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"I remember hearing someone say that good acting is more about taking off a mask than putting one on, and in movie acting, certainly that's true. With the camera so close, you can see right down into your soul, hopefully. So being able to do that in a way is terrifying, and in another way, truly liberating. And I like that about it."
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Annette Bening
"I remember hearing someone say that good acting is more about taking off a mask than putting one on, and in movie acting, certainly that's true. With the camera so close, you can see right down into your soul, hopefully. So being able to do that in a way is terrifying, and in another way, truly liberating. And I like that about it."
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"I have to be careful not to be too proud in life, because there is always room for improvement."
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Sylvia Kristel
"I have to be careful not to be too proud in life, because there is always room for improvement."
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"Change is never easy."
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Sally Field
"Change is never easy."
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"I'll dance to anything: Bob Marley or rap."
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Francesca Annis
"I'll dance to anything: Bob Marley or rap."
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"And if there's anything movies can do in a way that I just love, and I love as an audience is, "Show me something I don't know about. Show me something I haven't seen.""
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Annette Bening
"And if there's anything movies can do in a way that I just love, and I love as an audience is, "Show me something I don't know about. Show me something I haven't seen.""
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"Back then, it was more or less we couldn't change a line in our script. We weren't allowed to change lines. Today, actors change everything and won't do parts. It's very different today. Back then, the producers were in charge. Today actors are more in charge."
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Donna Douglas
"Back then, it was more or less we couldn't change a line in our script. We weren't allowed to change lines. Today, actors change everything and won't do parts. It's very different today. Back then, the producers were in charge. Today actors are more in charge."
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"If the whole world went vegan, there would be less war. How you eat determines your mood and your outlook on life."
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Alexandra Paul
"If the whole world went vegan, there would be less war. How you eat determines your mood and your outlook on life."
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"I just feel passionately about a few things and particularly about helping artists get off the ground."
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Jane Badler
"I just feel passionately about a few things and particularly about helping artists get off the ground."
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"I find that the majority of the actors I've worked with are extremely sensitive people and very spontaneous people. That's why I always say I'll never date an actor, because they're in love with you one day and the next day they're not."
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Ellen Muth
"I find that the majority of the actors I've worked with are extremely sensitive people and very spontaneous people. That's why I always say I'll never date an actor, because they're in love with you one day and the next day they're not."
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"The worst is when I talk myself into something. Sometimes you take things because you want to work with a certain actor, or you want to work with a director, even if the script or the part's not that great."
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Jessica Lange
"The worst is when I talk myself into something. Sometimes you take things because you want to work with a certain actor, or you want to work with a director, even if the script or the part's not that great."
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"He uses his good powers for evil, and that's when it gets to the dangerous side of it."
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Rosario Dawson
"He uses his good powers for evil, and that's when it gets to the dangerous side of it."
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"Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me."
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Lindsay Lohan
"Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me."
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"There are amazing schools and amazing educators that are doing a wonderful job. And then there are a lot of educators that are not prepared to deal with inclusive education. They haven't been trained. It's really quite lovely and easy when you understand how to do it."
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Laura San Giacomo
"There are amazing schools and amazing educators that are doing a wonderful job. And then there are a lot of educators that are not prepared to deal with inclusive education. They haven't been trained. It's really quite lovely and easy when you understand how to do it."
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"I don't like to intellectualize about my acting."
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Genevieve Bujold
"I don't like to intellectualize about my acting."
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"I don't even own a television. I'm proud of that."
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Moira Kelly
"I don't even own a television. I'm proud of that."
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"There was a storyline this year where Taylor lied to Brooke. It was supposed to be set up in a way that I was so outraged by her that I let it stay. I thought that was human, which was great."
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Hunter Tylo
"There was a storyline this year where Taylor lied to Brooke. It was supposed to be set up in a way that I was so outraged by her that I let it stay. I thought that was human, which was great."
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"It was funny actually because that was still during the time we were dating. He would get all these calls because supposedly before we broke up, we had already broken up in the trades, in the rags or whatever."
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Rosario Dawson
"It was funny actually because that was still during the time we were dating. He would get all these calls because supposedly before we broke up, we had already broken up in the trades, in the rags or whatever."
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"In the U.S., they just want to know who you're sleeping with."
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Susan Sarandon
"In the U.S., they just want to know who you're sleeping with."
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"I also think it was important for me and Freddie to be able to have a lot of time to share our lives at the beginning of our marriage rather than my coming home at 9 or 10 at night from the set. Things have really worked out for the best for both of us."
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Sarah Michelle Gellar
"I also think it was important for me and Freddie to be able to have a lot of time to share our lives at the beginning of our marriage rather than my coming home at 9 or 10 at night from the set. Things have really worked out for the best for both of us."
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"You go through at least the first two years of Star Trek and you find some amazing stuff. Everything that was going on Gene put into the series. He just put strange costumes on the actors and painted them funny colours and left the same situation in."
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Majel Barrett
"You go through at least the first two years of Star Trek and you find some amazing stuff. Everything that was going on Gene put into the series. He just put strange costumes on the actors and painted them funny colours and left the same situation in."
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"I filmed underwater for two days in the open ocean with dolphins."
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Kathleen Quinlan
"I filmed underwater for two days in the open ocean with dolphins."
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"I came on to the film with a very happy-go-lucky attitude which I think my character, Charlie, did when she went into the house. I expected it to be good, and then slowly things started to change for us all."
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Jennifer Sky
"I came on to the film with a very happy-go-lucky attitude which I think my character, Charlie, did when she went into the house. I expected it to be good, and then slowly things started to change for us all."
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"I quite enjoy science fiction."
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Lexa Doig
"I quite enjoy science fiction."
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"Years ago women of my size were considered royalty."
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Camryn Manheim
"Years ago women of my size were considered royalty."
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"The film was made in 1973. It was a golden time for people to experiment without risking, for example, AIDS. Today one has to be so much more careful and I don't think a character like that could exist now."
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Sylvia Kristel
"The film was made in 1973. It was a golden time for people to experiment without risking, for example, AIDS. Today one has to be so much more careful and I don't think a character like that could exist now."
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"At this point the theater America is in such a precarious place."
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Estelle Parsons
"At this point the theater America is in such a precarious place."
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"My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron."
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Eliza Dushku
"My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron."
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"Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons."
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Jessica Lange
"Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons."
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"It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs."
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Jane Alexander
"It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs."
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"The art of acting is to be other than what you are."
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Whoopi Goldberg
"The art of acting is to be other than what you are."
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"If I'm going to do something a little bit more adult, I'll do it if it's going to be on at a different time slot or if it's going to be something that kids won't be able to get their hands on."
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Melissa Joan Hart
"If I'm going to do something a little bit more adult, I'll do it if it's going to be on at a different time slot or if it's going to be something that kids won't be able to get their hands on."
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"In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people."
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Judy Garland
"In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people."
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"We're not going to dumb down for them. They have to move up. They're the network and we're the show."
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Alia Shawkat
"We're not going to dumb down for them. They have to move up. They're the network and we're the show."
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"I'm having a great career, though I think I'm not as good as your little scenario makes me out to be."
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Kristin Davis
"I'm having a great career, though I think I'm not as good as your little scenario makes me out to be."
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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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"I know my husband really loves me because he takes me to have ribs. He says I'm the only girl he ever took out who actually ate anything on her plate, as opposed to pushing it around."
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Julia Barr
"I know my husband really loves me because he takes me to have ribs. He says I'm the only girl he ever took out who actually ate anything on her plate, as opposed to pushing it around."
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"Directors and writers have a lot of stress as well, because they have people they answer to."
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Alexis Bledel
"Directors and writers have a lot of stress as well, because they have people they answer to."
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"I think they do a great job on Queer as Folk."
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Laura Innes
"I think they do a great job on Queer as Folk."
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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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"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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"We had to decide: Do we want to do Saturday Night or go to our Senior Prom? We opted for Saturday Night Live."
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Mary-Kate Olsen
"We had to decide: Do we want to do Saturday Night or go to our Senior Prom? We opted for Saturday Night Live."
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"In the happy scenes there were really fun times. Sean would say really funny stuff because he likes to improv. I would want to laugh, but you are not allowed to do that during the take."
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Dakota Fanning
"In the happy scenes there were really fun times. Sean would say really funny stuff because he likes to improv. I would want to laugh, but you are not allowed to do that during the take."
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"At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance."
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Candice Bergen
"At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance."
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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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"Life is way better than TV. I recommend it to anyone who has forgotten they have one."
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Jasmine Guy
"Life is way better than TV. I recommend it to anyone who has forgotten they have one."
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"Regrettably, I do sometimes have to fight a tendency to be bitchy."
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Marie Windsor
"Regrettably, I do sometimes have to fight a tendency to be bitchy."
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"I do not believe that I fell in love with a woman because I was abused."
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Anne Heche
"I do not believe that I fell in love with a woman because I was abused."
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"This season is a lot funnier, not as dark, mainly because, well, she has accepted the fact that she is dead. She knows she cannot go back to where she was when she was alive."
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Ellen Muth
"This season is a lot funnier, not as dark, mainly because, well, she has accepted the fact that she is dead. She knows she cannot go back to where she was when she was alive."
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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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"There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while."
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Pearl Bailey
"There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while."
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