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Quotes by Actress

"I feel like directing is an innate talent."
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Jordana Brewster
"I feel like directing is an innate talent."
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"I lost a very dear friend who lived with AIDS for about 17 years. Rejecting early treatments that were iffy, he thought he saved himself. I really miss him a lot."
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Bernadette Peters
"I lost a very dear friend who lived with AIDS for about 17 years. Rejecting early treatments that were iffy, he thought he saved himself. I really miss him a lot."
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"The parameters are such that I don't get offered a lot of work. I'm sure most directors hear my list of don'ts and say forget it."
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Jamie Lee Curtis
"The parameters are such that I don't get offered a lot of work. I'm sure most directors hear my list of don'ts and say forget it."
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"I don't much care who is gay or straight or married or not. I mostly notice if they are brave enough to confront bigotry."
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Jasmine Guy
"I don't much care who is gay or straight or married or not. I mostly notice if they are brave enough to confront bigotry."
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"While it is challenging working with a kid, because they're so of the moment all the time. My acting style is to try to take something from my life that the character can relate to and that I can relate the character to."
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Kyra Sedgwick
"While it is challenging working with a kid, because they're so of the moment all the time. My acting style is to try to take something from my life that the character can relate to and that I can relate the character to."
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"It's sheer torture. I have to be up with the chickens every day and go to work on my body. I hate it, but I do it."
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Eva Gabor
"It's sheer torture. I have to be up with the chickens every day and go to work on my body. I hate it, but I do it."
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"When you think about it, we actors are kind of prostitutes. We get paid to feign attraction and love. Other people are paying to watch us kissing someone, touching someone, doing things people in a normal monogamous relationship would never do with anyone who's not their partner. It's really kind of gross."
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Megan Fox
"When you think about it, we actors are kind of prostitutes. We get paid to feign attraction and love. Other people are paying to watch us kissing someone, touching someone, doing things people in a normal monogamous relationship would never do with anyone who's not their partner. It's really kind of gross."
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"I knew there was something I had to do yesterday. I couldn't remember what it is. I can't figure it out. I know it's a holiday. I know I don't have a meeting. It's very confusing."
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Jennifer Beals
"I knew there was something I had to do yesterday. I couldn't remember what it is. I can't figure it out. I know it's a holiday. I know I don't have a meeting. It's very confusing."
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"Everybody wants to solve everybody's problems."
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Lara Flynn Boyle
"Everybody wants to solve everybody's problems."
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"A great figure or physique is nice, but it's self-confidence that makes someone really sexy."
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Vivica Fox
"A great figure or physique is nice, but it's self-confidence that makes someone really sexy."
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"I think Edith Evans is the most marvelous actress in the world and she can look beautiful. People who aren't beautiful can look beautiful. She can look as beautiful as Diana Cooper, who was the most beautiful woman in the world."
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Vivien Leigh
"I think Edith Evans is the most marvelous actress in the world and she can look beautiful. People who aren't beautiful can look beautiful. She can look as beautiful as Diana Cooper, who was the most beautiful woman in the world."
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"It's easier in some ways being on the life raft and the other guy's in the boat and you can row alongside and be supportive. In some ways, that's an easier role."
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Kyra Sedgwick
"It's easier in some ways being on the life raft and the other guy's in the boat and you can row alongside and be supportive. In some ways, that's an easier role."
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"I was all in gold sequins for Million Dollar Mermaid, 50 feet in the air."
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Esther Williams
"I was all in gold sequins for Million Dollar Mermaid, 50 feet in the air."
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"It doesn't matter if I don't succeed in something, what matters is that I learn from my mistakes."
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Linda Evans
"It doesn't matter if I don't succeed in something, what matters is that I learn from my mistakes."
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"I have a boy's body. I would prefer to have more curves because I think that's more beautiful. I would much rather have J. Lo's body than mine."
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Nicole Kidman
"I have a boy's body. I would prefer to have more curves because I think that's more beautiful. I would much rather have J. Lo's body than mine."
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"I can tell when men are threatened by my height."
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Allison Janney
"I can tell when men are threatened by my height."
Men,
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"Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best."
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Maude Adams
"Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best."
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"I respect his talents, even as he does mine."
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Jayne Meadows
"I respect his talents, even as he does mine."
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"I hate to look at myself in a mirror, and I never go and see films."
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Ursula Andress
"I hate to look at myself in a mirror, and I never go and see films."
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"I just let the character speak to me and things appear."
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Shirley Knight
"I just let the character speak to me and things appear."
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"I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character."
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Daisy Fuentes
"I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character."
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"There is a shyness about me, and I really need to get out more."
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Priscilla Presley
"There is a shyness about me, and I really need to get out more."
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"You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well."
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Carrie Fisher
"You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well."
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"The thing I was attracted to as a little girl was Kirk, Bones and Spock, and their utter loyalty. There's nothing more powerful than that."
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Jolene Blalock
"The thing I was attracted to as a little girl was Kirk, Bones and Spock, and their utter loyalty. There's nothing more powerful than that."
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"My mom is going to kill me for talking about sleeping with people. But I don't want to put myself in the position where I'm in a monogamous relationship right now. I'm not dating just one person. 'Sex and the City' changed everything for me because those girls would sleep with so many people."
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Lindsay Lohan
"My mom is going to kill me for talking about sleeping with people. But I don't want to put myself in the position where I'm in a monogamous relationship right now. I'm not dating just one person. 'Sex and the City' changed everything for me because those girls would sleep with so many people."
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"I'm happy when I'm juggling, but I feel like I've gone from, like, 3 balls to 10 bowling balls. But, that's a good problem. I don't really have a complaint about that."
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Kirstie Alley
"I'm happy when I'm juggling, but I feel like I've gone from, like, 3 balls to 10 bowling balls. But, that's a good problem. I don't really have a complaint about that."
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"I really don't consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I've never really been marketed by the big studios to do mass market box office films."
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Laura Dern
"I really don't consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I've never really been marketed by the big studios to do mass market box office films."
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"I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them."
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Frances Farmer
"I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them."
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"In the '50s, a lot of girls never saw beyond the wedding day."
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Helen Reddy
"In the '50s, a lot of girls never saw beyond the wedding day."
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"Well, this would be nice if it worked out, but I'm not selling the farm."
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Jill Clayburgh
"Well, this would be nice if it worked out, but I'm not selling the farm."
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"You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me."
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Vivien Leigh
"You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me."
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"I'm a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I've really had to decide what's important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with show business."
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Diana Ross
"I'm a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I've really had to decide what's important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with show business."
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"I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic."
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Lorna Luft
"I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic."
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"I was born with a fierce need for independence."
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Michelle Williams
"I was born with a fierce need for independence."
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"I like writing better. Because I don't have to wear makeup, I don't have to be thin, and I don't have to remember lines."
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Fran Drescher
"I like writing better. Because I don't have to wear makeup, I don't have to be thin, and I don't have to remember lines."
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"I had done 25 motion pictures prior to The Partridge Family and nobody knew my name."
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Shirley Jones
"I had done 25 motion pictures prior to The Partridge Family and nobody knew my name."
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"We owned a bearded collie for many years. Sophie. She was old, and she died last year."
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Erika Slezak
"We owned a bearded collie for many years. Sophie. She was old, and she died last year."
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"I think you have to relax about aging. What else can you do?"
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Felicity Kendal
"I think you have to relax about aging. What else can you do?"
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"I can hear you and I can watch your mouth move, and then I put together the sounds and the visual image, and I can understand the words as I integrate the two signals."
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Marlee Matlin
"I can hear you and I can watch your mouth move, and then I put together the sounds and the visual image, and I can understand the words as I integrate the two signals."
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"I binge when I'm happy. When everything is going really well, every day is like I'm at a birthday party."
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Kirstie Alley
"I binge when I'm happy. When everything is going really well, every day is like I'm at a birthday party."
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"I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes."
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Sally Field
"I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes."
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"Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot."
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Debbie Allen
"Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot."
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"Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere."
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Diane Cilento
"Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere."
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"There are generations who watch Doctor Who together."
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Sarah Sutton
"There are generations who watch Doctor Who together."
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"I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs, the music, the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world."
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Sharon Stone
"I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs, the music, the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world."
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"I have been dairy free for several years, and I started because I felt it was going to reduce my allergies, which it did, and help me lose weight, which it did."
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Fran Drescher
"I have been dairy free for several years, and I started because I felt it was going to reduce my allergies, which it did, and help me lose weight, which it did."
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"Mom always tells me to celebrate everyone's uniqueness. I like the way that sounds."
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Hilary Duff
"Mom always tells me to celebrate everyone's uniqueness. I like the way that sounds."
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"I used to sit near Marilyn Monroe in the Actor's Studio. She'd get dressed up because that was her identity. Sad. Those cameras wouldn't leave her alone. She didn't know where to hide."
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Doris Roberts
"I used to sit near Marilyn Monroe in the Actor's Studio. She'd get dressed up because that was her identity. Sad. Those cameras wouldn't leave her alone. She didn't know where to hide."
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"As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary."
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Sylvia Kristel
"As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary."
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"And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy."
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Fran Drescher
"And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy."
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