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Quotes by Actress

"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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"I felt like the dark hair added like a toughness to my face also, which was really important."
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Jaime King
"I felt like the dark hair added like a toughness to my face also, which was really important."
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"I've known for years that you're supposed to be present. I know that thinking about what's happened or thinking about what I want is not going to get me anywhere, but until I quit doing it I'm not present."
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Mariel Hemingway
"I've known for years that you're supposed to be present. I know that thinking about what's happened or thinking about what I want is not going to get me anywhere, but until I quit doing it I'm not present."
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"If you tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I was going to Hollywood, they all laughed. And here I am!"
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Helen Reddy
"If you tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I was going to Hollywood, they all laughed. And here I am!"
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"51st State was one that I loved doing because the character was so out there, and in a way I was sad to leave the character behind. I'm afraid I could never be that cool in real life!"
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Emily Mortimer
"51st State was one that I loved doing because the character was so out there, and in a way I was sad to leave the character behind. I'm afraid I could never be that cool in real life!"
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"With a parent, it's always guilt. You want to be there, but you kind of also want to be here."
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Heather Locklear
"With a parent, it's always guilt. You want to be there, but you kind of also want to be here."
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"We used to listen to all the marvelous operas on records. Music was a very important part of our lives."
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Charlotte Rae
"We used to listen to all the marvelous operas on records. Music was a very important part of our lives."
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"I was raised in a time where children were still seen and not heard basically, so I think a lot of us in my generation went the other way and just tried to be as much more liberal and open and we're still paying for it."
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Blythe Danner
"I was raised in a time where children were still seen and not heard basically, so I think a lot of us in my generation went the other way and just tried to be as much more liberal and open and we're still paying for it."
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"Being pretty crazy while being chased by the National Enquirer is not good. The British tabloids were the worst."
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Margot Kidder
"Being pretty crazy while being chased by the National Enquirer is not good. The British tabloids were the worst."
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"I think the end of last year when we were aware of that transition was for everyone in their own way kind of bittersweet, but it's also what the show's about, one administration ends and another begins."
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Stockard Channing
"I think the end of last year when we were aware of that transition was for everyone in their own way kind of bittersweet, but it's also what the show's about, one administration ends and another begins."
End,
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"Without going into too much detail, the end of my major action scene, after the climax of the scene, there was one little change that I suggested regarding the way things should turn out. It was in the detail of the tears of blood."
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Chiaki Kuriyama
"Without going into too much detail, the end of my major action scene, after the climax of the scene, there was one little change that I suggested regarding the way things should turn out. It was in the detail of the tears of blood."
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"Ron allowed us to see right away the private piece of a person about to become very public. I suspect we're going to see more of her very private world - Laura's private experience. I'm not sure yet how public she's going to be about the actions she's going to have to take."
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Mary McDonnell
"Ron allowed us to see right away the private piece of a person about to become very public. I suspect we're going to see more of her very private world - Laura's private experience. I'm not sure yet how public she's going to be about the actions she's going to have to take."
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"For the past 10 years, people have been making fun of the eighties. Why are we bringing them back?"
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Lexa Doig
"For the past 10 years, people have been making fun of the eighties. Why are we bringing them back?"
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"People always joke that "dog" spells "god" backwards. They should consider that it might be the higher power coming down to see just how well they do, what kind of people they are. The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test."
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Linda Blair
"People always joke that "dog" spells "god" backwards. They should consider that it might be the higher power coming down to see just how well they do, what kind of people they are. The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test."
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"I don't have time to think about age. There are so many things to do."
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Ursula Andress
"I don't have time to think about age. There are so many things to do."
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"As for acting, I took drama lessons when I was in high school."
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Megan Gallagher
"As for acting, I took drama lessons when I was in high school."
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"Sexy in India is not considered positive. But, with today's crop of fresh faces in the modelling arena, being sexy is an asset."
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Aishwarya Rai
"Sexy in India is not considered positive. But, with today's crop of fresh faces in the modelling arena, being sexy is an asset."
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"Maybe you're better to play a villain just straight out."
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Sigourney Weaver
"Maybe you're better to play a villain just straight out."
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"I, also, found the opportunity to work with the actors extremely gratifying and rewarding."
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Janine Turner
"I, also, found the opportunity to work with the actors extremely gratifying and rewarding."
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"We transported eight giraffes, and there are now nine because one gave birth to a male shortly afterwards. They carry their pregnancies very well-they all looked the same."
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Joanna Lumley
"We transported eight giraffes, and there are now nine because one gave birth to a male shortly afterwards. They carry their pregnancies very well-they all looked the same."
Now,
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"Sometimes I think I take on a lot of work but that's me."
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Jenifer Lewis
"Sometimes I think I take on a lot of work but that's me."
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"I like to go to parties where I know everyone. How are you going to have fun with people you don't know?"
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Mary-Kate Olsen
"I like to go to parties where I know everyone. How are you going to have fun with people you don't know?"
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"Well, I love having kids. But I have the advantage of having a lot of help, a real hands-on husband and small children whom I can easily manipulate."
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Jane Kaczmarek
"Well, I love having kids. But I have the advantage of having a lot of help, a real hands-on husband and small children whom I can easily manipulate."
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"Everything the Coen brothers do is brilliant."
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Jackie Weaver
"Everything the Coen brothers do is brilliant."
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"Actors should be timeless and impersonal."
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Anne Parillaud
"Actors should be timeless and impersonal."
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"I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people."
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Jasmine Guy
"I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people."
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"I can understand why people get annoyed at being remembered for one thing, but a lot of actors aren't remembered for anything. I don't mind that."
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Julie Walters
"I can understand why people get annoyed at being remembered for one thing, but a lot of actors aren't remembered for anything. I don't mind that."
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"I don't want to feel I'm responsible for anorexia across the country."
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Courteney Cox
"I don't want to feel I'm responsible for anorexia across the country."
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"If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational."
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Salma Hayek
"If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational."
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"I was a gymnast for years."
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Kelly Preston
"I was a gymnast for years."
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"In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves."
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Marie Dressler
"In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves."
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"I mean, I like to think of myself as being strong and independent, but I definitely wasn't like that at 14."
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Alison Lohman
"I mean, I like to think of myself as being strong and independent, but I definitely wasn't like that at 14."
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"Neiman-Marcus is one thing, and the Dallas Cowboys are another."
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Mercedes McCambridge
"Neiman-Marcus is one thing, and the Dallas Cowboys are another."
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"We were just covered in dirt the whole time. It was so hot - and that was in winter. I can not imagine what it's like in summer and how the people who actually live out there survive."
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Toni Collette
"We were just covered in dirt the whole time. It was so hot - and that was in winter. I can not imagine what it's like in summer and how the people who actually live out there survive."
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"I don't use the voice of Bart when I'm making love to my husband, but Marge's voice turns him on a little."
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Nancy Cartwright
"I don't use the voice of Bart when I'm making love to my husband, but Marge's voice turns him on a little."
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"Usually I'm frustrated when I look at my films and I don't believe that I've made a real transformation beyond my usual sets of gestures and expressions. I still have this nagging feeling that it's me, that I didn't create a unique character."
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Helena Bonham Carter
"Usually I'm frustrated when I look at my films and I don't believe that I've made a real transformation beyond my usual sets of gestures and expressions. I still have this nagging feeling that it's me, that I didn't create a unique character."
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"I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things."
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Miranda Otto
"I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things."
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"I worked hard and made my own way, just as my father had. And just, I'm sure, as he hoped I would. I learned, from observing him, the satisfaction that comes from striving and seeing a dream fulfilled."
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Sigourney Weaver
"I worked hard and made my own way, just as my father had. And just, I'm sure, as he hoped I would. I learned, from observing him, the satisfaction that comes from striving and seeing a dream fulfilled."
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"I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me."
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Meryl Streep
"I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me."
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"At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers."
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Kristin Scott Thomas
"At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers."
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"The ranch was raw land when I bought it and, for better or worse, I have designed every aspect of it from the corrals, the arena, to the barn, to the house."
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Janine Turner
"The ranch was raw land when I bought it and, for better or worse, I have designed every aspect of it from the corrals, the arena, to the barn, to the house."
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"The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs as we flew by them."
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Fanny Kemble
"The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs as we flew by them."
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"I think movies are great and I have a great time making them but they're not what keeps you warm at night, or what's ultimately the most important thing in anyone's life journey."
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Reese Witherspoon
"I think movies are great and I have a great time making them but they're not what keeps you warm at night, or what's ultimately the most important thing in anyone's life journey."
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"If you're an enthusiast and you love the world like I do, it comes naturally. But I think charity must become more fun to give, more interactive and imaginative."
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Joanna Lumley
"If you're an enthusiast and you love the world like I do, it comes naturally. But I think charity must become more fun to give, more interactive and imaginative."
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"I believe that all the important people in my life prior to 1982 were victimized by my illness."
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Patty Duke
"I believe that all the important people in my life prior to 1982 were victimized by my illness."
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"That's what makes a character interesting from an actor's perspective - the more screwed up, the better."
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Jeri Ryan
"That's what makes a character interesting from an actor's perspective - the more screwed up, the better."
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"As I traveled from one country to another, no one knew anything about me. So I could be anybody, I could speak as I wished, act as I wished, dress as I wished."
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Kathleen Turner
"As I traveled from one country to another, no one knew anything about me. So I could be anybody, I could speak as I wished, act as I wished, dress as I wished."
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"I find Hollywood really toxic."
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Rachel Weisz
"I find Hollywood really toxic."
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