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Quotes by Actress

"I don't think you learn how to act. You learn how to use your emotions and feelings."
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Marion Cotillard
"I don't think you learn how to act. You learn how to use your emotions and feelings."
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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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"When you give yourself to places, they give you yourself back; the more one comes to know them, the more one seeds them with the invisible crop of memories and associations that will be waiting for when you come back, while new places offer up new thoughts, new possibilities. Exploring the world is one the best ways of exploring the mind, and walking travels both terrains."
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Rebecca Solnit
"When you give yourself to places, they give you yourself back; the more one comes to know them, the more one seeds them with the invisible crop of memories and associations that will be waiting for when you come back, while new places offer up new thoughts, new possibilities. Exploring the world is one the best ways of exploring the mind, and walking travels both terrains."
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"Perhaps the central question about [Eliot] Porter's work is about the relationship between science, aesthetics, and environmental politics. His brother, the painter and critic Fairfield Porter, wrote in a 1960 review of [Porter's] colour photographs: 'There is no subject and background, every corner is alive,' and this suggests what an ecological aesthetic might look like."
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Rebecca Solnit
"Perhaps the central question about [Eliot] Porter's work is about the relationship between science, aesthetics, and environmental politics. His brother, the painter and critic Fairfield Porter, wrote in a 1960 review of [Porter's] colour photographs: 'There is no subject and background, every corner is alive,' and this suggests what an ecological aesthetic might look like."
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"We are all the heroes of our own stories, and on of the arts of perspective is to see yourself small on the stage of another's story, to see the vast expanse of the world that is not about you, and to see your power, to make your life, to make others, or break them, to tell stories rather that be told by them."
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Rebecca Solnit
"We are all the heroes of our own stories, and on of the arts of perspective is to see yourself small on the stage of another's story, to see the vast expanse of the world that is not about you, and to see your power, to make your life, to make others, or break them, to tell stories rather that be told by them."
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"I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure."
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Yancy Butler
"I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure."
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"The heavy spacesuits are spectacular to look at but very hot. Putting one on was like going from chilly London winter weather to the Bahamas in just minutes."
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Kathleen Quinlan
"The heavy spacesuits are spectacular to look at but very hot. Putting one on was like going from chilly London winter weather to the Bahamas in just minutes."
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"Alison Lohman is an amazing actress. I was so proud to work with her."
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Taryn Manning
"Alison Lohman is an amazing actress. I was so proud to work with her."
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"I got into theatre very early, so yes I was surrounded by gay people quite early and frequently."
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Judith Light
"I got into theatre very early, so yes I was surrounded by gay people quite early and frequently."
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"So many people preach that they love fashion, but really it's what I live for!"
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Lindsay Lohan
"So many people preach that they love fashion, but really it's what I live for!"
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"I think empathy is a beautiful thing. I think that's the power of film though. We have one of the most powerful, one of the greatest communicative tools known to man."
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Michelle Rodriguez
"I think empathy is a beautiful thing. I think that's the power of film though. We have one of the most powerful, one of the greatest communicative tools known to man."
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"I want to be alone."
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Greta Garbo
"I want to be alone."
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"This city can be kind of brutal, so you see your dreams from every different angle, but ultimately it's about acting and if you enjoy acting, you will always enjoy acting."
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Radha Mitchell
"This city can be kind of brutal, so you see your dreams from every different angle, but ultimately it's about acting and if you enjoy acting, you will always enjoy acting."
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"Then, all of a sudden, here I am in the Press Room in the White House and walking in with the guards, who handed me three little pieces of paper asking me to send pictures to the guards at the White House."
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Majel Barrett
"Then, all of a sudden, here I am in the Press Room in the White House and walking in with the guards, who handed me three little pieces of paper asking me to send pictures to the guards at the White House."
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"Oh hell no. Guys don't talk about that crap."You're serious."Really."What do you talk about?Shane looked at her as if she were insane. "You know. Stuff. We're not girls. We don't talk about our feelings. I mean, not to other guys.Claire rolled her eyes and said, "Fine, be emotionally stunted losers; I don't care."
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Rachel Caine
"Oh hell no. Guys don't talk about that crap."You're serious."Really."What do you talk about?Shane looked at her as if she were insane. "You know. Stuff. We're not girls. We don't talk about our feelings. I mean, not to other guys.Claire rolled her eyes and said, "Fine, be emotionally stunted losers; I don't care."
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"I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead."
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Shirley Knight
"I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead."
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"I love men in bed when they are sleeping. But then they have to go and wake up."
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Daphne Zuniga
"I love men in bed when they are sleeping. But then they have to go and wake up."
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"The studios are very much business. Maybe it was always that way. It is really commercial now. Judgments are made and directions are given to make the cash register ring."
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Dianne Wiest
"The studios are very much business. Maybe it was always that way. It is really commercial now. Judgments are made and directions are given to make the cash register ring."
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"I went to college in Ohio, at Ohio University, and I graduated two years ago."
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Piper Perabo
"I went to college in Ohio, at Ohio University, and I graduated two years ago."
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"I'm not a film star, I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity."
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Vivien Leigh
"I'm not a film star, I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity."
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"My husband and I didn't sign a pre-nuptial agreement. We signed a mutual suicide pact."
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Roseanne Barr
"My husband and I didn't sign a pre-nuptial agreement. We signed a mutual suicide pact."
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"The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it."
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Shirley MacLaine
"The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it."
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"The challenge of film is making it right there at that moment, and then you get to move on."
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Bernadette Peters
"The challenge of film is making it right there at that moment, and then you get to move on."
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"When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma."
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Christine Lahti
"When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma."
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"Party of Five won a Golden Globe, it was a well-written television series."
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Neve Campbell
"Party of Five won a Golden Globe, it was a well-written television series."
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"I used to do kickboxing, because I liked the cute outfits."
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Monica Keena
"I used to do kickboxing, because I liked the cute outfits."
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"Hope just means another world might be possible, not promise, not guaranteed. Hope calls for action; action is impossible without hope."
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Rebecca Solnit
"Hope just means another world might be possible, not promise, not guaranteed. Hope calls for action; action is impossible without hope."
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"Some people come to Morganville and collapse, Michael said as he put the car in motion. "I've seen it a dozen times. But there are a few who come here and just-bloom. You're one of those. Claire didn't feel especially bloomy. "So you're saying I thrive on chaos."
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Rachel Caine
"Some people come to Morganville and collapse, Michael said as he put the car in motion. "I've seen it a dozen times. But there are a few who come here and just-bloom. You're one of those. Claire didn't feel especially bloomy. "So you're saying I thrive on chaos."
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"We must be able to inspire. That's my goal in acting."
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Portia de Rossi
"We must be able to inspire. That's my goal in acting."
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"I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky."
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Jane Fonda
"I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky."
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"When I first came here, Hollywood was very closed-minded."
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Tia Carrere
"When I first came here, Hollywood was very closed-minded."
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"Oh, I'll be forgotten too, don't worry."
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Juliette Binoche
"Oh, I'll be forgotten too, don't worry."
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"It's actually great to shoot far away from Hollywood because we don't have the distractions of the parties and premieres and all that. And, of course, you can save money - there are no good shoe stores."
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Katie Holmes
"It's actually great to shoot far away from Hollywood because we don't have the distractions of the parties and premieres and all that. And, of course, you can save money - there are no good shoe stores."
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"You've got to realize that any lady on a soap is devoting her life to it, 24/7."
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Joan Van Ark
"You've got to realize that any lady on a soap is devoting her life to it, 24/7."
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"I ended your experiment. Because you're not a scientist. You're a monster. I'm not leaving any of them at your mercy."
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Rachel Caine
"I ended your experiment. Because you're not a scientist. You're a monster. I'm not leaving any of them at your mercy."
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"I talk too quiet, and I have to yell on stage."
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Clea Duvall
"I talk too quiet, and I have to yell on stage."
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"When you're a regular gal, you look in the rearview mirror, and in the bright daylight you see that line around your mouth, but when you're an actress and you see that line up on the big screen, it's, like, seven feet long."
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Sharon Stone
"When you're a regular gal, you look in the rearview mirror, and in the bright daylight you see that line around your mouth, but when you're an actress and you see that line up on the big screen, it's, like, seven feet long."
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"My friends that are snobs think its cool I did a movie with Albert Brooks."
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Robin Tunney
"My friends that are snobs think its cool I did a movie with Albert Brooks."
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"Revenge is a way of life and definitely some thing that we identify with. We all feel cheated in some way about some thing and how nice it would be to do something about it. I mean ultimately it's not the most Christian of sentiments."
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Radha Mitchell
"Revenge is a way of life and definitely some thing that we identify with. We all feel cheated in some way about some thing and how nice it would be to do something about it. I mean ultimately it's not the most Christian of sentiments."
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"Perv."He pointed to himself. "Male and eighteen. What's your point?"
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Rachel Caine
"Perv."He pointed to himself. "Male and eighteen. What's your point?"
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"Are you kidding? I'm a terrible cook, but John is a really great one. Literally, I never cook. The whole time we were dating, I prepared two officially romantic meals. Both of them were such disasters that he begs me never to go into the kitchen again."
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Rebecca Romijn
"Are you kidding? I'm a terrible cook, but John is a really great one. Literally, I never cook. The whole time we were dating, I prepared two officially romantic meals. Both of them were such disasters that he begs me never to go into the kitchen again."
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"Well, I think a lot of people only hear about the extreme, fundamentalist kind of polygamists, because they're always in the news being brought up on charges."
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Jeanne Tripplehorn
"Well, I think a lot of people only hear about the extreme, fundamentalist kind of polygamists, because they're always in the news being brought up on charges."
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"I really think the mind of someone who hasn't been welded into place by their work or studios or actors or this whole society is a wonderful mind to work with, so I'd like to do a big picture with an unknown director."
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Joan Severance
"I really think the mind of someone who hasn't been welded into place by their work or studios or actors or this whole society is a wonderful mind to work with, so I'd like to do a big picture with an unknown director."
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"I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must."
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Patricia Clarkson
"I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must."
Now,
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"'Suddenly Susan' is my life."
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Brooke Shields
"'Suddenly Susan' is my life."
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"Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination."
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Ally Sheedy
"Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination."
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"In fact I have nightmares about having children. I want to carry a baby and feel the life within me and in my dream, I do. But every time after it's born, there's this incredible fear, this pounding pulse of fear. It's a real bad nightmare."
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Sharon Gless
"In fact I have nightmares about having children. I want to carry a baby and feel the life within me and in my dream, I do. But every time after it's born, there's this incredible fear, this pounding pulse of fear. It's a real bad nightmare."
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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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"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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