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Quotes by Actress

"The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title."
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Gene Tierney
"The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title."
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"Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up."
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Bette Davis
"Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up."
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"I have to make this love affair believable enough. It's very European."
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Chita Rivera
"I have to make this love affair believable enough. It's very European."
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"What I love is a peanut butter and pickle sandwich. I'll just have peanut butter and bananas, then peanut butter and pickles. Peanut butter and chocolate I don't recommend."
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Dianne Wiest
"What I love is a peanut butter and pickle sandwich. I'll just have peanut butter and bananas, then peanut butter and pickles. Peanut butter and chocolate I don't recommend."
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"If the body is the register of the real, then reading with one's feet is real in a way reading with one's eyes alone is not."
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Rebecca Solnit
"If the body is the register of the real, then reading with one's feet is real in a way reading with one's eyes alone is not."
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"Earlier 18th-century literary language was not supple enough to connect the life of the imagination to that of the street."
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Rebecca Solnit
"Earlier 18th-century literary language was not supple enough to connect the life of the imagination to that of the street."
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"I work with youth offenders in LA, I've heard them speak and see how music manipulates them."
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Lisa Bonet
"I work with youth offenders in LA, I've heard them speak and see how music manipulates them."
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"When you read a script, you get a feeling from it."
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Sasha Alexander
"When you read a script, you get a feeling from it."
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"A gay man has no business leading on a heterosexual woman."
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Lorna Luft
"A gay man has no business leading on a heterosexual woman."
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"I have a little bit of a belly, a tiny bit of pooch. It's the one thing I don't want to lose. I just like having some softness. If I lose that, then Tom might leave me."
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Nicole Kidman
"I have a little bit of a belly, a tiny bit of pooch. It's the one thing I don't want to lose. I just like having some softness. If I lose that, then Tom might leave me."
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"I entered into Dawson's Creek to do a couple of episodes. They weren't sure about my role in the beginning, but then the chemistry kind of worked."
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Sasha Alexander
"I entered into Dawson's Creek to do a couple of episodes. They weren't sure about my role in the beginning, but then the chemistry kind of worked."
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"The Pledge of Allegiance does not end with Hail Satan."
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Nancy Cartwright
"The Pledge of Allegiance does not end with Hail Satan."
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"Acting is very much like a child making believe. I'm not one to become a character, but I fall in love with the character. It's like having faith; you're going to be that person for a while."
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Lusia Strus
"Acting is very much like a child making believe. I'm not one to become a character, but I fall in love with the character. It's like having faith; you're going to be that person for a while."
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"My limits will be better marked. Both the limits I will set, and my own limits."
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Isabelle Adjani
"My limits will be better marked. Both the limits I will set, and my own limits."
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"I wish people could get over the hang-up of subtitles, although at the same time, you know, that's kind of why I'm kind of pro dubbing."
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Jodie Foster
"I wish people could get over the hang-up of subtitles, although at the same time, you know, that's kind of why I'm kind of pro dubbing."
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"This profession has fed me creatively and allowed me to have a home life and a private life."
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Julia Barr
"This profession has fed me creatively and allowed me to have a home life and a private life."
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"I have a four year old and I'm telling you we did Nickelodeon last night and he embarrassed me. It was like one of those moments when I couldn't believe my kid is acting like this. I just had to just like walk away from him because he was really pushing my buttons."
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Nia Long
"I have a four year old and I'm telling you we did Nickelodeon last night and he embarrassed me. It was like one of those moments when I couldn't believe my kid is acting like this. I just had to just like walk away from him because he was really pushing my buttons."
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"A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it."
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Calista Flockhart
"A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it."
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"I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience."
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Shelley Winters
"I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience."
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"Until I separated from Parker, I had never been without them-and it's the hardest thing to share them. But we're trying to give the children the semblance of having whole lives."
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Kirstie Alley
"Until I separated from Parker, I had never been without them-and it's the hardest thing to share them. But we're trying to give the children the semblance of having whole lives."
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"The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner."
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Tallulah Bankhead
"The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner."
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"I've been burn when it comes to my hair that it ain't no joke."
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Jenifer Lewis
"I've been burn when it comes to my hair that it ain't no joke."
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"I thought it was my job to give all the boys their first kiss."
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Jessica Alba
"I thought it was my job to give all the boys their first kiss."
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"I think more and more people want to live alone. You can be a couple without being in each other's pockets. I don't see why you have to share the same bathroom."
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Jeanne Moreau
"I think more and more people want to live alone. You can be a couple without being in each other's pockets. I don't see why you have to share the same bathroom."
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"I sort of feel sorry for the next man who gets me. I may just kill him with passion. He'd better be strong and have a good heart!"
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Kirstie Alley
"I sort of feel sorry for the next man who gets me. I may just kill him with passion. He'd better be strong and have a good heart!"
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"Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one."
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Stella Adler
"Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one."
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"Until they come up with an independent woman who's on an adventure of her own, I don't think I'm interested."
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Michelle Rodriguez
"Until they come up with an independent woman who's on an adventure of her own, I don't think I'm interested."
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"I feel like a million tonight - but one at a time."
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Bette Midler
"I feel like a million tonight - but one at a time."
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"It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office."
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Shirley MacLaine
"It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office."
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"People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so."
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Sharon Stone
"People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so."
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"I had heard about how people struggle and how hard it is to get into acting. But I did not care because it's something I love."
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Bai Ling
"I had heard about how people struggle and how hard it is to get into acting. But I did not care because it's something I love."
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"Some of those cartoons look nothing like me."
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Sarah Sutton
"Some of those cartoons look nothing like me."
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"I love New York. I love the multicultural vibe here. Los Angeles doesn't inspire me in any way. Everyone is in the same industry, yet you feel very isolated."
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Neve Campbell
"I love New York. I love the multicultural vibe here. Los Angeles doesn't inspire me in any way. Everyone is in the same industry, yet you feel very isolated."
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"A lot of my joy this year has been to give away awards to young people, no matter of race, creed or color, because they were a terrific violinist or a terrific dancer."
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Sally Kirkland
"A lot of my joy this year has been to give away awards to young people, no matter of race, creed or color, because they were a terrific violinist or a terrific dancer."
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"But then there is the one who seems to have a hard time separating the actor's work from reality."
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Audrey Meadows
"But then there is the one who seems to have a hard time separating the actor's work from reality."
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"Without discipline, there's no life at all."
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Katharine Hepburn
"Without discipline, there's no life at all."
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"You wouldn't recognize me from one project to the next."
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Rachael Leigh Cook
"You wouldn't recognize me from one project to the next."
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"I've worked with the greatest actors, and they're all gone. This is what's so desperate to me."
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Angela Lansbury
"I've worked with the greatest actors, and they're all gone. This is what's so desperate to me."
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"I hope I'll consider my next part, having learnt from this one."
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Charlotte Gainsbourg
"I hope I'll consider my next part, having learnt from this one."
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"It was a struggle treating Claude Rains as my lover, but we were friendly. It was no great love affair."
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Gloria Stuart
"It was a struggle treating Claude Rains as my lover, but we were friendly. It was no great love affair."
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"I think the lawyers are such incredible actors. Can you imagine the performance they have to do every day?"
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Monica Bellucci
"I think the lawyers are such incredible actors. Can you imagine the performance they have to do every day?"
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"I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European."
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Gloria Swanson
"I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European."
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"There's a great difference between being popular and being an artist."
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Shirley Knight
"There's a great difference between being popular and being an artist."
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"My life has never been easy. It's like all the major events of my life have always been difficult."
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Florence Henderson
"My life has never been easy. It's like all the major events of my life have always been difficult."
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"It's toughest to forgive ourselves. So it's probably best to start with other people. It's almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself."
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Patty Duke
"It's toughest to forgive ourselves. So it's probably best to start with other people. It's almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself."
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"Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it."
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Robin Wright Penn
"Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it."
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"I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale."
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Rachel McAdams
"I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale."
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"I would write plays for my grandmother, who was stone deaf, my mother and the dog, that was our audience."
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Jayne Meadows
"I would write plays for my grandmother, who was stone deaf, my mother and the dog, that was our audience."
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"The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater."
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Judi Dench
"The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater."
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"I do, too, most recently while I was singing karaoke in some weird bar."
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Radha Mitchell
"I do, too, most recently while I was singing karaoke in some weird bar."
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