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Quotes by Actress

"Cinema will always have an important role to play in society."
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Leslie Caron
"Cinema will always have an important role to play in society."
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"If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down."
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Mary Pickford
"If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down."
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"Frank Marth also played many characters with us, and like George Petrie, he was worth his weight in gold."
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Audrey Meadows
"Frank Marth also played many characters with us, and like George Petrie, he was worth his weight in gold."
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"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other."
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Audrey Hepburn
"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other."
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"Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there."
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Meryl Streep
"Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there."
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"If I get married, I want to be very married."
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Audrey Hepburn
"If I get married, I want to be very married."
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"There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead."
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Greta Garbo
"There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead."
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"My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose."
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Bette Davis
"My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose."
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"I am a dreamer. Seriously, I'm living on another planet."
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Eva Green
"I am a dreamer. Seriously, I'm living on another planet."
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"I'm amazed. When I was 40, I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60, I was still going strong and enjoying everything."
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Gloria Stuart
"I'm amazed. When I was 40, I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60, I was still going strong and enjoying everything."
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"What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it."
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Brigitte Bardot
"What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it."
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"Nothing you wear is more important than your smile."
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Connie Stevens
"Nothing you wear is more important than your smile."
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"I was terrified. My first week, walking around in a teeny bikini, I kept crossing my arms over my chest because I was afraid I was going to fall out of the top of the suit. And I didn't know anything about technique or lighting."
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Mary Crosby
"I was terrified. My first week, walking around in a teeny bikini, I kept crossing my arms over my chest because I was afraid I was going to fall out of the top of the suit. And I didn't know anything about technique or lighting."
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"I don't know that I'd necessarily want to see into the future. I don't want to know what's happening next."
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Yancy Butler
"I don't know that I'd necessarily want to see into the future. I don't want to know what's happening next."
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"One of the jobs I had was cutting out the blood clots on a side of beef."
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Marg Helgenberger
"One of the jobs I had was cutting out the blood clots on a side of beef."
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"I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it."
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Mae West
"I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it."
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"You have to be aware. Like, I'm not going to do any downhill skiing. It looks like a whole lot of fun, but I'm not going to risk breaking a leg. I want to be dancing the way I'm dancing now for 30 more years."
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Bebe Neuwirth
"You have to be aware. Like, I'm not going to do any downhill skiing. It looks like a whole lot of fun, but I'm not going to risk breaking a leg. I want to be dancing the way I'm dancing now for 30 more years."
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"I hope to start enjoying flirting again when I'm 70, like my mother did."
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Felicity Kendal
"I hope to start enjoying flirting again when I'm 70, like my mother did."
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"I've always said I want a farmer, not a hunter. Hunters go for the kill and they move on. A farmer nurtures; he watches things grow."
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Eva Longoria
"I've always said I want a farmer, not a hunter. Hunters go for the kill and they move on. A farmer nurtures; he watches things grow."
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"The curtains would open and it would be just her standing in some ludicrous pose, like Aphrodite."
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Lesley-Anne Down
"The curtains would open and it would be just her standing in some ludicrous pose, like Aphrodite."
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"I was actually a bit disappointed about the amount of sex in the show. I think Backus should get out a bit more, get a relationship, perhaps make her a lesbian."
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Lexa Doig
"I was actually a bit disappointed about the amount of sex in the show. I think Backus should get out a bit more, get a relationship, perhaps make her a lesbian."
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"I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person and that they're imagining the same as you."
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Greta Scacchi
"I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person and that they're imagining the same as you."
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"There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it."
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Naomi Watts
"There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it."
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"I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet."
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Sally Field
"I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet."
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"After the crash happened, I was so humiliated and embarrassed. I thought of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, that they must hate me."
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Tracey Gold
"After the crash happened, I was so humiliated and embarrassed. I thought of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, that they must hate me."
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"My marriage? Up to now everything's okay. But it's a real marriage - imperfect and very difficult. It's all about people evolving somewhat simultaneously through their lives. I think we've emotionally evolved."
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Jamie Lee Curtis
"My marriage? Up to now everything's okay. But it's a real marriage - imperfect and very difficult. It's all about people evolving somewhat simultaneously through their lives. I think we've emotionally evolved."
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"I'm aware of my body."
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Joanna Lumley
"I'm aware of my body."
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"I think the diva is kind of a cliche. My definition of a diva is somebody whose talent does not match what they're trying to play, so all this temperament comes out."
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Glenn Close
"I think the diva is kind of a cliche. My definition of a diva is somebody whose talent does not match what they're trying to play, so all this temperament comes out."
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"If someone is mean, harmful, or evil, they're out of my life. I cross them out."
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Doris Roberts
"If someone is mean, harmful, or evil, they're out of my life. I cross them out."
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"I love to take care of people, so I think I'd be a good vet. I always wanted to be a vet when I was little."
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Jennifer Love Hewitt
"I love to take care of people, so I think I'd be a good vet. I always wanted to be a vet when I was little."
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"You need the words, you need the script, you need the material, you need the commitment, you need the passion, it's like we depend on writers, we depend on producers, directors depend on us and once things are in the divine order as they happen."
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Nia Long
"You need the words, you need the script, you need the material, you need the commitment, you need the passion, it's like we depend on writers, we depend on producers, directors depend on us and once things are in the divine order as they happen."
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"I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage."
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Halle Berry
"I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage."
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"I own four copies of Robin WIlliams's Live on Broadway comedy special for HBO. One in Wilmington, one in L.A., one in my trailer, and one at my parents' house. I can watch it over and over again and it never gets old. He is the funniest, wittiest man on the planet!"
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Sophia Bush
"I own four copies of Robin WIlliams's Live on Broadway comedy special for HBO. One in Wilmington, one in L.A., one in my trailer, and one at my parents' house. I can watch it over and over again and it never gets old. He is the funniest, wittiest man on the planet!"
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"When you're in front of the camera, for a small budget or a big budget movie, there's no difference."
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Monica Bellucci
"When you're in front of the camera, for a small budget or a big budget movie, there's no difference."
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"You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that."
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Winona Ryder
"You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that."
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"Generous leaders are servant leaders. They always come with open hands and an open heart."
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Farshad Asl
"Generous leaders are servant leaders. They always come with open hands and an open heart."
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"When I don't know what the music is going to be for a scene, I imagine some sort of orchestration going on and damned if they don't usually come up with a similar kind of thing."
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Patty Duke
"When I don't know what the music is going to be for a scene, I imagine some sort of orchestration going on and damned if they don't usually come up with a similar kind of thing."
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"There is nothing better than being a parent. It is the most challenging job one could ever ask for. I love being a mom and I love being a friend to my children as well."
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Marlee Matlin
"There is nothing better than being a parent. It is the most challenging job one could ever ask for. I love being a mom and I love being a friend to my children as well."
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"Comedy is tragedy plus time."
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Carol Burnett
"Comedy is tragedy plus time."
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"Yoga teaches you how to listen to your body."
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Mariel Hemingway
"Yoga teaches you how to listen to your body."
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"I'm not a career woman."
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June Allyson
"I'm not a career woman."
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"I've been noticing gravity since I was very young."
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Cameron Diaz
"I've been noticing gravity since I was very young."
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"I know what it's like to have someone coming home who looks at you not in the way they used to in the old days, and I've seen my own face contorted with sadness and rage in the mirror."
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Jane Birkin
"I know what it's like to have someone coming home who looks at you not in the way they used to in the old days, and I've seen my own face contorted with sadness and rage in the mirror."
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"In my first movie, That Night, with Juliette Lewis, I had a scene with two other girls where we applied a cream to our chests to make our breasts grow. I was 10."
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Eliza Dushku
"In my first movie, That Night, with Juliette Lewis, I had a scene with two other girls where we applied a cream to our chests to make our breasts grow. I was 10."
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"Here I am, I still go on, you know, like the tides."
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Angela Lansbury
"Here I am, I still go on, you know, like the tides."
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"I will argue my points; I will have my opinions. But at the end of the day, it's the director's choice."
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Amy Irving
"I will argue my points; I will have my opinions. But at the end of the day, it's the director's choice."
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"Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny."
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Cameron Diaz
"Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny."
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"I had to have my first kiss in front of, like, a hundred people. I didn't know what to do. So my sisters told me to, like, practice on a pillow, you know? But it didn't kiss me back so I didn't know what to expect."
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Lacey Chabert
"I had to have my first kiss in front of, like, a hundred people. I didn't know what to do. So my sisters told me to, like, practice on a pillow, you know? But it didn't kiss me back so I didn't know what to expect."
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"Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it's just an illusion."
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Juliette Binoche
"Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it's just an illusion."
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"People in Hollywood don't have that much sex, or at least I don't."
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Rosario Dawson
"People in Hollywood don't have that much sex, or at least I don't."
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