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Quotes by Actress

"Their life is about getting enough money to put food on the table to feed their children, and that's it."
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Ellen Burstyn
"Their life is about getting enough money to put food on the table to feed their children, and that's it."
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"I think it's an individual thing. Your mountains are my molehills."
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Jena Malone
"I think it's an individual thing. Your mountains are my molehills."
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"And then, I do love my shopping, but actually, lounging is the big thing."
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Delta Burke
"And then, I do love my shopping, but actually, lounging is the big thing."
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"Acting is doing, because everything you say or do is some kind of an action, some kind of a verb. You're always connected to the other person through some kind of action."
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Mira Sorvino
"Acting is doing, because everything you say or do is some kind of an action, some kind of a verb. You're always connected to the other person through some kind of action."
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"Years are not important, my dear."
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Faye Dunaway
"Years are not important, my dear."
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"What I needed was a connection to life that was real and lasting."
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Claire Danes
"What I needed was a connection to life that was real and lasting."
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"You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be the answer if something inside of you is bothering you, if things in your mind aren't going right."
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Linda Evans
"You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be the answer if something inside of you is bothering you, if things in your mind aren't going right."
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"It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists and photographers were like my aunts and uncles."
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Brooke Shields
"It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists and photographers were like my aunts and uncles."
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"I just think that it's such a good show and timeless and still very funny, and that just makes me happy to have that whole first season in one concentrated space for people to enjoy so that it's not hit and miss trying to find it in syndication always."
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Jenna Elfman
"I just think that it's such a good show and timeless and still very funny, and that just makes me happy to have that whole first season in one concentrated space for people to enjoy so that it's not hit and miss trying to find it in syndication always."
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"Nobody thinks of themselves as sexy, really. Some days you go, 'Hey, I'm not going too bad today.' But if you try and be sexy, you'll never be sexy."
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Jennifer Aniston
"Nobody thinks of themselves as sexy, really. Some days you go, 'Hey, I'm not going too bad today.' But if you try and be sexy, you'll never be sexy."
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"I want to play a Disney villainess so badly."
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Kristen Johnston
"I want to play a Disney villainess so badly."
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"I was looking at making a shift in my career. I've been so blessed I'd like to be able to give that back. If I could find young artists, young performers I can nurture to have a career I would really like that."
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Diana Ross
"I was looking at making a shift in my career. I've been so blessed I'd like to be able to give that back. If I could find young artists, young performers I can nurture to have a career I would really like that."
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"Directors say that you should get actors before they are recognized. They will be a pain or have an opinion."
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Dianne Wiest
"Directors say that you should get actors before they are recognized. They will be a pain or have an opinion."
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"I never wore glasses except when I had to read a teleprompter at an awards show or drive, so I didn't notice much. I could exist in my head. It was kind of my escape from the world and my protection."
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Nicole Kidman
"I never wore glasses except when I had to read a teleprompter at an awards show or drive, so I didn't notice much. I could exist in my head. It was kind of my escape from the world and my protection."
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"Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress."
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Ingrid Bergman
"Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress."
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"If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it."
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Emma Thompson
"If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it."
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"Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence."
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Tatum O'Neal
"Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence."
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"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul."
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Marilyn Monroe
"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul."
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"I would seriously question whether anybody is really foolish enough to really say what they mean. Sometimes I think that civilization as we know it would kind of break down if we all were completely honest."
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Elizabeth Hurley
"I would seriously question whether anybody is really foolish enough to really say what they mean. Sometimes I think that civilization as we know it would kind of break down if we all were completely honest."
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"I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage."
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Esther Williams
"I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage."
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"So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent."
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Sally Kirkland
"So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent."
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"A woman today is good, or she is bad, according to the way she does a thing - and not because of the thing itself."
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Norma Shearer
"A woman today is good, or she is bad, according to the way she does a thing - and not because of the thing itself."
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"The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is an oriental city. As long as you do that you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else you'll perish."
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Olivia De Havilland
"The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is an oriental city. As long as you do that you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else you'll perish."
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"Most girls don't know what to do with what they've got."
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Jayne Mansfield
"Most girls don't know what to do with what they've got."
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"It's great playing someone who is not like me at all. I'm really a nice girl, so it's fun to be a bitch, then come home and be myself again. When I meet people now, they're surprised that I'm a good person."
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Rachel Bilson
"It's great playing someone who is not like me at all. I'm really a nice girl, so it's fun to be a bitch, then come home and be myself again. When I meet people now, they're surprised that I'm a good person."
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"You can sometimes learn more working with less talented people, because you learn to survive."
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Jacqueline Bisset
"You can sometimes learn more working with less talented people, because you learn to survive."
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"I hope this will help new moms not feel alone or desperate, and that there is no shame in their feelings. PPD is out of their control, but the treatment and healing process is not."
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Brooke Shields
"I hope this will help new moms not feel alone or desperate, and that there is no shame in their feelings. PPD is out of their control, but the treatment and healing process is not."
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"There's nothing glamorous about being dead."
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Loni Anderson
"There's nothing glamorous about being dead."
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"Being here, it is just impossible to imagine what that was like, when the tsunami hit."
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Connie Sellecca
"Being here, it is just impossible to imagine what that was like, when the tsunami hit."
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"You're forced to think about what your goals are and you clarify them because you're taking this journey with another person and you need to be open with your partner."
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Sarah Michelle Gellar
"You're forced to think about what your goals are and you clarify them because you're taking this journey with another person and you need to be open with your partner."
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"I drive with my knees. Otherwise, how can I put on my lipstick and talk on my phone?"
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Sharon Stone
"I drive with my knees. Otherwise, how can I put on my lipstick and talk on my phone?"
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"The whole surf culture is starting to embrace women a lot more."
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Michelle Rodriguez
"The whole surf culture is starting to embrace women a lot more."
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"Well, because Dawn of the Dead can take place anywhere and it shows that actually the entire planet is contaminated, I would say that it shows the new face of our world - one person, one race, united against the invisible destructive force."
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Sarah Polley
"Well, because Dawn of the Dead can take place anywhere and it shows that actually the entire planet is contaminated, I would say that it shows the new face of our world - one person, one race, united against the invisible destructive force."
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"It doesn't seem as if there's that much of a difference between a big production and a little production, other than you have a smaller space in which to get dressed and you have a shorter waiting time."
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Jennifer Beals
"It doesn't seem as if there's that much of a difference between a big production and a little production, other than you have a smaller space in which to get dressed and you have a shorter waiting time."
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"I've got nothing left to lose at this point. The work I've done is out there."
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Jessica Lange
"I've got nothing left to lose at this point. The work I've done is out there."
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"The human overpopulation issue is the topic I see as the most vital to solve if our children and grandchildren are to have a good quality of life."
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Alexandra Paul
"The human overpopulation issue is the topic I see as the most vital to solve if our children and grandchildren are to have a good quality of life."
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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 sincerely hope that I shall always be a credit to my race, and to the motion picture industry."
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Hattie McDaniel
"I sincerely hope that I shall always be a credit to my race, and to the motion picture industry."
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"I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity."
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Fiona Shaw
"I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity."
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"You're at the mercy of the editors' hands."
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Kelly LeBrock
"You're at the mercy of the editors' hands."
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"Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation."
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Edie Falco
"Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation."
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"One newspaper even published one of my nude paintings - the one of me naked from the waste up."
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Cleo Moore
"One newspaper even published one of my nude paintings - the one of me naked from the waste up."
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"An actor works with their soul and their thought."
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Monica Bellucci
"An actor works with their soul and their thought."
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"In my opinion FOX is known for being a network that just advertises, and that's pretty much how they get their viewers."
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Alia Shawkat
"In my opinion FOX is known for being a network that just advertises, and that's pretty much how they get their viewers."
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"I really have a generation gap about modern clothes."
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Julie Harris
"I really have a generation gap about modern clothes."
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"All a woman needs is a good bath, clean clothes, and for her hair to be combed. These things she can do herself. I very seldom go to the hairdresser, but when I do, I just marvel."
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Hedy Lamarr
"All a woman needs is a good bath, clean clothes, and for her hair to be combed. These things she can do herself. I very seldom go to the hairdresser, but when I do, I just marvel."
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"I hate it when people call me a teen queen."
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Lindsay Lohan
"I hate it when people call me a teen queen."
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"I have had work done."
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Linda Evans
"I have had work done."
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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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"I guess because I pay so much attention to the physical part of the character, I don't look upon it as like Charlize Theron up there. I don't think of them as like Charlize Theron films."
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Charlize Theron
"I guess because I pay so much attention to the physical part of the character, I don't look upon it as like Charlize Theron up there. I don't think of them as like Charlize Theron films."
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