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"I actually wanted to be an exotic dancer, but that didn't work out so I thought I'd take on acting."
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Sasha Alexander
"I actually wanted to be an exotic dancer, but that didn't work out so I thought I'd take on acting."
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"Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?"
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Sarah Jessica Parker
"Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?"
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"It doesn't matter if you're staying at a four-star hotel, you will never have your whole closet with you."
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Lexa Doig
"It doesn't matter if you're staying at a four-star hotel, you will never have your whole closet with you."
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"Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me - I don't now sit at home doing a cake for the fun of it anymore. But it's an extremely happy and pleasureable business to run because people are generally buying cakes for celebrations."
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Jane Asher
"Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me - I don't now sit at home doing a cake for the fun of it anymore. But it's an extremely happy and pleasureable business to run because people are generally buying cakes for celebrations."
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"You can feel like, 'I look really bad', but to other people you can be really gorgeous."
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Ashley Tisdale
"You can feel like, 'I look really bad', but to other people you can be really gorgeous."
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"To be in a couple, do you have to put your single self on a shelf?"
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Sarah Jessica Parker
"To be in a couple, do you have to put your single self on a shelf?"
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"I know that I'm getting the real deal with my mom. I know that she's telling it like it is. She's proud of me when I've earned it and she's disappointed in me when I've earn that. She's really my spectrum on where I am as a person."
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Lara Flynn Boyle
"I know that I'm getting the real deal with my mom. I know that she's telling it like it is. She's proud of me when I've earned it and she's disappointed in me when I've earn that. She's really my spectrum on where I am as a person."
Mom,
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"I'm self-confident and not afraid to speak my mind."
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Eliza Dushku
"I'm self-confident and not afraid to speak my mind."
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"I always say if you've seen good acting on television, those actors are really good. Because there's just not enough time. You don't have any preparation."
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Sasha Alexander
"I always say if you've seen good acting on television, those actors are really good. Because there's just not enough time. You don't have any preparation."
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"When you're out of sight for as long as I was, there's a funny feeling of betrayal that comes over people when they see you again."
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Esther Williams
"When you're out of sight for as long as I was, there's a funny feeling of betrayal that comes over people when they see you again."
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"I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife."
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Louise Brooks
"I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife."
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"We have one cat. I had eight cats and six dogs in Los Angeles."
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Rue McClanahan
"We have one cat. I had eight cats and six dogs in Los Angeles."
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"People always give me styling products and stuff."
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Rachael Leigh Cook
"People always give me styling products and stuff."
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"Finally I had a place where I could express my pain and I felt safe because I didn't have to put my name on it. I think acting kept me alive back then."
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Lindsay Wagner
"Finally I had a place where I could express my pain and I felt safe because I didn't have to put my name on it. I think acting kept me alive back then."
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"There is only one issue: man's lack of experience in feeling his Divine self and his innate connection with the Divine. All other issues stem from this."
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Lindsay Wagner
"There is only one issue: man's lack of experience in feeling his Divine self and his innate connection with the Divine. All other issues stem from this."
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"I feel that I can't do certain things that have sent to me, scripts, because I think that really - I've been June Cleaver for so many years, because we went back, you know, and we did - 20-year hiatus we had - and we went back and made 105 new ones. And so I really feel very strongly that there are certain things I won't do."
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Barbara Billingsley
"I feel that I can't do certain things that have sent to me, scripts, because I think that really - I've been June Cleaver for so many years, because we went back, you know, and we did - 20-year hiatus we had - and we went back and made 105 new ones. And so I really feel very strongly that there are certain things I won't do."
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"In North Carolina nobody bothers us; we're all about concentrating on the work or our auditions that we're trying to get a flight out for. So all that crap is not something that I'm confronted with on a daily basis."
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Katie Holmes
"In North Carolina nobody bothers us; we're all about concentrating on the work or our auditions that we're trying to get a flight out for. So all that crap is not something that I'm confronted with on a daily basis."
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"I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed."
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Karen Black
"I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed."
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"Nothing is either all masculine or all feminine except having sex."
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Marlo Thomas
"Nothing is either all masculine or all feminine except having sex."
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"Women complain about PMS, but I think of it as the only time of the month when I can be myself."
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Roseanne Barr
"Women complain about PMS, but I think of it as the only time of the month when I can be myself."
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"I felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had experienced complete fulfillment in something that had nothing to do with me being in the spotlight."
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Patricia Heaton
"I felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had experienced complete fulfillment in something that had nothing to do with me being in the spotlight."
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"We live from day to day and get as much joy out of experiencing as we can."
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Shelley Duvall
"We live from day to day and get as much joy out of experiencing as we can."
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"My mother gave me singing lessons; that was totally painful, because I couldn't do what she wanted to hear. She used to say: there's more there, there's more voice but I just didn't want to give it to her."
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Linda Lavin
"My mother gave me singing lessons; that was totally painful, because I couldn't do what she wanted to hear. She used to say: there's more there, there's more voice but I just didn't want to give it to her."
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"I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse."
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Tatum O'Neal
"I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse."
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"Blonde is dumb comedy, red hair is smart, sexy comedy."
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Lisa Kudrow
"Blonde is dumb comedy, red hair is smart, sexy comedy."
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"James Stewart was so kind and considerate and had such personal integrity."
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Brigitte Bardot
"James Stewart was so kind and considerate and had such personal integrity."
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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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"You've got to use your celebrity for good stuff, not evil. I think it's lame when people act as if they're better than everyone!"
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Rachel Bilson
"You've got to use your celebrity for good stuff, not evil. I think it's lame when people act as if they're better than everyone!"
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"So I would hope they would develop some kind of habit that involves understanding that their life is so full they can afford to give in all kinds of ways to other people. I consider that to be baseline spirituality."
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Susan Sarandon
"So I would hope they would develop some kind of habit that involves understanding that their life is so full they can afford to give in all kinds of ways to other people. I consider that to be baseline spirituality."
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"I cannot understate the ability to handle classical texts such as Shakespeare."
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Louise Jameson
"I cannot understate the ability to handle classical texts such as Shakespeare."
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"I think I'm a really good partner and very sensitive to the other person's feelings. I want somebody else to be comfortable, to understand about my job, and if they want to come on a set and see me work, they always can."
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Franka Potente
"I think I'm a really good partner and very sensitive to the other person's feelings. I want somebody else to be comfortable, to understand about my job, and if they want to come on a set and see me work, they always can."
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"But there's not enough time in life to go sit at a party, have a drink, and make idle conversation. There's too many important things to do. Just being together with my husband, spending time alone, which I have very little of."
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Pia Zadora
"But there's not enough time in life to go sit at a party, have a drink, and make idle conversation. There's too many important things to do. Just being together with my husband, spending time alone, which I have very little of."
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"I think that in some ways everybody is like Roger. Everybody thinks that when their friends have a problem, that they know the answer and that it's much easier to analyze the problems of other people than your own."
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Jennifer Beals
"I think that in some ways everybody is like Roger. Everybody thinks that when their friends have a problem, that they know the answer and that it's much easier to analyze the problems of other people than your own."
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"I don't like to search too much. I find it is easier when romance finds you."
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Michelle Trachtenberg
"I don't like to search too much. I find it is easier when romance finds you."
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"When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I'm a little guarded and hardened to that."
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Patricia Heaton
"When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I'm a little guarded and hardened to that."
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"The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters."
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Rachel Blanchard
"The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters."
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"I can't say I can foresee the future and tell the stars, you know. But I do have an understanding for my own reality, just elements and things that I've learned from."
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Jenna Elfman
"I can't say I can foresee the future and tell the stars, you know. But I do have an understanding for my own reality, just elements and things that I've learned from."
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"I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this."
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Victoria Principal
"I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this."
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"If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience."
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Tallulah Bankhead
"If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience."
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"I prefer a kiss that is so much more than just a tongue in your mouth."
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Katherine Heigl
"I prefer a kiss that is so much more than just a tongue in your mouth."
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"If I had to give one piece of advice to incoming college freshmen, I'd say always be true to yourself."
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Beverley Mitchell
"If I had to give one piece of advice to incoming college freshmen, I'd say always be true to yourself."
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"Lately I did a film called All I Want for Christmas and it was well received. This gave me a new point of view and a new respect for my work as an actress."
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Sarah Polley
"Lately I did a film called All I Want for Christmas and it was well received. This gave me a new point of view and a new respect for my work as an actress."
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"I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny."
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Illeana Douglas
"I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny."
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"But then there is the one who seems to have a hard time separating the actor's work from reality."
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Audrey Meadows
"But then there is the one who seems to have a hard time separating the actor's work from reality."
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"Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay."
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Esther Williams
"Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay."
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"Because I was able to submerge myself into the character, I didn't have to go back and forth. You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it."
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Camilla Belle
"Because I was able to submerge myself into the character, I didn't have to go back and forth. You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it."
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"Everyone thrives most in his or her own unique environment."
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Marilu Henner
"Everyone thrives most in his or her own unique environment."
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"Danny and I worked really hard in the beginning of the relationship to find different levels of this couple."
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Crystal Chappell
"Danny and I worked really hard in the beginning of the relationship to find different levels of this couple."
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"I did not like leaving them when they were little or big. You have to have priorities regarding what you will allow to take you away from your kid."
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Kate Hudson
"I did not like leaving them when they were little or big. You have to have priorities regarding what you will allow to take you away from your kid."
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"I don't believe in messing with mother-nature too much."
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Janine Turner
"I don't believe in messing with mother-nature too much."
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