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"I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate profit."
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Lisa Bonet
"I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate profit."
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"I won't go to England because they won't let my dog in."
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Uta Hagen
"I won't go to England because they won't let my dog in."
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"Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort."
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Emma Thompson
"Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort."
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"I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a light bulb in a world of moths. That is what the manic state is like."
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Carrie Fisher
"I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a light bulb in a world of moths. That is what the manic state is like."
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"I like people trying to do two things at once."
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Allison Janney
"I like people trying to do two things at once."
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"The world doesn't end just because one thing goes wrong."
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Shelley Duvall
"The world doesn't end just because one thing goes wrong."
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"Thongs don't show. With jeans, you're always going to get panty lines and I think that's just a big mistake."
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Lexa Doig
"Thongs don't show. With jeans, you're always going to get panty lines and I think that's just a big mistake."
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"Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that."
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Liza Minnelli
"Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that."
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"Well, for someone who looks like me you wonder where Alfred Hitchcock is."
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Kelly Lynch
"Well, for someone who looks like me you wonder where Alfred Hitchcock is."
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"I love pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid."
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Bernadette Peters
"I love pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid."
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"My husband is a general's chauffeur somewhere in France."
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Lillie Langtry
"My husband is a general's chauffeur somewhere in France."
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"Acting is a form of confession."
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Tallulah Bankhead
"Acting is a form of confession."
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"Do you know what I like about your program? Even when I'm running the vacuum, I can understand it."
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Thelma Ritter
"Do you know what I like about your program? Even when I'm running the vacuum, I can understand it."
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"In high school I had sex with girls quite a few times. They were straight women who I convinced to jump in the sack with me."
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Portia de Rossi
"In high school I had sex with girls quite a few times. They were straight women who I convinced to jump in the sack with me."
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"I wasn't a rock 'n' roll girl. I said, Neil Young, Neil Young, where do I know that name from?"
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Carrie Snodgress
"I wasn't a rock 'n' roll girl. I said, Neil Young, Neil Young, where do I know that name from?"
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"I'm a strong person, but I'd never resort to violence."
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Kristen Johnston
"I'm a strong person, but I'd never resort to violence."
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"Success made me self-sufficient, but it also took away my anonymity. I'm just this quiet nobody, and all of a sudden people are nervous around me. That was kind of weird."
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Lisa Bonet
"Success made me self-sufficient, but it also took away my anonymity. I'm just this quiet nobody, and all of a sudden people are nervous around me. That was kind of weird."
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"Well, that's the old story I heard about the Jackie Chan films. That, like, Jackie Chan will just keep going and when crew members drop he just replaces them. I don't know if that's true but after having worked in Japan I believe it might be true."
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Sarah Michelle Gellar
"Well, that's the old story I heard about the Jackie Chan films. That, like, Jackie Chan will just keep going and when crew members drop he just replaces them. I don't know if that's true but after having worked in Japan I believe it might be true."
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"A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you."
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Geena Davis
"A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you."
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"I was never the girl who walked down the centre of the hallway snapping people out of her way."
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Piper Perabo
"I was never the girl who walked down the centre of the hallway snapping people out of her way."
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"To look back is to relax one's vigil."
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Bette Davis
"To look back is to relax one's vigil."
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"Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?"
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Patricia Clarkson
"Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?"
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"But Tommy Lee Jones is just smooth. He's just the real deal. I'm captivated by him because there's so little of that in Hollywood, and he just embodies it."
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Lara Flynn Boyle
"But Tommy Lee Jones is just smooth. He's just the real deal. I'm captivated by him because there's so little of that in Hollywood, and he just embodies it."
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"Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough to go to Heaven? How would you know?"
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Candace Cameron
"Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough to go to Heaven? How would you know?"
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"Never, never did I think I would be in a Disney movie."
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Kristin Davis
"Never, never did I think I would be in a Disney movie."
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"I have health. I have a wonderful support system. I have the admiration of millions of strangers, which I do not underestimate."
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Kathleen Turner
"I have health. I have a wonderful support system. I have the admiration of millions of strangers, which I do not underestimate."
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"Can you really forgive if you can't forget?"
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Sarah Jessica Parker
"Can you really forgive if you can't forget?"
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"We take our children everywhere we go. I don't believe in having them and then leaving them to someone else to bring up."
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Jayne Mansfield
"We take our children everywhere we go. I don't believe in having them and then leaving them to someone else to bring up."
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"Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers."
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Ida Lupino
"Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers."
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"These same people seem to forget that mother also took a lot of chances with the type of roles she played."
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Isabella Rossellini
"These same people seem to forget that mother also took a lot of chances with the type of roles she played."
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"Celebrity is a weird appendage, which is useless unless you do something with it."
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Minnie Driver
"Celebrity is a weird appendage, which is useless unless you do something with it."
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"It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers."
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Carol Burnett
"It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers."
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"Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone."
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Winona Ryder
"Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone."
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"I went through all my twenties thinking that I wasn't good enough."
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Delta Burke
"I went through all my twenties thinking that I wasn't good enough."
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"I know a lot of Americans in Paris who have married Frenchmen. They keep bringing up their experience, the clash of civilizations, the clash of personalities."
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Leslie Caron
"I know a lot of Americans in Paris who have married Frenchmen. They keep bringing up their experience, the clash of civilizations, the clash of personalities."
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"Often I pretended to a cameraman to know less than I did. That way I got more cooperation."
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Ida Lupino
"Often I pretended to a cameraman to know less than I did. That way I got more cooperation."
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"I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can't find a way of avoiding it."
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Brigitte Bardot
"I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can't find a way of avoiding it."
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"The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends."
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Shirley MacLaine
"The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends."
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"I'd like to be taller. I'd like my baby fat to leave."
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Kirsten Dunst
"I'd like to be taller. I'd like my baby fat to leave."
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"I have to watch the news or my day is not complete."
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Patricia Clarkson
"I have to watch the news or my day is not complete."
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"When I was at school at Paris, I had special lessons from Mademoiselle Antoine, an actress at the Comedie Francaise, and I was taken to every sort of play. I felt very grand."
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Vivien Leigh
"When I was at school at Paris, I had special lessons from Mademoiselle Antoine, an actress at the Comedie Francaise, and I was taken to every sort of play. I felt very grand."
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"Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home."
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Cameron Diaz
"Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home."
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"You had to make sure that the tone of your dress was not the same tone as the curtains, for instance."
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Julie Harris
"You had to make sure that the tone of your dress was not the same tone as the curtains, for instance."
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"I have been both a ghost and haunted in the city I love."
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Rebecca Solnit
"I have been both a ghost and haunted in the city I love."
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"It's fun working on the set... I usually work about 10 and a half hours a day, and I also study about five of those hours. It can be tiring, but it's fun!"
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Mila Kunis
"It's fun working on the set... I usually work about 10 and a half hours a day, and I also study about five of those hours. It can be tiring, but it's fun!"
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"My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation."
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Pam Grier
"My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation."
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"The things that make me very angry are injustice and bullying. If I see someone bullying a woman or child in the street, or kicking a dog, I go completely mad."
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Susannah York
"The things that make me very angry are injustice and bullying. If I see someone bullying a woman or child in the street, or kicking a dog, I go completely mad."
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"They see me wheeling around in a beautiful gown, and they realize you can look elegant, and you can lead a happy life in a wheelchair. I know I've helped handicapped people, because I've received many comments."
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Anna Lee
"They see me wheeling around in a beautiful gown, and they realize you can look elegant, and you can lead a happy life in a wheelchair. I know I've helped handicapped people, because I've received many comments."
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"This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone."
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Fiona Shaw
"This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone."
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"We live by encouragement and die without it - slowly, sadly, angrily."
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Celeste Holm
"We live by encouragement and die without it - slowly, sadly, angrily."
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