
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"My daughter is a good, caring, compassionate person. To me that's the true meaning of success, even though the marriages didn't work out. My success with my daughter is all that matters."
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Charlene Tilton
"My daughter is a good, caring, compassionate person. To me that's the true meaning of success, even though the marriages didn't work out. My success with my daughter is all that matters."
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"I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part."
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Shirley MacLaine
"I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part."
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"Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook."
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Minnie Driver
"Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook."
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"Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older."
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Jamie Lee Curtis
"Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older."
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"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."
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Helen Reddy
"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."
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"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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Marlee Matlin
"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."
Now,
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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."
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Kathleen Turner
"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."
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"I'm French, so I'm quite lazy about exercising, and I smoke. But I do love going for a run in the morning with my dog. That's all."
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Eva Green
"I'm French, so I'm quite lazy about exercising, and I smoke. But I do love going for a run in the morning with my dog. That's all."
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"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."
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Naomi Watts
"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."
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"I like the theater enormously, but I truly love films - the whole bizarre, boring process that it can be."
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Minnie Driver
"I like the theater enormously, but I truly love films - the whole bizarre, boring process that it can be."
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"Film, I think, is my medium."
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Pia Zadora
"Film, I think, is my medium."
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"Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?"
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Barbra Streisand
"Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?"
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"A lot of actors just do whatever they do, and wherever the camera is, it is. They don't pay much attention, but I always did. I was always very close to the camera crew. They were my best buddies, no matter what movie or show I was doing."
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Donna Mills
"A lot of actors just do whatever they do, and wherever the camera is, it is. They don't pay much attention, but I always did. I was always very close to the camera crew. They were my best buddies, no matter what movie or show I was doing."
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"Your opponents would love you to believe that it's hopeless, that you have no power, that there's no reason to act, that you can't win. Hope is a gift you don't have to surrender, a power you don't have to throw away."
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Rebecca Solnit
"Your opponents would love you to believe that it's hopeless, that you have no power, that there's no reason to act, that you can't win. Hope is a gift you don't have to surrender, a power you don't have to throw away."
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"The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish."
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Gloria Swanson
"The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish."
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"Somewhere we turn ourselves into victims instead of being the powerful women we really are meant to be."
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Judith Light
"Somewhere we turn ourselves into victims instead of being the powerful women we really are meant to be."
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"I thought my nose was too prominent so I had this corrected via plastic surgery in 1959."
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Marie Windsor
"I thought my nose was too prominent so I had this corrected via plastic surgery in 1959."
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"I had a soap opera, and my next job was working with Kyle McLachlan on The Invisible Man."
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Elisabeth Rohm
"I had a soap opera, and my next job was working with Kyle McLachlan on The Invisible Man."
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"Once you have an animal, you have to commit to it. They need a sense of freedom, but, of course, they must have some boundaries. I am against hitting them though; just send the vibe and that will do it."
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Connie Stevens
"Once you have an animal, you have to commit to it. They need a sense of freedom, but, of course, they must have some boundaries. I am against hitting them though; just send the vibe and that will do it."
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"When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life."
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Gloria Swanson
"When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life."
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"I eat whatever I want, junk food included."
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Vanessa Marcil
"I eat whatever I want, junk food included."
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"I do think you feel a little bit like you are preying on people's lives."
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Emily Watson
"I do think you feel a little bit like you are preying on people's lives."
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"I am vegetarian, though, and so is my family."
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Joely Fisher
"I am vegetarian, though, and so is my family."
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"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."
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Priscilla Presley
"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."
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"I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look."
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Debbie Allen
"I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look."
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"What brings people down is the same thing over and over."
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Meg Ryan
"What brings people down is the same thing over and over."
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"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."
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Barbra Streisand
"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."
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"I want to play an action hero. I'm ready for roles that totally aren't me."
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Kirsten Dunst
"I want to play an action hero. I'm ready for roles that totally aren't me."
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"That got me to L.A. and reintroduced me to my future husband."
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Marg Helgenberger
"That got me to L.A. and reintroduced me to my future husband."
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"When I read the script, I was like, Hello, woman in a box. I had to explore that to the end."
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Sherilyn Fenn
"When I read the script, I was like, Hello, woman in a box. I had to explore that to the end."
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"He was doing - Ray was designing the clothes for my mom's show from California. And one of the first appearances I ever made on television was on my mother's show and Ray and Bob did the clothes for that. It has been a long time."
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Liza Minnelli
"He was doing - Ray was designing the clothes for my mom's show from California. And one of the first appearances I ever made on television was on my mother's show and Ray and Bob did the clothes for that. It has been a long time."
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"I like to spend my time with my children."
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Kelly Preston
"I like to spend my time with my children."
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"I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it."
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Fiona Shaw
"I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it."
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"A star needs all the rest she can get."
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Lorna Luft
"A star needs all the rest she can get."
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"And what I liked the most about any project was that when it was good, you had a bunch of people trying to accomplish something together who were all acting together as one - that's the most exciting time for me."
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Liza Minnelli
"And what I liked the most about any project was that when it was good, you had a bunch of people trying to accomplish something together who were all acting together as one - that's the most exciting time for me."
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"This has taught me that being pleasant is always so much more productive, for I know well the rewards for being good-natured."
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Marie Windsor
"This has taught me that being pleasant is always so much more productive, for I know well the rewards for being good-natured."
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"At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn't going away, it became scary and claustrophobic. Fame is a weird thing."
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Sharon Stone
"At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn't going away, it became scary and claustrophobic. Fame is a weird thing."
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"I've always wanted to act since I was little."
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Alanna Ubach
"I've always wanted to act since I was little."
Act,
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"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."
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Piper Laurie
"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."
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"I've always loved acting with adults versus like the whole High School feel."
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Alison Lohman
"I've always loved acting with adults versus like the whole High School feel."
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"It is very difficult for girls. They're told to look one way, but to act another way."
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Glenn Close
"It is very difficult for girls. They're told to look one way, but to act another way."
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"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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Mary McDonnell
"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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"Acting's fun, but life's more important."
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Margot Kidder
"Acting's fun, but life's more important."
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