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"This is going to sound strange, but I really didn't think I would pass 30. I don't know why or whatever, I just didn't. That's a very weird thing to say, I'm sorry. I don't know. Maybe it's because I was drinking so much as a youth."
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Kristin Davis
"This is going to sound strange, but I really didn't think I would pass 30. I don't know why or whatever, I just didn't. That's a very weird thing to say, I'm sorry. I don't know. Maybe it's because I was drinking so much as a youth."
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"There's no place to act in Kansas. You're supressed."
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Shirley Knight
"There's no place to act in Kansas. You're supressed."
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"Abstinence, being faithful and correct and consistent condom use are the only ways to successfully reach everyone when discussing HIV prevention. I believe that the abstinence message alone does not solve the AIDS epidemic."
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Ashley Judd
"Abstinence, being faithful and correct and consistent condom use are the only ways to successfully reach everyone when discussing HIV prevention. I believe that the abstinence message alone does not solve the AIDS epidemic."
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"A friend of mine described it this way: When they were born it was like a meteor landed in our house and blew everything apart. We had to just put all the pieces back."
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Christine Lahti
"A friend of mine described it this way: When they were born it was like a meteor landed in our house and blew everything apart. We had to just put all the pieces back."
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"And he was going to give me a song, because I'm a singer and I wanted to sing in everything."
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Sally Kellerman
"And he was going to give me a song, because I'm a singer and I wanted to sing in everything."
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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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"If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion."
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Diane Cilento
"If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion."
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"In terms of Cube I think he's very conscious of the technical aspect of the business whereas when you're just hired as an actor, you're not really secure in that part of your work and you're not really paying attention to where the camera."
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Nia Long
"In terms of Cube I think he's very conscious of the technical aspect of the business whereas when you're just hired as an actor, you're not really secure in that part of your work and you're not really paying attention to where the camera."
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"I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff."
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Piper Laurie
"I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff."
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"I walk around feeling a sort of existential guilt all the time; and honestly for me this house is a way of feeling less guilty about the universe."
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Julia Louis Dreyfus
"I walk around feeling a sort of existential guilt all the time; and honestly for me this house is a way of feeling less guilty about the universe."
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"Nobody can be exactly me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it."
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Tallulah Bankhead
"Nobody can be exactly me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it."
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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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"Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge."
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Jeanne Moreau
"Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge."
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"I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important."
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Diane Lane
"I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important."
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"I do have the freedom to choose what I want to do and I'll continue to do that."
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Moira Kelly
"I do have the freedom to choose what I want to do and I'll continue to do that."
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"Some actresses seem to thrive on chaos, and I've often wondered if they felt they had to be that way in order to perform well?"
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Marie Windsor
"Some actresses seem to thrive on chaos, and I've often wondered if they felt they had to be that way in order to perform well?"
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"It is the most wonderful feeling in the world, knowing you are loved and wanted."
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Jayne Mansfield
"It is the most wonderful feeling in the world, knowing you are loved and wanted."
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"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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"Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from."
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Mae West
"Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from."
Man,
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"My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person."
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Janine Turner
"My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person."
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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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"For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like."
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Rachel True
"For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like."
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"Archers are pretty focused."
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Geena Davis
"Archers are pretty focused."
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"Why is it so weird that somebody didn't recognize me?... The fact is that whenever I meet somebody, I say, 'Nice to meet you. I'm Julia.'"
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Julia Roberts
"Why is it so weird that somebody didn't recognize me?... The fact is that whenever I meet somebody, I say, 'Nice to meet you. I'm Julia.'"
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"I have never directed. But I think I could. I have thought about it. I'm a bit long in the tooth to start."
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Angela Lansbury
"I have never directed. But I think I could. I have thought about it. I'm a bit long in the tooth to start."
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"The first Superman film took up a huge chunk of our lives, but it was a wonderful time for us. We were young, my daughter was little, we were filming in London for a year, so we became like a close family."
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Margot Kidder
"The first Superman film took up a huge chunk of our lives, but it was a wonderful time for us. We were young, my daughter was little, we were filming in London for a year, so we became like a close family."
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"It's the first villain that I've played in a movie that has absolutely no vulnerability and no innocence, nothing whatsoever that is likeable about her other than she's so bad."
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Daryl Hannah
"It's the first villain that I've played in a movie that has absolutely no vulnerability and no innocence, nothing whatsoever that is likeable about her other than she's so bad."
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"I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different."
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Radha Mitchell
"I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different."
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"Men don't want any responsibility, and neither do I."
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Julie Christie
"Men don't want any responsibility, and neither do I."
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"I trained 8 hours a day 7 seven days a week and I had 2 weeks off in a year."
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Julie Benz
"I trained 8 hours a day 7 seven days a week and I had 2 weeks off in a year."
Day,
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"As a little girl I loved the thought of playing dress-up and getting ready."
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Denise Richards
"As a little girl I loved the thought of playing dress-up and getting ready."
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"But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake."
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Parker Posey
"But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake."
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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 used to hate being recognised."
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Charlotte Gainsbourg
"I used to hate being recognised."
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"I get bored at the theatre a lot because I notice that there's not always a connection between the actors. They may be technically proficient, but they're not surprising each other. I'm thrilled by actors who make choices that are surprising."
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Lusia Strus
"I get bored at the theatre a lot because I notice that there's not always a connection between the actors. They may be technically proficient, but they're not surprising each other. I'm thrilled by actors who make choices that are surprising."
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"I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around."
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Eva Green
"I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around."
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"Only the patients have to take off their clothes. I think I'm pretty safe."
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Sherry Stringfield
"Only the patients have to take off their clothes. I think I'm pretty safe."
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"I started taking acting classes when I was twelve."
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Lindsay Wagner
"I started taking acting classes when I was twelve."
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"I just feel that getting out there physically and protecting New York, putting my arms around everyone and protecting them... to see this happen to our city and our community."
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Sigourney Weaver
"I just feel that getting out there physically and protecting New York, putting my arms around everyone and protecting them... to see this happen to our city and our community."
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"I have a private press. I'm a book artist. I publish books of other authors and artists. I do the illustrating. I set the type. I print it myself on my press. I do everything but bind it."
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Gloria Stuart
"I have a private press. I'm a book artist. I publish books of other authors and artists. I do the illustrating. I set the type. I print it myself on my press. I do everything but bind it."
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"That's human nature - the ups and downs."
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Jami Gertz
"That's human nature - the ups and downs."
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"I was so overprotected, I used to think I was as delicate as people said I was."
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Natalie Wood
"I was so overprotected, I used to think I was as delicate as people said I was."
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"I have no inhibitions about smoking or drinking, but I think too much of my voice to place it in jeopardy. I have spent many good years in training and cultivating it, and I would be foolish to do anything which might impair or ruin it."
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Jeanette MacDonald
"I have no inhibitions about smoking or drinking, but I think too much of my voice to place it in jeopardy. I have spent many good years in training and cultivating it, and I would be foolish to do anything which might impair or ruin it."
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"I really don't like to do back-to-back movies. I concentrate on things at home. My family and school life are important to me. I try to do one movie a year."
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Anna Chlumsky
"I really don't like to do back-to-back movies. I concentrate on things at home. My family and school life are important to me. I try to do one movie a year."
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"It's depressing and scary, but he needs to know the world around him because he's fourteen now and in two years he's going to drive. He needs to know what goes on out in the world. I'm not going to always be there."
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Jami Gertz
"It's depressing and scary, but he needs to know the world around him because he's fourteen now and in two years he's going to drive. He needs to know what goes on out in the world. I'm not going to always be there."
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"I see stardom very clearly as a construct that's been created in order to sell things."
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Julie Christie
"I see stardom very clearly as a construct that's been created in order to sell things."
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"It is truly a privilege to be able to support all women's causes on a global level. It is remarkable that something as simple as television can empower us to create change and awareness in the world."
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Teri Hatcher
"It is truly a privilege to be able to support all women's causes on a global level. It is remarkable that something as simple as television can empower us to create change and awareness in the world."
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"Sometimes oppurtunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it."
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Julie Andrews
"Sometimes oppurtunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it."
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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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"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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