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"And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don't, it's just real hard to get through the day, and I'll get really down, and just want to cry. My whole body language changes. I get more slumped over."
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Delta Burke
"And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don't, it's just real hard to get through the day, and I'll get really down, and just want to cry. My whole body language changes. I get more slumped over."
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"The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it."
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Frances McDormand
"The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it."
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"Of course, Hollywood is still making some excellent pictures which reflect the great artistry that made Hollywood famous throughout the world, but these films are exceptions, judging from box office returns and press reviews."
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Pola Negri
"Of course, Hollywood is still making some excellent pictures which reflect the great artistry that made Hollywood famous throughout the world, but these films are exceptions, judging from box office returns and press reviews."
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"Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world."
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Ashley Judd
"Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world."
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"I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today."
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Dinah Shore
"I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today."
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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 was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men and women had the kind of love relationship that Rebecca and Nathan had in Sounder."
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Cicely Tyson
"I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men and women had the kind of love relationship that Rebecca and Nathan had in Sounder."
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"I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way."
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Barbra Streisand
"I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way."
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"If you risk nothing, then you risk everything."
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Geena Davis
"If you risk nothing, then you risk everything."
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"I rent houses in LA when I'm filming. I find the isolation there terrifying. There's nowhere to go, there's nowhere to be with people. I'm not a beach bunny."
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Kathleen Turner
"I rent houses in LA when I'm filming. I find the isolation there terrifying. There's nowhere to go, there's nowhere to be with people. I'm not a beach bunny."
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"And even then when you take it, you've got to take it with your whole heart."
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Piper Laurie
"And even then when you take it, you've got to take it with your whole heart."
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"Sometimes it would be nice to just have some red wine with dinner, but it's not worth the risk. I have a great life, a great situation. Why would I want to risk self-destructive behaviour?"
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Kristin Davis
"Sometimes it would be nice to just have some red wine with dinner, but it's not worth the risk. I have a great life, a great situation. Why would I want to risk self-destructive behaviour?"
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"I'm just starting to realize the type of work that I want to do. Not everyone can fit into the sitcom world because it's so fast-paced, but it feels comfortable to me."
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Brooke Shields
"I'm just starting to realize the type of work that I want to do. Not everyone can fit into the sitcom world because it's so fast-paced, but it feels comfortable to me."
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"You see, I've never really studied acting."
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Diana Ross
"You see, I've never really studied acting."
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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 was no place at all for me in my father's military world."
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Gloria Swanson
"There was no place at all for me in my father's military world."
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"All my fans tell me what a glamorous life I have, but I tell them how hard I work and how many nights I spend alone with my dogs, eating chicken pot pie in my bedroom."
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Shannen Doherty
"All my fans tell me what a glamorous life I have, but I tell them how hard I work and how many nights I spend alone with my dogs, eating chicken pot pie in my bedroom."
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"I think I want to pursue a movie career and maybe even pursue some theatre."
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Katie Holmes
"I think I want to pursue a movie career and maybe even pursue some theatre."
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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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"I am pretty self-indulgent."
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Francesca Annis
"I am pretty self-indulgent."
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"I think the original Matrix was really incredible. It was so original and it did so many innovative things with film. It was a much bigger film. Bound was just a smaller film. It was kind of like an old noir film."
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Gina Gershon
"I think the original Matrix was really incredible. It was so original and it did so many innovative things with film. It was a much bigger film. Bound was just a smaller film. It was kind of like an old noir film."
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"Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got."
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Sophia Loren
"Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got."
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"You never really know a man until you have divorced him."
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Zsa Zsa Gabor
"You never really know a man until you have divorced him."
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"The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy."
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Olivia Wilde
"The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy."
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"I had a dozen years to act before starting a family then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value."
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Sissy Spacek
"I had a dozen years to act before starting a family then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value."
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"They say I can open movies, and that's nice in that it puts into people's minds that women can do it. It's not just Kevin Costner, not just Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not just the guys."
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Julia Roberts
"They say I can open movies, and that's nice in that it puts into people's minds that women can do it. It's not just Kevin Costner, not just Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not just the guys."
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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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"So, I'm the Eighth Wonder of the World. It's flattering and very, very funny."
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Eva Longoria
"So, I'm the Eighth Wonder of the World. It's flattering and very, very funny."
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"I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot."
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Bette Midler
"I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot."
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"I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you."
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Meryl Streep
"I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you."
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"Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama."
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Joanna Lumley
"Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama."
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"Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be."
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Jessica Alba
"Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be."
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"People never cease to amaze me."
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Tina Yothers
"People never cease to amaze me."
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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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"Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy."
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Fiona Shaw
"Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy."
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"Sometimes when things you love get really commercial, you end up feeling betrayed by it."
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Gwyneth Paltrow
"Sometimes when things you love get really commercial, you end up feeling betrayed by it."
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"My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland."
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Lorna Luft
"My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland."
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"The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive."
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Vanessa Hudgens
"The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive."
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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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"I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of."
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Tatyana Ali
"I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of."
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"And I think I have a perspective about Hollywood that you don't see very often in the press."
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Patricia Heaton
"And I think I have a perspective about Hollywood that you don't see very often in the press."
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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 met Patricia Neal, John Houseman. But I loved my grandfather because he was this kind, talented man."
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Illeana Douglas
"I met Patricia Neal, John Houseman. But I loved my grandfather because he was this kind, talented man."
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"I don't think Roger Dodger is really about men. I think it is more about relationships and about how you present yourself, not only to the opposite sex, but to yourself. What lies are you going to tell yourself in order to get through the day?"
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Jennifer Beals
"I don't think Roger Dodger is really about men. I think it is more about relationships and about how you present yourself, not only to the opposite sex, but to yourself. What lies are you going to tell yourself in order to get through the day?"
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"It makes me forget that I'm not going to be a major star and lead female in films whether it was 20 years ago, 10 years ago, five or in the future."
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Pam Grier
"It makes me forget that I'm not going to be a major star and lead female in films whether it was 20 years ago, 10 years ago, five or in the future."
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"We have to support our own films. If we don't, how can we expect others to support them?"
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Cicely Tyson
"We have to support our own films. If we don't, how can we expect others to support them?"
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"I like the creative aspect of developing a project."
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Priscilla Presley
"I like the creative aspect of developing a project."
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"I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I'm naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself."
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Cameron Diaz
"I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I'm naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself."
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"I truly believe that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us and create the life we want to live. I have seen it happen time and time again."
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Gillian Anderson
"I truly believe that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us and create the life we want to live. I have seen it happen time and time again."
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