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"I came over when I was 10 years old, which was very difficult because everybody made fun of me."
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Nicolette Sheridan
"I came over when I was 10 years old, which was very difficult because everybody made fun of me."
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"The more things you own, the more people you need to employ."
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Billie Piper
"The more things you own, the more people you need to employ."
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"More teenagers go to movies or rent a tape of a movie than sit down and watch sitcoms on television."
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Mindy Cohn
"More teenagers go to movies or rent a tape of a movie than sit down and watch sitcoms on television."
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"One out of six women are toxic with mercury. Mercury comes out of coal plants and chlorine plants. I am toxic, I deal with symptoms, children are born with, you know, autism - there is an epidemic in this country. This is like, the air that we breath."
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Daphne Zuniga
"One out of six women are toxic with mercury. Mercury comes out of coal plants and chlorine plants. I am toxic, I deal with symptoms, children are born with, you know, autism - there is an epidemic in this country. This is like, the air that we breath."
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"I was happy, I wasn't beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasn't what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I don't know how my mother did it."
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Kristin Scott Thomas
"I was happy, I wasn't beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasn't what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I don't know how my mother did it."
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"Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?"
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Beah Richards
"Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?"
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"I'd love to see more women working as directors and producers."
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Ida Lupino
"I'd love to see more women working as directors and producers."
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"I did my own music videos, my own TV commercials."
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Helen Reddy
"I did my own music videos, my own TV commercials."
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"It eats you up. It eats you up. And you have to - I had a lot of help. I had a lot of therapy. And I was able to - because it was hard, you know, to - you can't just lay it on friends and children."
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Lynn Redgrave
"It eats you up. It eats you up. And you have to - I had a lot of help. I had a lot of therapy. And I was able to - because it was hard, you know, to - you can't just lay it on friends and children."
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"I will love you with all my heart, To have forever - never to part. This is a promise engrained in me, Take my hand and let it be."
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Diana Lynn
"I will love you with all my heart, To have forever - never to part. This is a promise engrained in me, Take my hand and let it be."
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"In scoring we have a lot that was not evident in the shooting. The radio is on all the time."
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Debbie Allen
"In scoring we have a lot that was not evident in the shooting. The radio is on all the time."
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"I was jumping out of my skin. It was horrible. I was all over the place, because I'd never been in front of a live audience. That's a whole other element in the play, the audience."
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Lorraine Bracco
"I was jumping out of my skin. It was horrible. I was all over the place, because I'd never been in front of a live audience. That's a whole other element in the play, the audience."
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"Mostly, nothing's really changed. I'm still the dorky nerd that I always was."
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Beverley Mitchell
"Mostly, nothing's really changed. I'm still the dorky nerd that I always was."
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"A mother is a dealer of hope."
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Farshad Asl
"A mother is a dealer of hope."
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"I have had only two men in four years while he appears every week on the newspapers with another woman."
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Michelle Hunziker
"I have had only two men in four years while he appears every week on the newspapers with another woman."
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"The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it."
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Doris Day
"The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it."
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"Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job."
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Kate Bosworth
"Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job."
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"Sometimes its the smallest decisions that can change your life forever."
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Keri Russell
"Sometimes its the smallest decisions that can change your life forever."
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"It's a waste of time for people to say things they think other people want to hear, or try and come off in a certain way. I try to be as honest as I can."
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Gwyneth Paltrow
"It's a waste of time for people to say things they think other people want to hear, or try and come off in a certain way. I try to be as honest as I can."
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"When they thought of me, they always remembered the vacuous Billie Dawn. It was as simple as that."
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Judy Holliday
"When they thought of me, they always remembered the vacuous Billie Dawn. It was as simple as that."
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"True leaders don't look at just the outward appearances in the selection of team members, they look at one's core values and heart."
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Farshad Asl
"True leaders don't look at just the outward appearances in the selection of team members, they look at one's core values and heart."
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"I... had guys on the set who didn't like me... they weren't interested in the cold character."
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Catherine Keener
"I... had guys on the set who didn't like me... they weren't interested in the cold character."
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"Falling in love-you should go with it, regardless of whether or not your heart gets smashed. You'll be a better person."
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Sandra Bullock
"Falling in love-you should go with it, regardless of whether or not your heart gets smashed. You'll be a better person."
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"You have got to have an agent. It's a business. But I think there is a way to be artful and commercial at the same time."
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Elizabeth Banks
"You have got to have an agent. It's a business. But I think there is a way to be artful and commercial at the same time."
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"The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never written into Ryan's script: daughter."
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Tatum O'Neal
"The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never written into Ryan's script: daughter."
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"The planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature."
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Daphne Zuniga
"The planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature."
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"I was bargaining for time away from Hollywood, and Columbia was bargaining for money. I got what I wanted and they got what they wanted. They knew I was so anxious to do Born Yesterday that I'd have done it for a dollar. They gave me the next best thing."
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Judy Holliday
"I was bargaining for time away from Hollywood, and Columbia was bargaining for money. I got what I wanted and they got what they wanted. They knew I was so anxious to do Born Yesterday that I'd have done it for a dollar. They gave me the next best thing."
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"They held up 'The Outlaw' for five years. And Howard Hughes had me doing publicity for it every day, five days a week for five years."
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Jane Russell
"They held up 'The Outlaw' for five years. And Howard Hughes had me doing publicity for it every day, five days a week for five years."
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"The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear."
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Sarah Bernhardt
"The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear."
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"They planned this fair to bring business to Chicago, into the Loop. But you could have fired a cannon down state street and hit nobody, because everybody was out at the fair."
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Sally Rand
"They planned this fair to bring business to Chicago, into the Loop. But you could have fired a cannon down state street and hit nobody, because everybody was out at the fair."
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"It's a sad day when a cartoon is doing more and cares more and pays more attention to the environment than our president."
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Kathy Najimy
"It's a sad day when a cartoon is doing more and cares more and pays more attention to the environment than our president."
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"I love to not work. I like to travel. I work maybe half the year, no more."
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Catherine Deneuve
"I love to not work. I like to travel. I work maybe half the year, no more."
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"We try to magnify the difference between Americans and the English. In real life they like the same music and dress the same. It's really much more similar than anyone thinks or how we show it."
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Amanda Bynes
"We try to magnify the difference between Americans and the English. In real life they like the same music and dress the same. It's really much more similar than anyone thinks or how we show it."
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"But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome."
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Isabella Rossellini
"But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome."
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"I'm particularly fortunate to be in a position where I can bring my child to work and be able to get good child care. Not a lot of women have that."
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Julia Louis Dreyfus
"I'm particularly fortunate to be in a position where I can bring my child to work and be able to get good child care. Not a lot of women have that."
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"When I was in my early 20s, I had my hair permed. Bad idea! It turned into total frizz. My advice to women is, if you have nice hair already, don't get a perm, leave your hair alone!"
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Mariska Hargitay
"When I was in my early 20s, I had my hair permed. Bad idea! It turned into total frizz. My advice to women is, if you have nice hair already, don't get a perm, leave your hair alone!"
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"So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you."
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Felicity Kendal
"So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you."
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"Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone."
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Mary Astor
"Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone."
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"As far as the media is concerned, I wouldn't shoot anything down."
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Tina Yothers
"As far as the media is concerned, I wouldn't shoot anything down."
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"As an actress, there were so many months, years even, when I didn't get work, when I wanted to quit."
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Mariska Hargitay
"As an actress, there were so many months, years even, when I didn't get work, when I wanted to quit."
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"I pop gum. My parents get so annoyed with me. I know my dad wishes he never taught me how to do that."
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Hilary Duff
"I pop gum. My parents get so annoyed with me. I know my dad wishes he never taught me how to do that."
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"I love observing people."
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Liv Tyler
"I love observing people."
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"I'm nervous as a whore in church."
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LaWanda Page
"I'm nervous as a whore in church."
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"Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee."
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Valerie Harper
"Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee."
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"I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing."
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Angelina Jolie
"I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing."
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"The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are the inheritance of the highest order of human animals."
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Fanny Kemble
"The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are the inheritance of the highest order of human animals."
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"So what I do now is to pre-empt that by making the up into a virtue, and telling funny stories about how crap I am before people have a chance to notice it for themselves and think maybe I haven't realised."
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Emily Mortimer
"So what I do now is to pre-empt that by making the up into a virtue, and telling funny stories about how crap I am before people have a chance to notice it for themselves and think maybe I haven't realised."
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"Everyone leaves behind a legacy of some kind, but those who approach living with a 'No Excuses' mindset leave a legacy of value."
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Farshad Asl
"Everyone leaves behind a legacy of some kind, but those who approach living with a 'No Excuses' mindset leave a legacy of value."
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"One says also, it is one of the most faithful men in Hollywood, and makes again more interesting it equal."
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Michelle Hunziker
"One says also, it is one of the most faithful men in Hollywood, and makes again more interesting it equal."
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"I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'"
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Lauren Bacall
"I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'"
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