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"At a pool party, with everybody around, a guy and I had sex in the pool, but nobody knew it."

"At a pool party, with everybody around, a guy and I had sex in the pool, but nobody knew it."

Krista Allen, American Actress

26

"I love playing strong women, even if they're nuts."

"I love playing strong women, even if they're nuts."

Karen Black, American Actress

26

"It's been very important for me to follow my gut or my heart, or whichever organ you want to go by."

"It's been very important for me to follow my gut or my heart, or whichever organ you want to go by."

Lili Taylor, American Actress

26

"I'm just riding this train as long as I can. As long as I'm having fun, I'll do it. When it stops being fun, I'll try something else. Maybe I'll open up a chain of Popeye's Chicken."

"I'm just riding this train as long as I can. As long as I'm having fun, I'll do it. When it stops being fun, I'll try something else. Maybe I'll open up a chain of Popeye's Chicken."

Gabrielle Union, American Actress

Being, Fun, Open

26

"I'm not a betting woman, but I have $50 on Secretariat with an old director friend of mine."

"I'm not a betting woman, but I have $50 on Secretariat with an old director friend of mine."

Shirley Booth, American Actress

Friendship, Friend, Old, Woman

26

"Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater."

"Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater."

Shirley Knight, American Actress

Work, Actors, Film, Theater

26

"I started working when I was seven and I was working for five dollars a night at the Met."

"I started working when I was seven and I was working for five dollars a night at the Met."

Emily Rossum, American Actress

26

"I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year."

"I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year."

Marcia Wallace, American Actress

26

"I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've seen so many wonderful actors who turn into creatures from another planet when they're told they are supposed to be playing comedy."

"I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've seen so many wonderful actors who turn into creatures from another planet when they're told they are supposed to be playing comedy."

Bea Arthur, American Actress

Actor, Actors, Being, Comedy

26

"As actors, we went where we wanted to, and the camera followed us: it was like having another person in the room. There was no formal structure to the process. It was very liberating."

"As actors, we went where we wanted to, and the camera followed us: it was like having another person in the room. There was no formal structure to the process. It was very liberating."

Emily Watson, English Actress

26

"I think the kind of career I've had, something would have had to be sacrificed."

"I think the kind of career I've had, something would have had to be sacrificed."

Pauline Frederick, American Actress

26

"Before I do a play I say that I hope it's going to be for as short a time as possible but, once you do it, it is a paradoxical pleasure. One evening out of two there are five minutes of a miracle and for those five minutes you want to do it again and again. It's like a drug."

"Before I do a play I say that I hope it's going to be for as short a time as possible but, once you do it, it is a paradoxical pleasure. One evening out of two there are five minutes of a miracle and for those five minutes you want to do it again and again. It's like a drug."

Isabelle Huppert, French Actress

Time, Hope, Evening, Play

26

"As Jess watched in numb horror, the man tore a page from the book and stuffed it into his mouth."

"As Jess watched in numb horror, the man tore a page from the book and stuffed it into his mouth."

Rachel Caine, Canadian Actress

Trauma, Horror, Fear, Emotion, Violence

26

"I know that I am my worst critic. I know that if I can walk away from the set at the end of the day and feel that I did the best job I could and feel proud, that's what will satisfy me."

"I know that I am my worst critic. I know that if I can walk away from the set at the end of the day and feel that I did the best job I could and feel proud, that's what will satisfy me."

Emily Rossum, American Actress

Day, End, Job, Will

26

"I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script."

"I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script."

Beatrice Dalle, French Actress

26

"I like to make everything my friends are involved in a little better. I should have just become a manager."

"I like to make everything my friends are involved in a little better. I should have just become a manager."

Drea De Matteo, American Actress

Management, Manager, Friends

26

"When we separated, I did not want to get in a slugfest. I had to take the high ground."

"When we separated, I did not want to get in a slugfest. I had to take the high ground."

Marla Maples, American Actress

26

"Doing a piece on film is completely different from doing it onstage."

"Doing a piece on film is completely different from doing it onstage."

Samantha Mathis, American Actress

26

"I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that's worth doing, would be a miracle!"

"I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that's worth doing, would be a miracle!"

Olympia Dukakis, American Actress

Woman, Women, Work, Worth

26

"I was very introverted. I had glasses and was kind of weird. A lot of actors are pretty weird people."

"I was very introverted. I had glasses and was kind of weird. A lot of actors are pretty weird people."

Jennifer Sky, American Actress

People, Actors, Pretty

26

"I have been a goof my whole life. I wasn't really the popular girl in school and didn't have any boyfriends in high school because I was a nerd. I was a geek."

"I have been a goof my whole life. I wasn't really the popular girl in school and didn't have any boyfriends in high school because I was a nerd. I was a geek."

Malin Akerman, Swedish Actress

Life, Popular, School

26

"Well it is sometimes difficult to act in another language."

"Well it is sometimes difficult to act in another language."

Sophie Marceau, French Actress

26

"Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds."

"Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds."

Anne Archer, American Actress

Business, Actors, Instinct, Managers

26

"Sure, my childhood was unusual. All these eccentric, wild people frequented our home: rock stars, drag queens, models, bikers, freaks. But I was not this little rich girl. My mom and I lived in an apartment."

"Sure, my childhood was unusual. All these eccentric, wild people frequented our home: rock stars, drag queens, models, bikers, freaks. But I was not this little rich girl. My mom and I lived in an apartment."

Liv Tyler, American Actress

Mom, People, Childhood, Stars

26

"If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay."

"If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay."

Larisa Oleynik, American Actress

26

"It just proves good movies don't need 100 million dollars to be good."

"It just proves good movies don't need 100 million dollars to be good."

Emily Blunt, British Actress

26

"Without Police Woman I wouldn't have had a career. The show started about the same time the women's movement was taking off. Ours was the first prime-time one-hour show featuring a strong, professional woman. It paved the way for other series to follow."

"Without Police Woman I wouldn't have had a career. The show started about the same time the women's movement was taking off. Ours was the first prime-time one-hour show featuring a strong, professional woman. It paved the way for other series to follow."

Angie Dickinson, American Actress

Time, Women, Career, First

26

"I have an assistant in Vancouver to help me with my life."

"I have an assistant in Vancouver to help me with my life."

Megan Gallagher, American Actress

26

"I can't believe I've been doing it so long. In the last three or four years, I've slowed down. I'm doing only the roles I really want to do."

"I can't believe I've been doing it so long. In the last three or four years, I've slowed down. I'm doing only the roles I really want to do."

Jacqueline Bisset, English Actress

26

"I'm going down in history with Star Trek. It's a great feeling."

"I'm going down in history with Star Trek. It's a great feeling."

Persis Khambatta, Indian Actress

History, Feeling

26

"It meant as much to me as winning the Oscar."

"It meant as much to me as winning the Oscar."

Judy Holliday, American Actress

26

"I want to take roles that challenge me and I want to like the script and obviously feel connected with the director because the director to me is so important."

"I want to take roles that challenge me and I want to like the script and obviously feel connected with the director because the director to me is so important."

Amy Smart, American Actress

Challenge, Want

26

"Because when I have been busy at the United Nations during crises, it has meant working day and night."

"Because when I have been busy at the United Nations during crises, it has meant working day and night."

Pauline Frederick, American Actress

Day, Nations, Night, United

26

"A lot of very, very big stars were going down and not being seen or heard from again. Kirk took a huge chance in putting a blacklisted writer's name on the screen and somehow or other, he survived it, like he survives everything."

"A lot of very, very big stars were going down and not being seen or heard from again. Kirk took a huge chance in putting a blacklisted writer's name on the screen and somehow or other, he survived it, like he survives everything."

Lee Grant, American Actress

Being, Chance, Name, Stars

26

"I love to go shopping at Target. They have so much stuff there, you can buy almost anything, it's really amazing."

"I love to go shopping at Target. They have so much stuff there, you can buy almost anything, it's really amazing."

Liv Tyler, American Actress

26

"I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals."

"I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals."

Brigitte Bardot, French Actress

Beauty, Experience, Wisdom, Men

26

"You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen."

"You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen."

Samantha Mathis, American Actress

26

"In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable."

"In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable."

Helen Gahagan, American Actress

Lie, Lies, Trying

26

"It was a matter of survival for the local people, but it was the most violent scene I have ever witnessed. The people in my group, feeling helpless, were all spellbound and aghast at the same time. I became a vegetarian shortly after that."

"It was a matter of survival for the local people, but it was the most violent scene I have ever witnessed. The people in my group, feeling helpless, were all spellbound and aghast at the same time. I became a vegetarian shortly after that."

Wendie Malick, American Actress

Time, People, Survival, Feeling

26

"You express different energies at different times in your life."

"You express different energies at different times in your life."

Marisa Tomei, American Actress

26

"Being happy in your skin that's what it's all about."

"Being happy in your skin that's what it's all about."

Koo Stark, American Actress

26

"You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning."

"You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning."

Diahann Carroll, American Actress

Learning, Sanity

26

"I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me."

"I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me."

Saffron Burrows, English Actress

History, Politics, Trade

26

"My instinct was that it was Sidney's childhood in the Bahamas that gave him the fearlessness to fight racism. So this documentary was a kind of rounding out of what had begun in that scene in In the Heat of the Night."

"My instinct was that it was Sidney's childhood in the Bahamas that gave him the fearlessness to fight racism. So this documentary was a kind of rounding out of what had begun in that scene in In the Heat of the Night."

Lee Grant, American Actress

Childhood, Fight, Instinct, Night

26

"I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on."

"I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on."

Helen Gahagan, American Actress

Politics, Possibility, Act, Actors

26

"I guess I strike people as very serious, or very intense."

"I guess I strike people as very serious, or very intense."

Deidre Hall, American Actress

26

"Fear of making mistakes can itself become a huge mistake, one that prevents you from living, for life is risky and anything less is already loss."

"Fear of making mistakes can itself become a huge mistake, one that prevents you from living, for life is risky and anything less is already loss."

Rebecca Solnit, American Actress

Courage, Fear, Mistake, Life, Risk

26

"I was the youngest and only girl in a family of two older brothers."

"I was the youngest and only girl in a family of two older brothers."

Marlee Matlin, American Actress

Family, Brothers

26

"If I talk about something I either talk about it or I DO it... the minute I talk about it it's lost all it's drive and all it's fun."

"If I talk about something I either talk about it or I DO it... the minute I talk about it it's lost all it's drive and all it's fun."

Carol Channing, American Actress

26

"If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me."

"If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me."

Vanessa Hudgens, American Actress

Change, People, Being, Want

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