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"Usually, certainly British singers, adopt an American accent when they sing and I think that usually people are thinking of somebody else, but I just think of very specific people."
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Jane Horrocks
"Usually, certainly British singers, adopt an American accent when they sing and I think that usually people are thinking of somebody else, but I just think of very specific people."
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"I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet."
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Kristen Stewart
"I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet."
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"I sketched out a rough story for them and the director said, well it's a good story but we have the go-ahead from Universal to make this script and did I want to do it. I said no, and they left."
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Ellen Burstyn
"I sketched out a rough story for them and the director said, well it's a good story but we have the go-ahead from Universal to make this script and did I want to do it. I said no, and they left."
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"The costume that I wear on the show is a little snug and doesn't leave a whole lot to the imagination. I don't have a problem with it because of the way this character's been written."
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Jeri Ryan
"The costume that I wear on the show is a little snug and doesn't leave a whole lot to the imagination. I don't have a problem with it because of the way this character's been written."
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"I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction."
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Gene Tierney
"I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction."
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"It was considered that you were stepping down by doing television. I almost turned Cybill down because I so wanted to remain a theater actress."
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Christine Baranski
"It was considered that you were stepping down by doing television. I almost turned Cybill down because I so wanted to remain a theater actress."
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"Sometimes I use Botox. Compared to most, I use it very sparingly. One time I did too much, though. I feel weird if I can't move my face, and that one time I overdid it, I felt trapped in my own skin."
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Courteney Cox
"Sometimes I use Botox. Compared to most, I use it very sparingly. One time I did too much, though. I feel weird if I can't move my face, and that one time I overdid it, I felt trapped in my own skin."
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"I love men who know when to put their foot down and when not to."
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Leah Remini
"I love men who know when to put their foot down and when not to."
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"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."
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Julie Andrews
"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."
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"I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships."
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Patricia Heaton
"I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships."
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"I always feel I can play a role - just give me the time to do the preparation and I'll be it."
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Mira Sorvino
"I always feel I can play a role - just give me the time to do the preparation and I'll be it."
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"I think Baywatch is such a hit here because of the weather."
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Gena Lee Nolin
"I think Baywatch is such a hit here because of the weather."
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"Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women."
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Natalie Portman
"Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women."
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"It's about sharing. You just give what you have to give wherever you go, and you let God handle the rest."
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Lindsay Wagner
"It's about sharing. You just give what you have to give wherever you go, and you let God handle the rest."
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"I've done one movie. And it's not a movie I want to stand on as far as acting ability goes. I mean, I'm not going to win an Oscar anytime soon. I'm not Meryl Streep."
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Megan Fox
"I've done one movie. And it's not a movie I want to stand on as far as acting ability goes. I mean, I'm not going to win an Oscar anytime soon. I'm not Meryl Streep."
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"I personally take cues directly from the script, then I like to surprise the other actors. But you must maintain control on a level and see how far you can go up, down or out emotionally. You have to balance the craft with spontaneity."
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Lusia Strus
"I personally take cues directly from the script, then I like to surprise the other actors. But you must maintain control on a level and see how far you can go up, down or out emotionally. You have to balance the craft with spontaneity."
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"I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year."
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Natalie Portman
"I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year."
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"When something is troubling me, people know about it."
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Rachael Leigh Cook
"When something is troubling me, people know about it."
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"Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not."
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Anna Neagle
"Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not."
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"It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden."
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Patricia Heaton
"It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden."
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"My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man."
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Glenda Jackson
"My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man."
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"Almost every girl falls in love with the wrong man, I suppose it's part of growing up."
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Natalie Wood
"Almost every girl falls in love with the wrong man, I suppose it's part of growing up."
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"If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to the full stature of your being?"
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Joy Page
"If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to the full stature of your being?"
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"I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit."
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Dakota Fanning
"I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit."
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"Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next."
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Famke Janssen
"Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next."
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"People were actually approaching me on the street and thinking that I was an athlete. They couldn't quite place it, but a runner, or swimmer or something."
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Kristanna Loken
"People were actually approaching me on the street and thinking that I was an athlete. They couldn't quite place it, but a runner, or swimmer or something."
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"No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with."
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Victoria Principal
"No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with."
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"But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for."
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Anna Neagle
"But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for."
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"I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me."
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Meg Tilly
"I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me."
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"There are so few strong roles for women, especially young women. And Veronica is very serious but also very likable. She's a lone wolf, and it appeals to people that she isn't rich and doesn't have a lot of friends. No posse. She's just like you, like most of us."
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Kristen Bell
"There are so few strong roles for women, especially young women. And Veronica is very serious but also very likable. She's a lone wolf, and it appeals to people that she isn't rich and doesn't have a lot of friends. No posse. She's just like you, like most of us."
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"My experiences in film and theatre in the States have been much more rigorous-in England there's an environment of, Let's try this."
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Kim Cattrall
"My experiences in film and theatre in the States have been much more rigorous-in England there's an environment of, Let's try this."
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"I was regarded as the school freak which further reinforced a lot of inhibitions and doubts I had about myself. I was a shy, frightened teenager for a long time."
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Winona Ryder
"I was regarded as the school freak which further reinforced a lot of inhibitions and doubts I had about myself. I was a shy, frightened teenager for a long time."
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"Sexy at the millennium means having a solid sense of self but never taking yourself too seriously."
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Rebecca Romijn
"Sexy at the millennium means having a solid sense of self but never taking yourself too seriously."
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"Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions."
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Lara Flynn Boyle
"Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions."
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"When I'm out with my girlfriends at the bar, and I see some young 18-year old boy, just for fun I say, 'Hi honey. Do you like girls? Do you like girls exclusively? Oh, good.'"
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Yasmine Bleeth
"When I'm out with my girlfriends at the bar, and I see some young 18-year old boy, just for fun I say, 'Hi honey. Do you like girls? Do you like girls exclusively? Oh, good.'"
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"My face has always been my fortune anyway, not my body."
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Claire Bloom
"My face has always been my fortune anyway, not my body."
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"Everything is a piece of me, a moment of my life."
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Ursula Andress
"Everything is a piece of me, a moment of my life."
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"It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors."
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Gene Tierney
"It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors."
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"Hollywood looks to these young people now to say something to the world. I have nothing against that, I think a lot of people have things to say. But I think you need life experience."
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Sasha Alexander
"Hollywood looks to these young people now to say something to the world. I have nothing against that, I think a lot of people have things to say. But I think you need life experience."
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"It's impossible to always get across what I'm trying to say, but, if I just stay honest, then I'm not going to look back on any of these interviews and wonder what I was trying to do or be."
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Kristen Stewart
"It's impossible to always get across what I'm trying to say, but, if I just stay honest, then I'm not going to look back on any of these interviews and wonder what I was trying to do or be."
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"I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural."
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Jennifer Aniston
"I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural."
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"I've experienced several different healing methodologies over the years - counseling, self-help seminars, and I've read a lot - but none of them will work unless you really want to heal."
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Lindsay Wagner
"I've experienced several different healing methodologies over the years - counseling, self-help seminars, and I've read a lot - but none of them will work unless you really want to heal."
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"I definitely believe in plastic surgery. I don't want to be an old hag. There's no fun in that."
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Scarlett Johansson
"I definitely believe in plastic surgery. I don't want to be an old hag. There's no fun in that."
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"I really always felt that I was going to be an actress. I had a lot of confidence in the fact that I would do well from a very early age. I didn't know how tough the business is."
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Susan Lucci
"I really always felt that I was going to be an actress. I had a lot of confidence in the fact that I would do well from a very early age. I didn't know how tough the business is."
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"My father worked hard, but we were still very poor; and I didn't want anybody arguing about money, so I became the entertainer - the one who wanted everyone to be happy. I didn't want there to be any problems."
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Diana Ross
"My father worked hard, but we were still very poor; and I didn't want anybody arguing about money, so I became the entertainer - the one who wanted everyone to be happy. I didn't want there to be any problems."
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"I did the occasional odd film, like Endless Love."
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Shirley Knight
"I did the occasional odd film, like Endless Love."
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"There were symptoms that I saw, and though I went to many doctors and had many tests, no one diagnosed MS."
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Teri Garr
"There were symptoms that I saw, and though I went to many doctors and had many tests, no one diagnosed MS."
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"I'd like to be able to use Storm's powers for good, like have it rain more in Southern California. We could do with it."
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Halle Berry
"I'd like to be able to use Storm's powers for good, like have it rain more in Southern California. We could do with it."
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"In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times."
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Marlo Thomas
"In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times."
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"I think of myself as a journeyman actress. I will attempt almost anything that I think that I can bring off. It could be almost anything."
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Angela Lansbury
"I think of myself as a journeyman actress. I will attempt almost anything that I think that I can bring off. It could be almost anything."
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