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"Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live."
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Marilyn Monroe
"Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live."
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"People who know me know I'm strong, but I'm vulnerable."
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Catherine Deneuve
"People who know me know I'm strong, but I'm vulnerable."
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"In the original computer game of Doom, you not only have to kill things. You have to pulverise them."
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Rosamund Pike
"In the original computer game of Doom, you not only have to kill things. You have to pulverise them."
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"Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th."
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Fiona Shaw
"Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th."
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"That's why charity work is very selfish at the same time, because it makes you feel good."
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Maria Menounos
"That's why charity work is very selfish at the same time, because it makes you feel good."
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"I think it's a gift to become a star, to become a celebrity."
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Amy Smart
"I think it's a gift to become a star, to become a celebrity."
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"Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language."
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Camryn Manheim
"Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language."
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"I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!"
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Frances Farmer
"I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!"
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"My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood."
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Salma Hayek
"My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood."
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"If you know how to do a job very well, you keep doing it."
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Joan Chen
"If you know how to do a job very well, you keep doing it."
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"Well, because I'm naturally a tomboy, when I have sleepovers with girls, they end up going home and crying."
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Alexa Vega
"Well, because I'm naturally a tomboy, when I have sleepovers with girls, they end up going home and crying."
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"Comedy is very controlling - you are making people laugh."
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Gilda Radner
"Comedy is very controlling - you are making people laugh."
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"I believe in love, but I don't sit around waiting for it. I buy houses."
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Renee Zellweger
"I believe in love, but I don't sit around waiting for it. I buy houses."
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"It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer."
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Patricia Heaton
"It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer."
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"You have to be born a sex symbol. You don't become one. If you're born with it, you'll have it even when you're 100 years old."
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Sophia Loren
"You have to be born a sex symbol. You don't become one. If you're born with it, you'll have it even when you're 100 years old."
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"My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want."
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Julie Walters
"My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want."
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"Since September 11, security has been increased everywhere, and we have new IDs to get on to the Fox lot. I drove to the security gate, but realized I'd left my ID in my other car. I just broke into that voice - 'Hey, man, I'm Bart Simpson. Who else sounds like this?' The guard waved me through."
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Nancy Cartwright
"Since September 11, security has been increased everywhere, and we have new IDs to get on to the Fox lot. I drove to the security gate, but realized I'd left my ID in my other car. I just broke into that voice - 'Hey, man, I'm Bart Simpson. Who else sounds like this?' The guard waved me through."
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"I think that's very sad, that I haven't allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few."
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Sally Field
"I think that's very sad, that I haven't allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few."
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"You have to find the peace and patience within yourself to be a model and an example to others and not judge."
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Judith Light
"You have to find the peace and patience within yourself to be a model and an example to others and not judge."
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"What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad."
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Gene Tierney
"What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad."
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"If I did anything 'next,' I would do writing."
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Ellen Muth
"If I did anything 'next,' I would do writing."
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"For some reason I am one of those people who act like they were born and raised during the Depression."
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Kirstie Alley
"For some reason I am one of those people who act like they were born and raised during the Depression."
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"I've stood up to producers before, and even a director. I saw them being abusive. A lot of people on the set are scared to say stuff when they're not being treated right."
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Natalie Portman
"I've stood up to producers before, and even a director. I saw them being abusive. A lot of people on the set are scared to say stuff when they're not being treated right."
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"I try to keep a balance. I actually believe that children want normal parents, they don't want celebrities or important parents or anything different from all the other parents."
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Linda Hamilton
"I try to keep a balance. I actually believe that children want normal parents, they don't want celebrities or important parents or anything different from all the other parents."
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"I've had a little bad, bad media luck the new year. Well, apparently I'm dating Bill Clinton, which makes me nervous. I didn't know, though."
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Julie Bowen
"I've had a little bad, bad media luck the new year. Well, apparently I'm dating Bill Clinton, which makes me nervous. I didn't know, though."
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"One thing I've learned: You never know where life is taking you, but it's taking you."
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Hilary Swank
"One thing I've learned: You never know where life is taking you, but it's taking you."
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"I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are people who live there who have been to Manhattan maybe once or twice."
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Ellen Burstyn
"I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are people who live there who have been to Manhattan maybe once or twice."
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"I have no idea how I'm perceived in America because I don't live the reality of America."
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Monica Bellucci
"I have no idea how I'm perceived in America because I don't live the reality of America."
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"There are two things in life that I really wanted to do: be an actress, and to be in skin care, and I've gotten to do both of them."
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Victoria Principal
"There are two things in life that I really wanted to do: be an actress, and to be in skin care, and I've gotten to do both of them."
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"I didn't let anyone push me into things I didn't want to do where my career was concerned. So why did I crumble when it came to men?"
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Maureen O'Hara
"I didn't let anyone push me into things I didn't want to do where my career was concerned. So why did I crumble when it came to men?"
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"But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy."
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Jodie Foster
"But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy."
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"The roles for women in theatre are much better than they are in film."
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Kim Cattrall
"The roles for women in theatre are much better than they are in film."
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"We were the laughingstock of that first season... It was with great relish several years later that I received a TV Guide award for favorite actress on television."
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Roma Downey
"We were the laughingstock of that first season... It was with great relish several years later that I received a TV Guide award for favorite actress on television."
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"You have to look out for becoming trapped in a place where people want to see you all the time doing one thing."
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Lucy Liu
"You have to look out for becoming trapped in a place where people want to see you all the time doing one thing."
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"One of the cries from the people was, don't forget us. They have a long road ahead of them. Operation Blessing has found those little fishing towns. They will not be getting what other towns are getting from the government."
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Connie Sellecca
"One of the cries from the people was, don't forget us. They have a long road ahead of them. Operation Blessing has found those little fishing towns. They will not be getting what other towns are getting from the government."
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"When I'm with my friends I'm funny, but I don't feel like I'm a funny clown."
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Nora Dunn
"When I'm with my friends I'm funny, but I don't feel like I'm a funny clown."
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"People who are incapable of having any kind of intimate relationship have to turn to feeling this incredible hunger and void, have to turn to some quantifiable external product to make them feel whole."
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Jennifer Connelly
"People who are incapable of having any kind of intimate relationship have to turn to feeling this incredible hunger and void, have to turn to some quantifiable external product to make them feel whole."
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"So curiosity, I think, is a really important aspect of staying young or youthful."
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Goldie Hawn
"So curiosity, I think, is a really important aspect of staying young or youthful."
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"Female television viewers paid attention to Catherine Gale."
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Honor Blackman
"Female television viewers paid attention to Catherine Gale."
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"I still have, I hope, a lot of years and there are still a lot of things I want to do."
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Faye Dunaway
"I still have, I hope, a lot of years and there are still a lot of things I want to do."
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"The scene was attempted a second time, up on top of the fort, and cameras didn't even roll. Michael, though he wasn't admitting it, wasn't sure how to shoot the scene."
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Madeleine Stowe
"The scene was attempted a second time, up on top of the fort, and cameras didn't even roll. Michael, though he wasn't admitting it, wasn't sure how to shoot the scene."
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"I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God."
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Frances Farmer
"I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God."
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"I use to watch like maybe three or four movies, five days out of the week. I was a movie buff, but I really didn't know what it was like behind the scenes, or the whole political process of it."
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Michelle Rodriguez
"I use to watch like maybe three or four movies, five days out of the week. I was a movie buff, but I really didn't know what it was like behind the scenes, or the whole political process of it."
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"For example, when my mother died, the people who showed up just to put an apron on to cook, people who really do the right thing, so to speak, as my momma would always say to show that they care, a sense of community that we've lost so much in our country."
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Sela Ward
"For example, when my mother died, the people who showed up just to put an apron on to cook, people who really do the right thing, so to speak, as my momma would always say to show that they care, a sense of community that we've lost so much in our country."
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"I have a responsibility to nurture and shepherd my talent and when I'm living the parts of my life not related to that I feel I have the right to be left alone."
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Ashley Judd
"I have a responsibility to nurture and shepherd my talent and when I'm living the parts of my life not related to that I feel I have the right to be left alone."
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"In any profession, there's a sleazy side and an honorable side."
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Gina Gershon
"In any profession, there's a sleazy side and an honorable side."
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"And we live in a French Quarter a lot of the time, in New Orleans. And the camaraderie of everybody there. Everybody takes care of each other."
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Delta Burke
"And we live in a French Quarter a lot of the time, in New Orleans. And the camaraderie of everybody there. Everybody takes care of each other."
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"Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone."
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Hedda Hopper
"Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone."
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"They almost ran me off the road several times. There are so many chances that they take to get the right photo."
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Loni Anderson
"They almost ran me off the road several times. There are so many chances that they take to get the right photo."
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"We played soccer a lot with our friends and at school. We weren't on an official team or anything, but we'd definitely be up for it in gym or in after-school pickup games where we live."
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Mary-Kate Olsen
"We played soccer a lot with our friends and at school. We weren't on an official team or anything, but we'd definitely be up for it in gym or in after-school pickup games where we live."
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