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"I am so happy to be on a show with writing I wanted to participate in."
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Yancy Butler
"I am so happy to be on a show with writing I wanted to participate in."
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"Even for the most difficult scenes, and there are difficult scenes in the film, and because Michael Haneke is such a great film-maker - I think a great film-maker is not only being inspired, but how to do it, how to make it as real as possible, knowing that it's not real."
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Isabelle Huppert
"Even for the most difficult scenes, and there are difficult scenes in the film, and because Michael Haneke is such a great film-maker - I think a great film-maker is not only being inspired, but how to do it, how to make it as real as possible, knowing that it's not real."
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"I have never had anything done. I've been asked if I had breast implants. Whether I did or not, it's nobody's business but my own."
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Shannen Doherty
"I have never had anything done. I've been asked if I had breast implants. Whether I did or not, it's nobody's business but my own."
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"I think any girl who comes to Hollywood with sex symbol or bombshell hanging over her has a rough road."
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Kim Basinger
"I think any girl who comes to Hollywood with sex symbol or bombshell hanging over her has a rough road."
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"But that's why there are so few women stars today. Pornography has taken away the mystery."
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Irene Dunne
"But that's why there are so few women stars today. Pornography has taken away the mystery."
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"My guess is there are more women in the TV industry then there are on Wall Street. But it's that same idea of having to play in a man's world and finding that balance without being always stereotyped as a bitch."
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Charlotte Ross
"My guess is there are more women in the TV industry then there are on Wall Street. But it's that same idea of having to play in a man's world and finding that balance without being always stereotyped as a bitch."
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"At my lowest I was making nothing, of course."
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Teri Hatcher
"At my lowest I was making nothing, of course."
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"I just didn't work that much while the kids were growing up."
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Jill Clayburgh
"I just didn't work that much while the kids were growing up."
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"Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn't work with people who laughed at him!"
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Fay Wray
"Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn't work with people who laughed at him!"
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"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end."
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Gilda Radner
"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end."
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"I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me."
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Carol Burnett
"I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me."
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"Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me."
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Meryl Streep
"Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me."
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"I've always had a fascination for animals. I loved watching them, and even then I thought of them as beings rather than pets. I call it a birth affect!"
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Tippi Hedren
"I've always had a fascination for animals. I loved watching them, and even then I thought of them as beings rather than pets. I call it a birth affect!"
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"A lot of young actors will do a scene and then run off and look at themselves. I don't believe in that at all."
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Charlotte Rampling
"A lot of young actors will do a scene and then run off and look at themselves. I don't believe in that at all."
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"You are the God-being that is here to create life, to breathe soul into your body, to walk this world as your own source of power, love, worth and life."
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Joy Page
"You are the God-being that is here to create life, to breathe soul into your body, to walk this world as your own source of power, love, worth and life."
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"I definitely feel, when I'm wearing the costume, that I could scare people and hurt them."
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Joan Severance
"I definitely feel, when I'm wearing the costume, that I could scare people and hurt them."
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"When my career first began, I didn't have children - so there's a whole lot of difference in the way I choose roles now. Not just films for my children, but how long I'm going to be away, and is Dad going to be home while I'm gone. That sort-of factor plays a part."
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Amy Irving
"When my career first began, I didn't have children - so there's a whole lot of difference in the way I choose roles now. Not just films for my children, but how long I'm going to be away, and is Dad going to be home while I'm gone. That sort-of factor plays a part."
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"And the most important thing - apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character - is to be someone the audience will care about, even if you're playing a murderer or rapist."
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Anna Friel
"And the most important thing - apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character - is to be someone the audience will care about, even if you're playing a murderer or rapist."
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"Inspiration is the key to everything."
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Olivia Wilde
"Inspiration is the key to everything."
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"But I think it's also hard to get into soccer here. I think purely on a time level on television as well because of the ad breaks. It's something to do with that as well. You can't show a complete soccer match here. Which I kind of find a bit of an odd thing."
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Parminder Nagra
"But I think it's also hard to get into soccer here. I think purely on a time level on television as well because of the ad breaks. It's something to do with that as well. You can't show a complete soccer match here. Which I kind of find a bit of an odd thing."
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"I wanted to work on this central problem of killing. How you go about killing. Now, in the film I had to kill my children - well, I didn't want to get that far."
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Ellen Burstyn
"I wanted to work on this central problem of killing. How you go about killing. Now, in the film I had to kill my children - well, I didn't want to get that far."
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"If I've learned one thing in life, it's: Stand for something or you'll fall for anything."
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Bonnie Hunt
"If I've learned one thing in life, it's: Stand for something or you'll fall for anything."
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"There will always be some kid who's the new Kurt Cobain writing great lyrics and singing from his soul. The problem is they're not marketing that anymore or putting it out there."
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Rosanna Arquette
"There will always be some kid who's the new Kurt Cobain writing great lyrics and singing from his soul. The problem is they're not marketing that anymore or putting it out there."
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"What was previously perceived as nerdy is now viewed as original. What I like about nerdiness, geekiness, is it doesn't really matter what you're into - it just means you're not a follower."
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Kristen Bell
"What was previously perceived as nerdy is now viewed as original. What I like about nerdiness, geekiness, is it doesn't really matter what you're into - it just means you're not a follower."
Now,
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"I was a single mom that raised two bright, beautiful, and compassionate girls."
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Connie Stevens
"I was a single mom that raised two bright, beautiful, and compassionate girls."
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"I think Elaine would go out with anyone if they showed interest in her. She's nuts. The woman's nuts."
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Julia Louis Dreyfus
"I think Elaine would go out with anyone if they showed interest in her. She's nuts. The woman's nuts."
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"Humor is imperative, more important than food. You have a choice when someone dies. You can lie down or get back into life. Do something for someone else."
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Doris Roberts
"Humor is imperative, more important than food. You have a choice when someone dies. You can lie down or get back into life. Do something for someone else."
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"I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before."
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Cameron Diaz
"I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before."
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"When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth."
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Eartha Kitt
"When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth."
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"Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing."
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Jane Birkin
"Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing."
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"My life collapsed. People ran from me because suddenly it was 'Oh my God! It's over for her now!'"
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Nicole Kidman
"My life collapsed. People ran from me because suddenly it was 'Oh my God! It's over for her now!'"
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"Mammograms are really sort of a gift. You can either catch something early or count your lucky stars because nothing was discovered. Either way, you're ahead of the game."
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Charlotte Ross
"Mammograms are really sort of a gift. You can either catch something early or count your lucky stars because nothing was discovered. Either way, you're ahead of the game."
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"I was very strongly influenced by women's magazines and I really believed tha a woman could not be married and raise a family and have a successful career all at the same time."
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Helen Reddy
"I was very strongly influenced by women's magazines and I really believed tha a woman could not be married and raise a family and have a successful career all at the same time."
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"Only a certain breed of actor should ever even try to work for Orson Welles. I'm glad I'm one of that breed."
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Mercedes McCambridge
"Only a certain breed of actor should ever even try to work for Orson Welles. I'm glad I'm one of that breed."
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"It's important to e alive in those moment, especially when you're doing something you love to do."
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Jenifer Lewis
"It's important to e alive in those moment, especially when you're doing something you love to do."
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"I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five."
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Dinah Sheridan
"I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five."
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"To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have."
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Fiona Shaw
"To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have."
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"One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man."
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Marlo Thomas
"One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man."
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"There are no regrets in life, just lessons."
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Jennifer Aniston
"There are no regrets in life, just lessons."
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"It gets kinda monotonous, but that's television. There are plus sides and down sides. The positive side is that you have steady work for nine months of the year for however many years your show is on TV,."
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Alexis Bledel
"It gets kinda monotonous, but that's television. There are plus sides and down sides. The positive side is that you have steady work for nine months of the year for however many years your show is on TV,."
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"I've been careful to keep my life separate because it's important to me to have privacy and for my life not to be a marketing device for a movie or a TV show. I'm worth more than that."
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Lisa Kudrow
"I've been careful to keep my life separate because it's important to me to have privacy and for my life not to be a marketing device for a movie or a TV show. I'm worth more than that."
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"This I regard as a classic example of my not being properly prepared for a part I very much wanted."
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Marie Windsor
"This I regard as a classic example of my not being properly prepared for a part I very much wanted."
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"When you're a working actor and you're happy to be one, you can't focus all your energy on acting because you will go crazy. You have to focus as much energy as you can away from yourself."
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Olivia Wilde
"When you're a working actor and you're happy to be one, you can't focus all your energy on acting because you will go crazy. You have to focus as much energy as you can away from yourself."
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"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul."
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Judy Garland
"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul."
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"Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found."
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Claire Danes
"Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found."
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"I've had a very interesting career. I get to do amazing things and work with amazing people and travel and learn languages - things most people don't get the opportunity to do."
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Gwyneth Paltrow
"I've had a very interesting career. I get to do amazing things and work with amazing people and travel and learn languages - things most people don't get the opportunity to do."
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"I love to be directed, and I can glean something from almost anyone."
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Swoosie Kurtz
"I love to be directed, and I can glean something from almost anyone."
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"Good actresses can often accomplish miracles, and it is possible to be someone you've never been or will be. But in a sitcom, there's no time."
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Patricia Richardson
"Good actresses can often accomplish miracles, and it is possible to be someone you've never been or will be. But in a sitcom, there's no time."
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"I arrived in Hollywood and lived much of my life in America, but the fans did not really know me."
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Persis Khambatta
"I arrived in Hollywood and lived much of my life in America, but the fans did not really know me."
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"I like somebody who makes me laugh. He's also got to be prepared - I'm sort of a loose cannon, in a good way. I also like people who disagree with me and make me work to prove my point."
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Monica Keena
"I like somebody who makes me laugh. He's also got to be prepared - I'm sort of a loose cannon, in a good way. I also like people who disagree with me and make me work to prove my point."
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