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"I put the weight on after we were together. I put on about 20 pounds when we got married, and people were flipping their lids. And then I put on more after that, and I've gone up and down since then."
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Delta Burke
"I put the weight on after we were together. I put on about 20 pounds when we got married, and people were flipping their lids. And then I put on more after that, and I've gone up and down since then."
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"Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino."
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Lisa Bonet
"Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino."
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"There's nothing you could say that would shock me."
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Laura Prepon
"There's nothing you could say that would shock me."
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"There are some scenes that work beautifully in a moving, sweeping master, which is how I like to work."
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Debbie Allen
"There are some scenes that work beautifully in a moving, sweeping master, which is how I like to work."
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"I figured as I got older, the good roles for women would be in the theatre. So 15 years ago I started building a Broadway career to try and develop the chops to be accepted as a great theatrical actress."
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Kathleen Turner
"I figured as I got older, the good roles for women would be in the theatre. So 15 years ago I started building a Broadway career to try and develop the chops to be accepted as a great theatrical actress."
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"Sometimes it just doesn't translate to people. You just move on, and you feel bad because people worked so hard on it and everyone loved it... Everybody was treated so well and was going for something and trying to do the best work possible."
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Catherine Keener
"Sometimes it just doesn't translate to people. You just move on, and you feel bad because people worked so hard on it and everyone loved it... Everybody was treated so well and was going for something and trying to do the best work possible."
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"I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood."
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Radha Mitchell
"I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood."
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"I'd like to provide information, inspiration, and access to whatever goods and services are needed to make it super easy for everyone to change their lifestyle to a sustainable one."
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Daryl Hannah
"I'd like to provide information, inspiration, and access to whatever goods and services are needed to make it super easy for everyone to change their lifestyle to a sustainable one."
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"In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal."
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Loretta Young
"In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal."
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"My biggest problem in middle school was catty girls, cliques, and trying to figure out if I wanted to be a part of one of those, just figuring out who I was and all that."
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Lindsey Shaw
"My biggest problem in middle school was catty girls, cliques, and trying to figure out if I wanted to be a part of one of those, just figuring out who I was and all that."
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"The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed."
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Meryl Streep
"The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed."
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"Just look at my face. Its an extraordinary experience. All of my friends who are grandparents have been saying, just wait, a bit cynically, but its just extraordinary. You feel like a child again yourself. Just walking on air."
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Blythe Danner
"Just look at my face. Its an extraordinary experience. All of my friends who are grandparents have been saying, just wait, a bit cynically, but its just extraordinary. You feel like a child again yourself. Just walking on air."
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"I don't care who you are, everyone has been through it - that feeling where you'd like to be someone else."
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Eliza Dushku
"I don't care who you are, everyone has been through it - that feeling where you'd like to be someone else."
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"But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me."
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Laura Prepon
"But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me."
Now,
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"I read. It's also nice for me to get involved in schoolwork, which is a totally different world than acting. It makes me feel like I am doing things that normal people are doing at my age."
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Monica Keena
"I read. It's also nice for me to get involved in schoolwork, which is a totally different world than acting. It makes me feel like I am doing things that normal people are doing at my age."
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"In this business, I don't know how you can have a plan or how you can orchestrate anything. But I've been lucky with my choices. I'm very strong-willed, so I've been able to stick with it. I'm lucky there."
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January Jones
"In this business, I don't know how you can have a plan or how you can orchestrate anything. But I've been lucky with my choices. I'm very strong-willed, so I've been able to stick with it. I'm lucky there."
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"There are a lot of big spec houses now all across Connecticut, a lot of ostentatious showing of wealth."
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Glenn Close
"There are a lot of big spec houses now all across Connecticut, a lot of ostentatious showing of wealth."
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"Charles Laughton signed me to my first movie contract at 17. He later asked my parents if he could adopt me."
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Maureen O'Hara
"Charles Laughton signed me to my first movie contract at 17. He later asked my parents if he could adopt me."
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"We've read scripts, and I think right now we are just focusing in on school."
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Mary-Kate Olsen
"We've read scripts, and I think right now we are just focusing in on school."
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"There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important as we make them sometimes."
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Marguerite Moreau
"There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important as we make them sometimes."
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"I think it's a pretty good day if I can get through it without lifting a finger."
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Jane Kaczmarek
"I think it's a pretty good day if I can get through it without lifting a finger."
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"I feel less pressure to dress youthfully. I'm 50 and everyone knows I'm 50 - who are you kidding? Jeans are my uniform. I have about 15 pairs."
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Michelle Pfeiffer
"I feel less pressure to dress youthfully. I'm 50 and everyone knows I'm 50 - who are you kidding? Jeans are my uniform. I have about 15 pairs."
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"To leave in search of yourself, of your real needs, is easier when you don't have to justify yourself to anyone, when there are not too many people bestowing you their attention."
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Isabelle Adjani
"To leave in search of yourself, of your real needs, is easier when you don't have to justify yourself to anyone, when there are not too many people bestowing you their attention."
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"I can't say too much about it because I don't know a lot. We're not told what's in store for our characters until we turn up to shoot the episode. But it's fair to say that Betty and her son bring a brand new mystery to the street and they will be around all season."
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Alfre Woodard
"I can't say too much about it because I don't know a lot. We're not told what's in store for our characters until we turn up to shoot the episode. But it's fair to say that Betty and her son bring a brand new mystery to the street and they will be around all season."
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"Life has brought me work to do on myself these past two years."
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Isabelle Adjani
"Life has brought me work to do on myself these past two years."
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"Detroit, the heart of the country... I grew up on 10 Mile, 2 miles better than 8 Mile."
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Kristen Bell
"Detroit, the heart of the country... I grew up on 10 Mile, 2 miles better than 8 Mile."
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"Once a week we go to juvenile hall and talk to boys there. Just go and spend a day in the juvenile courts."
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Lisa Bonet
"Once a week we go to juvenile hall and talk to boys there. Just go and spend a day in the juvenile courts."
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"Yes, I do get recognized in public. It's pretty nice."
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Aisha Tyler
"Yes, I do get recognized in public. It's pretty nice."
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"What woman wants a camera following around her naked butt?"
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Charlotte Ross
"What woman wants a camera following around her naked butt?"
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"The truth is, after Boys Don't Cry, I realized how few and far between the great roles are. I am beyond thankful for finding Million Dollar Baby."
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Hilary Swank
"The truth is, after Boys Don't Cry, I realized how few and far between the great roles are. I am beyond thankful for finding Million Dollar Baby."
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"If you're offered something, you're not really sure exactly what is that they saw in you that they think is the character so it's a little scary, I feel."
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Julie Benz
"If you're offered something, you're not really sure exactly what is that they saw in you that they think is the character so it's a little scary, I feel."
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"I don't think it's true that blondes have more fun... Trust me, it is not true!"
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Mila Kunis
"I don't think it's true that blondes have more fun... Trust me, it is not true!"
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"I found that I could make people laugh doing people like Shirley Bassey. Fortunately it worked."
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Jane Horrocks
"I found that I could make people laugh doing people like Shirley Bassey. Fortunately it worked."
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"I've been very lucky in the characters I've chosen. Up until last year I was a nobody. I did jobs I booked because I needed to put food in my mouth."
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Kristen Bell
"I've been very lucky in the characters I've chosen. Up until last year I was a nobody. I did jobs I booked because I needed to put food in my mouth."
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"Who on earth can feel any respect for a girl who chases?"
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Joan Leslie
"Who on earth can feel any respect for a girl who chases?"
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"I'm actually quite conservative."
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Peta Wilson
"I'm actually quite conservative."
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"When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship."
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Majel Barrett
"When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship."
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"There's been a big void out there, in terms of where I've been and what I am currently working on, I'd like to fill that void now and share my exciting plans for the future."
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Priscilla Presley
"There's been a big void out there, in terms of where I've been and what I am currently working on, I'd like to fill that void now and share my exciting plans for the future."
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"You play a part, and as soon as a movie is over and the camera stops, you go home and you're not really responsible for what you've done."
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Nastassja Kinski
"You play a part, and as soon as a movie is over and the camera stops, you go home and you're not really responsible for what you've done."
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"I didn't need the insurance. I do it again if my DP tells me it didn't look good in the camera or if the actors didn't hit their marks. But if everything was working why do it again?"
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Debbie Allen
"I didn't need the insurance. I do it again if my DP tells me it didn't look good in the camera or if the actors didn't hit their marks. But if everything was working why do it again?"
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"If life throws you a lemon - make lemonade."
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Joan Collins
"If life throws you a lemon - make lemonade."
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"I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single."
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Penelope Cruz
"I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single."
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"Hopefully, I'll just get to be part of good films and work with good people, and that's how it will develop."
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Gretchen Mol
"Hopefully, I'll just get to be part of good films and work with good people, and that's how it will develop."
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"I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater."
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Jill Clayburgh
"I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater."
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"I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard."
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Rachel Ward
"I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard."
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"Oh, my God, this amazing cool breeze is coming through my window and the sun is shining. I'm happy."
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Liv Tyler
"Oh, my God, this amazing cool breeze is coming through my window and the sun is shining. I'm happy."
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"If you take away money, if you take away the houses and things, who are we really? What is love really about? What is it to love each other? Why do we stay together, and why do all the kids split? All these questions I have really deep inside of me."
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Sonia Braga
"If you take away money, if you take away the houses and things, who are we really? What is love really about? What is it to love each other? Why do we stay together, and why do all the kids split? All these questions I have really deep inside of me."
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"Before Huey was 5, I could take him to work with me. Now, though, he has sports and lessons and friends, and it's not fair to remove him from his whole life."
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Marg Helgenberger
"Before Huey was 5, I could take him to work with me. Now, though, he has sports and lessons and friends, and it's not fair to remove him from his whole life."
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"I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it. I always went to people who knew more than I did."
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Liza Minnelli
"I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it. I always went to people who knew more than I did."
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"I choose to do unattractive people, because then I can pretend they think they're attractive."
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Amy Sedaris
"I choose to do unattractive people, because then I can pretend they think they're attractive."
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