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Quotes by Actress

"The least consideration of any film I've ever worked on is who is right for it."
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Kelly Lynch
"The least consideration of any film I've ever worked on is who is right for it."
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"Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on."
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Charlotte Gainsbourg
"Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on."
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"There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing."
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Fiona Shaw
"There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing."
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"Football is a passion that she holds dear to her heart. She's really going for her dream and there are obstacles in the way, but deep down she knows what she wants, and she pursues that."
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Parminder Nagra
"Football is a passion that she holds dear to her heart. She's really going for her dream and there are obstacles in the way, but deep down she knows what she wants, and she pursues that."
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"I don't believe in expending energy on something you can't do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I'd probably do it."
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Francesca Annis
"I don't believe in expending energy on something you can't do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I'd probably do it."
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"Nothing is going to improve my hearing. I've only got to prevent it from getting worse."
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Stephanie Beacham
"Nothing is going to improve my hearing. I've only got to prevent it from getting worse."
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"I didn't have anything to do with being born to my mother and father. But I had a lot to do with Kristin Shepard's notoriety. I'm proud of the work I did on Dallas."
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Mary Crosby
"I didn't have anything to do with being born to my mother and father. But I had a lot to do with Kristin Shepard's notoriety. I'm proud of the work I did on Dallas."
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"I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life."
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Charlotte Gainsbourg
"I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life."
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"The only problem with the way they do my character is that they have her get redeemed too early."
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Hunter Tylo
"The only problem with the way they do my character is that they have her get redeemed too early."
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"I love playing the vamp, and I get sent out for a lot of that stuff, maybe because I do it well."
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Jamie Luner
"I love playing the vamp, and I get sent out for a lot of that stuff, maybe because I do it well."
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"Because I take care of my body, it doesn't look like the body of a woman of my years."
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Gloria Swanson
"Because I take care of my body, it doesn't look like the body of a woman of my years."
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"I didn't get into acting to have a moment, I got into it because of people who've inspired me, like Judi Dench, Holly Hunter, and Jodie Foster."
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Amy Adams
"I didn't get into acting to have a moment, I got into it because of people who've inspired me, like Judi Dench, Holly Hunter, and Jodie Foster."
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"You have people who can't act and they get all these parts. Paris Hilton falls into her own category. She's made a career out of it."
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Kate Hudson
"You have people who can't act and they get all these parts. Paris Hilton falls into her own category. She's made a career out of it."
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"I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run."
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Aishwarya Rai
"I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run."
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"I don't feel like a dream girl, but I think it's really nice. I guess a part of me wishes I got that sort of attention in my real life. Because in my real life, I'm this weird, dorky girl who just hangs out with her dog."
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Alicia Silverstone
"I don't feel like a dream girl, but I think it's really nice. I guess a part of me wishes I got that sort of attention in my real life. Because in my real life, I'm this weird, dorky girl who just hangs out with her dog."
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"I can wholeheartedly apologize for not being at all sorry. And it really is the least I can do."
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April Winchell
"I can wholeheartedly apologize for not being at all sorry. And it really is the least I can do."
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"My mom always taught me to be sweet and polite and cross my legs because it's what the guys like. Actually, they like a raunchy girl once in a while."
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Tiffani Amber Thiessen
"My mom always taught me to be sweet and polite and cross my legs because it's what the guys like. Actually, they like a raunchy girl once in a while."
Mom,
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"It makes me so angry - there's enough food in the world but people are starving. It's all political."
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Judith Light
"It makes me so angry - there's enough food in the world but people are starving. It's all political."
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"A Golden Globe is a mood-altering substance, there's no doubt about that."
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Rachel Griffiths
"A Golden Globe is a mood-altering substance, there's no doubt about that."
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"I had one nanny who made me sit in front of a bowl of porridge for three or four days running when I refused to eat it. I remember being very unhappy about that."
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Anjelica Huston
"I had one nanny who made me sit in front of a bowl of porridge for three or four days running when I refused to eat it. I remember being very unhappy about that."
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"I'm basically for the whole year just traveling with three suitcases."
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Paige Davis
"I'm basically for the whole year just traveling with three suitcases."
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"Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me."
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Victoria Abril
"Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me."
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"Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay."
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Doris Day
"Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay."
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"All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents."
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Joan Chen
"All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents."
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"I was always a fan of horror films as a kid."
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Jeri Ryan
"I was always a fan of horror films as a kid."
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"I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself."
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Loretta Young
"I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself."
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"I walk around feeling a sort of existential guilt all the time; and honestly for me this house is a way of feeling less guilty about the universe."
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Julia Louis Dreyfus
"I walk around feeling a sort of existential guilt all the time; and honestly for me this house is a way of feeling less guilty about the universe."
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"Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides."
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Gene Tierney
"Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides."
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"People can only do what they are ready to do when they are ready to do it."
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Judith Light
"People can only do what they are ready to do when they are ready to do it."
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"Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?"
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Barbra Streisand
"Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?"
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"If I wasn't an actress I would run a fortune 500 company."
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Sela Ward
"If I wasn't an actress I would run a fortune 500 company."
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"Animals speak with pure affection. It's important to me to get something going in NY so we can get to be a no-kill city, and give the animals homes and more attention and love."
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Bernadette Peters
"Animals speak with pure affection. It's important to me to get something going in NY so we can get to be a no-kill city, and give the animals homes and more attention and love."
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"People say, 'Just say who you're dating. Then people will stop being so ravenous about it.' It's like, No they won't! They'll ask for specifics."
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Kristen Stewart
"People say, 'Just say who you're dating. Then people will stop being so ravenous about it.' It's like, No they won't! They'll ask for specifics."
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"It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about it because all the relationships in the film are so, not negative, but antagonistic. There's not a lot of love going around."
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Jennifer Beals
"It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about it because all the relationships in the film are so, not negative, but antagonistic. There's not a lot of love going around."
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"Early on in my career, I'd go into the makeup trailer, and they'd spend an hour doing my makeup, and I would hate it. I'd go into the bathroom, wash it off and start over again, which took an enormous amount of time. So I just started doing it myself."
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Donna Mills
"Early on in my career, I'd go into the makeup trailer, and they'd spend an hour doing my makeup, and I would hate it. I'd go into the bathroom, wash it off and start over again, which took an enormous amount of time. So I just started doing it myself."
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"There is a point in every young person's life when you realize that the youth that you've progressed through and graduate to some sort of adulthood is equally as messed up as where you're going."
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Jena Malone
"There is a point in every young person's life when you realize that the youth that you've progressed through and graduate to some sort of adulthood is equally as messed up as where you're going."
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"I came to Christ when I was thirty-eight. That transformed my life."
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Jennifer O'Neill
"I came to Christ when I was thirty-eight. That transformed my life."
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"Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful, and so telling and so true."
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Delta Burke
"Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful, and so telling and so true."
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"I don't even own a TV because I think it's the devil."
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Cameron Diaz
"I don't even own a TV because I think it's the devil."
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"We've been listening to Wagner, which is so great."
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Bernadette Peters
"We've been listening to Wagner, which is so great."
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"Water for me is so essential, like swimming."
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Nastassja Kinski
"Water for me is so essential, like swimming."
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"People really feel the need to share how the series has touched their lives, and that's been very moving. We're enormously grateful to the fans of the show. They've been extremely loyal to us season after season, and they make it all worthwhile."
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Roma Downey
"People really feel the need to share how the series has touched their lives, and that's been very moving. We're enormously grateful to the fans of the show. They've been extremely loyal to us season after season, and they make it all worthwhile."
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"I believe the director is the one that sets the mood and if you have this hysterical director it's a domino effect. I would work for him forever, for nothing. Don't tell my agent that."
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Elizabeth Pena
"I believe the director is the one that sets the mood and if you have this hysterical director it's a domino effect. I would work for him forever, for nothing. Don't tell my agent that."
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"I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be."
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Gene Tierney
"I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be."
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"I like to be at home because I just travel so much. I have four dogs, golden retrievers."
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Denise Richards
"I like to be at home because I just travel so much. I have four dogs, golden retrievers."
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"Terry's mother worked in the film industry for many years. She always wanted him to marry an actress."
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Marta Kristen
"Terry's mother worked in the film industry for many years. She always wanted him to marry an actress."
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"I had been told by so many people that I was going to be nominated, that I should be nominated, that there wasn't any question about my being nominated. I don't think it was a surprise."
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Gloria Stuart
"I had been told by so many people that I was going to be nominated, that I should be nominated, that there wasn't any question about my being nominated. I don't think it was a surprise."
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"Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography."
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Pamela Stephenson
"Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography."
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"Don't rely on men but don't shun them either."
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Jennifer Aniston
"Don't rely on men but don't shun them either."
Men,
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"I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born."
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Fiona Shaw
"I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born."
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