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Quotes by Actress

"Censors are energetic and righteous people but they just couldn't work a room like Abbe Lane."

"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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"I went to national piano competitions and did that whole circuit. Then I played professionally to support myself when I moved out to LA."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"What we do is look for high standards of excellence in the arts."

"I don't even like watching sex scenes in movies. I have a slight prudish side to me."

"If we're for one another, we're feminists. The rest is semantics."

"As an actor, your life experience is just as important as studying."

"I know nothing about sex, because I was always married."

"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."

"I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life."

"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."

"Being a secretary was considered a very good job in those days."


"I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be."


"The sweetest thing a guy said is that I look pretty with or without makeup."

"There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic."

"I'm massively talented, and very, very beautiful in person; the public don't really realise that."


"Human beings are not meant to lose their anonymity and privacy."

"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."

"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."

"I didn't understand the American fascination with the Japanese schoolgirl. No, I don't think I can, really."

"Actors have to be there and do the work, and that's enough."

"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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