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Quotes by Actress

"I see myself on the cover of a magazine and I don't think that it looks like me at all. My first-ever photo shoot was for the cover of a lads' magazine."
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Elize Du Toit
"I see myself on the cover of a magazine and I don't think that it looks like me at all. My first-ever photo shoot was for the cover of a lads' magazine."
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"In the early '90s, New York was a pretty depressing place."
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Christine Baranski
"In the early '90s, New York was a pretty depressing place."
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"Yet thousands of slaves throughout the southern states are thus handed over by the masters who own them to masters who do not; and it does not require much demonstration to prove that their estate is not always the more gracious."
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Fanny Kemble
"Yet thousands of slaves throughout the southern states are thus handed over by the masters who own them to masters who do not; and it does not require much demonstration to prove that their estate is not always the more gracious."
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"When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage on them for studios."
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Sasha Alexander
"When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage on them for studios."
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"The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That's the little girl in me that will never grow up."
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Naomi Watts
"The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That's the little girl in me that will never grow up."
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"But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God."
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Frances Farmer
"But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God."
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"I was brought up Catholic, and my family is still very religious."
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Donna Mills
"I was brought up Catholic, and my family is still very religious."
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"But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table."
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Carol Burnett
"But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table."
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"Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same."
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Bea Arthur
"Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same."
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"I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art."
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Fran Drescher
"I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art."
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"If you marry the wrong person for the wrong reasons, then no matter how hard you work, it's never going to work, because then you have to completely change yourself, completely change them, completely - by that time, you're both dead."
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Anne Bancroft
"If you marry the wrong person for the wrong reasons, then no matter how hard you work, it's never going to work, because then you have to completely change yourself, completely change them, completely - by that time, you're both dead."
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"I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get."
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Elizabeth Taylor
"I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get."
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"I've experienced several different healing methodologies over the years - counseling, self-help seminars, and I've read a lot - but none of them will work unless you really want to heal."
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Lindsay Wagner
"I've experienced several different healing methodologies over the years - counseling, self-help seminars, and I've read a lot - but none of them will work unless you really want to heal."
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"Lorna was quite young when her mother died, and I think she's blocked out some of the memories. I talked to her a little bit about that, but I wasn't prepared to go around and poke and hurt her."
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Judy Davis
"Lorna was quite young when her mother died, and I think she's blocked out some of the memories. I talked to her a little bit about that, but I wasn't prepared to go around and poke and hurt her."
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"Simplicity is a great element of good breeding."
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Fanny Kemble
"Simplicity is a great element of good breeding."
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"As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life."
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Loretta Young
"As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life."
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"It's so bizarre, I'm not scared of snakes or spiders. But I'm scared of butterflies. There is something eerie about them. Something weird!"
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Nicole Kidman
"It's so bizarre, I'm not scared of snakes or spiders. But I'm scared of butterflies. There is something eerie about them. Something weird!"
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"Children reinvent your world for you."
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Susan Sarandon
"Children reinvent your world for you."
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"That's just the way this business works. You're a reliable commodity."
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Christy Romano
"That's just the way this business works. You're a reliable commodity."
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"I have some great stories and I will get around to writing a book."
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Sally Kirkland
"I have some great stories and I will get around to writing a book."
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"What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have."
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Cameron Diaz
"What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have."
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"The crossover wasn't happening. TV actors were TV actors, and film and stage actors were a whole different thing. And now there's just a lot of crossover."
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Christine Lahti
"The crossover wasn't happening. TV actors were TV actors, and film and stage actors were a whole different thing. And now there's just a lot of crossover."
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"I did, but I'm not real fond of giving interviews."
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Priscilla Presley
"I did, but I'm not real fond of giving interviews."
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"I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing."
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Marilyn Monroe
"I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing."
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"Life is too short to work so hard."
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Vivien Leigh
"Life is too short to work so hard."
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"I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none."
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Gene Tierney
"I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none."
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"I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the '50s, and coming home simply means watching television with a beer."
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Patricia Richardson
"I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the '50s, and coming home simply means watching television with a beer."
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"I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it."
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Loni Anderson
"I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it."
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"There were episodes where I would wear seven or eight outfits. It took a lot of time to get those together. What the character wears is very essential to how I create the character."
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Donna Mills
"There were episodes where I would wear seven or eight outfits. It took a lot of time to get those together. What the character wears is very essential to how I create the character."
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"When the show's not around any more, it's going to be hard not to have her in my life."
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Gillian Anderson
"When the show's not around any more, it's going to be hard not to have her in my life."
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"It was an amazing adventure, it was my dream to be in an American musical... I really hope you are going to love what you are going to see."
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Marion Cotillard
"It was an amazing adventure, it was my dream to be in an American musical... I really hope you are going to love what you are going to see."
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"This is the first time in my life I've had hair this short. It's always been down to my waist. I can't hide behind my hair any more."
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Melissa Joan Hart
"This is the first time in my life I've had hair this short. It's always been down to my waist. I can't hide behind my hair any more."
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"Any time I break up with Dawson or question him, viewers turn against me."
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Katie Holmes
"Any time I break up with Dawson or question him, viewers turn against me."
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"People always tell me, 'Don't work so much', but I can't help it. I feel like all the things I've done are important to get to this adult stage and now I'm getting all these adult offers, so it's working."
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Kirsten Dunst
"People always tell me, 'Don't work so much', but I can't help it. I feel like all the things I've done are important to get to this adult stage and now I'm getting all these adult offers, so it's working."
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"There's this unspoken club where you say to each other: Oh God, if they only knew how ordinary I was, they wouldn't be interested. That includes movie stars and politicians."
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Margot Kidder
"There's this unspoken club where you say to each other: Oh God, if they only knew how ordinary I was, they wouldn't be interested. That includes movie stars and politicians."
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"I have the most lovely, healthy bouncing baby, she was all very compact and the right size."
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Anna Friel
"I have the most lovely, healthy bouncing baby, she was all very compact and the right size."
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"I love having no sense of tomorrow or yesterday."
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Sherry Stringfield
"I love having no sense of tomorrow or yesterday."
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"I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool."
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Natalie Wood
"I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool."
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"Time destroys everything."
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Monica Bellucci
"Time destroys everything."
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"Other people like Neil Young and Dennis Hopper, those are just really close knit family friends."
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Amber Tamblyn
"Other people like Neil Young and Dennis Hopper, those are just really close knit family friends."
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"The kitchen may not get cleaned, and I have to accept that. I do the important things."
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Jasmine Guy
"The kitchen may not get cleaned, and I have to accept that. I do the important things."
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"When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it's July 4th."
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Gloria Stuart
"When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it's July 4th."
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"Suddenly, you are very much in the present, and you learn it's really the place where you should always live."
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Julie Walters
"Suddenly, you are very much in the present, and you learn it's really the place where you should always live."
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"I have two older sisters; I'm the youngest."
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Elizabeth Perkins
"I have two older sisters; I'm the youngest."
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"I think it's a mistake if people just fall in love and think that that's the only thing you need to keep you happy. There's a lot more to being with someone than just love."
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Sarah Michelle Gellar
"I think it's a mistake if people just fall in love and think that that's the only thing you need to keep you happy. There's a lot more to being with someone than just love."
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"It didn't rain today, so I didn't have to work. Why don't you have to sit around and wait until it rains?"
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Linda Fiorentino
"It didn't rain today, so I didn't have to work. Why don't you have to sit around and wait until it rains?"
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"I'll talk about my Tony all day long."
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Eva Longoria
"I'll talk about my Tony all day long."
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"I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains."
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Anna Neagle
"I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains."
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"I'm actually developing a project so that I can have a lead."
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Rachel True
"I'm actually developing a project so that I can have a lead."
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"Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family."
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Juliette Binoche
"Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family."
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