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Quotes by Actress

"Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office."
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Mae West
"Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office."
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"Yeah, some kids called me fish lips because I had these really full lips. Now I'm sure all those same girls are getting collagen injections, so I'm having the last laugh."
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Denise Richards
"Yeah, some kids called me fish lips because I had these really full lips. Now I'm sure all those same girls are getting collagen injections, so I'm having the last laugh."
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"Look at any black-and-white movie; everybody is smoking."
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Loni Anderson
"Look at any black-and-white movie; everybody is smoking."
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"Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine."
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Joan Collins
"Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine."
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"Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head."
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Carol Burnett
"Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head."
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"It's so hard to keep everything balanced in life."
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Rosanna Arquette
"It's so hard to keep everything balanced in life."
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"Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times."
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Aisha Tyler
"Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times."
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"My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!"
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Salma Hayek
"My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!"
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"I get lonely when I'm a Playstation widow."
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Ashley Judd
"I get lonely when I'm a Playstation widow."
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"I confess it, I love the camera. When it's not on me, I'm not quite alive."
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Genevieve Bujold
"I confess it, I love the camera. When it's not on me, I'm not quite alive."
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"I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it."
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Mae West
"I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it."
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"Every woman feels she is too old and has missed the boat."
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Felicity Kendal
"Every woman feels she is too old and has missed the boat."
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"I have no private life at all. I am a hunted woman. I can't take a step without being questioned and surrounded."
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Brigitte Bardot
"I have no private life at all. I am a hunted woman. I can't take a step without being questioned and surrounded."
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"It was pretty much the way that it was when I first read it, although one exception would be that some ideas that I had were also incorporated into the script."
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Chiaki Kuriyama
"It was pretty much the way that it was when I first read it, although one exception would be that some ideas that I had were also incorporated into the script."
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"Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic."
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Kim Cattrall
"Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic."
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"When they tested Fatal Attraction, the audiences were so upset by her behavior, they literally demanded her blood."
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Glenn Close
"When they tested Fatal Attraction, the audiences were so upset by her behavior, they literally demanded her blood."
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"I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one."
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Nastassja Kinski
"I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one."
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"I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress."
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Cameron Diaz
"I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress."
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"I often feel like I have this spirit living inside of me, always dressing in like short mini skirts... but then I start to discover myself. So there are eight spirits, mischievous ones, sad ones, handsome ones, wise ones, and crazy ones."
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Bai Ling
"I often feel like I have this spirit living inside of me, always dressing in like short mini skirts... but then I start to discover myself. So there are eight spirits, mischievous ones, sad ones, handsome ones, wise ones, and crazy ones."
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"The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation."
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Stella Adler
"The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation."
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"Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die."
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Carrie Fisher
"Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die."
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"I was homecoming queen. I was star of my basketball team."
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Marla Maples
"I was homecoming queen. I was star of my basketball team."
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"Ruby in Paradise and the intensity and quality that I was able to experience on Smoke were equally as important to me as working on this movie every day for three-and-a-half months."
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Ashley Judd
"Ruby in Paradise and the intensity and quality that I was able to experience on Smoke were equally as important to me as working on this movie every day for three-and-a-half months."
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"Where is this Hollywood scene, where is it? I'd like to find it one day... If I want to go out and have a good time, I go to New York."
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Natasha Henstridge
"Where is this Hollywood scene, where is it? I'd like to find it one day... If I want to go out and have a good time, I go to New York."
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"An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine."
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Marilyn Monroe
"An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine."
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"The more I see of men, the more I like dogs."
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Clara Bow
"The more I see of men, the more I like dogs."
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"I've always just gone with the best role, and I don't care if it's in theater, film or television."
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Kristen Johnston
"I've always just gone with the best role, and I don't care if it's in theater, film or television."
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"I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a woman."
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Dana Plato
"I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a woman."
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"I'm pretty gross. When I talk I can be gross and crude."
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Yvonne Strahovski
"I'm pretty gross. When I talk I can be gross and crude."
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"Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years."
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Simone Signoret
"Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years."
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"During the day I don't wear much makeup."
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Denise Richards
"During the day I don't wear much makeup."
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"I don't normally look like a twig and I do eat like a pig but the weight has just dropped off me."
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Sienna Miller
"I don't normally look like a twig and I do eat like a pig but the weight has just dropped off me."
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"Horrifying as it was to crack up in the public eye, it made me look at myself and fix it. People were exploitative; that's human nature."
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Margot Kidder
"Horrifying as it was to crack up in the public eye, it made me look at myself and fix it. People were exploitative; that's human nature."
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"The industry's memory is quite short, it's true."
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Diane Lane
"The industry's memory is quite short, it's true."
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"Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable."
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Jodie Foster
"Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable."
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"I like a man who can run faster than I can."
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Jane Russell
"I like a man who can run faster than I can."
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"I came to acting in a very circuitous way."
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Victoria Pratt
"I came to acting in a very circuitous way."
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"Cute is when your personality shines through your looks. Like, when you see someone's personality in the way they walk and you just feel like hugging them every time you see them."
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Natalie Portman
"Cute is when your personality shines through your looks. Like, when you see someone's personality in the way they walk and you just feel like hugging them every time you see them."
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"I could never, ever have an abortion."
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Brooke Shields
"I could never, ever have an abortion."
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"Angelina Jolie may get Antonio Banderas in bed for eight hours on a movie set, but I get him in bed everyday."
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Melanie Griffith
"Angelina Jolie may get Antonio Banderas in bed for eight hours on a movie set, but I get him in bed everyday."
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"A 41-inch bust and a lot of perseverance will get you more than a cup of coffee - a lot more."
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Jayne Mansfield
"A 41-inch bust and a lot of perseverance will get you more than a cup of coffee - a lot more."
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"The entire race is usually judged by the actions of one man or woman."
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Hattie McDaniel
"The entire race is usually judged by the actions of one man or woman."
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"I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end."
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Drew Barrymore
"I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end."
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"I smoke all the time, one after the other."
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Greta Garbo
"I smoke all the time, one after the other."
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"Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't."
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Kathleen Turner
"Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't."
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"From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture."
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Gloria Swanson
"From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture."
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"I wore a lot of vintage clothing. I dressed like a reporter, with a little card in my hat. I had these fantasies of who I wanted to be, so I'd dress like an explorer, a cowboy. I dressed up like Elton John a lot too. That was another period."
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Illeana Douglas
"I wore a lot of vintage clothing. I dressed like a reporter, with a little card in my hat. I had these fantasies of who I wanted to be, so I'd dress like an explorer, a cowboy. I dressed up like Elton John a lot too. That was another period."
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"In my day, people didn't do nude scenes. I mean they didn't exist."
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Claire Bloom
"In my day, people didn't do nude scenes. I mean they didn't exist."
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"Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first."
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Pearl Bailey
"Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first."
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"Right now, I do not like kids at all. I mean, I love my fans and everything, but when you have kids following you around all day, it's like, "Ugh, kids!" Maybe that will change when I get older."
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Vanessa Hudgens
"Right now, I do not like kids at all. I mean, I love my fans and everything, but when you have kids following you around all day, it's like, "Ugh, kids!" Maybe that will change when I get older."
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