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Quotes by Actress
"Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around."
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"I may be the girl next door, but you wouldn't want to live next to me."
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"Maybe she'd seen too many Japanese horror movies, and maybe it was just a tingle of warning from generations of superstitious ancestors, but suddenly she knew that what Alyssa wanted was not to be saved, but for Shane to join her. In death."
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"I don't call it "Life Insurance," I call it "Love Insurance." We buy it because we want to leave a legacy for those we love."
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"First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress."
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"Like every aspect of cancer I've weathered thus far, today's experience was not at all demoralizing, expensive or humiliating. No, it was just plain fun."
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"I know of my sex appeal. I know about sexuality, and I know how to use it - tastefully, of course."
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"Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain."
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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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"He started to touch the mechanism under the keyboard, then pulled his hand back with a snap."Ah," he said. "Must deactivate the security....Turn around, please.""What?""Turn around, Claire. It's a secure password!""You have GOT to be kidding.""Why ever would I joke about that? Please turn."
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"She was almost at the top of the steps, and Shane was right behind her, when she heard Myrnin say, in a quiet voice that was like the old Myrnin, the one she actually liked, "I'm sorry, Claire. I never meant - I'm sorry. Sometimes I don't know... I don't know what I am thinking. I wish... I wish things could be like they were before."
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"Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own."
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"Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so utterly rare."
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"If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner."
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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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"Much has been said and continues to be said of what little concern the Turks had for the Acropolis treasures."
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"Dick Clark really didn't make rock 'n roll safe for America, as many people think."
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"Personally, I don't think we could do such a show if we didn't get along. The subtext of all this is that we're women in a show so we can't possibly get along. It's not like they write about The Sopranos like that."
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"Perhaps Europeans are a bit more skeptic whereas Americans are more believers."
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"A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?"
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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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"Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson."
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"I would take up any small job on the sets, just so that I could hang around with the hope of getting noticed."
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"The only work I did for the next five years after splitting from Vincent was work I'd already lined up."
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"When you read a script, you get a feeling from it."
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"The Pledge of Allegiance does not end with Hail Satan."
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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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"I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy."
Work,
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