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Quotes by Actress
"I tried to commit suicide by sticking my head in the oven, but there was a cake in it."
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"There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog."
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"You must take the risk to disclose yourself in order to become more real, more human. And even if the price is high."
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"I'm sure that people must say about me, on the screen, 'Good gracious, is Jeanette MacDonald going to take off her clothes - again?"
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"I know, it's true. I've played these tortured teenagers. I can't wait to shed that image."
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"I finally moved out of my parent's house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room."
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"You were up at 5 o'clock in the morning, and then you'd ride in a caravan, because we didn't have big movie trucks or trailers that is the hardware of a movie camp."
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"You have to remember that when I met Elvis, you know, it wasn't the fanfare that it is today or even when he was here in the states and I was in Germany growing up."
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"I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldn't call it fear, but it's an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. I'm able to do that."
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"I really enjoy having sex, and that's offensive to some people. Women are the quickest to call other women sluts, which is sad. I haven't met a lot of men who've said, "You like having sex? What a dirty whore you are!". That's because they wish their wives or girlfriends would have more sex with them."
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"I've struggled so hard to reign in my temper because it actually terrifies me."
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"Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next."
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"I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments."
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"I want to exude strength and intelligence."
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"There are always good parts. They may not pay what you want, and they may not have as many days' work as you want, they may not have the billing that you want, they may not have a lot of things, but - the content of the role itself - I find there are many roles."
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"You're being cast for your acting ability. It's not based on the way your body functions. If you're playing a lead in a movie, it's for that character and they'll tailor it to you. In a dance company, you have to fit in a definite mold."
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"I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another."
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"No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing."
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"The best people I know have had a lot of obstacles to overcome."
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"I think Pedro understands the universe, the same vision I have, about relationships anyhow."
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"It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one."
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"Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track."
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"Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed."
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"A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else."
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"Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money."
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"You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself."
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"The only thing I know is that we came from the stars, and that we have the same material as the stars. That's all that I know. Everything else I don't know."
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"It's a great time to be an actress at this point in my life."
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