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"All the work built my fame and certainly made me more money, but the toll it took in my home was not good."
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Jamie Lee Curtis
"All the work built my fame and certainly made me more money, but the toll it took in my home was not good."
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"He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of."
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Mae West
"He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of."
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"A sitcom. I hate that word."
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Angela Lansbury
"A sitcom. I hate that word."
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"Where there is age there is evolution, where there is life there is growth."
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Anjelica Huston
"Where there is age there is evolution, where there is life there is growth."
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"I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell."
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Julie Walters
"I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell."
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"If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one."
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Frances Farmer
"If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one."
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"I felt like I was flying without a net. But once I realized that the audience was my partner, I was flying a jet, because the people would allow me to develop the character on stage."
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Loretta Swit
"I felt like I was flying without a net. But once I realized that the audience was my partner, I was flying a jet, because the people would allow me to develop the character on stage."
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"I had never seen much of Star Trek, or any other science fiction, before I was cast. But Seven's wonderful."
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Jeri Ryan
"I had never seen much of Star Trek, or any other science fiction, before I was cast. But Seven's wonderful."
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"As soon as I gave birth, it was as if you understand them. They become people, not kids. You start to identify with them. You see yourself in them."
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Julie Walters
"As soon as I gave birth, it was as if you understand them. They become people, not kids. You start to identify with them. You see yourself in them."
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"Women have a way of contorting things sometimes. We all have our moods, ups and downs."
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Malin Akerman
"Women have a way of contorting things sometimes. We all have our moods, ups and downs."
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"The most memorable night of The Judy Garland Show for me was the night my mother pulled me out of the audience and sang to me onstage."
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Lorna Luft
"The most memorable night of The Judy Garland Show for me was the night my mother pulled me out of the audience and sang to me onstage."
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"I found it to be more challenging to be in a huge effects movie, because a lot of the things aren't there.You have to trust the director and react to nothing."
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Katie Holmes
"I found it to be more challenging to be in a huge effects movie, because a lot of the things aren't there.You have to trust the director and react to nothing."
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"We tend to connect bad food and bad habits with romance and sex."
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Marilu Henner
"We tend to connect bad food and bad habits with romance and sex."
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"We moved to Australia for two years though and that was a little bit tough trying to fit in."
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Kelly Preston
"We moved to Australia for two years though and that was a little bit tough trying to fit in."
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"I have a picture of myself in my mind as I walk around every day, until I look in the mirror-and then I'm stunned."
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Patty Duke
"I have a picture of myself in my mind as I walk around every day, until I look in the mirror-and then I'm stunned."
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"In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way."
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Loretta Young
"In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way."
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"The best thing about being an actress is getting good concert tickets."
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Sara Gilbert
"The best thing about being an actress is getting good concert tickets."
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"I truly have a love-hate thing with the press."
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Debi Mazar
"I truly have a love-hate thing with the press."
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"But I just wonder what it would be like to be able to go places without people recognizing me."
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Sara Gilbert
"But I just wonder what it would be like to be able to go places without people recognizing me."
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"I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman."
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Claire Danes
"I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman."
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"I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was fully ready to support it, that Michael's work was wonderful and I imagined that Daniel would feel the same. He listened quietly and read between the lines."
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Madeleine Stowe
"I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was fully ready to support it, that Michael's work was wonderful and I imagined that Daniel would feel the same. He listened quietly and read between the lines."
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"I know for a fact that if there's a role which I am suited for, I'll be signed on. I'll never go begging."
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Aishwarya Rai
"I know for a fact that if there's a role which I am suited for, I'll be signed on. I'll never go begging."
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"I haven't had to do too many, or many explicit ones. Everybody feels weird, and everybody is trying to tiptoe around and make you think they're not there. The last time I did a love scene, I couldn't keep a straight face."
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Gretchen Mol
"I haven't had to do too many, or many explicit ones. Everybody feels weird, and everybody is trying to tiptoe around and make you think they're not there. The last time I did a love scene, I couldn't keep a straight face."
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"So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes."
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Sarah Jessica Parker
"So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes."
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"If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor."
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Kate Beckinsale
"If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor."
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"To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy."
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Bette Davis
"To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy."
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"A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion."
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Barbra Streisand
"A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion."
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"The type of contract between players and producers is, I feel, antiquated in form and abstract in concept. We have no privacies which producers cannot invade, they trade us like cattle, boss us like children."
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Teresa Wright
"The type of contract between players and producers is, I feel, antiquated in form and abstract in concept. We have no privacies which producers cannot invade, they trade us like cattle, boss us like children."
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"I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies."
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Jodie Foster
"I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies."
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"I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants."
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Catherine Deneuve
"I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants."
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"I wanted out of my pain and that silliness, but I wanted an easy out. That's before realizing that there is no easy out. Before accepting that you just have to do the work."
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Mariel Hemingway
"I wanted out of my pain and that silliness, but I wanted an easy out. That's before realizing that there is no easy out. Before accepting that you just have to do the work."
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"I don't really see science fiction as fiction. I can imagine colonies on Mars and everything."
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Sigourney Weaver
"I don't really see science fiction as fiction. I can imagine colonies on Mars and everything."
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"An audience is going to be able to find a little bit of Dorothy in themselves and relate to this woman.: roles like Dorothy Day are so rare in Hollywood."
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Moira Kelly
"An audience is going to be able to find a little bit of Dorothy in themselves and relate to this woman.: roles like Dorothy Day are so rare in Hollywood."
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"From the time I was very young, maybe five or six, I thought a lot about being an actress. I didn't tell my friends about my ambitions, though, especially when I got older, because I thought they would not receive them well. I never talked about what I wanted to do."
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Louise Fletcher
"From the time I was very young, maybe five or six, I thought a lot about being an actress. I didn't tell my friends about my ambitions, though, especially when I got older, because I thought they would not receive them well. I never talked about what I wanted to do."
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"You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me. That's why films like Fight Club were so important to me because I think I confounded certain stereotypes and limited perceptions of what I could do as an actress."
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Helena Bonham Carter
"You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me. That's why films like Fight Club were so important to me because I think I confounded certain stereotypes and limited perceptions of what I could do as an actress."
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"We were in a relationship for eight years, and we maybe saw each other, total, for a year."
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Izabella Scorupco
"We were in a relationship for eight years, and we maybe saw each other, total, for a year."
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"I think that I do separate myself a fair amount. And I don't feel like I am representing women. That's up to however people interpret it once they sort of see it."
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Joan Allen
"I think that I do separate myself a fair amount. And I don't feel like I am representing women. That's up to however people interpret it once they sort of see it."
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"I loved psychology and I loved history."
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Joely Fisher
"I loved psychology and I loved history."
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"Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time."
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Meryl Streep
"Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time."
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"Once you go inside and weed through the muck, you will find the real beauty, the truth about yourself."
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Lindsay Wagner
"Once you go inside and weed through the muck, you will find the real beauty, the truth about yourself."
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"Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?"
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Brigitte Bardot
"Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?"
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"I remember that Scott Jacoby was a nice young man."
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Kim Hunter
"I remember that Scott Jacoby was a nice young man."
Man,
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"My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers - all smoking related."
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Loni Anderson
"My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers - all smoking related."
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"And that's what the audience was feeling too, as they watched the show and as they watch it now. And overriding all of that is the way it was written. It was written honestly. There was never any manufactured laugh. There was never compromising of character."
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Mary Tyler Moore
"And that's what the audience was feeling too, as they watched the show and as they watch it now. And overriding all of that is the way it was written. It was written honestly. There was never any manufactured laugh. There was never compromising of character."
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"I was always really into the music rather than the scene."
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Rhona Mitra
"I was always really into the music rather than the scene."
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"If it's a big hit, fantastic. If it's not, then it's not. I don't worry about my work."
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Kate Hudson
"If it's a big hit, fantastic. If it's not, then it's not. I don't worry about my work."
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"I really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing."
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Carrie Fisher
"I really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing."
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"When you see a girl like me bustin' perps, there ain't no time to be pretty."
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Mariska Hargitay
"When you see a girl like me bustin' perps, there ain't no time to be pretty."
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"You do a James Bond film, you're being part of an anachronism, a tradition."
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Minnie Driver
"You do a James Bond film, you're being part of an anachronism, a tradition."
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"Whenever we were on a plane, we had a family."
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Liza Minnelli
"Whenever we were on a plane, we had a family."
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