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Quotes by Actress

"You have to feel more involved than just writing out a cheque. Charity is almost the wrong word - I think people are beginning to feel more responsible for the world."
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Joanna Lumley
"You have to feel more involved than just writing out a cheque. Charity is almost the wrong word - I think people are beginning to feel more responsible for the world."
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"They pulled Resurrection out of the theatres, so it was running in New York and I was nominated for the Oscar and there was no ad in the newspapers to say it was running. So it was literally killed."
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Ellen Burstyn
"They pulled Resurrection out of the theatres, so it was running in New York and I was nominated for the Oscar and there was no ad in the newspapers to say it was running. So it was literally killed."
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"Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do."
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Zsa Zsa Gabor
"Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do."
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"I don't know anybody's road who's been paved perfectly for them, there are no manuals, you don't know what life has in store for you."
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Drew Barrymore
"I don't know anybody's road who's been paved perfectly for them, there are no manuals, you don't know what life has in store for you."
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"I love going to the set every day, because Noah Wylie will be there waiting."
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Sherry Stringfield
"I love going to the set every day, because Noah Wylie will be there waiting."
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"As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I'm not going to say what they were."
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Julie Christie
"As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I'm not going to say what they were."
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"My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman."
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Loni Anderson
"My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman."
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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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"I think I'm more European in personality."
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Sally Kirkland
"I think I'm more European in personality."
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"I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything."
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Emma Thompson
"I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything."
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"I think anybody over 30 plays parents because it happens in your thirties and so that's kind of a natural progression. But I'm definitely drawn to it. It's probably the most intense, passionate thing that happens to you as you get older."
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Jodie Foster
"I think anybody over 30 plays parents because it happens in your thirties and so that's kind of a natural progression. But I'm definitely drawn to it. It's probably the most intense, passionate thing that happens to you as you get older."
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"The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step."
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Calista Flockhart
"The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step."
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"I didn't know who the hell I was. I was whoever they wanted me to be."
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Natalie Wood
"I didn't know who the hell I was. I was whoever they wanted me to be."
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"It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time."
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Tallulah Bankhead
"It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time."
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"There are several paths one can take, but not every path is open to you."
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Claire Bloom
"There are several paths one can take, but not every path is open to you."
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"I think there are a lot of other actors that are just talented, it's just about this opportunity - it's just about when are we going to be put in those positions where we can shine."
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Nia Long
"I think there are a lot of other actors that are just talented, it's just about this opportunity - it's just about when are we going to be put in those positions where we can shine."
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"I've figured out what to do so far, but it's always the next thing you come to where the man with the bucket of ice cold water is waiting - whoosh! in your face. That's why you work with directors who know what to tell you to do."
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Judi Dench
"I've figured out what to do so far, but it's always the next thing you come to where the man with the bucket of ice cold water is waiting - whoosh! in your face. That's why you work with directors who know what to tell you to do."
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"Sometimes I miss the spirit of London, but it's a very gray place."
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Claire Forlani
"Sometimes I miss the spirit of London, but it's a very gray place."
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"I like the way my own feet smell. I love to smell my sneakers when I take them off."
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Christina Ricci
"I like the way my own feet smell. I love to smell my sneakers when I take them off."
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"I get to pretend I'm flying into space, and hang out with my friends. That's what I do for a living."
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Jeri Ryan
"I get to pretend I'm flying into space, and hang out with my friends. That's what I do for a living."
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"I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it."
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Mercedes McCambridge
"I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it."
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"When things are perfect, that's when you need to worry most."
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Drew Barrymore
"When things are perfect, that's when you need to worry most."
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"Critics established a snobbery toward me."
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Esther Williams
"Critics established a snobbery toward me."
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"If I'm a star, then the people made me a star."
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Marilyn Monroe
"If I'm a star, then the people made me a star."
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"I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York."
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Laura San Giacomo
"I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York."
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"Dodi got a lot of criticism when he began dating Princess Diana. No one seemed to think he was good enough for her."
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Lorna Luft
"Dodi got a lot of criticism when he began dating Princess Diana. No one seemed to think he was good enough for her."
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"Tune in to Kids and Family Week is perfect for me."
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Melissa Joan Hart
"Tune in to Kids and Family Week is perfect for me."
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"I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times."
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Elizabeth Taylor
"I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times."
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"They still had the Lord Chamberlain, so we had this idiotic censorship. We were allowed three Jesus Christs instead of 10. Why three were OK, I don't know."
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Uta Hagen
"They still had the Lord Chamberlain, so we had this idiotic censorship. We were allowed three Jesus Christs instead of 10. Why three were OK, I don't know."
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"Good roles are hard to find no matter what age."
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Glenn Close
"Good roles are hard to find no matter what age."
Age,
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"We're all with Friends until Friends dies. If one of us goes, we all go. One of us wouldn't leave. It wouldn't be the show it is without each of us."
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Jennifer Aniston
"We're all with Friends until Friends dies. If one of us goes, we all go. One of us wouldn't leave. It wouldn't be the show it is without each of us."
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"I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He's usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it's strange."
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Megan Fox
"I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He's usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it's strange."
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"A few years ago I was at a party and this guy threw me over his shoulder, ran across the street, put me in his car, and stuck his tongue in my mouth."
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Rachel Bilson
"A few years ago I was at a party and this guy threw me over his shoulder, ran across the street, put me in his car, and stuck his tongue in my mouth."
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"Take a step back, evaluate what is important, and enjoy life."
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Teri Garr
"Take a step back, evaluate what is important, and enjoy life."
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"When I am presented with good work, I accept it. Wherever it is."
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Phylicia Rashad
"When I am presented with good work, I accept it. Wherever it is."
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"It's challenging, but you have to at least try to eat right and exercise."
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Joely Fisher
"It's challenging, but you have to at least try to eat right and exercise."
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"When you become a mom you just learn how to function sleep deprived and you do get used to it. I came back to work when Finley was three months old and the first few months were rough. Then somehow you learn to exist on no sleep and now when he does upon occasion sleep through the night, which is like a full six hours, you're pretty sure he's suffocating. So you don't sleep anyway."
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Holly Marie Combs
"When you become a mom you just learn how to function sleep deprived and you do get used to it. I came back to work when Finley was three months old and the first few months were rough. Then somehow you learn to exist on no sleep and now when he does upon occasion sleep through the night, which is like a full six hours, you're pretty sure he's suffocating. So you don't sleep anyway."
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"Everybody smokes! Models, actresses, everyone! Don't they realize that it's gross? I understand it's an addiction, but it still pains me to see my friends do it."
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Kirsten Dunst
"Everybody smokes! Models, actresses, everyone! Don't they realize that it's gross? I understand it's an addiction, but it still pains me to see my friends do it."
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"I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves."
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Shirley MacLaine
"I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves."
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"Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's best done by disguising it as doing something, and the something closest to doing nothing is walking."
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Rebecca Solnit
"Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's best done by disguising it as doing something, and the something closest to doing nothing is walking."
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"I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one."
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Francesca Annis
"I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one."
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"If you believe in what you're doing, you'll be successful."
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Connie Sellecca
"If you believe in what you're doing, you'll be successful."
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"I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories."
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Hedy Lamarr
"I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories."
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"How I was raised is what I am today."
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Joan Chen
"How I was raised is what I am today."
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"When my dad divorced my mom it was kind of like him leaving me also."
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Nicole Richie
"When my dad divorced my mom it was kind of like him leaving me also."
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"I wish I could blame it on the choreography, but it's not a musical. I just had a clumsy moment."
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Delta Burke
"I wish I could blame it on the choreography, but it's not a musical. I just had a clumsy moment."
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"I feel like I haven't done my best work yet. I feel like there's a world of possibilities out there."
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Liza Minnelli
"I feel like I haven't done my best work yet. I feel like there's a world of possibilities out there."
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"One soft humid early spring morning driving a winding road across Mount Tamalpais, the 2,500-foot mountain just north of the Golden Gate Bridge, a bend reveals a sudden vision of San Francisco in shades of blue, a city in a dream, and I was filled with a tremendous yearning to live in that place of blue hills and blue buildings, though I do live there, I had just left there after breakfast."
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Rebecca Solnit
"One soft humid early spring morning driving a winding road across Mount Tamalpais, the 2,500-foot mountain just north of the Golden Gate Bridge, a bend reveals a sudden vision of San Francisco in shades of blue, a city in a dream, and I was filled with a tremendous yearning to live in that place of blue hills and blue buildings, though I do live there, I had just left there after breakfast."
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"I've been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease."
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Loni Anderson
"I've been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease."
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"I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood."
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Marlee Matlin
"I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood."
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