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"Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening."
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Emma Thompson
"Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening."
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"I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives."
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Salma Hayek
"I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives."
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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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"The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me."
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Greta Garbo
"The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me."
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"Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you."
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Meryl Streep
"Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you."
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"It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them."
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Lana Turner
"It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them."
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"It's that I'm 39. I feel hot and sexy, actually... I feel it inside myself. I don't feel dried up and tired and no longer interested in sex is what I'm trying to say."
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Kyra Sedgwick
"It's that I'm 39. I feel hot and sexy, actually... I feel it inside myself. I don't feel dried up and tired and no longer interested in sex is what I'm trying to say."
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"My boyfriend keeps telling me I've got to own things. So, first I bought this car. And then he told me I oughta get a house. 'Why a house?' 'Well, you gotta have a place to park the car.'"
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Julia Roberts
"My boyfriend keeps telling me I've got to own things. So, first I bought this car. And then he told me I oughta get a house. 'Why a house?' 'Well, you gotta have a place to park the car.'"
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"I can't do theatre in the US,' she says, 'because I don't have a green card."
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Jacqueline McKenzie
"I can't do theatre in the US,' she says, 'because I don't have a green card."
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"Ibsen was Norwegian by birth, but universal in spirit."
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Liv Ullmann
"Ibsen was Norwegian by birth, but universal in spirit."
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"I am still learning every day not to watch other people's careers and compare."
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Joely Fisher
"I am still learning every day not to watch other people's careers and compare."
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"The thing that I like about the way characters are written on the show these days is that nobody's perfect. Everyone has made a lot of mistakes and bad choices."
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Crystal Chappell
"The thing that I like about the way characters are written on the show these days is that nobody's perfect. Everyone has made a lot of mistakes and bad choices."
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"The fact of the matter is that everybody treats me pretty much as one of the boys, which I take as a great compliment."
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Julia Louis Dreyfus
"The fact of the matter is that everybody treats me pretty much as one of the boys, which I take as a great compliment."
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"Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did."
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Bette Davis
"Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did."
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"I never felt settled or calm. You can't really commit to life when you feel that."
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Angelina Jolie
"I never felt settled or calm. You can't really commit to life when you feel that."
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"I still get the kids to the doctor and dentist and plan their play dates and buy their clothes."
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Patricia Richardson
"I still get the kids to the doctor and dentist and plan their play dates and buy their clothes."
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"I'd love to be a voice in 'Toy Story 4.'"
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Jackie Weaver
"I'd love to be a voice in 'Toy Story 4.'"
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"There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent."
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Zhang Ziyi
"There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent."
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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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"Playing roles that are intense and damaged has always come more easily to me than doing comedies or lighter stuff - that would be taking a huge risk for me."
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Sarah Polley
"Playing roles that are intense and damaged has always come more easily to me than doing comedies or lighter stuff - that would be taking a huge risk for me."
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"We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise."
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Raquel Welch
"We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise."
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"The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it."
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Lauren Graham
"The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it."
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"If I'm not afraid when I'm reading a script, that means I know I've done it before. If I read something and think, Wow, I can't play this part, then I want to play it more."
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Linda Fiorentino
"If I'm not afraid when I'm reading a script, that means I know I've done it before. If I read something and think, Wow, I can't play this part, then I want to play it more."
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"OK, well maybe I have to get back to Judaism. In the sense that if I look at me and my forebears forever stretching back to I don't know, whenever there's no sense of place and therefore no sense of nationality."
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Janet Suzman
"OK, well maybe I have to get back to Judaism. In the sense that if I look at me and my forebears forever stretching back to I don't know, whenever there's no sense of place and therefore no sense of nationality."
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"The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs."
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Marlene Dietrich
"The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs."
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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 really enjoy singing and I really enjoy acting, but singing I've been doing since I was really young."
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Lindsay Lohan
"I really enjoy singing and I really enjoy acting, but singing I've been doing since I was really young."
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"Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying, but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?"
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Lily Tomlin
"Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying, but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?"
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"At least, I'm very happy that it's going out on DVD because if it wasn't for the fans who signed this petition and were really ongoing about how they loved it, we wouldn't see this DVD right now."
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Caroline Dhavernas
"At least, I'm very happy that it's going out on DVD because if it wasn't for the fans who signed this petition and were really ongoing about how they loved it, we wouldn't see this DVD right now."
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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 want them to listen to me for what I am saying. And I think the best way to do that is to sniff my armpits, and like, sit and burp every now and then."
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Michelle Rodriguez
"I want them to listen to me for what I am saying. And I think the best way to do that is to sniff my armpits, and like, sit and burp every now and then."
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"Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least for me... dreading this idea that I was just going to suck and I really had strong feelings about that. I just didn't want to be that weak link."
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Tea Leoni
"Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least for me... dreading this idea that I was just going to suck and I really had strong feelings about that. I just didn't want to be that weak link."
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"I look at the kids coming out of Yale. They are so intelligent with their careers. I wish I had that."
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Dianne Wiest
"I look at the kids coming out of Yale. They are so intelligent with their careers. I wish I had that."
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"I had had no art training."
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Dorothy Malone
"I had had no art training."
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"I like cats. I used to have a lot of cats, but I don't anymore, now I just have a dog. It does take a certain temperament to have a cat, as they do have certain personalities."
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Jennifer Love Hewitt
"I like cats. I used to have a lot of cats, but I don't anymore, now I just have a dog. It does take a certain temperament to have a cat, as they do have certain personalities."
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"I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together."
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Julia Roberts
"I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together."
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"I think the whole nerves thing comes into play when we worry about what other people and society will think."
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Dana Plato
"I think the whole nerves thing comes into play when we worry about what other people and society will think."
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"I am pretty self-indulgent."
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Francesca Annis
"I am pretty self-indulgent."
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"I love science fiction."
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Pam Grier
"I love science fiction."
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"I rely on my instincts and intuition, and I feel it's so imperative for people to follow not the path but their path."
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Emma Stone
"I rely on my instincts and intuition, and I feel it's so imperative for people to follow not the path but their path."
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"There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival."
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Salma Hayek
"There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival."
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"But I think theatre in a repressive society is an immensely exciting event and theatre in a luxurious old, affluent old society like ours is an entertaining event."
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Janet Suzman
"But I think theatre in a repressive society is an immensely exciting event and theatre in a luxurious old, affluent old society like ours is an entertaining event."
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"A smile costs about $240."
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Roma Downey
"A smile costs about $240."
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"I love playing different characters all the time, so I'm concentrating on doing other stuff."
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Monica Keena
"I love playing different characters all the time, so I'm concentrating on doing other stuff."
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"I try to manage my time to conserve energy."
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Karen Duffy
"I try to manage my time to conserve energy."
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"I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails."
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Hedy Lamarr
"I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails."
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"I was happy she got it and I have to sort of - and one of the reasons I did Third Watch is because I wanted to break that thing of just being the pretty girl and play it down and let it be about the work."
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Nia Long
"I was happy she got it and I have to sort of - and one of the reasons I did Third Watch is because I wanted to break that thing of just being the pretty girl and play it down and let it be about the work."
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"Doing love scenes is always awkward. I mean, it's just not a normal thing to go to work and lay in bed with your co-worker."
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Denise Richards
"Doing love scenes is always awkward. I mean, it's just not a normal thing to go to work and lay in bed with your co-worker."
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"I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute."
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Loni Anderson
"I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute."
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"I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported."
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Mae West
"I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported."
Men,
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