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"I hated seeing myself on screen. I was full of complexes. I hated my face for a very, very long time."
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Charlotte Gainsbourg
"I hated seeing myself on screen. I was full of complexes. I hated my face for a very, very long time."
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"Since I had the baby I can't tolerate anything violent or sad, I saw the Matrix and I had my eyes closed through a lot of it, though I didn't need to. I would peek, and then think, oh OK, I can see that."
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Lisa Kudrow
"Since I had the baby I can't tolerate anything violent or sad, I saw the Matrix and I had my eyes closed through a lot of it, though I didn't need to. I would peek, and then think, oh OK, I can see that."
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"I'm okay in my skin, you know... I'm okay with who I am."
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Dana Plato
"I'm okay in my skin, you know... I'm okay with who I am."
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"Then no matter what goes on around you in the physical universe, hang on to what you know."
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Lindsay Wagner
"Then no matter what goes on around you in the physical universe, hang on to what you know."
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"I'm going to have to give him shit for all this,' Shane said, as he wandered around. 'He lives alone and makes his bed? Who does that?''People who like things neat?''Its not natural."
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Rachel Caine
"I'm going to have to give him shit for all this,' Shane said, as he wandered around. 'He lives alone and makes his bed? Who does that?''People who like things neat?''Its not natural."
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"I liked The Slipper and the Rose, as I have already mentioned, because it was such a lovely film to do."
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Julie Harris
"I liked The Slipper and the Rose, as I have already mentioned, because it was such a lovely film to do."
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"Working in the entertainment industry exposes me to every current cosmetic fad."
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Connie Sellecca
"Working in the entertainment industry exposes me to every current cosmetic fad."
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"I don't worry whether the period is contemporary or three hundred years ago. Human beings are all alike."
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Genevieve Bujold
"I don't worry whether the period is contemporary or three hundred years ago. Human beings are all alike."
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"A consistent attitude of thankfulness will turn your success into significance."
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Farshad Asl
"A consistent attitude of thankfulness will turn your success into significance."
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"I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value."
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Vivien Leigh
"I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value."
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"I met Ashley two weeks before I married him. It was a joke-the most ridiculous thing I've ever done. Once I was married, I didn't want to be a failure, so I stuck it out for six months, which was about six months too long."
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Shannen Doherty
"I met Ashley two weeks before I married him. It was a joke-the most ridiculous thing I've ever done. Once I was married, I didn't want to be a failure, so I stuck it out for six months, which was about six months too long."
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"The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?"
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Bette Davis
"The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?"
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"I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet."
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Leslie Caron
"I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet."
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"We were descended from royalty."
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Natalie Wood
"We were descended from royalty."
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"Holly Hunter has been doing great work forever."
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Patricia Clarkson
"Holly Hunter has been doing great work forever."
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"You know what my greatest personal stumbling block is? My shyness."
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Susan Lucci
"You know what my greatest personal stumbling block is? My shyness."
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"My father is Swedish and my mother is French."
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Eva Green
"My father is Swedish and my mother is French."
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"I have my hormones balanced. Most doctors are giving women synthetic hormones, which just eliminate the symptoms, but it's doing nothing to actually replace the hormones you have lost. Without our hormones we die."
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Suzanne Somers
"I have my hormones balanced. Most doctors are giving women synthetic hormones, which just eliminate the symptoms, but it's doing nothing to actually replace the hormones you have lost. Without our hormones we die."
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"I found that a bit unfair. However, I did feel quite liberated when I left. I'm very grateful to the show - it revived a flagging career, but I'm glad to be away from it now."
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Louise Jameson
"I found that a bit unfair. However, I did feel quite liberated when I left. I'm very grateful to the show - it revived a flagging career, but I'm glad to be away from it now."
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"Acting is the perfect idiot's profession."
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Katharine Hepburn
"Acting is the perfect idiot's profession."
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"My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunites."
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Diana Ross
"My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunites."
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"Being a psychologist did enable me to maintain objectivity."
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Pamela Stephenson
"Being a psychologist did enable me to maintain objectivity."
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"I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt."
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Natalie Wood
"I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt."
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"I knew I wanted children in my life. The acting was always in relation to it. Life at home is chaos. They're wonderful. They're such interesting human beings. I just love it. I'm lucky."
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Annette Bening
"I knew I wanted children in my life. The acting was always in relation to it. Life at home is chaos. They're wonderful. They're such interesting human beings. I just love it. I'm lucky."
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"Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends."
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Shirley MacLaine
"Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends."
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"Obviously, a skirt does present certain problems that I had to be aware of. But when it came to the shoot and we were rolling, I didn't really pay it any attention. It wasn't too bad."
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Chiaki Kuriyama
"Obviously, a skirt does present certain problems that I had to be aware of. But when it came to the shoot and we were rolling, I didn't really pay it any attention. It wasn't too bad."
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"I am not a grammarian. Maybe my style is eccentric."
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Dorothy Kilgallen
"I am not a grammarian. Maybe my style is eccentric."
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"In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life, and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it."
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Gloria Swanson
"In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life, and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it."
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"What is reality, anyway? Just a collective hunch."
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Lily Tomlin
"What is reality, anyway? Just a collective hunch."
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"At Princeton I gained a great deal of pleasure from success in my classes. knowing that I could accomplish those things, and I realized that my success was directly proportionate to the work I put in."
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Brooke Shields
"At Princeton I gained a great deal of pleasure from success in my classes. knowing that I could accomplish those things, and I realized that my success was directly proportionate to the work I put in."
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"I told the students that they were at the age when they might begin to choose places that would sustain them the rest of their lives, that places were more reliable than human beings, and often much longer-lasting, and I asked them where they felt at home."
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Rebecca Solnit
"I told the students that they were at the age when they might begin to choose places that would sustain them the rest of their lives, that places were more reliable than human beings, and often much longer-lasting, and I asked them where they felt at home."
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"We have our little restaurants, and there's a beautiful beach that we go to in the summer and fall. We tend to have a lot of get-togethers, and if it's at my house, we order pizza because I can't cook."
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Katie Holmes
"We have our little restaurants, and there's a beautiful beach that we go to in the summer and fall. We tend to have a lot of get-togethers, and if it's at my house, we order pizza because I can't cook."
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"Hopefulness is risky, since it is after all a form of trust, trust in the unknown and the possible, even in discontinuity. To be hopeful is to take on a different persona, one that risks disappointment, betrayal..."
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Rebecca Solnit
"Hopefulness is risky, since it is after all a form of trust, trust in the unknown and the possible, even in discontinuity. To be hopeful is to take on a different persona, one that risks disappointment, betrayal..."
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"I think I'm finally growing up - and about time."
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Elizabeth Taylor
"I think I'm finally growing up - and about time."
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"In any of the arts, you never stop learning."
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Claire Bloom
"In any of the arts, you never stop learning."
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"Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece."
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Yeardley Smith
"Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece."
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"Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths."
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Drew Barrymore
"Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths."
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"I got very fit that week with all the running around that we di. I was always last, because I can't run as fast as everyone else. I'm useless at running."
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Sarah Sutton
"I got very fit that week with all the running around that we di. I was always last, because I can't run as fast as everyone else. I'm useless at running."
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"You'd look out and there'd be little babies watching the show, and boys and girls. They loved the cowboys, and they loved Annie. There were young people seeing the show for the first time. I stayed for two years because I enjoyed it so much."
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Bernadette Peters
"You'd look out and there'd be little babies watching the show, and boys and girls. They loved the cowboys, and they loved Annie. There were young people seeing the show for the first time. I stayed for two years because I enjoyed it so much."
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"Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images."
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Tatyana Ali
"Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images."
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"Actresses are nightmares. I don't hang out with any of them. That's a problem with my profession. I try not to be like an actress."
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Gina Gershon
"Actresses are nightmares. I don't hang out with any of them. That's a problem with my profession. I try not to be like an actress."
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"My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted."
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Yancy Butler
"My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted."
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"You're damned if you're too thin and you're damned if you're too heavy. According to the press I've been both. Its impossible to satisfy everyone and I suggest we stop trying."
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Jennifer Aniston
"You're damned if you're too thin and you're damned if you're too heavy. According to the press I've been both. Its impossible to satisfy everyone and I suggest we stop trying."
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"I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph."
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Shirley Temple
"I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph."
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"My boyfriend calls me 'princess', but I think of myself more along the lines of 'monkey' and 'retard'."
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Alicia Silverstone
"My boyfriend calls me 'princess', but I think of myself more along the lines of 'monkey' and 'retard'."
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"So I would hope they would develop some kind of habit that involves understanding that their life is so full they can afford to give in all kinds of ways to other people. I consider that to be baseline spirituality."
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Susan Sarandon
"So I would hope they would develop some kind of habit that involves understanding that their life is so full they can afford to give in all kinds of ways to other people. I consider that to be baseline spirituality."
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"The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive."
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Taryn Manning
"The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive."
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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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"When I was in England doing Romeo and Juliet as a child star, I was interviewed by the British press, who are even more vicious and cruel than the Americans. So I have been extremely guarded ever since."
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Claire Bloom
"When I was in England doing Romeo and Juliet as a child star, I was interviewed by the British press, who are even more vicious and cruel than the Americans. So I have been extremely guarded ever since."
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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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