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Quotes by Actress

"There were not enough women like Kay on TV and now there are none."
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Melissa Leo
"There were not enough women like Kay on TV and now there are none."
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"The thing is, I want to play real characters and not all girls can be pretty. The thing is, you get these girls who say 'I'm a character actor' then you see them in a role and nothing has really changed but the outfit."
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Juliette Lewis
"The thing is, I want to play real characters and not all girls can be pretty. The thing is, you get these girls who say 'I'm a character actor' then you see them in a role and nothing has really changed but the outfit."
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"Somewhere along the line I made the switch and was able to look at the bight side rather than the dark side all the time. Now I look at everything I have and think how lucky I am."
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Michelle Pfeiffer
"Somewhere along the line I made the switch and was able to look at the bight side rather than the dark side all the time. Now I look at everything I have and think how lucky I am."
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"Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of."
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Julie Walters
"Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of."
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"I have watched people who have nothing to do with the film business, but who have become part of the circle for a short period of time. They can be truly devastated when the film wraps and people leave."
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Jacqueline Bisset
"I have watched people who have nothing to do with the film business, but who have become part of the circle for a short period of time. They can be truly devastated when the film wraps and people leave."
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"I do wish I could tell you my age but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time."
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Greer Garson
"I do wish I could tell you my age but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time."
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"I was dying but suddenly had a second chance at living."
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Shelley Fabares
"I was dying but suddenly had a second chance at living."
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"I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging."
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Barbara Hershey
"I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging."
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"My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem."
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Gwyneth Paltrow
"My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem."
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"I really would rather have gone to New York, since all my training had been in theater, but I didn't have the guts to go there alone. I knew only one person in New York, and that was a man. What I needed was a woman. That's the way Southern girls thought."
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Louise Fletcher
"I really would rather have gone to New York, since all my training had been in theater, but I didn't have the guts to go there alone. I knew only one person in New York, and that was a man. What I needed was a woman. That's the way Southern girls thought."
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"I just couldn't live without dogs."
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Tara Reid
"I just couldn't live without dogs."
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"I'm a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big philosophy on life. I'm certainly not going to write any sort of memoir."
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Jamie Lee Curtis
"I'm a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big philosophy on life. I'm certainly not going to write any sort of memoir."
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"I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material."
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Natasha Richardson
"I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material."
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"Leaders are called upon to build not to repair."
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Farshad Asl
"Leaders are called upon to build not to repair."
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"I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother."
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Ziyi Zhang
"I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother."
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"My hobby is gardening, I love it, it's my main hobby. I like being at home and I'm very happy being in my house, I love cooking."
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Susan Hampshire
"My hobby is gardening, I love it, it's my main hobby. I like being at home and I'm very happy being in my house, I love cooking."
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"I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress."
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Carrie Fisher
"I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress."
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"At my glummest, I sometimes think women get to chose- between being punished for being unsubjugated and the continual punishment of subjugation."
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Rebecca Solnit
"At my glummest, I sometimes think women get to chose- between being punished for being unsubjugated and the continual punishment of subjugation."
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"I'm looking for the truth. The audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves."
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Julianna Moore
"I'm looking for the truth. The audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves."
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"I had no desire to crash a man's world."
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Ida Lupino
"I had no desire to crash a man's world."
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"There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me."
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Liv Tyler
"There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me."
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"I've concentrated for a long time on English films because I've got two kids but my oldest son is 11 and I think I'm going to be away for about four months of year now."
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Sadie Frost
"I've concentrated for a long time on English films because I've got two kids but my oldest son is 11 and I think I'm going to be away for about four months of year now."
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"This is going to sound really funny. I have a poster of Zac Efron on my wall! I think every girl has a poster of him in their room so, why not join the club!"
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Vanessa Hudgens
"This is going to sound really funny. I have a poster of Zac Efron on my wall! I think every girl has a poster of him in their room so, why not join the club!"
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"I would go visit my mom on Sundays, and my brother was working on stuff. I'd go in there and sing a little melody, then we started working with words and the next thing you know it was just born organically without really trying."
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Taryn Manning
"I would go visit my mom on Sundays, and my brother was working on stuff. I'd go in there and sing a little melody, then we started working with words and the next thing you know it was just born organically without really trying."
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"I think health is another exceedingly important thing."
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Joan Collins
"I think health is another exceedingly important thing."
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"I'm still reading some scripts and I model as well, so I'm still doing that. But I don't want to do like just anything so we're being really selective about the stuff I'll do."
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Kim Smith
"I'm still reading some scripts and I model as well, so I'm still doing that. But I don't want to do like just anything so we're being really selective about the stuff I'll do."
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"I just think it's fun to remind people that good television has exited and it can exist again and just to give them pleasure and enjoy it and make them laugh."
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Jenna Elfman
"I just think it's fun to remind people that good television has exited and it can exist again and just to give them pleasure and enjoy it and make them laugh."
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"I'd love to be in another film, but they haven't asked me. I think it's a shame but the prospects of me doing another one now are remote. Please do campaign on my behalf."
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Julie Walters
"I'd love to be in another film, but they haven't asked me. I think it's a shame but the prospects of me doing another one now are remote. Please do campaign on my behalf."
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"Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession."
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Edie McClurg
"Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession."
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"I'm extremely happy in my life. I consider myself to be very blessed."
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Joan Collins
"I'm extremely happy in my life. I consider myself to be very blessed."
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"There's no magazine you open, unless its AARP, that shows a woman over the age of 45 in any other light, other than having to buy Depends or Viagra."
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Doris Roberts
"There's no magazine you open, unless its AARP, that shows a woman over the age of 45 in any other light, other than having to buy Depends or Viagra."
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"I want to have babies one day but not right now. When I do it I want to do it really well. I want it to be my best project in life."
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Penelope Cruz
"I want to have babies one day but not right now. When I do it I want to do it really well. I want it to be my best project in life."
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"I loved school, I loved putting on my uniform and doing homework every day. I was one of those good students that the teachers liked. I guess that's got to be a pretty nerdy, geeky part of me."
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Yvonne Strahovski
"I loved school, I loved putting on my uniform and doing homework every day. I was one of those good students that the teachers liked. I guess that's got to be a pretty nerdy, geeky part of me."
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"I really struggle with that feeling of helplessness. That's why I really try to get my blogs, and even myself, to point to the positive and look at all the inspiring things that are happening."
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Daryl Hannah
"I really struggle with that feeling of helplessness. That's why I really try to get my blogs, and even myself, to point to the positive and look at all the inspiring things that are happening."
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"I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille."
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Gloria Swanson
"I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille."
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"If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them."
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Loni Anderson
"If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them."
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"I took some classes in sign language when I was in my early teens because I was told that I would be completely deaf very early. But I never really wanted to learn."
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Stephanie Beacham
"I took some classes in sign language when I was in my early teens because I was told that I would be completely deaf very early. But I never really wanted to learn."
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"So I started to learn guitar right away."
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Piper Perabo
"So I started to learn guitar right away."
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"I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today."
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Penelope Keith
"I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today."
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"To be used in a part without depth is a frustrating feeling, when you know you have something to give."
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Jacqueline Bisset
"To be used in a part without depth is a frustrating feeling, when you know you have something to give."
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"I would love to work more - I really would - but there is not a lot of stuff around and the stuff that is around is not very complicated; it tends to lie a little flat."
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Holly Hunter
"I would love to work more - I really would - but there is not a lot of stuff around and the stuff that is around is not very complicated; it tends to lie a little flat."
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"So for me, anything that has to do with animals, and I'm a happy camper."
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Maria Menounos
"So for me, anything that has to do with animals, and I'm a happy camper."
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"My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'"
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Daisy Donovan
"My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'"
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"The Bible says, as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he."
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Dyan Cannon
"The Bible says, as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he."
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"I never consciously said, 'I want to be an actor.' It sounds stupid, but it's kind of like being a painter or something. You don't say, 'From today on I'm going to be a painter.' It's not something conscious - you've just been painting pictures all your life."
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Franka Potente
"I never consciously said, 'I want to be an actor.' It sounds stupid, but it's kind of like being a painter or something. You don't say, 'From today on I'm going to be a painter.' It's not something conscious - you've just been painting pictures all your life."
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"It's more fun if you can control things like lighting and make special effects in the darkroom."
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Lacey Chabert
"It's more fun if you can control things like lighting and make special effects in the darkroom."
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"Especially when you play a character for so many years, the character ends up reflecting a lot of who you are and I think I've changed a lot since then, but that represented a lot of who I was as a teenager."
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Sara Gilbert
"Especially when you play a character for so many years, the character ends up reflecting a lot of who you are and I think I've changed a lot since then, but that represented a lot of who I was as a teenager."
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"Exactly Straight women who surround themselves only with gay men or white people who refuse any other race into their circles are unhealthy and it has more to do with one's individual fear and individual closets."
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Judith Light
"Exactly Straight women who surround themselves only with gay men or white people who refuse any other race into their circles are unhealthy and it has more to do with one's individual fear and individual closets."
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"It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty."
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Ilka Chase
"It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty."
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"I tried college for three months but I was desperately unhappy. I just wanted to perform. I was getting straight As but I had no friends and cried every day."
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Keira Knightley
"I tried college for three months but I was desperately unhappy. I just wanted to perform. I was getting straight As but I had no friends and cried every day."
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