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"And I was ashamed of myself for feeling like I had to do that in order to look a certain way. I felt misshapen, just not natural anymore. And I think it was a big stimulator of my drug use."
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Jamie Lee Curtis
"And I was ashamed of myself for feeling like I had to do that in order to look a certain way. I felt misshapen, just not natural anymore. And I think it was a big stimulator of my drug use."
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"Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary."
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Anna Friel
"Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary."
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"I have always wanted to act ever since I was a little girl. I would put a blanket under my shirt and pretend that I was pregnant. Then, I would go through childbirth."
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Dakota Fanning
"I have always wanted to act ever since I was a little girl. I would put a blanket under my shirt and pretend that I was pregnant. Then, I would go through childbirth."
Act,
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"She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out."
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Fay Wray
"She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out."
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"But I always like to play ugly people who think they're pretty."
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Amy Sedaris
"But I always like to play ugly people who think they're pretty."
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"On a film, I was always acting. I was either changing my clothes really quickly and wiping off the lipstick and putting on the other lipstick and then working constantly, constantly."
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Maggie Gyllenhaal
"On a film, I was always acting. I was either changing my clothes really quickly and wiping off the lipstick and putting on the other lipstick and then working constantly, constantly."
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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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"It's funny, though, because when I first started going to races after we met, I was extremely nervous. It's like being backstage and hoping you don't trip over something or break an amp or accidentally speak into a live microphone, so I was really hesitant."
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Ashley Judd
"It's funny, though, because when I first started going to races after we met, I was extremely nervous. It's like being backstage and hoping you don't trip over something or break an amp or accidentally speak into a live microphone, so I was really hesitant."
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"I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt."
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Barbra Streisand
"I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt."
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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 love being a scientologist, as it's helped me in every single aspect of my life."
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Kelly Preston
"I love being a scientologist, as it's helped me in every single aspect of my life."
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"I found the right man, got married, and just had to keep not reinventing myself, just deciding that it doesn't matter what you are if you are a good person."
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Lisa Kudrow
"I found the right man, got married, and just had to keep not reinventing myself, just deciding that it doesn't matter what you are if you are a good person."
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"Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired."
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Mae West
"Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired."
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"Growing up, being watched from the outside... it's kind of very taxing and maybe I should just do some kind of manual labor-it might be more relaxing. But I can't, it's not in my nature."
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Jennifer Connelly
"Growing up, being watched from the outside... it's kind of very taxing and maybe I should just do some kind of manual labor-it might be more relaxing. But I can't, it's not in my nature."
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"The doctors say it dates back to a film where I had these huge prosthetic breasts because my character was breast-feeding. The weight of them, and of the baby, did my back in."
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Anna Friel
"The doctors say it dates back to a film where I had these huge prosthetic breasts because my character was breast-feeding. The weight of them, and of the baby, did my back in."
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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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"Yes, I know I've played these women, but I'm not really conniving at all."
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Annette Bening
"Yes, I know I've played these women, but I'm not really conniving at all."
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"We can sit around and go, okay, is there really a plan, does somebody really know what's happening, is it all planned out, because sometimes it just seems too remarkable to me the things that have happened to me."
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Andie MacDowell
"We can sit around and go, okay, is there really a plan, does somebody really know what's happening, is it all planned out, because sometimes it just seems too remarkable to me the things that have happened to me."
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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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"Japanimation is a whole different art form."
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Lucy Liu
"Japanimation is a whole different art form."
Art,
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"I felt I had to share Idaho with my friend from New York because he'd shared New York with me, so I was going to share the beauty of nature with a man who went to museums and clubs late at night. But there was nothing to do where I lived at night."
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Mariel Hemingway
"I felt I had to share Idaho with my friend from New York because he'd shared New York with me, so I was going to share the beauty of nature with a man who went to museums and clubs late at night. But there was nothing to do where I lived at night."
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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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"You say a line and you wait for them to laugh, then you say another line and you wait... It felt weird to me. But it's interesting and the energy is almost like theatre, I suppose, with all the people there."
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Sherilyn Fenn
"You say a line and you wait for them to laugh, then you say another line and you wait... It felt weird to me. But it's interesting and the energy is almost like theatre, I suppose, with all the people there."
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"I don't like to fight."
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June Allyson
"I don't like to fight."
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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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"In real life, one of my friends was killed in a car accident during our sophomore year."
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Beverley Mitchell
"In real life, one of my friends was killed in a car accident during our sophomore year."
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"It's very difficult to marry into another civilization."
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Leslie Caron
"It's very difficult to marry into another civilization."
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"People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening."
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Daphne Zuniga
"People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening."
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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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"Bernard and I intend doing a lot with our lives and that includes actively helping other people. But how can we tell you our plans when we haven't finished making them yet?"
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Shelley Duvall
"Bernard and I intend doing a lot with our lives and that includes actively helping other people. But how can we tell you our plans when we haven't finished making them yet?"
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"I didn't picture myself as a movie actress. I began to think about it around college. I remember thinking, "Well somebody has to be in them," so maybe I could do that eventually. It's all been a surprise."
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Annette Bening
"I didn't picture myself as a movie actress. I began to think about it around college. I remember thinking, "Well somebody has to be in them," so maybe I could do that eventually. It's all been a surprise."
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"What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other."
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Barbra Streisand
"What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other."
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"Yeah I think Pitch Black was edgy, I think that's what worked for our film."
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Radha Mitchell
"Yeah I think Pitch Black was edgy, I think that's what worked for our film."
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"Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area."
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Jodie Foster
"Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area."
Job,
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"The panic attacks - I still have them. They started when I was around 8. They always have to do with my death."
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Patty Duke
"The panic attacks - I still have them. They started when I was around 8. They always have to do with my death."
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"It's so hard to be a mother and to also want to practice your art."
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Rosanna Arquette
"It's so hard to be a mother and to also want to practice your art."
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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 think that the most difficult thing is allowing yourself to be loved, so receiving the love and feeling like you deserve it is a pretty big struggle. I suppose that's what I've learnt recently, to allow myself to be loved."
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Nicole Kidman
"I think that the most difficult thing is allowing yourself to be loved, so receiving the love and feeling like you deserve it is a pretty big struggle. I suppose that's what I've learnt recently, to allow myself to be loved."
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"Acting and writing go together. Actors write because they love words and becoming other people - we love to escape into other characters."
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Susannah York
"Acting and writing go together. Actors write because they love words and becoming other people - we love to escape into other characters."
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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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"You know, I spend most of my life turning things down. There's a lot of crap out there."
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Bea Arthur
"You know, I spend most of my life turning things down. There's a lot of crap out there."
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"I think, head up and shoulders back. Not only does it make you look taller and thinner but it gives you confidence and boosts your self-esteem."
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Shelley Long
"I think, head up and shoulders back. Not only does it make you look taller and thinner but it gives you confidence and boosts your self-esteem."
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"That said, my kids are at home right now with my husband and I'm missing something important at my daughter's school which makes me feel sick inside. It's a lot of balance and a lot of really hard decision making."
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Reese Witherspoon
"That said, my kids are at home right now with my husband and I'm missing something important at my daughter's school which makes me feel sick inside. It's a lot of balance and a lot of really hard decision making."
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"The story of a love is not important-what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity."
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Helen Hayes
"The story of a love is not important-what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity."
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"When you don't have anybody to take care of you, then you could go both ways: You could do whatever you want, or you could take charge and be your own parent."
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Jennifer Lawrence
"When you don't have anybody to take care of you, then you could go both ways: You could do whatever you want, or you could take charge and be your own parent."
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"The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees."
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Demi Moore
"The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees."
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"Sharing a clear and concise vision spawns a sense of purpose and direction. It attracts success toward you and helps you build an expanding team."
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Farshad Asl
"Sharing a clear and concise vision spawns a sense of purpose and direction. It attracts success toward you and helps you build an expanding team."
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"Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?"
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Nicole Kidman
"Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?"
Job,
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