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"We had a one bedroom, one bathroom, one closet apartment with four girls."
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Connie Sellecca
"We had a one bedroom, one bathroom, one closet apartment with four girls."
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"You're not going to find a man whose socks don't get dirty or who doesn't snore."
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Helen Reddy
"You're not going to find a man whose socks don't get dirty or who doesn't snore."
Man,
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"Our ultimate goal is to stay in business. We are not here with a specific plan. That's kind of how our entire career has evolved. We will figure things out as we go along."
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Mary-Kate Olsen
"Our ultimate goal is to stay in business. We are not here with a specific plan. That's kind of how our entire career has evolved. We will figure things out as we go along."
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"I haven't been on the stage in a long time."
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Erika Slezak
"I haven't been on the stage in a long time."
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"I was a full foot taller than any child my age."
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Kristen Johnston
"I was a full foot taller than any child my age."
Age,
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"I just want to act. I just want to do the work."
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Alison Lohman
"I just want to act. I just want to do the work."
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"One of my favorite things about doing movies is that you get to do different things you'd never do in real life."
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Dakota Fanning
"One of my favorite things about doing movies is that you get to do different things you'd never do in real life."
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"The best mind-altering drug is the truth."
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Lily Tomlin
"The best mind-altering drug is the truth."
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"I love vampire stories. That's why I did the movie. Women especially were taken with that movie-even more so when it came out on video."
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Catherine Deneuve
"I love vampire stories. That's why I did the movie. Women especially were taken with that movie-even more so when it came out on video."
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"It's just people should realize that the celebrity aspect of being an actor is very rarely enjoyable for people like me who would always rather go unnoticed and disappear into the crowd."
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Winona Ryder
"It's just people should realize that the celebrity aspect of being an actor is very rarely enjoyable for people like me who would always rather go unnoticed and disappear into the crowd."
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"Nobody can be exactly me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it."
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Tallulah Bankhead
"Nobody can be exactly me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it."
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"As an unmarried woman, I was thought to be a danger."
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Grace Kelly
"As an unmarried woman, I was thought to be a danger."
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"Some actresses seem to thrive on chaos, and I've often wondered if they felt they had to be that way in order to perform well?"
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Marie Windsor
"Some actresses seem to thrive on chaos, and I've often wondered if they felt they had to be that way in order to perform well?"
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"She's true to herself and she's determined. She has things going against her, but she forges ahead despite all of that. I think that's encouraging. She's got some problems, but she has hope and tries to plow through things. I think that's a good role model."
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Molly Shannon
"She's true to herself and she's determined. She has things going against her, but she forges ahead despite all of that. I think that's encouraging. She's got some problems, but she has hope and tries to plow through things. I think that's a good role model."
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"True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily."
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Jennifer Aniston
"True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily."
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"It's just such an honor to say that I was in something by Steven Spielberg. I feel so blessed I got to meet such great people, and I got to go to a beautiful place, Vancouver, and I had a great time."
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Dakota Fanning
"It's just such an honor to say that I was in something by Steven Spielberg. I feel so blessed I got to meet such great people, and I got to go to a beautiful place, Vancouver, and I had a great time."
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"If you compare my character to the others, they were sexy with designer clothes. I had the nerdy outfit."
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Izabella Scorupco
"If you compare my character to the others, they were sexy with designer clothes. I had the nerdy outfit."
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"My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person."
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Janine Turner
"My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person."
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"I was born in Poland I came to Sweden when I was eight and always wanted to act and suddenly ended up in a Bond movie which was for me at that time absolutely enormous."
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Izabella Scorupco
"I was born in Poland I came to Sweden when I was eight and always wanted to act and suddenly ended up in a Bond movie which was for me at that time absolutely enormous."
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"I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than, 'How do you do? Love you! Bye!'"
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Jackie Weaver
"I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than, 'How do you do? Love you! Bye!'"
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"Why is it so weird that somebody didn't recognize me?... The fact is that whenever I meet somebody, I say, 'Nice to meet you. I'm Julia.'"
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Julia Roberts
"Why is it so weird that somebody didn't recognize me?... The fact is that whenever I meet somebody, I say, 'Nice to meet you. I'm Julia.'"
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"I have never directed. But I think I could. I have thought about it. I'm a bit long in the tooth to start."
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Angela Lansbury
"I have never directed. But I think I could. I have thought about it. I'm a bit long in the tooth to start."
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"You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now."
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Lauren Bacall
"You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now."
Now,
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"I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara."
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Rachel McAdams
"I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara."
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"Well, thank you and that's for them, but for me, I want to look back at a body of work where when you do the research and you explore the psyche of a character, where she's been, where she is and where she's going."
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Pam Grier
"Well, thank you and that's for them, but for me, I want to look back at a body of work where when you do the research and you explore the psyche of a character, where she's been, where she is and where she's going."
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"I watched a porno once, it was really funny."
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Katie Holmes
"I watched a porno once, it was really funny."
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"The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy."
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Meryl Streep
"The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy."
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"I wanted to go out and experience the fields."
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Rhona Mitra
"I wanted to go out and experience the fields."
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"I started taking acting classes when I was twelve."
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Lindsay Wagner
"I started taking acting classes when I was twelve."
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"James Garner is like a peaceful river through our chaos."
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Kaley Cuoco
"James Garner is like a peaceful river through our chaos."
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"My mother's life had been destroyed by the Garland legend."
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Lorna Luft
"My mother's life had been destroyed by the Garland legend."
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"One of the reasons I wanted to teach deaf children was because it made me very sad that they spoke so clumsily and that they moved with less grace that I knew was possible of deaf people."
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Stephanie Beacham
"One of the reasons I wanted to teach deaf children was because it made me very sad that they spoke so clumsily and that they moved with less grace that I knew was possible of deaf people."
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"Because of the tension and difficulty, I remember trying to do the silliest things when we weren't rolling cameras, anything to lift the spirits. But once on set, it was important to have full concentration."
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Madeleine Stowe
"Because of the tension and difficulty, I remember trying to do the silliest things when we weren't rolling cameras, anything to lift the spirits. But once on set, it was important to have full concentration."
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"I really don't like to do back-to-back movies. I concentrate on things at home. My family and school life are important to me. I try to do one movie a year."
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Anna Chlumsky
"I really don't like to do back-to-back movies. I concentrate on things at home. My family and school life are important to me. I try to do one movie a year."
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"Confidence is something you're born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15."
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Hedy Lamarr
"Confidence is something you're born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15."
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"I'm not sure I'm quite ready to have someone be a prospector of jobs for me, because I believe there's some kind of destiny involved with meeting people... some things are just meant to happen."
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Audrey Tautou
"I'm not sure I'm quite ready to have someone be a prospector of jobs for me, because I believe there's some kind of destiny involved with meeting people... some things are just meant to happen."
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"I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944."
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Gloria Swanson
"I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944."
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"We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked... not just pitter-patter, but real talk. We shouldn't be so afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable."
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Liv Ullmann
"We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked... not just pitter-patter, but real talk. We shouldn't be so afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable."
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"Even the busboys at the restaurants have a script to give you. Everybody is in the business."
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Robin Wright Penn
"Even the busboys at the restaurants have a script to give you. Everybody is in the business."
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"I've been on shows that go for shock value."
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Daphne Zuniga
"I've been on shows that go for shock value."
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"And who cares, five years down the road, what most movies made or didn't make? If it's good, it stands up."
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Meg Ryan
"And who cares, five years down the road, what most movies made or didn't make? If it's good, it stands up."
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"I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like that at all. I think I'm much more outgoing and exuberant than my image."
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Helena Bonham Carter
"I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like that at all. I think I'm much more outgoing and exuberant than my image."
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"The sun would come up over the ocean, and we'd be eating scrambled eggs before we shot some stuff. It was a vacation in the sense that it was the best working conditions."
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Marguerite Moreau
"The sun would come up over the ocean, and we'd be eating scrambled eggs before we shot some stuff. It was a vacation in the sense that it was the best working conditions."
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"I leave before being left. I decide."
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Brigitte Bardot
"I leave before being left. I decide."
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"I thought maybe, just by never preaching, never doing any of that stuff because it doesn't work. By just maybe the power of example and some laughs, maybe somebody might go take a walk."
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Liza Minnelli
"I thought maybe, just by never preaching, never doing any of that stuff because it doesn't work. By just maybe the power of example and some laughs, maybe somebody might go take a walk."
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"I think actors are getting so much more power these days, but I'm not. I stay very much away from the decisions, the way in which things are orchestrated, what's been changed. I just try to stay completely in the role as the actor and as the character."
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Nicole Kidman
"I think actors are getting so much more power these days, but I'm not. I stay very much away from the decisions, the way in which things are orchestrated, what's been changed. I just try to stay completely in the role as the actor and as the character."
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"I used to get some ego thing out of saying I wasn't a star, just an actress. Forget it. I'm a star. I wanted it. I worked for it. I got it."
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Valerie Harper
"I used to get some ego thing out of saying I wasn't a star, just an actress. Forget it. I'm a star. I wanted it. I worked for it. I got it."
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"I pray to be of service to the playwright, the audience, the other actors and my character."
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Lusia Strus
"I pray to be of service to the playwright, the audience, the other actors and my character."
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"If they have covered your face with latex, you have to control yourself mentally so you won't think. If you start thinking, you will succumb to panic. I had a bit of a cold, and frankly I didn't have a good time."
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Meg Tilly
"If they have covered your face with latex, you have to control yourself mentally so you won't think. If you start thinking, you will succumb to panic. I had a bit of a cold, and frankly I didn't have a good time."
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"At one time I thought he wanted to be an actor. He had certain qualifications, including no money and a total lack of responsibility."
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Hedda Hopper
"At one time I thought he wanted to be an actor. He had certain qualifications, including no money and a total lack of responsibility."
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