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"I simply did not want my face to be my talent."
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Gene Tierney
"I simply did not want my face to be my talent."
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"My doctor said, for want of a better word, now that we've got medicines out here that can help, let's put you on one of them and say we're treating MS."
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Teri Garr
"My doctor said, for want of a better word, now that we've got medicines out here that can help, let's put you on one of them and say we're treating MS."
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"I think Janeane Garofalo is incredibly funny, and I love Dennis Miller."
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Kristen Johnston
"I think Janeane Garofalo is incredibly funny, and I love Dennis Miller."
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"I had been doing plays in New York and on a whim we packed up and moved West, I started doing commercials and plays and guest star spots on TV and one thing led to another and I got Knots Landing."
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Joan Van Ark
"I had been doing plays in New York and on a whim we packed up and moved West, I started doing commercials and plays and guest star spots on TV and one thing led to another and I got Knots Landing."
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"I go on giving interviews because I've been brought up to support the projects I'm involved in. When you've enjoyed working on a production, you want to do them a favour."
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Francesca Annis
"I go on giving interviews because I've been brought up to support the projects I'm involved in. When you've enjoyed working on a production, you want to do them a favour."
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"When there's a terrible illness like AIDS sweeping through, you help people."
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Bernadette Peters
"When there's a terrible illness like AIDS sweeping through, you help people."
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"I get bored talking about myself, but I can talk about the work."
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Glenn Close
"I get bored talking about myself, but I can talk about the work."
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"I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights."
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Lara Flynn Boyle
"I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights."
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"I get a lot of recognition for my voice. That always surprises me."
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Moira Kelly
"I get a lot of recognition for my voice. That always surprises me."
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"My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night. That is glamour!"
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Anne Baxter
"My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night. That is glamour!"
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"Collecting is my passion."
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Ursula Andress
"Collecting is my passion."
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"I have some road rage inside of me. Traffic, especially in L.A., is a pet peeve of mine."
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Katie Holmes
"I have some road rage inside of me. Traffic, especially in L.A., is a pet peeve of mine."
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"In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress."
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Gene Tierney
"In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress."
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"I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of using English, so I really have a great sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning."
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Chiaki Kuriyama
"I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of using English, so I really have a great sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning."
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"My pro-choice activism keeps me busy."
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Margot Kidder
"My pro-choice activism keeps me busy."
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"I like being a pin-up girl. There's nothing wrong with it."
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Jayne Mansfield
"I like being a pin-up girl. There's nothing wrong with it."
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"When we first began, we didn't have any hits."
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Diana Ross
"When we first began, we didn't have any hits."
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"I wouldn't tell you anything about anybody I cared about because it becomes entertainment for other people, and it sort of just cheapens everything in your life. I would never tell you if I was dating anybody."
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Kristen Stewart
"I wouldn't tell you anything about anybody I cared about because it becomes entertainment for other people, and it sort of just cheapens everything in your life. I would never tell you if I was dating anybody."
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"I'm so gullible. I'm so damn gullible. And I am so sick of me being gullible."
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Lana Turner
"I'm so gullible. I'm so damn gullible. And I am so sick of me being gullible."
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"The director had come to Madrid to court me."
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Victoria Abril
"The director had come to Madrid to court me."
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"I don't have high expectations anymore. Maybe they've just been beaten out of me."
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Elisabeth Shue
"I don't have high expectations anymore. Maybe they've just been beaten out of me."
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"How do you explain certain physical qualities that somehow sell on screen? You're born with it... Certain people are just more watchable, and I was more watchable, but I don't think I understood acting or drama very well when I was a kid."
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Joan Chen
"How do you explain certain physical qualities that somehow sell on screen? You're born with it... Certain people are just more watchable, and I was more watchable, but I don't think I understood acting or drama very well when I was a kid."
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"When you love someone, you don't want them to suffer at all."
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Charlotte Gainsbourg
"When you love someone, you don't want them to suffer at all."
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"Your body has such a memory."
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Kristanna Loken
"Your body has such a memory."
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"I avoided nudity unless a film couldn't be told without those scenes. If you look at my films, few of them have that element, yet nudity and male fantasies have become emblematic of my work."
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Greta Scacchi
"I avoided nudity unless a film couldn't be told without those scenes. If you look at my films, few of them have that element, yet nudity and male fantasies have become emblematic of my work."
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"Everything I learned I learned from the movies."
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Audrey Hepburn
"Everything I learned I learned from the movies."
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"When I was 14 -years-old, I made this PowerPoint presentation, and I invited my parents into my room and gave them popcorn. It was called 'Project Hollywood 2004' and it worked. I moved to L.A. in January of 2004."
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Emma Stone
"When I was 14 -years-old, I made this PowerPoint presentation, and I invited my parents into my room and gave them popcorn. It was called 'Project Hollywood 2004' and it worked. I moved to L.A. in January of 2004."
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"I believe people who practice their beliefs in daily life are activists."
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Jasmine Guy
"I believe people who practice their beliefs in daily life are activists."
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"I'm a teen-age bride."
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Marta Kristen
"I'm a teen-age bride."
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"Weight doesn't matter as long as you're happy with yourself."
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Billie Piper
"Weight doesn't matter as long as you're happy with yourself."
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"The thing about Broadway, they always welcome you with open arms."
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Brooke Shields
"The thing about Broadway, they always welcome you with open arms."
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"But there are still only certain film genres where a woman can stand out, be heroic, be the centerpiece."
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Sarah Michelle Gellar
"But there are still only certain film genres where a woman can stand out, be heroic, be the centerpiece."
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"I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies."
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Patricia Clarkson
"I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies."
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"I often look at a lot of Doctor Who stuff that's about now, which no one has approached me about."
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Sarah Sutton
"I often look at a lot of Doctor Who stuff that's about now, which no one has approached me about."
Now,
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"Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again."
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Frances McDormand
"Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again."
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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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"It's definitely a shock to go from being 15 in high school to working. There's no real cushion there. There's no preparation at all. You learn by doing."
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Emma Stone
"It's definitely a shock to go from being 15 in high school to working. There's no real cushion there. There's no preparation at all. You learn by doing."
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"My mother would not talk to me for weeks, would not stay under my roof for as long as I was married to Oleg."
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Gene Tierney
"My mother would not talk to me for weeks, would not stay under my roof for as long as I was married to Oleg."
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"Will I return to England? I don't know. I'll think it over."
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Lillie Langtry
"Will I return to England? I don't know. I'll think it over."
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"Even my parents are so cute, and they deal with every movie of mine excellently. They check with me ever so casually by asking 'Now how much of nudity are we going to see in this one?'"
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Natasha Henstridge
"Even my parents are so cute, and they deal with every movie of mine excellently. They check with me ever so casually by asking 'Now how much of nudity are we going to see in this one?'"
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"He put a ring in the toe of a stocking. On Christmas Eve, we opened our stockings and it was there at the bottom of the toe. Then he got down on his knees and he was shaking."
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Kyra Sedgwick
"He put a ring in the toe of a stocking. On Christmas Eve, we opened our stockings and it was there at the bottom of the toe. Then he got down on his knees and he was shaking."
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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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"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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"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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"It's really hard for actors to cross over and get any respect as a singer, and if I could just keep it separate and not use my music in movies, it's cool."
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Taryn Manning
"It's really hard for actors to cross over and get any respect as a singer, and if I could just keep it separate and not use my music in movies, it's cool."
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"It's the relationships between people that are more important than the sort of far away fantasies of what the good life is, the world of supermodels and Bud ads."
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Mira Sorvino
"It's the relationships between people that are more important than the sort of far away fantasies of what the good life is, the world of supermodels and Bud ads."
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"I don't want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures."
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Greta Garbo
"I don't want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures."
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"I'm letting no man handle my bank account."
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Hattie McDaniel
"I'm letting no man handle my bank account."
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"So it's conceivable I'll do something insane, or more insane than Dawn of the Dead. If that's possible."
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Sarah Polley
"So it's conceivable I'll do something insane, or more insane than Dawn of the Dead. If that's possible."
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"I'm gonna do the whole bedroom in camel color - it's an old lady color."
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Amy Sedaris
"I'm gonna do the whole bedroom in camel color - it's an old lady color."
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