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Quotes by Actress

"The public has become my fairy godmother."
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Eartha Kitt
"The public has become my fairy godmother."
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"I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer."
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Patricia Clarkson
"I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer."
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"Steve is very quiet, even shy. I am very gregarious. So, opposites."
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Jayne Meadows
"Steve is very quiet, even shy. I am very gregarious. So, opposites."
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"And hey-the psychiatrist in the show is Italian also. So people are going to focus on what they want to focus on. There's not much you can do about that."
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Edie Falco
"And hey-the psychiatrist in the show is Italian also. So people are going to focus on what they want to focus on. There's not much you can do about that."
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"I was never really a career woman. My life always came first."
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Carrie Snodgress
"I was never really a career woman. My life always came first."
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"One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you."
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Jeanne Moreau
"One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you."
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"The whole publicity machine is a very weird one. It's kind of a necessary part of what we do here, but this helps me keep grounded."
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Wendie Malick
"The whole publicity machine is a very weird one. It's kind of a necessary part of what we do here, but this helps me keep grounded."
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"People tend to remember my performances, not me."
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Ellen Barkin
"People tend to remember my performances, not me."
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"There was a policy at Hughes against drinking at lunch, but the men ignored it."
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Esther Williams
"There was a policy at Hughes against drinking at lunch, but the men ignored it."
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"I'll eventually go back to theater because the feeling of being on stage where you have the audience right there, you can't replace that with anything."
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Sanaa Lathan
"I'll eventually go back to theater because the feeling of being on stage where you have the audience right there, you can't replace that with anything."
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"I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists."
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Brigitte Bardot
"I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists."
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"The radio for these women is like television is for us today, which is really like looking at the radio."
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Debbie Allen
"The radio for these women is like television is for us today, which is really like looking at the radio."
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"Sex is hardly ever just about sex."
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Shirley MacLaine
"Sex is hardly ever just about sex."
Sex,
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"We can't compare stories. We can only know in our hearts that we are the same. That may be the best we can do."
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Betty Buckley
"We can't compare stories. We can only know in our hearts that we are the same. That may be the best we can do."
May,
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"Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?"
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Barbra Streisand
"Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?"
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"I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need."
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Susan Sarandon
"I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need."
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"One of the best things for a woman to hear is that she is sexy."
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Scarlett Johansson
"One of the best things for a woman to hear is that she is sexy."
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"I don't know if this is why everything has worked so well and I'm not sure I'd recommend this kind of thinking to anyone else, but I've always known I'd be successful in acting. I have certainly worked for it."
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Jennifer Lawrence
"I don't know if this is why everything has worked so well and I'm not sure I'd recommend this kind of thinking to anyone else, but I've always known I'd be successful in acting. I have certainly worked for it."
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"I like analyzing human behavior. It's complex. That's what keeps me going."
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Julia Stiles
"I like analyzing human behavior. It's complex. That's what keeps me going."
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"For sure, you don't believe the good stuff. I mean, the good stuff is just insane - wacky. If you don't take it too much to heart, it does help when the negative stuff hits. And you know the negative stuff is coming. It's got to! What comes up must come down."
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Julia Ormond
"For sure, you don't believe the good stuff. I mean, the good stuff is just insane - wacky. If you don't take it too much to heart, it does help when the negative stuff hits. And you know the negative stuff is coming. It's got to! What comes up must come down."
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"Stardom isn't a profession; it's an accident."
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Lauren Bacall
"Stardom isn't a profession; it's an accident."
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"I could talk about him all day. He's one of the most wonderful things that ever happened to me."
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Judy Holliday
"I could talk about him all day. He's one of the most wonderful things that ever happened to me."
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"Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then."
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Pam Grier
"Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then."
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"Um, and I'm also very proud of my work on George of the Jungle 2."
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Julie Benz
"Um, and I'm also very proud of my work on George of the Jungle 2."
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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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"Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment."
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Lorna Luft
"Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment."
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"I entered the cosmetics industry because I wanted more women to use cosmetics made with safe, healthful ingredients."
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Gloria Swanson
"I entered the cosmetics industry because I wanted more women to use cosmetics made with safe, healthful ingredients."
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"And when I first came out from New York, I hadn't driven in a long time. Now I'm like Joe Speedster."
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Calista Flockhart
"And when I first came out from New York, I hadn't driven in a long time. Now I'm like Joe Speedster."
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"I'm not a celebrity. I don't call myself a celebrity. I'm an actor."
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Sophia Bush
"I'm not a celebrity. I don't call myself a celebrity. I'm an actor."
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"We really enjoy entertaining our children with characters. We'll act out all of The Wizard of Oz together."
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Robin Wright Penn
"We really enjoy entertaining our children with characters. We'll act out all of The Wizard of Oz together."
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"I kind of fell into acting, but I have sung and trained since I was in the eighth grade."
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Tia Carrere
"I kind of fell into acting, but I have sung and trained since I was in the eighth grade."
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"I have perfected the art of putting my feet on my husband's lap during awards ceremonies so he can rub them."
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Annette Bening
"I have perfected the art of putting my feet on my husband's lap during awards ceremonies so he can rub them."
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"I just didn't work that much while the kids were growing up."
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Jill Clayburgh
"I just didn't work that much while the kids were growing up."
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"Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn't work with people who laughed at him!"
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Fay Wray
"Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn't work with people who laughed at him!"
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"You shouldn't have to give things up for someone. If you love them someone, you should love them for everything they do and all that they are. I love acting and I wouldn't give it up for anything, and I don't know anyone in my life who would ask me to give it up."
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Lindsay Lohan
"You shouldn't have to give things up for someone. If you love them someone, you should love them for everything they do and all that they are. I love acting and I wouldn't give it up for anything, and I don't know anyone in my life who would ask me to give it up."
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"You've got to sing like you don't need the money."
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Glenda Jackson
"You've got to sing like you don't need the money."
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"Cast changes are a hard thing. For two years, we had this little family. We weren't together when these changes were decided upon. It all happened during our hiatus."
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Victoria Pratt
"Cast changes are a hard thing. For two years, we had this little family. We weren't together when these changes were decided upon. It all happened during our hiatus."
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"Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit."
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Gene Tierney
"Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit."
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"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end."
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Gilda Radner
"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end."
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"I must confess I took a couple or three jobs just for the money."
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Jessica Walter
"I must confess I took a couple or three jobs just for the money."
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"I lived a really wonderful life with this man and even after our divorce, it was incredible."
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Priscilla Presley
"I lived a really wonderful life with this man and even after our divorce, it was incredible."
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"I love to sing, so I just figured that I was going to sing or something."
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Tia Carrere
"I love to sing, so I just figured that I was going to sing or something."
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"You know, we're not on stage, we're not doing a play, so we don't have a relationship with the audience but going through that process and also just hearing how much people love the film, you feel like you do have a relationship with the audience."
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Virginia Madsen
"You know, we're not on stage, we're not doing a play, so we don't have a relationship with the audience but going through that process and also just hearing how much people love the film, you feel like you do have a relationship with the audience."
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"Well what do you do with a character like Christine Cagney and you tell her she can't have things?"
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Sharon Gless
"Well what do you do with a character like Christine Cagney and you tell her she can't have things?"
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"The characters do have a life of their own; it's weird."
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Julie Walters
"The characters do have a life of their own; it's weird."
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"I like men with some belly who are a little over the hill."
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Victoria Abril
"I like men with some belly who are a little over the hill."
Men,
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"Maybe because she doesn't try so hard to seduce and impress, I guess that's why some guys fell for her. Because she's so different and crazy and we all like a little bit of that in our life."
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Caroline Dhavernas
"Maybe because she doesn't try so hard to seduce and impress, I guess that's why some guys fell for her. Because she's so different and crazy and we all like a little bit of that in our life."
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"One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap."
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Stella Adler
"One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap."
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"It's the most amazing cast, a dream cast. We laugh all the time."
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Nicole Sullivan
"It's the most amazing cast, a dream cast. We laugh all the time."
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"I've put in as many as 40 weeks a year on stage. It is lonely and restricted, as all artistic life must necessarily be."
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Lillie Langtry
"I've put in as many as 40 weeks a year on stage. It is lonely and restricted, as all artistic life must necessarily be."
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