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"I tend to spiral out of control if I'm not working. I get panicked and don't know what to do with myself."
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Rose Byrne
"I tend to spiral out of control if I'm not working. I get panicked and don't know what to do with myself."
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"Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence."
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Pearl Bailey
"Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence."
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"I can never have a poker face. Anybody looking at me can tell exactly what I'm thinking."
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Gena Rowlands
"I can never have a poker face. Anybody looking at me can tell exactly what I'm thinking."
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"It's unfortunate that music has become such big business."
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Rosanna Arquette
"It's unfortunate that music has become such big business."
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"And maybe that's being the third child, although my entire family are very resilient - very, very resilient."
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Lynn Redgrave
"And maybe that's being the third child, although my entire family are very resilient - very, very resilient."
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"The thing that I like about the way characters are written on the show these days is that nobody's perfect. Everyone has made a lot of mistakes and bad choices."
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Crystal Chappell
"The thing that I like about the way characters are written on the show these days is that nobody's perfect. Everyone has made a lot of mistakes and bad choices."
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"There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I can't be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on."
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Pamela Stephenson
"There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I can't be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on."
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"The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter."
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Meryl Streep
"The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter."
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"I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser."
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Shirley MacLaine
"I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser."
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"Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather."
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Ilka Chase
"Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather."
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"People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all."
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Joy Page
"People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all."
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"I want to work with great directors. I want to work on good material with good actors. I've probably done 20 movies at this point and a lot of independents. It's been an incredible ride and I love it and I'm just going to keep going and doing what I'm doing."
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Famke Janssen
"I want to work with great directors. I want to work on good material with good actors. I've probably done 20 movies at this point and a lot of independents. It's been an incredible ride and I love it and I'm just going to keep going and doing what I'm doing."
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"Gene Roddenberry was a genius."
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Persis Khambatta
"Gene Roddenberry was a genius."
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"You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real."
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Victoria Abril
"You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real."
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"I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the '50s. I had sock hops for birthday parties. So I've always done The Twist and stuff. It was pretty natural and, with my parents doing it all the time, I'd just copy them. Not very pretty."
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Brittany Snow
"I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the '50s. I had sock hops for birthday parties. So I've always done The Twist and stuff. It was pretty natural and, with my parents doing it all the time, I'd just copy them. Not very pretty."
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"I still get the kids to the doctor and dentist and plan their play dates and buy their clothes."
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Patricia Richardson
"I still get the kids to the doctor and dentist and plan their play dates and buy their clothes."
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"In terms of soccer, it wasn't really a thing that girls did. In England it more kind of Net Ball and Hockey and stuff like that in athletics. It's to each their own, really."
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Parminder Nagra
"In terms of soccer, it wasn't really a thing that girls did. In England it more kind of Net Ball and Hockey and stuff like that in athletics. It's to each their own, really."
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"I think there's a danger of a being typecast as the all-American mom forever."
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JoBeth Williams
"I think there's a danger of a being typecast as the all-American mom forever."
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"It's not that I don't believe in miracles, but I never quite trust that they're real."
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Mariel Hemingway
"It's not that I don't believe in miracles, but I never quite trust that they're real."
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"I just get focused on whatever is in front of me. When I was filming Crossroads, it had all my focus. Now I'm all focused on finishing my recording so I can get that out. It's just day by day."
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Taryn Manning
"I just get focused on whatever is in front of me. When I was filming Crossroads, it had all my focus. Now I'm all focused on finishing my recording so I can get that out. It's just day by day."
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"Relax, Georgie, I'm just making my collar and cuffs match."
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Carole Lombard
"Relax, Georgie, I'm just making my collar and cuffs match."
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"I try to keep an open mind but I'm so tired of the mediocrity."
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Clea Duvall
"I try to keep an open mind but I'm so tired of the mediocrity."
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"I thought that I was going to have to pay them to do what I wanted to do, that was how much fun I was having. You're 20 years old and you're hanging out with rock stars and going to fabulous parties, and then you talk about it!"
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Daisy Fuentes
"I thought that I was going to have to pay them to do what I wanted to do, that was how much fun I was having. You're 20 years old and you're hanging out with rock stars and going to fabulous parties, and then you talk about it!"
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"Plastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting in the Hollywood living room."
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Patricia Heaton
"Plastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting in the Hollywood living room."
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"I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character."
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Daisy Fuentes
"I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character."
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"Now I know that that is just the phenomena of eating this way. Most all of my letters say I hit a plateau and then one morning I woke up and the melt had happened."
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Suzanne Somers
"Now I know that that is just the phenomena of eating this way. Most all of my letters say I hit a plateau and then one morning I woke up and the melt had happened."
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"Yes, I always played the bad woman. I actually did."
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Barbara Billingsley
"Yes, I always played the bad woman. I actually did."
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"They weren't impatient for the boys to turn into cartoons again. They awarded sympathy, gave compassion. Because deep down they had found parts of themselves in the characters. You said it George."
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Audrey Meadows
"They weren't impatient for the boys to turn into cartoons again. They awarded sympathy, gave compassion. Because deep down they had found parts of themselves in the characters. You said it George."
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"Jack Kennedy always said to me, Hedy, get involved. That's the secret of life. Try everything. Join everything. Meet everybody."
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Hedy Lamarr
"Jack Kennedy always said to me, Hedy, get involved. That's the secret of life. Try everything. Join everything. Meet everybody."
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"I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it."
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Marilyn Monroe
"I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it."
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"I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies."
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Esther Williams
"I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies."
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"Most of my friends from college became dental hygienists or went into retail, a lot went into sales. They all started getting married and having kids and buying homes and I was still living like a college student."
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Patricia Heaton
"Most of my friends from college became dental hygienists or went into retail, a lot went into sales. They all started getting married and having kids and buying homes and I was still living like a college student."
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"I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way."
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Lauren Bacall
"I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way."
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"If I did anything 'next,' I would do writing."
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Ellen Muth
"If I did anything 'next,' I would do writing."
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"I really never stopped thinking about Ellen, because I just haven't felt that kind of energy with anyone in my life."
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Portia de Rossi
"I really never stopped thinking about Ellen, because I just haven't felt that kind of energy with anyone in my life."
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"I worked hard and made my own way, just as my father had. And just, I'm sure, as he hoped I would. I learned, from observing him, the satisfaction that comes from striving and seeing a dream fulfilled."
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Sigourney Weaver
"I worked hard and made my own way, just as my father had. And just, I'm sure, as he hoped I would. I learned, from observing him, the satisfaction that comes from striving and seeing a dream fulfilled."
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"I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way."
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Barbra Streisand
"I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way."
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"I am a really bad test taker. I can get straight As in school, but I get nervous on test."
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Mary-Kate Olsen
"I am a really bad test taker. I can get straight As in school, but I get nervous on test."
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"When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach."
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Victoria Pratt
"When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach."
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"Your talent is in your choice."
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Stella Adler
"Your talent is in your choice."
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"This season is a lot funnier, not as dark, mainly because, well, she has accepted the fact that she is dead. She knows she cannot go back to where she was when she was alive."
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Ellen Muth
"This season is a lot funnier, not as dark, mainly because, well, she has accepted the fact that she is dead. She knows she cannot go back to where she was when she was alive."
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"When I read the script sometimes, it's like 'Christ! Enough!' I can't sleep at night sometimes. There's the occasional script that just hammers you, that you can't shower off."
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Mariska Hargitay
"When I read the script sometimes, it's like 'Christ! Enough!' I can't sleep at night sometimes. There's the occasional script that just hammers you, that you can't shower off."
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"Howard Hughes himself was a regular at the restaurant, and in a way it became his headquarters, too. Howard had recently relocated to Las Vegas, so when he wanted to do business in Los Angeles, he went into the back of our restaurant to use the telephone."
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Esther Williams
"Howard Hughes himself was a regular at the restaurant, and in a way it became his headquarters, too. Howard had recently relocated to Las Vegas, so when he wanted to do business in Los Angeles, he went into the back of our restaurant to use the telephone."
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"Bunny boiler is now part of our language, and I'm proud of that."
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Glenn Close
"Bunny boiler is now part of our language, and I'm proud of that."
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"A lot of my humor does come from anger. It's like, you're not gonna pull one over on me - which is pretty much my motto anyways."
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Courteney Cox
"A lot of my humor does come from anger. It's like, you're not gonna pull one over on me - which is pretty much my motto anyways."
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"I'm sure that my mom would have been happy with any path I chose."
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Joely Fisher
"I'm sure that my mom would have been happy with any path I chose."
Mom,
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"It's never been important to be a huge star or to have some breakout role. If you're the lead, you get a lot more screen time and you get a lot more chances to develop that character more thoroughly than you would if you do it in a little supporting part."
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Famke Janssen
"It's never been important to be a huge star or to have some breakout role. If you're the lead, you get a lot more screen time and you get a lot more chances to develop that character more thoroughly than you would if you do it in a little supporting part."
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"It's very strong after the birth. It's extraordinary. You can't watch anything to do with kids being harmed."
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Julie Walters
"It's very strong after the birth. It's extraordinary. You can't watch anything to do with kids being harmed."
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"I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me."
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Candice Bergen
"I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me."
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"As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand it and would try to talk him out of it."
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Taryn Manning
"As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand it and would try to talk him out of it."
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