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Quotes by Actress
"Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on."
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"True Leaders take an Ordinary Person and turn them into an Extraordinary Performer."
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"People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else."
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"I've been in the bargain basement of the movie business."
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"Making a movie is a long, dull process. There's a lot of waiting around."
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"Somewhere along the line, Bob said I'd better begin taking this business seriously, because, whether I liked it or not, I had a career."
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"I was studying to be an architect, I wasn't plotting to join the movies. Films were just another career option. I took acting up with the same schoolgirl enthusiasm I had for examinations. Acting is a job and I take it very seriously."
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"I had a few fibroids removed, and they left me with a Grand Canyon of scar tissue in my uterus. The doctors weren't sure I'd be able to reproduce. I was prepared for a rough road, and then out of nowhere we conceived."
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"When I watched Ellen come out in '97, my jaw was on the floor. I thought, There are some people who break the doors down, hold them open, and some people who walk right through."
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"He was also very clear that the decision to cast me as Cora was all Michael's."
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"My way was not to be the petite, gorgeous, little cheerleader. My way of getting by was making people laugh."
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"Perhaps walking is best imagined as an 'indicator species,' to use an ecologist's term. An indicator species signifies the health of an ecosystem, and its endangerment or diminishment can be an early warning sign of systemic trouble. Walking is an indicator species for various kinds of freedom and pleasures: free time, free and alluring space, and unhindered bodies."
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"I think I can take responsibility for that in that I was the audience. I was the voice of sanity around whom all these crazies did their dance. And I reacted in the same way that a member of the audience would have reacted."
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"Hey, I'm a girl, and we like to play dress-up."
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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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"I wanted it so badly that there was no choice. It's like something in your blood that you have to do."
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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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"I kind of like the position of being the fair-haired savior of my mother."
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"I met Donald Trump in '85. I ran into him several times throughout the years. We knew we had this connection, but it wasn't appropriate timing. So we'd spend a lot of time on the telephone. By '88, I knew I truly loved this guy."
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"There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within."
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"To know that once you decide to look at life outside of the narrow limits of just your world and start to understand that you can make a difference in very simple ways - in volunteering and all the way up to bigger world problems."
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"I began to think, The endowment has had a bad reputation in the last few years, and that's unfair."
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"I already hated that gray suit and then having to go through putting on that wig with a false front - again made me feel so trapped inside this person who was desperately wanting to break out of it but she was so caught up in the web of deception that she couldn't."
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"I was technically a Valley Girl, even though I absolutely dreaded being called that. I really hated the idea that I was a Valley Girl."
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"I'm not afraid of my femininity and I'm not afraid of my sexuality."
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"It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all."
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