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Quotes by Actress

"Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted."
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Barbara Steele
"Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted."
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"I'm not a sun person."
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Laura Prepon
"I'm not a sun person."
Sun,
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"He who hesitates is a damned fool."
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Mae West
"He who hesitates is a damned fool."
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"I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit."
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Laura Dern
"I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit."
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"I'm in the process of trying to find something that I could do on my own."
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Loretta Devine
"I'm in the process of trying to find something that I could do on my own."
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"Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses."
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Jena Malone
"Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses."
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"And also, Sergio Leone was considered in Italy a director of category B, not a big director."
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Claudia Cardinale
"And also, Sergio Leone was considered in Italy a director of category B, not a big director."
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"I speak two languages, Body and English."
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Mae West
"I speak two languages, Body and English."
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"The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain."
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Fiona Shaw
"The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain."
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"And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every two years."
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Joan Collins
"And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every two years."
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"I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal."
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Hedy Lamarr
"I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal."
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"It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others."
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Carol Burnett
"It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others."
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"I most often land up taking up the roles that I most detest."
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Christine Lahti
"I most often land up taking up the roles that I most detest."
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"I'm not trying to take Cate Blanchett down."
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Megan Fox
"I'm not trying to take Cate Blanchett down."
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"At one point, they offered me this part to play a drug-dealing, gun-selling butch lady. I don't know how to describe her but she had like a crew cut and stuff. I was like, 'Is this a joke?' And they said, 'No, we think it would be great because everyone would be like, 'Oh, look at what we've done to Charlotte.' I was like, 'Well I can't do that!'"
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Kristin Davis
"At one point, they offered me this part to play a drug-dealing, gun-selling butch lady. I don't know how to describe her but she had like a crew cut and stuff. I was like, 'Is this a joke?' And they said, 'No, we think it would be great because everyone would be like, 'Oh, look at what we've done to Charlotte.' I was like, 'Well I can't do that!'"
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"But now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see that in the science sphere of our lives there is new, there is progress."
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Janet Suzman
"But now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see that in the science sphere of our lives there is new, there is progress."
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"I genuinely enjoy talking one-to-one. I have no shyness about that."
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Stephanie Beacham
"I genuinely enjoy talking one-to-one. I have no shyness about that."
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"All my six husbands married me for different reasons."
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Hedy Lamarr
"All my six husbands married me for different reasons."
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"For me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not."
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Annette Funicello
"For me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not."
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"I don't consider myself a sex symbol."
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Pia Zadora
"I don't consider myself a sex symbol."
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"I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance."
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Sally Kirkland
"I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance."
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"I adore dancing."
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Vivien Leigh
"I adore dancing."
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"In Wales it's brilliant. I go to the pub and see everybody who I went to school with. And everybody goes 'So what you doing now?' And I go, 'Oh, I'm doing a film with Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins.' And they go, 'Ooh, good.' And that's it."
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Catherine Zeta-Jones
"In Wales it's brilliant. I go to the pub and see everybody who I went to school with. And everybody goes 'So what you doing now?' And I go, 'Oh, I'm doing a film with Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins.' And they go, 'Ooh, good.' And that's it."
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"I'm glad I am a woman who once danced naked in the Mediterranean Sea at midnight."
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Mercedes McCambridge
"I'm glad I am a woman who once danced naked in the Mediterranean Sea at midnight."
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"My parents sent me to a dance class, so it was a road chosen by them, not me. But I enjoyed it so much I knew I would become a performer."
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Ziyi Zhang
"My parents sent me to a dance class, so it was a road chosen by them, not me. But I enjoyed it so much I knew I would become a performer."
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"I don't think any child could really be happy between five and eight away from their parents."
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Tina Louise
"I don't think any child could really be happy between five and eight away from their parents."
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"I do know the Spelling family. I worked for Aaron Spelling when I was a brunette. I've known them since Tori was a little girl."
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Loni Anderson
"I do know the Spelling family. I worked for Aaron Spelling when I was a brunette. I've known them since Tori was a little girl."
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"You weren't picky about who got hurt. Still aren't. So don't preach at us like you're some kind of saint. You're just another sinner."
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Rachel Caine
"You weren't picky about who got hurt. Still aren't. So don't preach at us like you're some kind of saint. You're just another sinner."
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"Well, I didn't really admit that I anywhere until my daughter started school and I knew I couldn't pull up and leave when I felt like it."
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Diane Lane
"Well, I didn't really admit that I anywhere until my daughter started school and I knew I couldn't pull up and leave when I felt like it."
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"I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself."
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Marlene Dietrich
"I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself."
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"Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars."
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Bette Davis
"Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars."
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"Girls are scary. Large groups of girls scare the crap out of me."
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Kristen Stewart
"Girls are scary. Large groups of girls scare the crap out of me."
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"I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors' hours. Even the concept of acting confused me."
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Tatum O'Neal
"I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors' hours. Even the concept of acting confused me."
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"Generosity is a strength, not a weakness."
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Farshad Asl
"Generosity is a strength, not a weakness."
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"When I came off the boat I was very proud of the thick calluses which had developed on my feet. But now, I am struggling to get into my favourite high heels which is a shame, as I have so many."
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Pamela Stephenson
"When I came off the boat I was very proud of the thick calluses which had developed on my feet. But now, I am struggling to get into my favourite high heels which is a shame, as I have so many."
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"Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without."
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Rue McClanahan
"Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without."
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"Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University."
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Patricia Clarkson
"Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University."
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"I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid."
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Katharine Hepburn
"I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid."
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"We all need to take a deep breath and think about being a Bush daughter and having that cross to bear. I'd go out and have a couple of drinks too."
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Julia Roberts
"We all need to take a deep breath and think about being a Bush daughter and having that cross to bear. I'd go out and have a couple of drinks too."
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"I wouldn't do nudity in films. For me, personally... To act with my clothes on is a performance; to act with my clothes off is a documentary."
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Julia Roberts
"I wouldn't do nudity in films. For me, personally... To act with my clothes on is a performance; to act with my clothes off is a documentary."
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"My problems aren't so different from anybody else."
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Mariel Hemingway
"My problems aren't so different from anybody else."
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"For twenty years I have sat alone at a desk tinkering with sentences and then sending them out, and for most of my literary life the difference between throwing something in the trash and publishing it was imperceptible..."
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Rebecca Solnit
"For twenty years I have sat alone at a desk tinkering with sentences and then sending them out, and for most of my literary life the difference between throwing something in the trash and publishing it was imperceptible..."
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"Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are."
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Bernadette Peters
"Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are."
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"Parents had some kind of sin radar, Claire thought. They always called when you were in the middle of something you just knew they'd consider wrong. Or at least risky."
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Rachel Caine
"Parents had some kind of sin radar, Claire thought. They always called when you were in the middle of something you just knew they'd consider wrong. Or at least risky."
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"I mean, I'm pretty good in real life, but sometimes people seem surprised that I'm like a normal teenager and wear black nail polish and I'm just a little bit more edgy than the person I play on television."
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Brittany Snow
"I mean, I'm pretty good in real life, but sometimes people seem surprised that I'm like a normal teenager and wear black nail polish and I'm just a little bit more edgy than the person I play on television."
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"I'm from New York, I make kind of somewhat maybe lewd, at times - maybe some would say dirty - jokes. But in jest."
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Sarah Michelle Gellar
"I'm from New York, I make kind of somewhat maybe lewd, at times - maybe some would say dirty - jokes. But in jest."
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"I just think that it's such a good show and timeless and still very funny, and that just makes me happy to have that whole first season in one concentrated space for people to enjoy so that it's not hit and miss trying to find it in syndication always."
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Jenna Elfman
"I just think that it's such a good show and timeless and still very funny, and that just makes me happy to have that whole first season in one concentrated space for people to enjoy so that it's not hit and miss trying to find it in syndication always."
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"The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of Carousel, and it was a very vivid experience."
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Bernadette Peters
"The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of Carousel, and it was a very vivid experience."
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"I think male roles are generally much better written. So for actresses, we're always dealing with trying to inject a role with more truth than the writer possibly had in mind."
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Judy Davis
"I think male roles are generally much better written. So for actresses, we're always dealing with trying to inject a role with more truth than the writer possibly had in mind."
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"I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing."
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Bette Midler
"I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing."
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