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Quotes by Actress
"The only things I'm competitive in are backgammon and poker."
67
"Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet."
67
"There are no explanations, there are no answers."
67
"We've all listened to Dr. Laura Schlessinger, haven't we? We all know how not to play a psychiatrist."
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67
"I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die."
66
"Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way."
66
"Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what you don't eat."
66
"The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently."
66
"I think sometimes what happens is that all of this feeling out of control manifests itself in trying to control your body; whether it's an eating disorder or talking about getting your nose fixed, as if that's going to be the solution to all the pressure."
66
"What they were giving me seemed incredibly real to me, so I'd react to it in a very real way. That was frightening for me, especially because of the subject."
66
"Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door."
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"Being here, it is just impossible to imagine what that was like, when the tsunami hit."
66
"I just had that conversation this morning with my doctor. I just got back from the hospital a half-hour ago, and nothing will make me happier than to replicate the DNA of my amazing husband. I'm optimistic."
66
"I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school."
66
"They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum."
66
"I made a conscious decision back then that I would rather be the best actress who ever lived than the most famous one."
66
"She would go to Memphis and this was after our divorce. And I would send her to Memphis to be with him."
66
"The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business."
66
"I was raised Catholic and I'm Presbyterian now, but I've always been a Christian, regardless of denomination. I believe that Jesus is the way."
66
"The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right."
66
"I slipped at a bus stop; I went one way and my hair went the other. That was the end of my wig."
66
"I'm only realizing now that I was a child actress because I always took myself so seriously."
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"If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them."
66
"Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes."
66
"If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role."
66
"French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar."
66
"Everything is a rejection of you, not your product, or your script, or a cosmetic. It's you."
66
"Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one."
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"I think when you're doing a lead role, there is so much more pressure. If you fail, not only do you fail, but everybody else fails, too. As opposed to when it's a supporting role and it's only you that sucked."
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"So I had all the names, three names, and that's good to have on a soap."
66
"I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill."
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