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"When I was first starting out, and I was less established, I was really concerned about being typecast."
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Charisma Carpenter
"When I was first starting out, and I was less established, I was really concerned about being typecast."
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"I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people."
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Lena Horne
"I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people."
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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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"I want to get married again and have kids and even adopt."
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Sophia Bush
"I want to get married again and have kids and even adopt."
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"My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say."
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Diane Cilento
"My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say."
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"I'm not going to give up doing interesting things. I'm going to do it as long as I possibly can and hopefully have longevity in this business."
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Jessica Biel
"I'm not going to give up doing interesting things. I'm going to do it as long as I possibly can and hopefully have longevity in this business."
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"It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens."
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Fran Drescher
"It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens."
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"I don't have a political bone in my body."
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Joan Allen
"I don't have a political bone in my body."
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"Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough."
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Ingrid Bergman
"Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough."
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"I had mice that I kept as pets when I was very young, and I've always liked the way they look. Even rats. I'm not scared of them."
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Catherine Deneuve
"I had mice that I kept as pets when I was very young, and I've always liked the way they look. Even rats. I'm not scared of them."
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"In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it."
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Marlo Thomas
"In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it."
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"I'm just not comfortable with that society stuff. I mean, we were just invited to the White House, but my husband won't take me because he knows I don't want to go."
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Pia Zadora
"I'm just not comfortable with that society stuff. I mean, we were just invited to the White House, but my husband won't take me because he knows I don't want to go."
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"I wish I had a funny story."
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Leslie Easterbrook
"I wish I had a funny story."
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"I'm not a big believer in a thing called luck. I believe it has a lot to do with fate and just really having a vision of the way you would see your life."
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Marla Maples
"I'm not a big believer in a thing called luck. I believe it has a lot to do with fate and just really having a vision of the way you would see your life."
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"I love to play games. I really like football, and I also like to ride horses."
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Mary-Kate Olsen
"I love to play games. I really like football, and I also like to ride horses."
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"I write a lot too, so I would like to write or direct in the future if I can."
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Alexis Bledel
"I write a lot too, so I would like to write or direct in the future if I can."
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"This girl at 17 really led an army, this girl at 19 really burned at the stake by her own choice. And you sit there and you want to figure out why did she make these choices? How did she live such a life?"
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Leelee Sobieski
"This girl at 17 really led an army, this girl at 19 really burned at the stake by her own choice. And you sit there and you want to figure out why did she make these choices? How did she live such a life?"
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"I've always wanted to act and I can't think of anything else I'd want to do, honestly."
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Alanna Ubach
"I've always wanted to act and I can't think of anything else I'd want to do, honestly."
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"There we times when everybody in the house has the flu. You're cleaning up vomit and it's 2 in the morning, and you're wishing there was somebody else there to help you."
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Meg Tilly
"There we times when everybody in the house has the flu. You're cleaning up vomit and it's 2 in the morning, and you're wishing there was somebody else there to help you."
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"This show has shown me how to throw a punch. But watching my future sister-in-law go through breast cancer has also shown me how to take one."
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Charlotte Ross
"This show has shown me how to throw a punch. But watching my future sister-in-law go through breast cancer has also shown me how to take one."
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"I've worked with leading men so worried about losing their charm that they were always winking to the audience."
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Mary Mastrantonio
"I've worked with leading men so worried about losing their charm that they were always winking to the audience."
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"The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people."
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Jamie Lee Curtis
"The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people."
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"Stage is the most exciting. Film is lovely, because it's like a family."
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Julie Walters
"Stage is the most exciting. Film is lovely, because it's like a family."
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"You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself."
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Julia Roberts
"You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself."
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"My role in 'Legally Blonde' was really rewarding, because I had so much fun working on the movie. I've had really rewarding experiences on tiny low budget films that you'll never see but where I had a cool time creating characters as well. I love almost all of the characters I've played."
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Alanna Ubach
"My role in 'Legally Blonde' was really rewarding, because I had so much fun working on the movie. I've had really rewarding experiences on tiny low budget films that you'll never see but where I had a cool time creating characters as well. I love almost all of the characters I've played."
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"Give me civilization. I don't want to be pampered."
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Jennifer Esposito
"Give me civilization. I don't want to be pampered."
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"Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life."
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Bette Davis
"Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life."
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"If words don't have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they're just words."
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Charlotte Rampling
"If words don't have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they're just words."
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"I'm so happy in the projects that I'm able to make, to be involved in projects like this. This isn't always where it was at for me, I started working when I was a kid. I'm just a different person now, I'm 30. I started working when I was 11 and it's a different ballgame."
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Jennifer Connelly
"I'm so happy in the projects that I'm able to make, to be involved in projects like this. This isn't always where it was at for me, I started working when I was a kid. I'm just a different person now, I'm 30. I started working when I was 11 and it's a different ballgame."
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"They're right to think that about me, because I'm the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that."
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Angelina Jolie
"They're right to think that about me, because I'm the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that."
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"The riot isn't seen in the movie, but it is alluded to. He has this one speech that gives a great sense of texture and paints a picture of what was happening in Harlem then."
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Debbie Allen
"The riot isn't seen in the movie, but it is alluded to. He has this one speech that gives a great sense of texture and paints a picture of what was happening in Harlem then."
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"I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look."
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Lauren Bacall
"I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look."
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"There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work."
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Naomi Watts
"There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work."
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"Everybody hangs out with everybody, which is very strange for a cast this large and this young. We're all cool and down to earth and not caught up in this maniacal business at all... . Everybody really, really likes everybody else."
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Lizzy Caplan
"Everybody hangs out with everybody, which is very strange for a cast this large and this young. We're all cool and down to earth and not caught up in this maniacal business at all... . Everybody really, really likes everybody else."
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"You have to be quite stupid to act."
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Rachel Weisz
"You have to be quite stupid to act."
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"God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met."
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Farrah Fawcett
"God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met."
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"One of the makeup artists once dyed my dog blue with vegetable blue."
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Mia Kirshner
"One of the makeup artists once dyed my dog blue with vegetable blue."
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"Movies are getting more and more expensive to distribute. You need a lot of money to get people into theaters."
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Robin Tunney
"Movies are getting more and more expensive to distribute. You need a lot of money to get people into theaters."
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"I don't think you want to give all the answers, but I think every answer you do give should bring up another question, and not all questions should be answered."
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Kim Novak
"I don't think you want to give all the answers, but I think every answer you do give should bring up another question, and not all questions should be answered."
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"It's okay to talk about birth, okay - then menstruation. I first started my advocacy for women's health in the field of reproductive freedom, and the next stage would be bringing menopause out of the closet."
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Cybill Shepherd
"It's okay to talk about birth, okay - then menstruation. I first started my advocacy for women's health in the field of reproductive freedom, and the next stage would be bringing menopause out of the closet."
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"I've done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading things and they're good reviews - you believe that and you're lost, and then you read bad reviews and you think that's true and you read that and you're lost."
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Jenny Agutter
"I've done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading things and they're good reviews - you believe that and you're lost, and then you read bad reviews and you think that's true and you read that and you're lost."
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"You have to work in this business on your own terms. Don't sell out for money, fame, or notoriety."
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Morgan Brittany
"You have to work in this business on your own terms. Don't sell out for money, fame, or notoriety."
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"I grew up in Hawaii and I think it was easier because we did not have cliques at high school."
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Kelly Preston
"I grew up in Hawaii and I think it was easier because we did not have cliques at high school."
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"If you're in a company, you're dancing from 9 a.m. till 7 in the evening, and then you go home and get in a hot tub and get some Epsom salts and try to get your body goin' again. There's no social life, no anything."
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Neve Campbell
"If you're in a company, you're dancing from 9 a.m. till 7 in the evening, and then you go home and get in a hot tub and get some Epsom salts and try to get your body goin' again. There's no social life, no anything."
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"I want people to like me. They don't have to always like my characters, you understand."
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Kathleen Turner
"I want people to like me. They don't have to always like my characters, you understand."
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"In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time."
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Marlo Thomas
"In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time."
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"Each year, I say I'm going to go to school next year. It's inevitable that I'll end up getting my education."
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Eliza Dushku
"Each year, I say I'm going to go to school next year. It's inevitable that I'll end up getting my education."
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"For the longest time, I thought I was a boy. I really did. I wore boys' clothes, played tag football."
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Eliza Dushku
"For the longest time, I thought I was a boy. I really did. I wore boys' clothes, played tag football."
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"If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors are frustrated actors, but it wasn't true with any of the casting people I knew."
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Catherine Keener
"If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors are frustrated actors, but it wasn't true with any of the casting people I knew."
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"We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant."
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Eartha Kitt
"We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant."
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