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"Awards are so unnecessary, because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself."
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Natalie Portman
"Awards are so unnecessary, because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself."
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"I'm the biggest nerd - I love comic books and stuff like that! I don't have any friends who are actresses. I only had one girlfriend when I was growing up. Most of my friends were boys. I was such a tomboy. I enjoyed doing guy things."
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Megan Fox
"I'm the biggest nerd - I love comic books and stuff like that! I don't have any friends who are actresses. I only had one girlfriend when I was growing up. Most of my friends were boys. I was such a tomboy. I enjoyed doing guy things."
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"I did a guest appearance on The Practice and loved it."
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Sharon Stone
"I did a guest appearance on The Practice and loved it."
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"I have a role now that I think becomes me. I am a grandmother."
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Gene Tierney
"I have a role now that I think becomes me. I am a grandmother."
Now,
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"Around 7 years old, we girls took dancing lessons, joined the Brownies, the Girl Scouts, the 4H Club."
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Ruth Buzzi
"Around 7 years old, we girls took dancing lessons, joined the Brownies, the Girl Scouts, the 4H Club."
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"It felt like a very, very weird thing to go on the set on September 13th. I would never want to glorify that."
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Mia Kirshner
"It felt like a very, very weird thing to go on the set on September 13th. I would never want to glorify that."
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"I've seen it too many times in Hollywood. Talking about a relationship in public can jinx it. And if you have your picture taken together, you might as well start packing your bags."
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Gina Gershon
"I've seen it too many times in Hollywood. Talking about a relationship in public can jinx it. And if you have your picture taken together, you might as well start packing your bags."
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"Even people that know Johnny Cash's music really well and know that he was married don't really know that much about June Carter. So finding out about her really helped to inform my performance and to bring her to the front in a way that she has never been before."
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Reese Witherspoon
"Even people that know Johnny Cash's music really well and know that he was married don't really know that much about June Carter. So finding out about her really helped to inform my performance and to bring her to the front in a way that she has never been before."
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"Our family has gone through a very difficult time. My husband and I have taken the brunt of it. I've never known what it truly felt like to be so sad and desperate inside."
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Tracey Gold
"Our family has gone through a very difficult time. My husband and I have taken the brunt of it. I've never known what it truly felt like to be so sad and desperate inside."
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"I spent a lot of time feeling alienated and rejected."
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Lisa Bonet
"I spent a lot of time feeling alienated and rejected."
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"So, it's cool that, yes, Hal Jordan is a superhero, but my character is a real-world hero in her own life."
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Blake Lively
"So, it's cool that, yes, Hal Jordan is a superhero, but my character is a real-world hero in her own life."
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"I just read that 81 percent of Americans are ready to vote for a woman. So it sounds like America is ready."
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Geena Davis
"I just read that 81 percent of Americans are ready to vote for a woman. So it sounds like America is ready."
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"I don't judge people by their sexual orientation or the color of their skin, so I find it really hard to identify someone by saying that they're a gay person or a black person or a Jewish person."
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Diana Ross
"I don't judge people by their sexual orientation or the color of their skin, so I find it really hard to identify someone by saying that they're a gay person or a black person or a Jewish person."
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"Women have this obsession with shoes."
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Alexandra Paul
"Women have this obsession with shoes."
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"It's hard for women to talk about these things, and for the doctors to really talk about it too, and to even have the knowledge of what's going on. That's why I'm doing this and urging women to speak out and talk to their doctors frankly."
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Cybill Shepherd
"It's hard for women to talk about these things, and for the doctors to really talk about it too, and to even have the knowledge of what's going on. That's why I'm doing this and urging women to speak out and talk to their doctors frankly."
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"I suspect people always thought I had a boyfriend, so nobody came after me."
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Ziyi Zhang
"I suspect people always thought I had a boyfriend, so nobody came after me."
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"You know, women have a history of just being - we've been told all our lives not to say - in the fifties you couldn't say birth or even be pregnant hardly on television - and then gradually things have changed."
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Cybill Shepherd
"You know, women have a history of just being - we've been told all our lives not to say - in the fifties you couldn't say birth or even be pregnant hardly on television - and then gradually things have changed."
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"I have to tell you that June Cleaver had a job in 'The New Leave It to Beaver.' She did. Sure, she was a council woman. She went to work. She wasn't a sit-at-home grandma. She went out, got a job."
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Barbara Billingsley
"I have to tell you that June Cleaver had a job in 'The New Leave It to Beaver.' She did. Sure, she was a council woman. She went to work. She wasn't a sit-at-home grandma. She went out, got a job."
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"I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive."
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Patty Duke
"I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive."
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"I'm a woman who carries around all these layers of fear and vulnerability."
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Teri Hatcher
"I'm a woman who carries around all these layers of fear and vulnerability."
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"When all of a sudden, people say, 'Wow, you look nice,' and carry on, it's shocking. Really awkward."
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Nikki Cox
"When all of a sudden, people say, 'Wow, you look nice,' and carry on, it's shocking. Really awkward."
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"Basically I was a rebel growing up. I got kicked out of six schools. But I don't think that it makes you less of an intellect. You know, if you ever crave knowledge, there's always a library."
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Michelle Rodriguez
"Basically I was a rebel growing up. I got kicked out of six schools. But I don't think that it makes you less of an intellect. You know, if you ever crave knowledge, there's always a library."
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"Believe me, it jabs you. When you're on the side of buses and New York loves you, you love to go out there every night. It's like a race. Curtain opens, out you go, and New York is yours."
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Angela Lansbury
"Believe me, it jabs you. When you're on the side of buses and New York loves you, you love to go out there every night. It's like a race. Curtain opens, out you go, and New York is yours."
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"I was put under contract. A major studio. I got nominated for an Academy Award. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean, at the age of 18!"
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Angela Lansbury
"I was put under contract. A major studio. I got nominated for an Academy Award. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean, at the age of 18!"
Age,
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"I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working."
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Dana Plato
"I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working."
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"Three cigarettes in, your body already craves it. It is that addictive."
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Loni Anderson
"Three cigarettes in, your body already craves it. It is that addictive."
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"I'm learning something all the time. That's the way I want it to go, and that's the way I'll go until I am no longer on this planet."
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Doris Roberts
"I'm learning something all the time. That's the way I want it to go, and that's the way I'll go until I am no longer on this planet."
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"I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all."
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Barbra Streisand
"I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all."
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"My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money."
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Juliette Binoche
"My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money."
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"I love John Waters. You see, I want to be the next Divine."
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Pia Zadora
"I love John Waters. You see, I want to be the next Divine."
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"I wanted to be a part of the Disney history."
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Tia Carrere
"I wanted to be a part of the Disney history."
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"So how critics will perceive your film or your work, or whether your movie is going to make $100 million at the box office, or whether you are going to be winning any awards - well, you have no control over that."
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Charlize Theron
"So how critics will perceive your film or your work, or whether your movie is going to make $100 million at the box office, or whether you are going to be winning any awards - well, you have no control over that."
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"In my fantasies, I always wanted to play the ingenue, but in reality, in my bones, I am so used to playing the grandmother that I don't feel safe or even sure that I can do it."
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Camryn Manheim
"In my fantasies, I always wanted to play the ingenue, but in reality, in my bones, I am so used to playing the grandmother that I don't feel safe or even sure that I can do it."
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"No man bosses me around, and no man ever will."
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Cybill Shepherd
"No man bosses me around, and no man ever will."
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"There are two kinds of cloning right now. One is therapeutic cloning which is for coming up with cures for life threatening, really, really awful diseases. Then there is reproductive cloning, which is to make a human being out of your DNA and a donor egg."
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Mary Tyler Moore
"There are two kinds of cloning right now. One is therapeutic cloning which is for coming up with cures for life threatening, really, really awful diseases. Then there is reproductive cloning, which is to make a human being out of your DNA and a donor egg."
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"America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my heart I am German - German in my soul."
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Marlene Dietrich
"America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my heart I am German - German in my soul."
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"It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far."
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Cornelia Otis Skinner
"It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far."
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"In a world where there is so much sadness and so much to be afraid of, good things do happen to people. Romance is still something we can find even if we're not consciously looking for it."
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Kathleen Quinlan
"In a world where there is so much sadness and so much to be afraid of, good things do happen to people. Romance is still something we can find even if we're not consciously looking for it."
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"I think it's more important to be fit so that you can be healthy and enjoy activities than it is to have a good body."
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Rachel Blanchard
"I think it's more important to be fit so that you can be healthy and enjoy activities than it is to have a good body."
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"There's nothing particularly physical that I find attractive in a man. It's men with a passion for something that I find attractive."
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Rhona Mitra
"There's nothing particularly physical that I find attractive in a man. It's men with a passion for something that I find attractive."
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"We had such a wonderful set of circumstances in Wilmington. Yes, the four of us became famous literally overnight, but we were in a small town and we always knew when people were coming down. We always knew when to behave."
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Katie Holmes
"We had such a wonderful set of circumstances in Wilmington. Yes, the four of us became famous literally overnight, but we were in a small town and we always knew when people were coming down. We always knew when to behave."
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"The Green Lantern is a unique superhero because it's not that he's super that is his focus; it's that he's a man. He's very human. That's his greatest strength and his greatest weakness."
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Blake Lively
"The Green Lantern is a unique superhero because it's not that he's super that is his focus; it's that he's a man. He's very human. That's his greatest strength and his greatest weakness."
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"As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation."
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Gloria Swanson
"As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation."
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"It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written."
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Jessica Lange
"It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written."
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"I did try to get a few of those teen high-school movies, but they just didn't like me. I guess I wasn't a certain type."
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Leelee Sobieski
"I did try to get a few of those teen high-school movies, but they just didn't like me. I guess I wasn't a certain type."
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"You've got to love this business. You have to be able to take rejection."
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Jessica Biel
"You've got to love this business. You have to be able to take rejection."
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"There's more to life than cheek bones."
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Kate Winslet
"There's more to life than cheek bones."
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"I went to national piano competitions and did that whole circuit. Then I played professionally to support myself when I moved out to LA."
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Alicia Witt
"I went to national piano competitions and did that whole circuit. Then I played professionally to support myself when I moved out to LA."
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"With the Supremes I made so much money so fast all I wanted to do was buy clothes and pretty things. Now I'm comfortable with money and it's comfortable with me."
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Diana Ross
"With the Supremes I made so much money so fast all I wanted to do was buy clothes and pretty things. Now I'm comfortable with money and it's comfortable with me."
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"There are horses people use for competition, and if they don't perform well or go lame, then people ask the vet to put them down to get the insurance money. And my vet knows I love horses, so he gives them to me."
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Daryl Hannah
"There are horses people use for competition, and if they don't perform well or go lame, then people ask the vet to put them down to get the insurance money. And my vet knows I love horses, so he gives them to me."
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