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Quotes by Actress
"I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else."
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"I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did."
Kids,
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"Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But if I make him happy, then I'm everything I want to be."
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"I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory."
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"My face has always been my fortune anyway, not my body."
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"As a little girl I loved the thought of playing dress-up and getting ready."
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"Why can't we build orphanages next to homes for the elderly? If someone were sitting in a rocker, it wouldn't be long before a kid will be in his lap."
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"And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is."
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"Ava Gardner was the most beautiful woman in the world, and it's wonderful that she didn't cut up her face. She addressed aging by picking up her chin and receiving the light in a better way. And she looked like a woman. She never tried to look like a girl."
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"I would love to have children, yes. Maybe even adopt them. I'm not sure that I should pass on my genes."
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"I just don't know a couple that's been married more than three years that doesn't annoy the heck out of each other every 15 minutes."
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"That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty."
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"If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something."
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"Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over."
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"I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, 'Ow, ow, put it back!'"
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"I can enjoy a vacation as well as the next person, as long as I know it's a vacation and not a premature retirement."
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"My sexuality is a part of me that I really like. But it's not the totality of me."
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"Depakote also has a really bad side effect, which is death."
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"I couldn't kill a chicken, I couldn't kill a cow - I was a vegetarian too at that time - so I thought, well what is there that I could kill? I couldn't kill this and I couldn't kill that."
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"If you're middle aged... where're you going to go to meet someone? You're not going to go to a bar, you're not going to go to a night club; and there are the museums."
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"Shane was sitting on the curb next to the old, cracked gas pumps, eating a candy bar. Claire plopped down next to him. "Half? she asked."And now I know you're my girlfriend, since you're not afraid to demand community property, he said, and pulled off the uneaten half to hand it over."
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"I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine."
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"I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal."
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"And I think that that emphasis on keeping a family together, alike, I think it's important."
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"The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than them by the time I was about 18. They thought I was going to be the ne'er do well, who they'd have to keep worrying about."
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"I suppose meeting people whether it's in real life and actually shaking their flesh and blood hand or shaking the mystical hand of the character all rub off on you in some way."
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"Shane looked faintly injured. "I make it my business to know everything about silver. And I saw your notes. I study up on everything when it comes to your boss, anyway. There was a flicker of jealousy about that, but she didn't have time, or energy, to consider it very much. Not even whether or not she liked it."
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"Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood."
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"Michael would take us on location and see how the colors worked in the forests and fields."
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