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"I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling."
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Rachel Griffiths
"I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling."
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"I wasn't a sex symbol, I was a sex zombie."
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Veronica Lake
"I wasn't a sex symbol, I was a sex zombie."
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"You know, in playing a role like this, you really want to get it right, because this is a person who was revered by so many doctors, women doctors especially."
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Mary Stuart Masterson
"You know, in playing a role like this, you really want to get it right, because this is a person who was revered by so many doctors, women doctors especially."
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"A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others."
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Jena Malone
"A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others."
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"Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me."
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Sarah Bernhardt
"Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me."
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"I like to think of myself as kind of a sculptor, only I sculpt people."
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Kathleen Quinlan
"I like to think of myself as kind of a sculptor, only I sculpt people."
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"When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure."
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Maude Adams
"When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure."
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"They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself."
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Patricia Richardson
"They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself."
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"I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me."
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Candice Bergen
"I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me."
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"Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences."
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Frances McDormand
"Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences."
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"I know many great actors who have small heads."
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Catherine Keener
"I know many great actors who have small heads."
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"I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn."
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Christine Baranski
"I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn."
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"I think one of my very favorite films of all time was with Peter Sellers when he played Chauncey, the gardener. Being There."
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Blythe Danner
"I think one of my very favorite films of all time was with Peter Sellers when he played Chauncey, the gardener. Being There."
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"When I attack a role, be it TV, film or stage, the first thing I say is, I don't want to know anything. If it's good I don't want to hear it; if it's bad I don't want to hear it. The only thing either thing can do is distract me. I like to stay focused."
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Cicely Tyson
"When I attack a role, be it TV, film or stage, the first thing I say is, I don't want to know anything. If it's good I don't want to hear it; if it's bad I don't want to hear it. The only thing either thing can do is distract me. I like to stay focused."
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"When I get to my deathbed, I don't want to take my last breath and say, Well, how glorious. I've left the world my acting credits. I won't even think that."
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Lesley-Anne Down
"When I get to my deathbed, I don't want to take my last breath and say, Well, how glorious. I've left the world my acting credits. I won't even think that."
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"The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure."
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Patty Duke
"The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure."
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"Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left."
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Ingrid Bergman
"Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left."
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"Yoga is wonderful. It clears up most health problems. It also gives you an overview."
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Helen Reddy
"Yoga is wonderful. It clears up most health problems. It also gives you an overview."
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"You protect your being when you love yourself better. That's the secret."
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Isabelle Adjani
"You protect your being when you love yourself better. That's the secret."
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"One of the first things I did was interview the President of the United States. Some people work their whole lives and can't interview someone of that stature."
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Maria Menounos
"One of the first things I did was interview the President of the United States. Some people work their whole lives and can't interview someone of that stature."
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"She and my uncle were very sociable and would have a lot of people over at night to play cards or whatever. The high spot of those evenings was when we kids got dressed up to do a skit or something to amuse the guests. I loved it."
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Louise Fletcher
"She and my uncle were very sociable and would have a lot of people over at night to play cards or whatever. The high spot of those evenings was when we kids got dressed up to do a skit or something to amuse the guests. I loved it."
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"I hate the word gothic but I would like to try doing something like that. A gothic sound, not rock, but gothic. There's a difference."
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Kelly Osbourne
"I hate the word gothic but I would like to try doing something like that. A gothic sound, not rock, but gothic. There's a difference."
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"Age is not important unless you're a cheese."
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Helen Hayes
"Age is not important unless you're a cheese."
Age,
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"I get to do what I love every day. I get to crawl into someone else's head and I love that."
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Sophia Bush
"I get to do what I love every day. I get to crawl into someone else's head and I love that."
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"I've been in this business my whole life. I'm pretty bulletproof as far as being hurt."
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Tina Yothers
"I've been in this business my whole life. I'm pretty bulletproof as far as being hurt."
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"Why, when I was a child, I didn't say, as most children do, that I was going to become an actress. I felt that I was an actress and no one could have convinced me that I wasn't!"
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Antoinette Perry
"Why, when I was a child, I didn't say, as most children do, that I was going to become an actress. I felt that I was an actress and no one could have convinced me that I wasn't!"
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"I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror."
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Barbra Streisand
"I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror."
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"I realized that public affairs were also my affairs."
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Helen Gahagan
"I realized that public affairs were also my affairs."
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"The more I get to do this character, the more I realize that she's not just annoying. It's that her strength is not interacting with people socially. She just doesn't have time because she has so much going on in her brain."
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Mary Lynn Rajskub
"The more I get to do this character, the more I realize that she's not just annoying. It's that her strength is not interacting with people socially. She just doesn't have time because she has so much going on in her brain."
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"You can never really judge your work because once it's done, it's done."
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Charlotte Rampling
"You can never really judge your work because once it's done, it's done."
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"The things that I've done that have totally been remembered, they've always started with the same kind of engine, they've always started with someone saying 'I have to make this film - I'm going to make this film whatever the odds'."
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Jenny Agutter
"The things that I've done that have totally been remembered, they've always started with the same kind of engine, they've always started with someone saying 'I have to make this film - I'm going to make this film whatever the odds'."
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"In country music the lyric is important and the melodies get a little more complex all the time, and you hear marvelous new singers who are interested in writing and interpreting a lyric and in all form of popular music."
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Dinah Shore
"In country music the lyric is important and the melodies get a little more complex all the time, and you hear marvelous new singers who are interested in writing and interpreting a lyric and in all form of popular music."
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"You don't choose. I just go where the work is."
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Jacqueline McKenzie
"You don't choose. I just go where the work is."
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"I don't think he cheated on me. During the marriage, I think he was there."
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Marla Maples
"I don't think he cheated on me. During the marriage, I think he was there."
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"I think space exploration is very important. I think there is very intelligent life on Mars. I believe that Martians are spying on us from the bottom of the ocean."
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Annabella Sciorra
"I think space exploration is very important. I think there is very intelligent life on Mars. I believe that Martians are spying on us from the bottom of the ocean."
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"They are the only people in the world who I can truly trust and rely on. Touring gets really lonely. I guess I have friends around me but when you're paying them can they ever really be true friends?"
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Kelly Osbourne
"They are the only people in the world who I can truly trust and rely on. Touring gets really lonely. I guess I have friends around me but when you're paying them can they ever really be true friends?"
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"I'd never watch a horror film, but after I found out I was going to be in one, I watched, like, four of them, including The Shining, I was terrified - I couldn't sleep for days. But I wanted to get myself used to things I was going to see on the set."
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Jennifer Love Hewitt
"I'd never watch a horror film, but after I found out I was going to be in one, I watched, like, four of them, including The Shining, I was terrified - I couldn't sleep for days. But I wanted to get myself used to things I was going to see on the set."
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"Everyone wants to work in America. Maybe not blockbusters or Terminator, but to have the choice."
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Eva Green
"Everyone wants to work in America. Maybe not blockbusters or Terminator, but to have the choice."
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"Daytime has been successful all these years because it caters to a very real need in the audience - to see something that's not nighttime fantasy. People watch daytime because it's like their lives."
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Erika Slezak
"Daytime has been successful all these years because it caters to a very real need in the audience - to see something that's not nighttime fantasy. People watch daytime because it's like their lives."
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"I'm learning as much martial arts as I possibly can. My show is packed with action. Enough to get a rise."
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Traci Bingham
"I'm learning as much martial arts as I possibly can. My show is packed with action. Enough to get a rise."
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"When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves."
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Eleanora Duse
"When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves."
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"I was always a show-off - as a kid I was never afraid to make a fool of myself, and I guess that's still true."
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Ann Robinson
"I was always a show-off - as a kid I was never afraid to make a fool of myself, and I guess that's still true."
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"I'm not seeking out genre films, but this just came my way, and Miramax was good enough to add a role for me because we wanted the chance to work together."
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Jeri Ryan
"I'm not seeking out genre films, but this just came my way, and Miramax was good enough to add a role for me because we wanted the chance to work together."
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"To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long."
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Marlene Dietrich
"To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long."
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"I don't enjoy other people's dramas, and I don't enjoy mine."
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Ali MacGraw
"I don't enjoy other people's dramas, and I don't enjoy mine."
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"I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly."
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Diana Ross
"I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly."
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"I've been in the studio experimenting on making a CD of my own. I'm trying out different producers, styles, sounds. With music, as opposed to acting, you are not playing a character. You are showing people who you are. I really want to have my spirit in it."
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Emily Rossum
"I've been in the studio experimenting on making a CD of my own. I'm trying out different producers, styles, sounds. With music, as opposed to acting, you are not playing a character. You are showing people who you are. I really want to have my spirit in it."
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"It's also that comedians don't have the kind of narcissism that actors have. They're writers who perform their own material. It's more interesting. And they're sexy because they risk more. Stand-up comedians risk more than anyone."
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Rachel Weisz
"It's also that comedians don't have the kind of narcissism that actors have. They're writers who perform their own material. It's more interesting. And they're sexy because they risk more. Stand-up comedians risk more than anyone."
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"Before, I just spewed whatever it was I thought about everything. I tend to be more contemplative now."
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Anne Heche
"Before, I just spewed whatever it was I thought about everything. I tend to be more contemplative now."
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"You know, you do it, and you get paid for it, and you have a wonderful time, then you're on to something else."
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Eva Marie Saint
"You know, you do it, and you get paid for it, and you have a wonderful time, then you're on to something else."
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