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"Be good to yourself. Listen to your body, to your heart. We're very hard on ourselves, and we're always feeling like we're not doing enough. It's a terribly hard job."
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Marcia Wallace
"Be good to yourself. Listen to your body, to your heart. We're very hard on ourselves, and we're always feeling like we're not doing enough. It's a terribly hard job."
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"If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?"
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Sally Struthers
"If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?"
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"I think I'm in the best place I've ever been in so many ways. I've just come out of five years of very difficult times for numerous reasons and yet at the same time it's lead to such growth. It's very exciting that way."
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Erin Gray
"I think I'm in the best place I've ever been in so many ways. I've just come out of five years of very difficult times for numerous reasons and yet at the same time it's lead to such growth. It's very exciting that way."
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"He never yelled or screamed so I felt very at home and comfortable."
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Margaret O'Brien
"He never yelled or screamed so I felt very at home and comfortable."
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"Dance is definitely what I love doing much more than anything else."
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Keri Russell
"Dance is definitely what I love doing much more than anything else."
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"For some men the power to destroy life becomes the equivalent to the female power to create life."
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Myriam Miedzian
"For some men the power to destroy life becomes the equivalent to the female power to create life."
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"I would love it if you would come in and teach me how to really do you."
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Maya Rudolph
"I would love it if you would come in and teach me how to really do you."
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"People told me, when I was coming through the ranks, that a mark of a great actor is one who deals with the period of unemployment as well as they deal with the period of employment."
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Claudia Black
"People told me, when I was coming through the ranks, that a mark of a great actor is one who deals with the period of unemployment as well as they deal with the period of employment."
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"I have come far, but not far enough. It is still a man's world."
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Lesley Ann Warren
"I have come far, but not far enough. It is still a man's world."
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"Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men."
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Marilyn Monroe
"Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men."
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"I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York."
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Karen Allen
"I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York."
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"I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage."
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Dame Edith Evans
"I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage."
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"You never really want anything you can easily have."
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Bijou Phillips
"You never really want anything you can easily have."
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"Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person."
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Meryl Streep
"Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person."
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"The crew are the faces you see every morning and last at night before you go home. I spend more time with those people than I do with my friends and family, so they're forever a part of you and who you become as an actor so I hope I see them again."
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Claudia Black
"The crew are the faces you see every morning and last at night before you go home. I spend more time with those people than I do with my friends and family, so they're forever a part of you and who you become as an actor so I hope I see them again."
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"I would have to say honestly I was very pleased to be in a film whether it was good or bad with De Niro, Norton and Brando even if I don't have any scenes with them, I thought it was pretty good company to keep."
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Angela Bassett
"I would have to say honestly I was very pleased to be in a film whether it was good or bad with De Niro, Norton and Brando even if I don't have any scenes with them, I thought it was pretty good company to keep."
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"Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese."
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Gene Tierney
"Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese."
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"I have faith in my imperfections!"
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Dana Delany
"I have faith in my imperfections!"
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"I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We'd be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can't wait."
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Cameron Diaz
"I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We'd be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can't wait."
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"I didn't go nightclubbing much as a teenager in Bournemouth because my friends and I didn't have the money - but we spent a lot of time on the beach, having barbecues, and running into the sea in the middle of the night."
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Amanda Holden
"I didn't go nightclubbing much as a teenager in Bournemouth because my friends and I didn't have the money - but we spent a lot of time on the beach, having barbecues, and running into the sea in the middle of the night."
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"Dirt makes a man look masculine. Let your hair blow in the wind, and all that. It's OK. All you have to do is look neat when you have to look neat."
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Hedy Lamarr
"Dirt makes a man look masculine. Let your hair blow in the wind, and all that. It's OK. All you have to do is look neat when you have to look neat."
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"I looked like an alien, and in front of the most beautiful people on TV."
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Christine Taylor
"I looked like an alien, and in front of the most beautiful people on TV."
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"They do say that the profession gets increasingly difficult, but my career seems to have been inside out. I'm playing the biggest parts now that I'm older. That's probably right, because I wasn't ready for them before."
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Diana Rigg
"They do say that the profession gets increasingly difficult, but my career seems to have been inside out. I'm playing the biggest parts now that I'm older. That's probably right, because I wasn't ready for them before."
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"And without forgiveness, there is never any peace."
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Rachel Caine
"And without forgiveness, there is never any peace."
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"I just feel energized when I am around young, talented people. There is something about these kids that's amazing. I learn as much from them as they do from me."
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Sally Struthers
"I just feel energized when I am around young, talented people. There is something about these kids that's amazing. I learn as much from them as they do from me."
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"I do what I like now. I just don't have time for it all."
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Gina Lollobrigida
"I do what I like now. I just don't have time for it all."
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"As long as male behavior is taken to be the norm, there can be no serious questioning of male traits and behavior. A norm is by definition a standard for judging; it is not itself subject to judgment."
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Myriam Miedzian
"As long as male behavior is taken to be the norm, there can be no serious questioning of male traits and behavior. A norm is by definition a standard for judging; it is not itself subject to judgment."
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"I think it magnified it. For me, I wasn't sheltered so I think it was magnified. Especially when you're a teenager and you go to high school and you're in the business and you are known."
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Heather Matarazzo
"I think it magnified it. For me, I wasn't sheltered so I think it was magnified. Especially when you're a teenager and you go to high school and you're in the business and you are known."
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"Teach your children how to behave with animals. Adopt a pet. Don't go buy one. Please. That's a sin. Let's get these puppy mills out of business."
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Shelley Morrison
"Teach your children how to behave with animals. Adopt a pet. Don't go buy one. Please. That's a sin. Let's get these puppy mills out of business."
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"My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school."
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Jillian Bach
"My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school."
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"He dunked his tea bag and watched the results critically. "I really must get a new supplier. This tea is pathetic. America just doesn't understand tea at all."
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Rachel Caine
"He dunked his tea bag and watched the results critically. "I really must get a new supplier. This tea is pathetic. America just doesn't understand tea at all."
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"I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene."
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Myrna Loy
"I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene."
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"Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don't be disappointed when they are not; it helps them to keep trying."
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Merry Browne
"Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don't be disappointed when they are not; it helps them to keep trying."
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"Sincerity and the correct use of the voice are the greatest things in the art of acting."
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Alla Nazimova
"Sincerity and the correct use of the voice are the greatest things in the art of acting."
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"I think women still want to be married. But I don't think they'll do anything to get married anymore."
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Cynthia Nixon
"I think women still want to be married. But I don't think they'll do anything to get married anymore."
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"If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy."
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Kristin Chenoweth
"If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy."
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"Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management."
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Cheryl Crawford
"Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management."
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"I made a bit of a stink. At the time, it was considered very bad form."
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Diana Rigg
"I made a bit of a stink. At the time, it was considered very bad form."
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"Shane stood up when he saw her, which made her heart turn cartwheels, and he pulled out her chair. Eve and Michael shared an amused look."So cute," Eve said. When Shane glared, she smiled. "No, really. It is. Dude, chill."
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Rachel Caine
"Shane stood up when he saw her, which made her heart turn cartwheels, and he pulled out her chair. Eve and Michael shared an amused look."So cute," Eve said. When Shane glared, she smiled. "No, really. It is. Dude, chill."
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"I need to be a vampire," she said. "and I want one of them to make it happen. Michael will do fine. I don't care who turns me. The important thing is that if I change, I'll be a princess."I was wrong. She was really crazy."
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Rachel Caine
"I need to be a vampire," she said. "and I want one of them to make it happen. Michael will do fine. I don't care who turns me. The important thing is that if I change, I'll be a princess."I was wrong. She was really crazy."
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"I don't know, I think people who meet me just get pretty much what I am."
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Melissa George
"I don't know, I think people who meet me just get pretty much what I am."
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"No one in the whole movie ever asks anyone, Did you write this letter' Part of the reason is that no one wants to hear that it isn't for them. As soon as they read it, they want it to be theirs."
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Kate Capshaw
"No one in the whole movie ever asks anyone, Did you write this letter' Part of the reason is that no one wants to hear that it isn't for them. As soon as they read it, they want it to be theirs."
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"My whole goal was to be able to work in television and film and maintain a normal life, never be in a tabloid."
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Pauley Perrette
"My whole goal was to be able to work in television and film and maintain a normal life, never be in a tabloid."
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"Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity."
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Marilyn Monroe
"Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity."
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"In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that's like a big no-no. I know my parents' discouragement was for my own protection, and I'm really close to them now, but they didn't understand that there is value in this. That's because they didn't know."
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Sandra Oh
"In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that's like a big no-no. I know my parents' discouragement was for my own protection, and I'm really close to them now, but they didn't understand that there is value in this. That's because they didn't know."
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"As a working actor, all I want to do is work. That's it. It's terrifying when you don't work. It's very hard when you don't work. There have been times when I've been out of work for like six months. I feel theatre to me is like manna."
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Sandra Oh
"As a working actor, all I want to do is work. That's it. It's terrifying when you don't work. It's very hard when you don't work. There have been times when I've been out of work for like six months. I feel theatre to me is like manna."
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"Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance."
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Shirley Booth
"Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance."
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"I don't just want to be successful I want to have fun."
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Julie Brown
"I don't just want to be successful I want to have fun."
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"Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that."
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Kate Mulgrew
"Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that."
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"You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love."
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Marilyn Monroe
"You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love."
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