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Quotes by Actress

"All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year."
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Gloria Swanson
"All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year."
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"People became more interested in my love life than in me, and that has a certain effect. You start to feel very empty and worth nothing, you start to become a piece in a board game you never wanted to play."
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Anna Friel
"People became more interested in my love life than in me, and that has a certain effect. You start to feel very empty and worth nothing, you start to become a piece in a board game you never wanted to play."
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"Increasingly, stars are recruited from the ranks of professional models, with the result that today's starlets are better dressed and better groomed than ever before, though it is doubtful if they are better actresses."
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Rita Hayworth
"Increasingly, stars are recruited from the ranks of professional models, with the result that today's starlets are better dressed and better groomed than ever before, though it is doubtful if they are better actresses."
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"But I'm not objective when I'm acting."
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Laura Innes
"But I'm not objective when I'm acting."
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"If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?"
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Lily Tomlin
"If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?"
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"You've got to realize that any lady on a soap is devoting her life to it, 24/7."
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Joan Van Ark
"You've got to realize that any lady on a soap is devoting her life to it, 24/7."
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"I just want to be able to sit on grass as long as I want to, without anybody telling me to leave. Everything is so restricted, here, in that you actually have to stand behind a line, you can't go up the Canyon and enjoy the view."
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Franka Potente
"I just want to be able to sit on grass as long as I want to, without anybody telling me to leave. Everything is so restricted, here, in that you actually have to stand behind a line, you can't go up the Canyon and enjoy the view."
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"I think it's the end of progress if you stand still and think of what you've done in the past. I keep on."
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Leslie Caron
"I think it's the end of progress if you stand still and think of what you've done in the past. I keep on."
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"Like when I had long hair, you kind of got male attention from everything. But when you had short hair, it was a different kind of man that was attracted to you or I found coming up."
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Ashley Scott
"Like when I had long hair, you kind of got male attention from everything. But when you had short hair, it was a different kind of man that was attracted to you or I found coming up."
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"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships."
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Sharon Stone
"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships."
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"There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us."
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Pamela Stephenson
"There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us."
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"True Leaders take an Ordinary Person and turn them into an Extraordinary Performer."
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Farshad Asl
"True Leaders take an Ordinary Person and turn them into an Extraordinary Performer."
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"When I was working on Eye of the Beholder, I played a character who is so aloof that my whole lifestyle became very aloof. If someone knocked on my door, there was a part of me that went into a rage, because I wanted to be isolated and alone."
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Ashley Judd
"When I was working on Eye of the Beholder, I played a character who is so aloof that my whole lifestyle became very aloof. If someone knocked on my door, there was a part of me that went into a rage, because I wanted to be isolated and alone."
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"The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after."
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Tallulah Bankhead
"The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after."
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"I never took to Hollywood."
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Kathleen Turner
"I never took to Hollywood."
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"If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?"
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Bette Midler
"If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?"
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"The bigness of the world is redemption. Despair compresses you into a small space, and a depression is literally a hollow in the ground. To dig deeper into the self, to go underground, is sometimes necessary, but so is the other route of getting out of yourself, into the larger world, into the openness in which you need not clutch your story and your troubles so tightly to your chest."
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Rebecca Solnit
"The bigness of the world is redemption. Despair compresses you into a small space, and a depression is literally a hollow in the ground. To dig deeper into the self, to go underground, is sometimes necessary, but so is the other route of getting out of yourself, into the larger world, into the openness in which you need not clutch your story and your troubles so tightly to your chest."
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"And doing a film in that period, and having to really celebrate what they wore back then, how they sat and how they spoke. You know, what the etiquette was back then for a lady. All of those things are like putting on a wig and transforming yourself, which I love."
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Charlize Theron
"And doing a film in that period, and having to really celebrate what they wore back then, how they sat and how they spoke. You know, what the etiquette was back then for a lady. All of those things are like putting on a wig and transforming yourself, which I love."
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"We give you this story. It is for the audience to be moved and gut wrenched, not us. It isn't as if we don't go through those real feeling and it isn't as if I don't cry three or four times a night. I usually do."
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Linda Lavin
"We give you this story. It is for the audience to be moved and gut wrenched, not us. It isn't as if we don't go through those real feeling and it isn't as if I don't cry three or four times a night. I usually do."
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"I really think the mind of someone who hasn't been welded into place by their work or studios or actors or this whole society is a wonderful mind to work with, so I'd like to do a big picture with an unknown director."
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Joan Severance
"I really think the mind of someone who hasn't been welded into place by their work or studios or actors or this whole society is a wonderful mind to work with, so I'd like to do a big picture with an unknown director."
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"When I came to Los Angeles, it was the first time that I ever felt like I belong somewhere. Not because it was wacky, but because people here understood what I felt like to perform, and there were other kids my age who wanted to do it. I didn't get looked at as God, you freak."
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Jennifer Love Hewitt
"When I came to Los Angeles, it was the first time that I ever felt like I belong somewhere. Not because it was wacky, but because people here understood what I felt like to perform, and there were other kids my age who wanted to do it. I didn't get looked at as God, you freak."
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"The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another."
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Marilyn Monroe
"The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another."
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"I find the mantle of, she works hard for the money, or, she's overcome so many obstacles a bit overused."
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Marlee Matlin
"I find the mantle of, she works hard for the money, or, she's overcome so many obstacles a bit overused."
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"You manifest based on who you are already - so you must own the identity of the dream in order to manifest it."
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Joy Page
"You manifest based on who you are already - so you must own the identity of the dream in order to manifest it."
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"When we were doing a scene, lots of times we would collapse giggling, because it seemed so silly because it felt like we were doing a home movie at times."
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Illeana Douglas
"When we were doing a scene, lots of times we would collapse giggling, because it seemed so silly because it felt like we were doing a home movie at times."
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"I kind of resent this attitude of men that we somehow must always look good."
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Sharon Gless
"I kind of resent this attitude of men that we somehow must always look good."
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"My audience is the baby-boomers, the bulk of the population. This is also a group that is being ignored by most record companies because they're not the Top 40 hit singles market. They forget these people still listen to music."
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Helen Reddy
"My audience is the baby-boomers, the bulk of the population. This is also a group that is being ignored by most record companies because they're not the Top 40 hit singles market. They forget these people still listen to music."
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"Marriage is a big deal, but who's to say I'm not going to pull a Vegas and get married to see what it's like for a minute?"
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Lindsay Lohan
"Marriage is a big deal, but who's to say I'm not going to pull a Vegas and get married to see what it's like for a minute?"
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"I began by doing physical yoga, initially just for the workout, as exercise. I would get peaceful and calm at the end of it, and I was curious about that."
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Mariel Hemingway
"I began by doing physical yoga, initially just for the workout, as exercise. I would get peaceful and calm at the end of it, and I was curious about that."
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"I believe in living today. Not in yesterday, nor in tomorrow."
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Loretta Young
"I believe in living today. Not in yesterday, nor in tomorrow."
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"Someday they may cure MS, that idiot thing. It gets in there and they can't get it out."
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Teri Garr
"Someday they may cure MS, that idiot thing. It gets in there and they can't get it out."
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"Most of us start out with a positive attitude and a plan to do our best."
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Marilu Henner
"Most of us start out with a positive attitude and a plan to do our best."
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"Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson."
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Mercedes McCambridge
"Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson."
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"Strategize yearly, plan quarterly, examine monthly, reflect weekly, act daily, and live #intentionally."
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Farshad Asl
"Strategize yearly, plan quarterly, examine monthly, reflect weekly, act daily, and live #intentionally."
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"There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles."
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Maureen O'Hara
"There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles."
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"I am really rather like a beautiful Jersey cow, I have the same pathetic droop to the corners of my eyes."
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Deborah Kerr
"I am really rather like a beautiful Jersey cow, I have the same pathetic droop to the corners of my eyes."
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"When we were making KONG, I went into the sound room and made an aria of horror sounds. I was in charge of it; there was no one there to listen to me. I was totally in charge of what I wanted to do."
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Fay Wray
"When we were making KONG, I went into the sound room and made an aria of horror sounds. I was in charge of it; there was no one there to listen to me. I was totally in charge of what I wanted to do."
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"When you gain 50 pounds during pregnancy like I did, you fear that you'll never get back in shape."
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Charisma Carpenter
"When you gain 50 pounds during pregnancy like I did, you fear that you'll never get back in shape."
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"I was really tired of words like 'plus size,' 'round' and 'large.' I thought, 'Come on, we're fat.'"
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Kirstie Alley
"I was really tired of words like 'plus size,' 'round' and 'large.' I thought, 'Come on, we're fat.'"
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"My biggest challenge is trust, and really believing that trust, in letting things just happen personally and professionally and trust with myself. But I'm getting better at it."
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Katherine Moennig
"My biggest challenge is trust, and really believing that trust, in letting things just happen personally and professionally and trust with myself. But I'm getting better at it."
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"It's pleasant and bothersome and embarrassing all at once. Especially when you haven't done much and are a celebrity."
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Nastassja Kinski
"It's pleasant and bothersome and embarrassing all at once. Especially when you haven't done much and are a celebrity."
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"I actually wanted to be an exotic dancer, but that didn't work out so I thought I'd take on acting."
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Sasha Alexander
"I actually wanted to be an exotic dancer, but that didn't work out so I thought I'd take on acting."
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"My goal in life is to enjoy what I do, and never to look back and say I wish I would have done that, and to go to UCLA, and to become someone great in life!"
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Mila Kunis
"My goal in life is to enjoy what I do, and never to look back and say I wish I would have done that, and to go to UCLA, and to become someone great in life!"
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"The best way in the world to advertise is to get somebody else to run around with the name of your product on their person or showing it around somewhere and not only that but they're paying for it."
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Majel Barrett
"The best way in the world to advertise is to get somebody else to run around with the name of your product on their person or showing it around somewhere and not only that but they're paying for it."
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"I played the best role I've ever seen on TV or film in the last five years. It was hugely gratifying."
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Sherry Stringfield
"I played the best role I've ever seen on TV or film in the last five years. It was hugely gratifying."
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"I wanted some family structure and stability, and that's what The Partridge Family afforded me, not only financially but in the fact that I could be at home with my kids."
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Shirley Jones
"I wanted some family structure and stability, and that's what The Partridge Family afforded me, not only financially but in the fact that I could be at home with my kids."
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"I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that's put into your head. You are never thin enough."
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Carmen Electra
"I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that's put into your head. You are never thin enough."
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"I know that. I'm having a ball. I'm not slap happy. I'm just filled up with joy and with peace and with all kinds of things that have eluded me for quite a few years. And they're back and they're thriving."
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Liza Minnelli
"I know that. I'm having a ball. I'm not slap happy. I'm just filled up with joy and with peace and with all kinds of things that have eluded me for quite a few years. And they're back and they're thriving."
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"There is only one issue: man's lack of experience in feeling his Divine self and his innate connection with the Divine. All other issues stem from this."
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Lindsay Wagner
"There is only one issue: man's lack of experience in feeling his Divine self and his innate connection with the Divine. All other issues stem from this."
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"I don't have feeling in my feet to my fingertips; I also have active lesions in my bone marrow and in my eyes."
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Karen Duffy
"I don't have feeling in my feet to my fingertips; I also have active lesions in my bone marrow and in my eyes."
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