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"If I hurt someone, if I were to accidentally poke someone's eye out, I would laugh. And then I'd say, 'I'm sorry, I really do feel bad,' but then I'm on the floor rolling."
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Rachel McAdams
"If I hurt someone, if I were to accidentally poke someone's eye out, I would laugh. And then I'd say, 'I'm sorry, I really do feel bad,' but then I'm on the floor rolling."
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"Working on the Samurai sword is very different because your body position has to be very still. It's a much quieter was of fighting."
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Lucy Liu
"Working on the Samurai sword is very different because your body position has to be very still. It's a much quieter was of fighting."
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"I think romance is anything honest. As long as it's honest, it's so disarming."
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Kristen Stewart
"I think romance is anything honest. As long as it's honest, it's so disarming."
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"My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid."
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Dorothy Malone
"My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid."
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"Well, the studios don't really want to take those risks right off the bat. They'll take the risk after they've seen the finished product and say oh yeah we want that. This is a great film but they are hesitant to take the risk when you just see it on paper."
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Nia Long
"Well, the studios don't really want to take those risks right off the bat. They'll take the risk after they've seen the finished product and say oh yeah we want that. This is a great film but they are hesitant to take the risk when you just see it on paper."
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"On-screen relationships are the best because you don't have to worry about saying the wrong things. And if the guy's got a girlfriend, or I'm not attracted to him, it's even better. It's just my character kissing his character."
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Alicia Witt
"On-screen relationships are the best because you don't have to worry about saying the wrong things. And if the guy's got a girlfriend, or I'm not attracted to him, it's even better. It's just my character kissing his character."
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"I always wore the highest heels possible, because the other women on the show were tall."
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Donna Mills
"I always wore the highest heels possible, because the other women on the show were tall."
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"Ed is very sexy because his emotions are really there - not forced."
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Valerie Bertinelli
"Ed is very sexy because his emotions are really there - not forced."
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"Well, you know, I mean, she was so wonderful, and she really played the role to perfection."
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Julianne Moore
"Well, you know, I mean, she was so wonderful, and she really played the role to perfection."
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"I am still learning every day not to watch other people's careers and compare."
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Joely Fisher
"I am still learning every day not to watch other people's careers and compare."
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"I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose it to sheet music on the computer."
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Alicia Witt
"I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose it to sheet music on the computer."
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"I hate to look at myself in a mirror, and I never go and see films."
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Ursula Andress
"I hate to look at myself in a mirror, and I never go and see films."
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"There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk."
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Drew Barrymore
"There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk."
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"Scream was great for what it was. For a horror film, it was intelligent, it was funny, it took a laugh at itself."
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Neve Campbell
"Scream was great for what it was. For a horror film, it was intelligent, it was funny, it took a laugh at itself."
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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 think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for. And I've worked very hard in the last ten years of my life, definitely, and I can tell you that hard work pays off. It's not just a cliche."
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Cameron Diaz
"I think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for. And I've worked very hard in the last ten years of my life, definitely, and I can tell you that hard work pays off. It's not just a cliche."
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"You have to find the peace and patience within yourself to be a model and an example to others and not judge."
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Judith Light
"You have to find the peace and patience within yourself to be a model and an example to others and not judge."
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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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"When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over."
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Audrey Hepburn
"When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over."
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"I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true."
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Audrey Hepburn
"I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true."
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"I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic."
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Lorna Luft
"I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic."
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"If we could have somehow stayed away from the public and the press, it might have been different, but every private issue seemed to be played out on the front page."
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Marla Maples
"If we could have somehow stayed away from the public and the press, it might have been different, but every private issue seemed to be played out on the front page."
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"They're called "angels" because they're in heaven until the reviews come out."
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Barbra Streisand
"They're called "angels" because they're in heaven until the reviews come out."
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"I like cats. I used to have a lot of cats, but I don't anymore, now I just have a dog. It does take a certain temperament to have a cat, as they do have certain personalities."
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Jennifer Love Hewitt
"I like cats. I used to have a lot of cats, but I don't anymore, now I just have a dog. It does take a certain temperament to have a cat, as they do have certain personalities."
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"The guys on the stunt team are really fantastic. It's really funny, because for all the aggression they have to display on screen, they're actually really happy, good- natured people."
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Miranda Otto
"The guys on the stunt team are really fantastic. It's really funny, because for all the aggression they have to display on screen, they're actually really happy, good- natured people."
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"I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids."
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Dorothy Malone
"I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids."
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"I think the whole nerves thing comes into play when we worry about what other people and society will think."
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Dana Plato
"I think the whole nerves thing comes into play when we worry about what other people and society will think."
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"I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache."
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Bette Davis
"I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache."
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"My favorite part is the preparation because you read on the page, you get this character."
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Ashley Scott
"My favorite part is the preparation because you read on the page, you get this character."
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"In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star."
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Bette Davis
"In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star."
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"My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again."
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Natalie Portman
"My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again."
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"I can't sit around having coffee. I have all these appointments, and a lot of my friends sit around having coffee talking about the jobs they didn't get."
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Eva Marie Saint
"I can't sit around having coffee. I have all these appointments, and a lot of my friends sit around having coffee talking about the jobs they didn't get."
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"I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience."
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Cameron Diaz
"I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience."
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"A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations."
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Patricia Neal
"A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations."
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"I am the one who got myself fat, who did all the eating. So I had to take full responsibility for it."
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Kirstie Alley
"I am the one who got myself fat, who did all the eating. So I had to take full responsibility for it."
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"I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes."
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Sandra Bernhard
"I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes."
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"Yes, during the pilot, they gave me a little toy from the shop. It's like three little moose in a boat, paddling. It's very cute. And I got to keep some of the clothes."
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Caroline Dhavernas
"Yes, during the pilot, they gave me a little toy from the shop. It's like three little moose in a boat, paddling. It's very cute. And I got to keep some of the clothes."
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"I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky."
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Katharine Hepburn
"I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky."
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"I have a friend in New York who's a stylist and I went over to her place because she's got a lot of clothes. I basically ended up wearing most of it. So it's all stuff that I brought over."
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Famke Janssen
"I have a friend in New York who's a stylist and I went over to her place because she's got a lot of clothes. I basically ended up wearing most of it. So it's all stuff that I brought over."
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"To be perfectly honest, drama is a lot simpler than comedy."
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Nikki Cox
"To be perfectly honest, drama is a lot simpler than comedy."
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"Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs."
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Marlene Dietrich
"Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs."
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"Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them."
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Lily Tomlin
"Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them."
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"I'm afraid of flying."
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Allison Janney
"I'm afraid of flying."
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"Prostitution happens to you because of troubles you had. In reality no woman would choose to do that."
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Catherine Deneuve
"Prostitution happens to you because of troubles you had. In reality no woman would choose to do that."
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"I did my famous cabbage soup diet, so I was able to do it."
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Ellen Burstyn
"I did my famous cabbage soup diet, so I was able to do it."
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"A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?"
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Drew Barrymore
"A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?"
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"No nude scenes. No sex-symbol parts. I want people to recognize me for my work, not just for being pretty."
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Robin Wright Penn
"No nude scenes. No sex-symbol parts. I want people to recognize me for my work, not just for being pretty."
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"I had no idea that he was going to write that, but I've always believed that insecurity was what would keep you always in your innocence, no matter what the business did."
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Sally Kirkland
"I had no idea that he was going to write that, but I've always believed that insecurity was what would keep you always in your innocence, no matter what the business did."
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"I was a bridesmaid at a wedding in one picture."
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Dorothy Malone
"I was a bridesmaid at a wedding in one picture."
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"Victor Mature was a big man; he had a great swagger. I liked him and I knew we'd be good together on screen."
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Esther Williams
"Victor Mature was a big man; he had a great swagger. I liked him and I knew we'd be good together on screen."
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