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"Most of the press is sent to my publicist so I do see most of what is written about me."
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Sela Ward
"Most of the press is sent to my publicist so I do see most of what is written about me."
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"It was a challenge to be able to create a character without being able to use one's normal set of expressions. All the rubber and makeup attached to your face left you with only a modest range of facial movements."
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Helena Bonham Carter
"It was a challenge to be able to create a character without being able to use one's normal set of expressions. All the rubber and makeup attached to your face left you with only a modest range of facial movements."
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"Well, my favorite color I guess I would say yellow."
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Fran Drescher
"Well, my favorite color I guess I would say yellow."
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"The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man."
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Norma Shearer
"The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man."
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"I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story."
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Rachel Griffiths
"I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story."
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"In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic."
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Loni Anderson
"In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic."
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"I'm a horror movie fanatic."
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Gina Philips
"I'm a horror movie fanatic."
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"I don't think today's younger audience... would even know what 1920s musicals were like."
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Julie Andrews
"I don't think today's younger audience... would even know what 1920s musicals were like."
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"I started out doing theater and a soap in New York and that's... sort of what I got stuck in. I was blessed enough to have long runs, and it's sort of hard sometimes then to get out."
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Susan Sullivan
"I started out doing theater and a soap in New York and that's... sort of what I got stuck in. I was blessed enough to have long runs, and it's sort of hard sometimes then to get out."
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"It's like our relationship is always about the other side that isn't the obvious side."
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Rosario Dawson
"It's like our relationship is always about the other side that isn't the obvious side."
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"Network heads don't seemed to be turned off by the men who get older."
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Sharon Gless
"Network heads don't seemed to be turned off by the men who get older."
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"I have always been willing to take the blame for the things I have done."
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Lillie Langtry
"I have always been willing to take the blame for the things I have done."
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"You'd think that I'd be dieting, but I'm not."
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Kelly Hu
"You'd think that I'd be dieting, but I'm not."
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"Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?"
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Bebe Neuwirth
"Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?"
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"I think some people in their 20s really get it, that acting is about creativity and the work. They get their maturity from their work."
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Jane Badler
"I think some people in their 20s really get it, that acting is about creativity and the work. They get their maturity from their work."
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"I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive."
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Elizabeth Taylor
"I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive."
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"No one has really heard my side of the story, the adventure we had together, the transformation that I had going from a schoolgirl to a woman overnight."
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Priscilla Presley
"No one has really heard my side of the story, the adventure we had together, the transformation that I had going from a schoolgirl to a woman overnight."
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"My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned."
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Halle Berry
"My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned."
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"But on the whole, nothing requires unbearable energy for me, it's just a normal thing."
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Isabelle Huppert
"But on the whole, nothing requires unbearable energy for me, it's just a normal thing."
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"You have so much to share, you have so much to tell, you have so much you want to expose, so much that's inside that you've learned from that life period. There are really very few people I can share that with."
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Priscilla Presley
"You have so much to share, you have so much to tell, you have so much you want to expose, so much that's inside that you've learned from that life period. There are really very few people I can share that with."
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"I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me."
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Barbra Streisand
"I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me."
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"I think my face and voice suit me better as I get older."
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Lusia Strus
"I think my face and voice suit me better as I get older."
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"I was in group therapy for years but it wasn't the same thing. It was more about growing."
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Sally Kellerman
"I was in group therapy for years but it wasn't the same thing. It was more about growing."
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"I'm opening up my heart to the idea of dating. It's funny - my friends would always come to me for romantic advice. I know nothing, and things have changed since I was dating in high school! I'm really trying hard to spend this time working on myself."
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Olivia Wilde
"I'm opening up my heart to the idea of dating. It's funny - my friends would always come to me for romantic advice. I know nothing, and things have changed since I was dating in high school! I'm really trying hard to spend this time working on myself."
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"Cary Grant was wonderful to work with on stage. He would move downstage, so that as he looked at me the audience had to look at me, too. He knew a lot about the theater and how to move around. He was very secure."
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Fay Wray
"Cary Grant was wonderful to work with on stage. He would move downstage, so that as he looked at me the audience had to look at me, too. He knew a lot about the theater and how to move around. He was very secure."
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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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"I enjoy hats. And when one has filthy hair, that is a good accessory."
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Julia Roberts
"I enjoy hats. And when one has filthy hair, that is a good accessory."
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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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"I have a strong dance background. I danced from age five till 18, and that helps a lot. Doing a fight routine is like doing a dance routine."
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Yvonne Strahovski
"I have a strong dance background. I danced from age five till 18, and that helps a lot. Doing a fight routine is like doing a dance routine."
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"Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother."
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Katharine Hepburn
"Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother."
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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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"And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating - and the levels of the communication that I've seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don't we have that here?"
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Emma Thompson
"And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating - and the levels of the communication that I've seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don't we have that here?"
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"I try to keep an open mind but I'm so tired of the mediocrity."
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Clea Duvall
"I try to keep an open mind but I'm so tired of the mediocrity."
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"Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage."
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Drew Barrymore
"Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage."
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"Men are wonderful. I adore them. They always give you the benefit of the doubt."
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Gene Tierney
"Men are wonderful. I adore them. They always give you the benefit of the doubt."
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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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"I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with."
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Natalie Portman
"I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with."
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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've always been fascinated by Asian culture, and I love that women can play the lead in a horror film."
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Sarah Michelle Gellar
"I've always been fascinated by Asian culture, and I love that women can play the lead in a horror film."
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"Ulcerative colitis can be cured by the operation, but you cannot cure Crohn's disease."
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Mary Ann Mobley
"Ulcerative colitis can be cured by the operation, but you cannot cure Crohn's disease."
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"I am more spontaneous than my character."
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Gillian Anderson
"I am more spontaneous than my character."
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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 am a really bad test taker. I can get straight As in school, but I get nervous on test."
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Mary-Kate Olsen
"I am a really bad test taker. I can get straight As in school, but I get nervous on test."
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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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"It was sort of that in-between area when people don't talk about their personal lives. That's the kind of life I think Kerry would be living now if it weren't for the Lopez character sort of outing her."
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Laura Innes
"It was sort of that in-between area when people don't talk about their personal lives. That's the kind of life I think Kerry would be living now if it weren't for the Lopez character sort of outing her."
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"Though I'm not religious in the classical sense I did partake in Passover."
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Fran Drescher
"Though I'm not religious in the classical sense I did partake in Passover."
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"I had a great time on The Shield. From working on it I have a totally different view of law enforcement."
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Glenn Close
"I had a great time on The Shield. From working on it I have a totally different view of law enforcement."
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"I just had a full body cleanse. And am eating right and exercising a lot."
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Alfre Woodard
"I just had a full body cleanse. And am eating right and exercising a lot."
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