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"There were symptoms that I saw, and though I went to many doctors and had many tests, no one diagnosed MS."
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Teri Garr
"There were symptoms that I saw, and though I went to many doctors and had many tests, no one diagnosed MS."
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"I'd like to be able to use Storm's powers for good, like have it rain more in Southern California. We could do with it."
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Halle Berry
"I'd like to be able to use Storm's powers for good, like have it rain more in Southern California. We could do with it."
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"In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times."
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Marlo Thomas
"In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times."
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"I think of myself as a journeyman actress. I will attempt almost anything that I think that I can bring off. It could be almost anything."
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Angela Lansbury
"I think of myself as a journeyman actress. I will attempt almost anything that I think that I can bring off. It could be almost anything."
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"I feel real ownership in this show. I feel very invested in it. I care very much about it. I don't feel any more like a hired hand, you know? It's a strange feeling - I feel personally responsible for how the story goes. What happens. What the weaknesses are. And so in a way, some of the changes gave me an opportunity to have a voice in a different way."
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Lauren Graham
"I feel real ownership in this show. I feel very invested in it. I care very much about it. I don't feel any more like a hired hand, you know? It's a strange feeling - I feel personally responsible for how the story goes. What happens. What the weaknesses are. And so in a way, some of the changes gave me an opportunity to have a voice in a different way."
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"I was utilized because I have a certain face that works well in cinema, and I'm used to making myself look as good as possible."
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Julie Christie
"I was utilized because I have a certain face that works well in cinema, and I'm used to making myself look as good as possible."
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"When I was 14 -years-old, I made this PowerPoint presentation, and I invited my parents into my room and gave them popcorn. It was called 'Project Hollywood 2004' and it worked. I moved to L.A. in January of 2004."
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Emma Stone
"When I was 14 -years-old, I made this PowerPoint presentation, and I invited my parents into my room and gave them popcorn. It was called 'Project Hollywood 2004' and it worked. I moved to L.A. in January of 2004."
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"I'm obsessed with cooking shows, even though they make everything look so easy when it isn't."
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Joely Fisher
"I'm obsessed with cooking shows, even though they make everything look so easy when it isn't."
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"I was homecoming queen. I was star of my basketball team."
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Marla Maples
"I was homecoming queen. I was star of my basketball team."
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"I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be restricted by corsets and covered in lace, then I still wind up wearing an ape-mask over my face. I do wonder how I get myself in these situations!"
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Helena Bonham Carter
"I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be restricted by corsets and covered in lace, then I still wind up wearing an ape-mask over my face. I do wonder how I get myself in these situations!"
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"I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place."
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Zhang Ziyi
"I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place."
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"To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past."
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Jeanne Moreau
"To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past."
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"I used to be Snow White, but I drifted."
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Mae West
"I used to be Snow White, but I drifted."
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"It's so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the fragrance."
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Lena Horne
"It's so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the fragrance."
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"The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'"
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Dinah Shore
"The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'"
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"My mother was an artist and highly strung, whereas my father was much calmer."
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Liza Minnelli
"My mother was an artist and highly strung, whereas my father was much calmer."
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"So I was always passionate about it and felt that it was sort of the golden thread inside me in terms of what I was supposed to do in terms of work but I think I have relaxed a lot in terms of the actual experience and actually enjoy it more and enjoy the people more."
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Barbara Hershey
"So I was always passionate about it and felt that it was sort of the golden thread inside me in terms of what I was supposed to do in terms of work but I think I have relaxed a lot in terms of the actual experience and actually enjoy it more and enjoy the people more."
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"I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate profit."
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Lisa Bonet
"I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate profit."
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"There's something about the Irish that is remarkable."
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Fiona Shaw
"There's something about the Irish that is remarkable."
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"You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness."
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Julia Roberts
"You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness."
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"I love playing bitches. There's a lot of bitch in every woman - a lot in every man."
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Joan Crawford
"I love playing bitches. There's a lot of bitch in every woman - a lot in every man."
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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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"Everything changes as a mother. Yes, work has changed. The projects that I choose are even more important to me now. The world he's growing up in and the kind of stimulus that is out there; they are so precious and I'd do anything to protect him."
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Jennifer Connelly
"Everything changes as a mother. Yes, work has changed. The projects that I choose are even more important to me now. The world he's growing up in and the kind of stimulus that is out there; they are so precious and I'd do anything to protect him."
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"I've definitely grown apart from a lot of my friends. Some of them don't understand the schedule, and it's not that I don't want to talk to them, it's that sometimes I am really busy and can't get back to them."
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Mila Kunis
"I've definitely grown apart from a lot of my friends. Some of them don't understand the schedule, and it's not that I don't want to talk to them, it's that sometimes I am really busy and can't get back to them."
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"I can't stand being around anal people, especially anal people with big egos."
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Laura Prepon
"I can't stand being around anal people, especially anal people with big egos."
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"I can meet any producer in Hollywood and look them in the eye, knowing I didn't sleep with them, or do drugs with them."
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Morgan Brittany
"I can meet any producer in Hollywood and look them in the eye, knowing I didn't sleep with them, or do drugs with them."
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"I learned that you can make a sci-fi film that is satisfying overseas. European people have everything in check. I'd make every sci-fi film in Europe. They only work 14 hours a day. After that, it's overtime."
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Michelle Rodriguez
"I learned that you can make a sci-fi film that is satisfying overseas. European people have everything in check. I'd make every sci-fi film in Europe. They only work 14 hours a day. After that, it's overtime."
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"I don't want to be a 'teen star' because so many people don't ever grow out of that."
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Lacey Chabert
"I don't want to be a 'teen star' because so many people don't ever grow out of that."
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"In L.A., if you're an actor, your personal and professional lives are too intertwined."
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Jena Malone
"In L.A., if you're an actor, your personal and professional lives are too intertwined."
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"I have no intention of discussing my private life with anyone."
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Claire Bloom
"I have no intention of discussing my private life with anyone."
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"When you share work, and you have the opportunity of seeing people you like doing what they do best, and you also interchange socially with them, it's very addictive."
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Jacqueline Bisset
"When you share work, and you have the opportunity of seeing people you like doing what they do best, and you also interchange socially with them, it's very addictive."
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"So many people preach that they love fashion, but really it's what I live for!"
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Lindsay Lohan
"So many people preach that they love fashion, but really it's what I live for!"
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"Everyone has the answers."
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Robin Wright Penn
"Everyone has the answers."
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"Naturally enough when I was a young dancer, I was terribly anxious to get ahead, and to get ahead quickly. I was impatient with all those older people who talked of the long grind to the top, who turned me down for jobs I knew I could do."
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Anna Neagle
"Naturally enough when I was a young dancer, I was terribly anxious to get ahead, and to get ahead quickly. I was impatient with all those older people who talked of the long grind to the top, who turned me down for jobs I knew I could do."
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"Yeah, I do like scary movies, especially the ones that don't take themselves too seriously."
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Anna Faris
"Yeah, I do like scary movies, especially the ones that don't take themselves too seriously."
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"I like the way my own feet smell. I love to smell my sneakers when I take them off."
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Christina Ricci
"I like the way my own feet smell. I love to smell my sneakers when I take them off."
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"If I'm a star, then the people made me a star."
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Marilyn Monroe
"If I'm a star, then the people made me a star."
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"I would kill the clone. That would be my first response."
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Elizabeth Perkins
"I would kill the clone. That would be my first response."
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"They saw me, those reckless seekers of beauty, and in a night I was famous."
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Lillie Langtry
"They saw me, those reckless seekers of beauty, and in a night I was famous."
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"The quickest way to a man's heart is through his chest."
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Roseanne Barr
"The quickest way to a man's heart is through his chest."
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"I couldn't kill a chicken, I couldn't kill a cow - I was a vegetarian too at that time - so I thought, well what is there that I could kill? I couldn't kill this and I couldn't kill that."
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Ellen Burstyn
"I couldn't kill a chicken, I couldn't kill a cow - I was a vegetarian too at that time - so I thought, well what is there that I could kill? I couldn't kill this and I couldn't kill that."
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"I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely."
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Mary Pickford
"I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely."
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"I wore a lot of vintage clothing. I dressed like a reporter, with a little card in my hat. I had these fantasies of who I wanted to be, so I'd dress like an explorer, a cowboy. I dressed up like Elton John a lot too. That was another period."
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Illeana Douglas
"I wore a lot of vintage clothing. I dressed like a reporter, with a little card in my hat. I had these fantasies of who I wanted to be, so I'd dress like an explorer, a cowboy. I dressed up like Elton John a lot too. That was another period."
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"The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?"
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Bette Davis
"The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?"
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"I am happily married to a wonderful man. He is not in the business."
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Erin Moran
"I am happily married to a wonderful man. He is not in the business."
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"I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can't find a way of avoiding it."
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Brigitte Bardot
"I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can't find a way of avoiding it."
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"The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings."
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Stella Adler
"The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings."
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"Beauty fades! I just turned 29, so I probably don't have that many good years left in me."
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Gwyneth Paltrow
"Beauty fades! I just turned 29, so I probably don't have that many good years left in me."
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"My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised."
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Robin Wright Penn
"My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised."
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"I've always wanted to act since I was little."
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Alanna Ubach
"I've always wanted to act since I was little."
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