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"I'd much rather be famous for being a fabulous bitch than being, She does that nice wife really well."
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Christine Baranski
"I'd much rather be famous for being a fabulous bitch than being, She does that nice wife really well."
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"You have to put on more faces to pretend who you are."
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Nell Carter
"You have to put on more faces to pretend who you are."
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"I like women who look like women. I hated grunge. No one's more feminist than me, but you don't have to look as if you don't give a - you know. You can be smart, bright, and attractive aesthetically to others - and to yourself."
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Catherine Zeta-Jones
"I like women who look like women. I hated grunge. No one's more feminist than me, but you don't have to look as if you don't give a - you know. You can be smart, bright, and attractive aesthetically to others - and to yourself."
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"That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects."
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Victoria Pratt
"That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects."
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"I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun."
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Salma Hayek
"I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun."
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"It's much more acceptable for men to work and father kids. There's an inherent inequality, because we want to do it all, and I don't know how we can do this all."
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Julia Louis Dreyfus
"It's much more acceptable for men to work and father kids. There's an inherent inequality, because we want to do it all, and I don't know how we can do this all."
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"Yeah, a lot of people think I'll be a tortured nutcase when they meet me."
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Emily Watson
"Yeah, a lot of people think I'll be a tortured nutcase when they meet me."
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"It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning."
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Drew Barrymore
"It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning."
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"And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don't, it's just real hard to get through the day, and I'll get really down, and just want to cry. My whole body language changes. I get more slumped over."
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Delta Burke
"And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don't, it's just real hard to get through the day, and I'll get really down, and just want to cry. My whole body language changes. I get more slumped over."
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"I get a little jealous of these actor boys. They walk into a club, and in two seconds flat there are swarms of girls who are wanting so badly to touch them or just say hello. That's not the case with me, or any other girl I know."
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Claire Danes
"I get a little jealous of these actor boys. They walk into a club, and in two seconds flat there are swarms of girls who are wanting so badly to touch them or just say hello. That's not the case with me, or any other girl I know."
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"The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it."
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Frances McDormand
"The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it."
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"The press seems to love pitting women against each other."
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Jeanne Tripplehorn
"The press seems to love pitting women against each other."
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"Of course, Hollywood is still making some excellent pictures which reflect the great artistry that made Hollywood famous throughout the world, but these films are exceptions, judging from box office returns and press reviews."
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Pola Negri
"Of course, Hollywood is still making some excellent pictures which reflect the great artistry that made Hollywood famous throughout the world, but these films are exceptions, judging from box office returns and press reviews."
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"With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education."
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Sally Kirkland
"With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education."
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"There's this wonderful first assistant and he'll be saying, 'Now Harry goes down among the dragons.' You have to hold yourself together. Because if you lose it for a second then you're sunk."
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Maggie Smith
"There's this wonderful first assistant and he'll be saying, 'Now Harry goes down among the dragons.' You have to hold yourself together. Because if you lose it for a second then you're sunk."
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"I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way."
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Barbra Streisand
"I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way."
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"Maybe wanting to retire is my ambition."
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Brenda Blethyn
"Maybe wanting to retire is my ambition."
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"After I do a big movie I get offered big movies. But I always do the weirdest indie."
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Robin Tunney
"After I do a big movie I get offered big movies. But I always do the weirdest indie."
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"I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board."
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Jamie Lee Curtis
"I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board."
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"I am a really bad test taker. I can get straight As in school, but I get nervous on test."
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Mary-Kate Olsen
"I am a really bad test taker. I can get straight As in school, but I get nervous on test."
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"If we could have somehow stayed away from the public and the press, it might have been different, but every private issue seemed to be played out on the front page."
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Marla Maples
"If we could have somehow stayed away from the public and the press, it might have been different, but every private issue seemed to be played out on the front page."
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"There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men."
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Catherine Deneuve
"There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men."
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"A man who envies our family is a man who needs help."
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Yeardley Smith
"A man who envies our family is a man who needs help."
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"I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So, I didn't bake cookies. You can buy cookies, but you can't buy love."
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Raquel Welch
"I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So, I didn't bake cookies. You can buy cookies, but you can't buy love."
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"Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story."
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Jeanne Moreau
"Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story."
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"I just had a full body cleanse. And am eating right and exercising a lot."
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Alfre Woodard
"I just had a full body cleanse. And am eating right and exercising a lot."
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"I don't look at scripts in terms of commerciality. I just look at the part, the people involved."
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Linda Fiorentino
"I don't look at scripts in terms of commerciality. I just look at the part, the people involved."
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"I think the original Matrix was really incredible. It was so original and it did so many innovative things with film. It was a much bigger film. Bound was just a smaller film. It was kind of like an old noir film."
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Gina Gershon
"I think the original Matrix was really incredible. It was so original and it did so many innovative things with film. It was a much bigger film. Bound was just a smaller film. It was kind of like an old noir film."
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"Fame had brought me so much unhappiness."
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Brigitte Bardot
"Fame had brought me so much unhappiness."
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"These days I have to be extra nice in stores. It never fails that whenever I look as bad as I can possibly look or I am sort of cranky because the store is out of something, that is precisely the time when someone one will recognize me and say: 'I really like your show.'"
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Lauren Graham
"These days I have to be extra nice in stores. It never fails that whenever I look as bad as I can possibly look or I am sort of cranky because the store is out of something, that is precisely the time when someone one will recognize me and say: 'I really like your show.'"
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"I love romance. I'm a sucker for it. I love it so much. It's pathetic."
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Drew Barrymore
"I love romance. I'm a sucker for it. I love it so much. It's pathetic."
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"Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down."
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Mary Pickford
"Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down."
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"I come from a pretty strange family."
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Illeana Douglas
"I come from a pretty strange family."
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"The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it."
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Francesca Annis
"The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it."
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"Also there is a twist to the story as I'm being haunted and driven crazy, attacked and so on. All I seem to do is run and scream and cry in every scene."
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Bo Derek
"Also there is a twist to the story as I'm being haunted and driven crazy, attacked and so on. All I seem to do is run and scream and cry in every scene."
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"The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck."
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Gloria Swanson
"The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck."
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"But the fact is, nobody gets off drugs unless they really want to, and I really wanted to."
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Ally Sheedy
"But the fact is, nobody gets off drugs unless they really want to, and I really wanted to."
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"I actually started singing those songs six or seven years ago, when I was an opening act for Frank Sinatra."
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Pia Zadora
"I actually started singing those songs six or seven years ago, when I was an opening act for Frank Sinatra."
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"Always be smarter than the people who hire you."
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Lena Horne
"Always be smarter than the people who hire you."
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"We're getting ready to take over the world. My group of girlfriends - we're renegades."
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Lisa Bonet
"We're getting ready to take over the world. My group of girlfriends - we're renegades."
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"The first thing I have to do to erase my French accent is think that it is actually possible, whereas for the moment, I think it's not. I have a lot of work."
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Marion Cotillard
"The first thing I have to do to erase my French accent is think that it is actually possible, whereas for the moment, I think it's not. I have a lot of work."
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"I do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science."
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Mary Mastrantonio
"I do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science."
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"They tell me that it will be hard to find a man strong enough to love my own strength and independence, and not worry about being Mr. Diana Ross, but I disagree. I know absolutely that that man is somewhere out there."
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Diana Ross
"They tell me that it will be hard to find a man strong enough to love my own strength and independence, and not worry about being Mr. Diana Ross, but I disagree. I know absolutely that that man is somewhere out there."
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"There's only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn't give you a chance there is nothing you can do."
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Charlize Theron
"There's only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn't give you a chance there is nothing you can do."
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"I've literally, in my entire life I've had two guys come up to me and ask me out. Other than that I have had to go and try to like spend time with them, or sort of start the conversation, basically like spell it out in a Sharpie, like, you know?"
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Jennifer Love Hewitt
"I've literally, in my entire life I've had two guys come up to me and ask me out. Other than that I have had to go and try to like spend time with them, or sort of start the conversation, basically like spell it out in a Sharpie, like, you know?"
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"You can't be trying to make a film that pleases all people, you know, so it's not a concern of mine."
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Cate Blanchett
"You can't be trying to make a film that pleases all people, you know, so it's not a concern of mine."
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"If only those who dream about Hollywood knew how difficult it all is."
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Greta Garbo
"If only those who dream about Hollywood knew how difficult it all is."
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"I think I'm a better actress for having friends and interests outside the theatre. I wouldn't want to live my life surrounded by other actors all the time."
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Penelope Keith
"I think I'm a better actress for having friends and interests outside the theatre. I wouldn't want to live my life surrounded by other actors all the time."
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"If only Vivien Leigh had stayed in England, that part would have been mine."
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Joan Bennett
"If only Vivien Leigh had stayed in England, that part would have been mine."
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"I have to go back to my younger days, when I just adored Hollywood musicals."
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Julie Harris
"I have to go back to my younger days, when I just adored Hollywood musicals."
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