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"Censors are energetic and righteous people but they just couldn't work a room like Abbe Lane."
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Audrey Meadows
"Censors are energetic and righteous people but they just couldn't work a room like Abbe Lane."
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"I got his initials tattooed on the back of my neck, you know, since we both now have the same initials."
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Ashley Scott
"I got his initials tattooed on the back of my neck, you know, since we both now have the same initials."
Now,
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"I went to national piano competitions and did that whole circuit. Then I played professionally to support myself when I moved out to LA."
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Alicia Witt
"I went to national piano competitions and did that whole circuit. Then I played professionally to support myself when I moved out to LA."
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"Love is suffering. One side always loves more."
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Catherine Deneuve
"Love is suffering. One side always loves more."
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"I go to bed with men, not boys."
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Linda Fiorentino
"I go to bed with men, not boys."
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"It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels."
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Katharine Hepburn
"It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels."
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"The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it."
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Zhang Ziyi
"The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it."
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"I just don't want to be the damsel in distress. I'll scream on the balcony, but you've got to let me do a little action here."
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Kirsten Dunst
"I just don't want to be the damsel in distress. I'll scream on the balcony, but you've got to let me do a little action here."
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"What we do is look for high standards of excellence in the arts."
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Jane Alexander
"What we do is look for high standards of excellence in the arts."
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"I don't even like watching sex scenes in movies. I have a slight prudish side to me."
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Portia de Rossi
"I don't even like watching sex scenes in movies. I have a slight prudish side to me."
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"Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important."
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Mariel Hemingway
"Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important."
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"If we're for one another, we're feminists. The rest is semantics."
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Betty Buckley
"If we're for one another, we're feminists. The rest is semantics."
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"As an actor, your life experience is just as important as studying."
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Jane Badler
"As an actor, your life experience is just as important as studying."
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"Griffin, my brother, 11 months younger, was sometimes the victim of my father's fury - once Ryan famously knocked out his teeth."
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Tatum O'Neal
"Griffin, my brother, 11 months younger, was sometimes the victim of my father's fury - once Ryan famously knocked out his teeth."
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"I know nothing about sex, because I was always married."
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Zsa Zsa Gabor
"I know nothing about sex, because I was always married."
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"I have been called a nun with a switchblade where my privacy is concerned. I think there's a point where one says, that's for family, that's for me."
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Julie Andrews
"I have been called a nun with a switchblade where my privacy is concerned. I think there's a point where one says, that's for family, that's for me."
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"If I swim in the ocean, I have a shark thought. Not a bad one, but just a little one."
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Tea Leoni
"If I swim in the ocean, I have a shark thought. Not a bad one, but just a little one."
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"I got my degree in rhetoric."
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Alex Borstein
"I got my degree in rhetoric."
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"I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity."
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Tallulah Bankhead
"I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity."
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"I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life."
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Loretta Young
"I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life."
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"I wanted to write a film and I thought the best way to do so was to train myself within the field... It was just like a cycle of people trying to make it, not making it, doing extra work, and it was pretty depressing in the end."
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Michelle Rodriguez
"I wanted to write a film and I thought the best way to do so was to train myself within the field... It was just like a cycle of people trying to make it, not making it, doing extra work, and it was pretty depressing in the end."
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"I don't want to dress up a picture with just my face."
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Grace Kelly
"I don't want to dress up a picture with just my face."
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"I thought it was all a flash in the pan. It wasn't until Broadway came along that I felt I had really made it."
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Julie Andrews
"I thought it was all a flash in the pan. It wasn't until Broadway came along that I felt I had really made it."
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"Being a secretary was considered a very good job in those days."
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Brenda Blethyn
"Being a secretary was considered a very good job in those days."
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"I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be."
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Whoopi Goldberg
"I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be."
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"The sweetest thing a guy said is that I look pretty with or without makeup."
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Vanessa Hudgens
"The sweetest thing a guy said is that I look pretty with or without makeup."
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"The work will stand, no matter what."
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Meryl Streep
"The work will stand, no matter what."
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"I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts."
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Rachel Weisz
"I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts."
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"There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic."
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Lily Tomlin
"There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic."
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"I'm massively talented, and very, very beautiful in person; the public don't really realise that."
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Julie Walters
"I'm massively talented, and very, very beautiful in person; the public don't really realise that."
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"Human beings are not meant to lose their anonymity and privacy."
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Sarah Chalke
"Human beings are not meant to lose their anonymity and privacy."
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"I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket."
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Laura Dern
"I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket."
Day,
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"My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery."
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Brooke Shields
"My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery."
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"I didn't need clothes. I was allowed the opportunity to act out moments you don't get the opportunity to experience in your own life, let alone as a character in a film. I didn't feel naked."
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Marguerite Moreau
"I didn't need clothes. I was allowed the opportunity to act out moments you don't get the opportunity to experience in your own life, let alone as a character in a film. I didn't feel naked."
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"Balls are to men what purses are to women."
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Sarah Jessica Parker
"Balls are to men what purses are to women."
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"I understand that if you set out to be a celebrity, then you asked for it, but all I wanted to be was an actor."
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Gwyneth Paltrow
"I understand that if you set out to be a celebrity, then you asked for it, but all I wanted to be was an actor."
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"I didn't understand the American fascination with the Japanese schoolgirl. No, I don't think I can, really."
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Chiaki Kuriyama
"I didn't understand the American fascination with the Japanese schoolgirl. No, I don't think I can, really."
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"You should not separate your life from what you do."
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Jeanne Moreau
"You should not separate your life from what you do."
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"I had the drink after I fell out of bed. It hurt."
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Liza Minnelli
"I had the drink after I fell out of bed. It hurt."
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"Manhattan, though, was an entirely different ballgame in a whole different kind of world, with a man who was brilliant and at the same time terribly charismatic."
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Mariel Hemingway
"Manhattan, though, was an entirely different ballgame in a whole different kind of world, with a man who was brilliant and at the same time terribly charismatic."
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"I enjoy countless hundreds pursuing me. I love those who love me the most. I am sort of flattered by men showing attention to me."
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Hedy Lamarr
"I enjoy countless hundreds pursuing me. I love those who love me the most. I am sort of flattered by men showing attention to me."
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"He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock."
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Sally Kellerman
"He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock."
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"I'd make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something."
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Bette Midler
"I'd make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something."
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"Actors have to be there and do the work, and that's enough."
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Catherine Deneuve
"Actors have to be there and do the work, and that's enough."
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"Some men like a dull life - they like the routine of eating breakfast, going to work, coming home, petting the dog, watching TV, kissing the kids, and going to bed. Stay clear of it - it's often catching."
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Hedy Lamarr
"Some men like a dull life - they like the routine of eating breakfast, going to work, coming home, petting the dog, watching TV, kissing the kids, and going to bed. Stay clear of it - it's often catching."
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"Because, you know, I can't work a bicycle pump."
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Judi Dench
"Because, you know, I can't work a bicycle pump."
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"I definitely have a Fisher voice."
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Joely Fisher
"I definitely have a Fisher voice."
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"We were the victims of the new producer but what annoyed me was they told the press we were leaving before us."
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Louise Jameson
"We were the victims of the new producer but what annoyed me was they told the press we were leaving before us."
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"There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. "In the Mood for Love," though, reached all the way to my belly."
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Zhang Ziyi
"There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. "In the Mood for Love," though, reached all the way to my belly."
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"People over 30 are interested in sex too, but they get real movies about it."
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Linda Fiorentino
"People over 30 are interested in sex too, but they get real movies about it."
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