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"My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on."
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Kathleen Turner
"My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on."
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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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"I like to look like a person. It drives me crazy when you see women in movies playing teachers, and they have biceps. It totally takes me out of the movie. I start thinking, Wow, that actress playing this part really looks great!"
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Emma Stone
"I like to look like a person. It drives me crazy when you see women in movies playing teachers, and they have biceps. It totally takes me out of the movie. I start thinking, Wow, that actress playing this part really looks great!"
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"I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it."
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Liza Minnelli
"I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it."
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"We live in downtown Manhattan and we have pretty big windows that looked right at the World Trade Center. I was home along with Kai and we watched it all happen. I was holding him in my arms and we were looking out the window when the second plane hit."
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Jennifer Connelly
"We live in downtown Manhattan and we have pretty big windows that looked right at the World Trade Center. I was home along with Kai and we watched it all happen. I was holding him in my arms and we were looking out the window when the second plane hit."
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"I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me."
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Barbara Steele
"I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me."
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"Here," Myrnin said, his voice still gentle and low. "Amelie said you had to work. No one said you had to work alone." He picked up the next part and slotted it in, took the screwdriver from Claire's numbed fingers, and fastened it with a couple of deft, fast movements. "I'll be your hands."She wanted to cry, because it was so sweet, but it wouldn't do any good."
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Rachel Caine
"Here," Myrnin said, his voice still gentle and low. "Amelie said you had to work. No one said you had to work alone." He picked up the next part and slotted it in, took the screwdriver from Claire's numbed fingers, and fastened it with a couple of deft, fast movements. "I'll be your hands."She wanted to cry, because it was so sweet, but it wouldn't do any good."
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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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"Confidence is everything in this business."
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Reese Witherspoon
"Confidence is everything in this business."
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"We would have to invent the U.N. if we did not have it, which is not an original thought."
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Shirley Temple
"We would have to invent the U.N. if we did not have it, which is not an original thought."
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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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"Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?"
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Sarah Jessica Parker
"Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?"
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"I'm a Gemini, so I change my mind every day."
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Natalie Portman
"I'm a Gemini, so I change my mind every day."
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"I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future."
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Liza Minnelli
"I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future."
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"Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan."
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Olivia Wilde
"Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan."
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"For Closer, we've had five weeks. You go into every single word because it's very, very concentrated dialogue."
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Anna Friel
"For Closer, we've had five weeks. You go into every single word because it's very, very concentrated dialogue."
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"And you must dare to do as many things as you dream of."
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Nastassja Kinski
"And you must dare to do as many things as you dream of."
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"No one can figure out your worth but you."
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Pearl Bailey
"No one can figure out your worth but you."
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"When I worked with Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies, she told me, You need a plan B, because when you have six months to a year off, you can go nuts. You need to have another focus."
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Eliza Dushku
"When I worked with Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies, she told me, You need a plan B, because when you have six months to a year off, you can go nuts. You need to have another focus."
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"I don't understand what modern clothes are about at all."
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Julie Harris
"I don't understand what modern clothes are about at all."
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"I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse."
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Tatum O'Neal
"I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse."
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"I'd hope to reach any kid who feels apart from the group - those who seem to be outsiders, who feel different. Kids who want to reach their parents often don't know how to do so."
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Ellen Muth
"I'd hope to reach any kid who feels apart from the group - those who seem to be outsiders, who feel different. Kids who want to reach their parents often don't know how to do so."
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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 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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"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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"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 never turned down a mother role."
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Dorothy Malone
"I never turned down a mother role."
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"I've suffered too much to hide my feelings."
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Isabelle Adjani
"I've suffered too much to hide my feelings."
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"If I don't make it today, I'll come in tomorrow."
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Ruth Gordon
"If I don't make it today, I'll come in tomorrow."
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"Adding "just kidding" doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal."
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Nancy Cartwright
"Adding "just kidding" doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal."
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"If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived."
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Gloria Swanson
"If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived."
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"I play, in real life, Kim, who is actually Marshall Mathers ex-wife as of now. She lies and says she is pregnant because she really wants to keep him and he figures her out."
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Taryn Manning
"I play, in real life, Kim, who is actually Marshall Mathers ex-wife as of now. She lies and says she is pregnant because she really wants to keep him and he figures her out."
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"When I was about, I'd say, 18 or 19 years old, I wanted to be a part of the CIA just because they know those intimate secrets... So I was just always into knowing. I like to know things."
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Michelle Rodriguez
"When I was about, I'd say, 18 or 19 years old, I wanted to be a part of the CIA just because they know those intimate secrets... So I was just always into knowing. I like to know things."
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"I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it."
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Mira Sorvino
"I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it."
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"It's usually, my people speak to your people and then they speak around each other and trade calls for weeks."
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Mary Steenburgen
"It's usually, my people speak to your people and then they speak around each other and trade calls for weeks."
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"Obviously I'd love to work with any of these great directors because every time I've worked with them I've gained a tremendous amount as an actor. Each director has his own way of pushing you towards improving yourself."
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Zhang Ziyi
"Obviously I'd love to work with any of these great directors because every time I've worked with them I've gained a tremendous amount as an actor. Each director has his own way of pushing you towards improving yourself."
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"In many ways we are all sons and daughters of ancient Greece."
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Nia Vardalos
"In many ways we are all sons and daughters of ancient Greece."
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"Probably what my comment meant was that I don't care about the circumstances if I can tell the truth."
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Sally Kirkland
"Probably what my comment meant was that I don't care about the circumstances if I can tell the truth."
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"Breasts and bottoms look boringly alike. Faces, though, can be quite different and a damn sight more interesting!"
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Lee Remick
"Breasts and bottoms look boringly alike. Faces, though, can be quite different and a damn sight more interesting!"
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"I didn't get married. I do have a boyfriend. We live together."
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Melissa Joan Hart
"I didn't get married. I do have a boyfriend. We live together."
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"I'm at a time in my life where I'm so filled up that I don't want more."
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Jami Gertz
"I'm at a time in my life where I'm so filled up that I don't want more."
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"I had to gain weight until I looked like a seal so I could compete with the real whores who played the other roles. I was fat as a barrel."
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Victoria Abril
"I had to gain weight until I looked like a seal so I could compete with the real whores who played the other roles. I was fat as a barrel."
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"Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful you are, you always think, No one's being nice enough to me!"
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Kate Beckinsale
"Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful you are, you always think, No one's being nice enough to me!"
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"I was dating this guy and we would spend all day text messaging each other. And he thought that he could tell that he liked me more because he actually spelt the word 'YOU' and I just put the letter 'U'."
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Kelly Osbourne
"I was dating this guy and we would spend all day text messaging each other. And he thought that he could tell that he liked me more because he actually spelt the word 'YOU' and I just put the letter 'U'."
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"Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now."
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Patricia Velasquez
"Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now."
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"Men are very competent in their workplace - and this is going to sound sexist - women are better at running households and juggling lots of things, kids and scheduling and that kind of thing."
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Patricia Heaton
"Men are very competent in their workplace - and this is going to sound sexist - women are better at running households and juggling lots of things, kids and scheduling and that kind of thing."
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"I really like where Tony Robbins says that we're all hypnotized to see beauty this one specific way, and it's true."
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Gwyneth Paltrow
"I really like where Tony Robbins says that we're all hypnotized to see beauty this one specific way, and it's true."
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"I think maintaining relationships with my friends, my mother, my manager, they're all important."
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Christina Applegate
"I think maintaining relationships with my friends, my mother, my manager, they're all important."
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"I couldn't care less about sex unless I meet someone who I think is wonderful."
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Kirstie Alley
"I couldn't care less about sex unless I meet someone who I think is wonderful."
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