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Quotes by Actress

"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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"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 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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"I wanted to be a decorator. I wanted to interior design homes and do everything myself."
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Ursula Andress
"I wanted to be a decorator. I wanted to interior design homes and do everything myself."
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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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"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 had a career for 25 years in Australia before I ever came to the United States."
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Helen Reddy
"I had a career for 25 years in Australia before I ever came to the United States."
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"My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet."
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Salma Hayek
"My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet."
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"I don't like the term mid-life crisis."
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Pamela Stephenson
"I don't like the term mid-life crisis."
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"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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"My hairdresser and I found ourselves shopping at Bloomingdale's with nothing to do for days."
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Chita Rivera
"My hairdresser and I found ourselves shopping at Bloomingdale's with nothing to do for days."
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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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"Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided."
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Mae West
"Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided."
May,
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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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"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 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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"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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"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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"Clothes, thank God I can get them from designers."
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Patricia Velasquez
"Clothes, thank God I can get them from designers."
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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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"After about 15 minutes, you feel that you're winning them over."
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Chita Rivera
"After about 15 minutes, you feel that you're winning them over."
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"I am the American Dream. I am the epitome of what the American Dream basically said. It said, you could come from anywhere and be anything you want in this country. That's exactly what I've done."
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Whoopi Goldberg
"I am the American Dream. I am the epitome of what the American Dream basically said. It said, you could come from anywhere and be anything you want in this country. That's exactly what I've done."
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"I have the libido of a 15-year-old boy. My sex drive is so high. I'd rather have sex with Brian all the time than leave the house. He doesn't mind."
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Megan Fox
"I have the libido of a 15-year-old boy. My sex drive is so high. I'd rather have sex with Brian all the time than leave the house. He doesn't mind."
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"I'm an old-fashioned girl."
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Chita Rivera
"I'm an old-fashioned girl."
Old,
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"You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life."
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Greta Garbo
"You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life."
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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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"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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"Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally."
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Charlize Theron
"Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally."
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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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"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'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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"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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"All creative people want to do the unexpected."
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Hedy Lamarr
"All creative people want to do the unexpected."
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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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"After filming I like to go home and lie down with my daughter and have a glass of wine so I don't really socialize with the other actors."
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Izabella Scorupco
"After filming I like to go home and lie down with my daughter and have a glass of wine so I don't really socialize with the other actors."
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"There are moments to indulge and enjoy, but I always know when it's time to go home and wash my knickers."
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Kate Winslet
"There are moments to indulge and enjoy, but I always know when it's time to go home and wash my knickers."
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"Theatre is immediate gratification."
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Chita Rivera
"Theatre is immediate gratification."
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"Now that we have a democracy and you can go back and the airport air is not laden with evil any more, you can actually breathe oxygen when you land in Johannesburg."
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Janet Suzman
"Now that we have a democracy and you can go back and the airport air is not laden with evil any more, you can actually breathe oxygen when you land in Johannesburg."
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"I'm living by example by continuing on with my career and having a full, rich life, and I am incidentally gay."
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Portia de Rossi
"I'm living by example by continuing on with my career and having a full, rich life, and I am incidentally gay."
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"There was a time when I used to live in Spain that it went really crazy with drugs and stuff like that."
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Patricia Velasquez
"There was a time when I used to live in Spain that it went really crazy with drugs and stuff like that."
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"The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?"
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Angelina Jolie
"The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?"
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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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"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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"I have been very lucky, I have only had one bad experience."
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Chita Rivera
"I have been very lucky, I have only had one bad experience."
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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 still find that a kind of stricture of the heart happens when I see any form of bigoted or racist behaviour. I get an actual pain in my heart."
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Janet Suzman
"I still find that a kind of stricture of the heart happens when I see any form of bigoted or racist behaviour. I get an actual pain in my heart."
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"I think the success of my work stems from being truthful."
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Catherine O'Hara
"I think the success of my work stems from being truthful."
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"I think part of that is to create an environment where it's like real life, where you don't really know what's going to happen to you in a certain scene."
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Radha Mitchell
"I think part of that is to create an environment where it's like real life, where you don't really know what's going to happen to you in a certain scene."
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"I didn't want to make a man the No. 1 quest in my life."
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Linda Evans
"I didn't want to make a man the No. 1 quest in my life."
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