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Quotes by Actress

"Drama is not hard for me. It just didn't seem hard."
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Jenna Elfman
"Drama is not hard for me. It just didn't seem hard."
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"Kids aren't going to understand single life in New York City."
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Melissa Joan Hart
"Kids aren't going to understand single life in New York City."
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"The loss of a child is the most terrifying place for me to go."
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Nicole Kidman
"The loss of a child is the most terrifying place for me to go."
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"It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe."
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Hedy Lamarr
"It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe."
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"I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire."
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Tara Reid
"I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire."
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"I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I've always loved horses so it was part of my dream that I was able to fulfill to have horses."
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Bo Derek
"I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I've always loved horses so it was part of my dream that I was able to fulfill to have horses."
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"I had a burning ambition. Otherwise, I wouldn't have accomplished it."
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Claire Bloom
"I had a burning ambition. Otherwise, I wouldn't have accomplished it."
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"Sometimes it's a character you want to play or a story you want to tell. Sometimes it's just to pay the bills."
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Daryl Hannah
"Sometimes it's a character you want to play or a story you want to tell. Sometimes it's just to pay the bills."
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"I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination."
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Judi Dench
"I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination."
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"No candy bars unless I've had a low blood sugar where I'm shaky."
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Mary Tyler Moore
"No candy bars unless I've had a low blood sugar where I'm shaky."
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"My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression."
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Sally Kirkland
"My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression."
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"You really have to work hard and apply yourself and by applying yourself and working hard and being diligent, you can achieve success."
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Julie Benz
"You really have to work hard and apply yourself and by applying yourself and working hard and being diligent, you can achieve success."
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"Sex is God's joke on human beings."
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Bette Davis
"Sex is God's joke on human beings."
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"I really like to communicate to my fans. I have a fan club president who I've had for over 15 years."
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Hunter Tylo
"I really like to communicate to my fans. I have a fan club president who I've had for over 15 years."
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"I think Baywatch is such a hit here because of the weather."
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Gena Lee Nolin
"I think Baywatch is such a hit here because of the weather."
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"It's really important for boys to see that girls take up half of the planet - which we do."
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Geena Davis
"It's really important for boys to see that girls take up half of the planet - which we do."
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"Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory."
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Hedy Lamarr
"Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory."
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"I think that certainly my choices empower me."
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Kyra Sedgwick
"I think that certainly my choices empower me."
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"We have to be vulnerable as actors, but we have to protect ourselves."
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Glenn Close
"We have to be vulnerable as actors, but we have to protect ourselves."
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"It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive."
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Victoria Principal
"It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive."
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"I love 'Some Enchanted Evening', and 'If I Loved You'. And as I sing them more and more, I find new favorites."
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Bernadette Peters
"I love 'Some Enchanted Evening', and 'If I Loved You'. And as I sing them more and more, I find new favorites."
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"I lied to everybody. I lie very well, being an actress, naturally."
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Lynn Fontanne
"I lied to everybody. I lie very well, being an actress, naturally."
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"Hollywood has an obligation to watch what they put out there. Kids do imitate what they see - good or bad."
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Morgan Brittany
"Hollywood has an obligation to watch what they put out there. Kids do imitate what they see - good or bad."
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"Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death."
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Lena Horne
"Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death."
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"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."
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Marlene Dietrich
"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."
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"A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself."
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Loretta Young
"A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself."
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"I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries."
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Jane Birkin
"I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries."
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"Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them."
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Marilyn Monroe
"Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them."
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"Sometimes when you do a part, the wall between you and the characters can be very porous. You can sort of move in and out of your character's persona and being. And that just couldn't happen on this one because of working with him."
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Kyra Sedgwick
"Sometimes when you do a part, the wall between you and the characters can be very porous. You can sort of move in and out of your character's persona and being. And that just couldn't happen on this one because of working with him."
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"If there's no inner peace, people can't give it to you. The husband can't give it to you. Your children can't give it to you. You have to give it to you."
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Linda Evans
"If there's no inner peace, people can't give it to you. The husband can't give it to you. Your children can't give it to you. You have to give it to you."
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"I never think of myself as any kind of sex symbol, but I get letters from all over, all sorts. It's really cool. I get a lot from inmates, which is kind of scary. But the best was the guy who wanted to send me a plane ticket to fly me to his prom."
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Laura Prepon
"I never think of myself as any kind of sex symbol, but I get letters from all over, all sorts. It's really cool. I get a lot from inmates, which is kind of scary. But the best was the guy who wanted to send me a plane ticket to fly me to his prom."
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"To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits."
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Lorna Luft
"To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits."
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"I was six years old when I saw my first Godard movie, eight when I first experienced Bergman. I wanted to be a director when I was fourteen."
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Julie Delpy
"I was six years old when I saw my first Godard movie, eight when I first experienced Bergman. I wanted to be a director when I was fourteen."
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"Someone had told me about a house in Wandsworth, southwest London - 21 Blenkarne Road - with an incredible garden, so I went and had a look. I walked in and just said, 'I want it.'"
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Susannah York
"Someone had told me about a house in Wandsworth, southwest London - 21 Blenkarne Road - with an incredible garden, so I went and had a look. I walked in and just said, 'I want it.'"
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"Now, all the movies are for teenagers. It's very difficult for an actress to find really deep, beautiful characters to play."
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Monica Bellucci
"Now, all the movies are for teenagers. It's very difficult for an actress to find really deep, beautiful characters to play."
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"I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal."
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Isabelle Huppert
"I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal."
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"It was really important in my relationship with James Caan that I understood the relationship between the family and the father."
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Jeanne Tripplehorn
"It was really important in my relationship with James Caan that I understood the relationship between the family and the father."
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"People were actually approaching me on the street and thinking that I was an athlete. They couldn't quite place it, but a runner, or swimmer or something."
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Kristanna Loken
"People were actually approaching me on the street and thinking that I was an athlete. They couldn't quite place it, but a runner, or swimmer or something."
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"I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting."
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Miranda Richardson
"I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting."
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"I don't know how to do the other, so I won't even consider television until the audience's taste changes."
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Mary Tyler Moore
"I don't know how to do the other, so I won't even consider television until the audience's taste changes."
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"I am an unpredictable journey."
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Claire Forlani
"I am an unpredictable journey."
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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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"There's no doubt that becoming a mother was the greatest thing I'll ever do."
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Kim Basinger
"There's no doubt that becoming a mother was the greatest thing I'll ever do."
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"My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now."
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Cameron Diaz
"My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now."
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"Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that."
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Mary Pickford
"Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that."
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"Since doing the show I've been so busy that I've not really had time to mope."
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Kim Cattrall
"Since doing the show I've been so busy that I've not really had time to mope."
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"Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn't mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring and cruel."
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Hedy Lamarr
"Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn't mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring and cruel."
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"Someone at Disney heard one of the records and called me in to do the sounds of Lucifer the Cat in Cinderella."
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June Foray
"Someone at Disney heard one of the records and called me in to do the sounds of Lucifer the Cat in Cinderella."
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"I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that."
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Moira Kelly
"I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that."
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"I had a flight trainer who is one of the biggest and most famous helicopter pilots the world."
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Izabella Scorupco
"I had a flight trainer who is one of the biggest and most famous helicopter pilots the world."
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