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"I kind of like the position of being the fair-haired savior of my mother."
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Patty Duke
"I kind of like the position of being the fair-haired savior of my mother."
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"Art is such an important part of our culture."
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Rosanna Arquette
"Art is such an important part of our culture."
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"I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances."
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Patricia Heaton
"I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances."
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"Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then."
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Diana Ross
"Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then."
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"Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't."
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Jamie Lee Curtis
"Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't."
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"What I wasn't prepared for were the feelings of anxiety that it stirred in me. I wasn't prepared for the initial feeling of I don't want to have to do that again. I was scared."
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Mariel Hemingway
"What I wasn't prepared for were the feelings of anxiety that it stirred in me. I wasn't prepared for the initial feeling of I don't want to have to do that again. I was scared."
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"Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise."
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Patricia Richardson
"Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise."
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"Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time."
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Hattie McDaniel
"Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time."
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"As a teenager, I didn't want to be me; I wanted to be many different people. Maybe I realized that they all lived inside me and that if I managed to connect with them, they would become aspects of me."
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Marion Cotillard
"As a teenager, I didn't want to be me; I wanted to be many different people. Maybe I realized that they all lived inside me and that if I managed to connect with them, they would become aspects of me."
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"Pianos tend to get better as they age, the more you play them. They grow into their sound."
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Alicia Witt
"Pianos tend to get better as they age, the more you play them. They grow into their sound."
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"By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director."
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Jodie Foster
"By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director."
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"Oh, my career. What career? I'm over 40."
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Melanie Griffith
"Oh, my career. What career? I'm over 40."
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"There are just certain realities about our world and I just happen to be creative within it."
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Pam Grier
"There are just certain realities about our world and I just happen to be creative within it."
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"In the 90's action pictures were all the rage. As a woman, I was fed up with them and I initially thought that the script was just another action film dressed up as a period piece."
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Madeleine Stowe
"In the 90's action pictures were all the rage. As a woman, I was fed up with them and I initially thought that the script was just another action film dressed up as a period piece."
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"Stardom isn't a profession; it's an accident."
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Lauren Bacall
"Stardom isn't a profession; it's an accident."
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"Courtney Love is really cool and funny. I would like to meet Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz. I think I could play their daughters."
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Dakota Fanning
"Courtney Love is really cool and funny. I would like to meet Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz. I think I could play their daughters."
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"Later, I made a movie with him, 'That Touch of Mink,' and we became good friends but any woman's initial meeting with Cary is right up there with the big moments of her world history."
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Audrey Meadows
"Later, I made a movie with him, 'That Touch of Mink,' and we became good friends but any woman's initial meeting with Cary is right up there with the big moments of her world history."
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"We really enjoy entertaining our children with characters. We'll act out all of The Wizard of Oz together."
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Robin Wright Penn
"We really enjoy entertaining our children with characters. We'll act out all of The Wizard of Oz together."
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"After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better."
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Jaclyn Smith
"After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better."
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"You shouldn't have to give things up for someone. If you love them someone, you should love them for everything they do and all that they are. I love acting and I wouldn't give it up for anything, and I don't know anyone in my life who would ask me to give it up."
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Lindsay Lohan
"You shouldn't have to give things up for someone. If you love them someone, you should love them for everything they do and all that they are. I love acting and I wouldn't give it up for anything, and I don't know anyone in my life who would ask me to give it up."
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"Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page one. Some are more reality-based."
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Gillian Anderson
"Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page one. Some are more reality-based."
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"I would describe myself as emotional and highly strung. If something upsets me, it really upsets me. If something makes me angry, I get really angry. But it's all very upfront. I can't hide it. I'm also loyal and I hope I'm fun."
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Nicole Kidman
"I would describe myself as emotional and highly strung. If something upsets me, it really upsets me. If something makes me angry, I get really angry. But it's all very upfront. I can't hide it. I'm also loyal and I hope I'm fun."
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"I feel bad about a lot of the movies I see that teach kids that if they do bad, they'll win."
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Morgan Brittany
"I feel bad about a lot of the movies I see that teach kids that if they do bad, they'll win."
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"I have four dogs, four horses, a cat, and a bunch of wild frogs."
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Daryl Hannah
"I have four dogs, four horses, a cat, and a bunch of wild frogs."
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"I'd like to run for office someday, but I'm afraid my ability to spell might give me an unfair advantage."
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April Winchell
"I'd like to run for office someday, but I'm afraid my ability to spell might give me an unfair advantage."
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"The work is getting the work."
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Elizabeth Pena
"The work is getting the work."
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"I can cry at the drop of the pin. But comedy is hard for me; it's the timing."
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Moira Kelly
"I can cry at the drop of the pin. But comedy is hard for me; it's the timing."
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"My hair got lighter, and I gradually went blonde. I liked it. Had more fun. But my image of myself in my head is this dark-haired person."
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Lisa Kudrow
"My hair got lighter, and I gradually went blonde. I liked it. Had more fun. But my image of myself in my head is this dark-haired person."
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"If you're going to be alive and on this planet, you have to, like, suck the marrow out of every day and get the most out of it."
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Drew Barrymore
"If you're going to be alive and on this planet, you have to, like, suck the marrow out of every day and get the most out of it."
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"My mother had been a country and western singer but when she moved out to Hollywood found it very difficult to get work so when I was born they put me into dance classes and singing classes as soon as I could walk actually."
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Morgan Brittany
"My mother had been a country and western singer but when she moved out to Hollywood found it very difficult to get work so when I was born they put me into dance classes and singing classes as soon as I could walk actually."
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"Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay."
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Esther Williams
"Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay."
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"I love acting, but it's much more fun taking the kids to the zoo."
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Nicole Kidman
"I love acting, but it's much more fun taking the kids to the zoo."
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"I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile."
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Goldie Hawn
"I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile."
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"My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless."
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Mercedes McCambridge
"My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless."
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"I'm a grown-up now, and I value the training I had."
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Christina Applegate
"I'm a grown-up now, and I value the training I had."
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"My only ambition is to be true every moment I am living."
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Juliette Binoche
"My only ambition is to be true every moment I am living."
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"When Tony was madly in love with me, his relationship with Vanessa Redgrave was ending."
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Jeanne Moreau
"When Tony was madly in love with me, his relationship with Vanessa Redgrave was ending."
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"There has also been much love, joy, evidence of admiration, there has never been one without the other."
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Isabelle Adjani
"There has also been much love, joy, evidence of admiration, there has never been one without the other."
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"People use location as a language in films, and Quentin uses action as a language in his films. There's really not a lot of violence. It's more of an emotional beat than it is a physical beat."
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Lucy Liu
"People use location as a language in films, and Quentin uses action as a language in his films. There's really not a lot of violence. It's more of an emotional beat than it is a physical beat."
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"Other people's perspective, just seeing the sexy image, might be that I take my sexuality very seriously. But I really don't. I like being sexy. It's fun, and I have had a nice little career off it."
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Carmen Electra
"Other people's perspective, just seeing the sexy image, might be that I take my sexuality very seriously. But I really don't. I like being sexy. It's fun, and I have had a nice little career off it."
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"Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago."
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Helen Reddy
"Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago."
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"I wanted to be a theater actress, but I thought it would be easier to get to New York and the theater if I had a name than if I just walked the streets as a little girl from California."
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Gloria Stuart
"I wanted to be a theater actress, but I thought it would be easier to get to New York and the theater if I had a name than if I just walked the streets as a little girl from California."
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"I think one day I want to be on the other side of the camera-maybe directing."
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Mary-Kate Olsen
"I think one day I want to be on the other side of the camera-maybe directing."
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"Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them."
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Julia Louis Dreyfus
"Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them."
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"Dogs never bite me. Just humans."
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Marilyn Monroe
"Dogs never bite me. Just humans."
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"I don't know if people really want to know how I feel about drugs. I'm not such a stickler. I believe you can choose to live your life any way you want."
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Kate Hudson
"I don't know if people really want to know how I feel about drugs. I'm not such a stickler. I believe you can choose to live your life any way you want."
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"People in this country haven't stopped hating fat people, but they've become more kind to me, since in our culture, even though we hate our fat people, we love our celebrities even more."
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Camryn Manheim
"People in this country haven't stopped hating fat people, but they've become more kind to me, since in our culture, even though we hate our fat people, we love our celebrities even more."
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"When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise."
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Lauren Bacall
"When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise."
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"So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!"
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Calista Flockhart
"So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!"
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"After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love."
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Monica Bellucci
"After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love."
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