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Quotes by Actress

"I can tell you where my Tonys are. They're in a beautiful place in my living room, in a glass cabinet."
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Chita Rivera
"I can tell you where my Tonys are. They're in a beautiful place in my living room, in a glass cabinet."
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"I have no doubt I was someone very interesting in a past life."
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Patricia Velasquez
"I have no doubt I was someone very interesting in a past life."
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"The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair."
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Audrey Hepburn
"The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair."
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"My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it."
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Janet Suzman
"My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it."
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"If there is one creature that represents my essence, it's butterflies."
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Patricia Velasquez
"If there is one creature that represents my essence, it's butterflies."
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"When I was a kid, my dream was to be a farmer and marry Charlie Brown. I wanted to rescue him and make him happy. Besides, he was always lusting after the little redhead girl."
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Alicia Witt
"When I was a kid, my dream was to be a farmer and marry Charlie Brown. I wanted to rescue him and make him happy. Besides, he was always lusting after the little redhead girl."
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"I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less."
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Diane Cilento
"I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less."
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"The reason there weren't any, I am surmising, is that a lot of Latin kids, Latino kids, in those days didn't have the money to take those kind of classes."
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Rita Moreno
"The reason there weren't any, I am surmising, is that a lot of Latin kids, Latino kids, in those days didn't have the money to take those kind of classes."
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"Acting is actually private."
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Joan Chen
"Acting is actually private."
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"Beauty is the result of having been through an experience all the way through to the end - therefore it has a poignancy. Beauty that is singular always comes from following an experience to the point where you can go no further."
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Joan Chen
"Beauty is the result of having been through an experience all the way through to the end - therefore it has a poignancy. Beauty that is singular always comes from following an experience to the point where you can go no further."
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"Always work hard, be honest, and be proud of who you are."
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Patricia Velasquez
"Always work hard, be honest, and be proud of who you are."
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"I am woman, hear me roar."
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Helen Reddy
"I am woman, hear me roar."
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"Theatre is immediate gratification."
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Chita Rivera
"Theatre is immediate gratification."
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"So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it's also been very hard to handle rejection."
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Patricia Velasquez
"So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it's also been very hard to handle rejection."
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"I was not particularly bright, I wasn't very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, I was just really weird as a kid."
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Uma Thurman
"I was not particularly bright, I wasn't very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, I was just really weird as a kid."
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"I don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was."
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Hedy Lamarr
"I don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was."
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"The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably."
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Anita Ekberg
"The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably."
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"I want to do feature films. I am flying to Malaysia to be in another feature film. We will be filming that in Malaysia, the Phillipines, and back in California."
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Thuy Trang
"I want to do feature films. I am flying to Malaysia to be in another feature film. We will be filming that in Malaysia, the Phillipines, and back in California."
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"It takes one person to give you a big chance."
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Patricia Velasquez
"It takes one person to give you a big chance."
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"I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it."
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Bai Ling
"I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it."
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"There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it."
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Naomi Watts
"There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it."
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"Claire was struggling through last summer's diary volume when Myrnin popped in through the portal, wearing a big floppy black hat and a kind of crazy/stylish pimp coat that covered him from neck to ankles, black leather gloves, and a black and silver walking stick with a dragon's head on it. And, on his lapel was a button that said, If you can read this, thank a teacher."
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Rachel Caine
"Claire was struggling through last summer's diary volume when Myrnin popped in through the portal, wearing a big floppy black hat and a kind of crazy/stylish pimp coat that covered him from neck to ankles, black leather gloves, and a black and silver walking stick with a dragon's head on it. And, on his lapel was a button that said, If you can read this, thank a teacher."
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"We were taking collections for people with AIDS in New York around Easter."
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Chita Rivera
"We were taking collections for people with AIDS in New York around Easter."
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"A lot of really good directors have a killer in them, as if they'd do anything to get that image. But that comes with the terrain and I don't mind it."
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Judy Davis
"A lot of really good directors have a killer in them, as if they'd do anything to get that image. But that comes with the terrain and I don't mind it."
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"It's communication - that's what theatre is all about."
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Chita Rivera
"It's communication - that's what theatre is all about."
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"I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom. That was my way of being a bad girl."
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Sandra Bullock
"I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom. That was my way of being a bad girl."
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"As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others."
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Audrey Hepburn
"As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others."
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"I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it."
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Mae West
"I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it."
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"England is very interested as well, and other countries if I could speak the languages!"
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Miranda Otto
"England is very interested as well, and other countries if I could speak the languages!"
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"Yippee! I can't believe I made it. It feels like a long haul to get here. I'm so fine with it. People want you to have some sort of breakdown, but I'm relieved to be 40 years old, and I've lived a life."
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Nicole Kidman
"Yippee! I can't believe I made it. It feels like a long haul to get here. I'm so fine with it. People want you to have some sort of breakdown, but I'm relieved to be 40 years old, and I've lived a life."
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"Stay out of the sun, because it is the worst thing in terms of aging. I'm very medical. I come from a medical family."
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Nicole Kidman
"Stay out of the sun, because it is the worst thing in terms of aging. I'm very medical. I come from a medical family."
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"There are certain stars who are not actors. I don't want to be that type."
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Natalie Wood
"There are certain stars who are not actors. I don't want to be that type."
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"I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock that in."
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Amanda Burton
"I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock that in."
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"You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important, and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do."
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Nicole Kidman
"You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important, and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do."
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"I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting."
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Patricia Velasquez
"I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting."
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"Too many people use abortion as a form of birth control. And that's very wrong. I could never, ever have an abortion."
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Brooke Shields
"Too many people use abortion as a form of birth control. And that's very wrong. I could never, ever have an abortion."
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"I'm aware of my body."
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Joanna Lumley
"I'm aware of my body."
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"I like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I don't sign on for the money. Maybe I should, but I don't. There's always a good reason for doing something."
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Famke Janssen
"I like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I don't sign on for the money. Maybe I should, but I don't. There's always a good reason for doing something."
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"Bigger than life is not difficult for me. I am bigger than life."
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Rita Moreno
"Bigger than life is not difficult for me. I am bigger than life."
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"I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming."
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Linda Evans
"I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming."
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"I'd like to get the word out there, the word has to be spread."
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Chita Rivera
"I'd like to get the word out there, the word has to be spread."
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"You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that."
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Winona Ryder
"You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that."
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"I think if I could have a boyfriend like my brothers I'd be really happy. But without the brother thing."
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Patricia Velasquez
"I think if I could have a boyfriend like my brothers I'd be really happy. But without the brother thing."
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"My marriage? Up to now everything's okay. But it's a real marriage - imperfect and very difficult. It's all about people evolving somewhat simultaneously through their lives. I think we've emotionally evolved."
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Jamie Lee Curtis
"My marriage? Up to now everything's okay. But it's a real marriage - imperfect and very difficult. It's all about people evolving somewhat simultaneously through their lives. I think we've emotionally evolved."
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"What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it."
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Brigitte Bardot
"What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it."
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"Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain."
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Patricia Velasquez
"Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain."
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"Then there's the story of ill-fated love. It's universal."
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Rita Moreno
"Then there's the story of ill-fated love. It's universal."
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"I've played American, Italian, Greek, French. I've been really lucky that way."
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Chita Rivera
"I've played American, Italian, Greek, French. I've been really lucky that way."
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"The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation."
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Stella Adler
"The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation."
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"When you face your fears, you are free of them. There's nothing in the world I need to hide from again."
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Daphne Zuniga
"When you face your fears, you are free of them. There's nothing in the world I need to hide from again."
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