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"I've never done a big studio film, I've only ever done little ones."
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Brenda Blethyn
"I've never done a big studio film, I've only ever done little ones."
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"I know as I'm taking my dying breath, the ambulance guy will ask me why they cancelled Action."
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Illeana Douglas
"I know as I'm taking my dying breath, the ambulance guy will ask me why they cancelled Action."
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"I love TV. I know all the theme songs from the shows I watch. I'm not one of those who'd rather be a movie star. I prefer TV because of the rushed way of working-on a movie set, you sit around and wait and wait to do a scene because they're adjusting the lights."
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Dana Hill
"I love TV. I know all the theme songs from the shows I watch. I'm not one of those who'd rather be a movie star. I prefer TV because of the rushed way of working-on a movie set, you sit around and wait and wait to do a scene because they're adjusting the lights."
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"I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely."
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Kim Basinger
"I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely."
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"I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing."
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Audrey Hepburn
"I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing."
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"I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art."
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Helena Bonham Carter
"I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art."
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"You only get one life so you might as well make it a happy one, and that's why I tend to just jump into things. I'm sort of a fearless idiot that way."
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Nia Vardalos
"You only get one life so you might as well make it a happy one, and that's why I tend to just jump into things. I'm sort of a fearless idiot that way."
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"Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice."
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Joan Chen
"Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice."
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"I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA."
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Famke Janssen
"I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA."
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"In New York I was always offered the hot, sexy roles. But in L.A. I was offered the plain, dowdy roles. It says a lot about the difference between the coasts."
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Bebe Neuwirth
"In New York I was always offered the hot, sexy roles. But in L.A. I was offered the plain, dowdy roles. It says a lot about the difference between the coasts."
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"If you have donated, these children may never know your name, but they will never forget your kindness."
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Roma Downey
"If you have donated, these children may never know your name, but they will never forget your kindness."
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"I concentrate on exercises from the waist down, since that is the laziest part of a woman's body."
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Tina Louise
"I concentrate on exercises from the waist down, since that is the laziest part of a woman's body."
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"For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian."
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Radha Mitchell
"For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian."
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"When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters."
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Dakota Fanning
"When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters."
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"Heather knows why and when her marriage ended with Richie and she knows why my marriage ended with Charlie."
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Denise Richards
"Heather knows why and when her marriage ended with Richie and she knows why my marriage ended with Charlie."
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"Linda Hamilton is my hero. She was so tough and so strong and so vulnerable at the same time. I think that's what woman action figures are allowed to be: vulnerable, in a way that women are."
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Victoria Pratt
"Linda Hamilton is my hero. She was so tough and so strong and so vulnerable at the same time. I think that's what woman action figures are allowed to be: vulnerable, in a way that women are."
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"There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was like - I was more thinking of my own mother. I was doing my mother."
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Joan Chen
"There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was like - I was more thinking of my own mother. I was doing my mother."
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"Leadership is the act of serving others and has no gender preference."
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Farshad Asl
"Leadership is the act of serving others and has no gender preference."
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"I was more excited than scared, at the opportunity to work in an English movie."
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Aishwarya Rai
"I was more excited than scared, at the opportunity to work in an English movie."
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"Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit."
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Madeleine Stowe
"Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit."
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"I think there are certain actors that have that kind of energy about them, that taking over a room energy."
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Glenn Close
"I think there are certain actors that have that kind of energy about them, that taking over a room energy."
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"I was looking for someone to formulate a skin care line I could use."
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Connie Sellecca
"I was looking for someone to formulate a skin care line I could use."
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"There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed."
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Debi Mazar
"There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed."
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"I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown."
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Diane Cilento
"I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown."
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"Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around."
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Catherine Deneuve
"Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around."
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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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Rachel Caine
"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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"Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses."
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Elizabeth Taylor
"Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses."
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"The only way people are going to change their car buying habits, and the only way government will get behind alternatively fueled vehicles, is if gasoline prices continue to go up."
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Alexandra Paul
"The only way people are going to change their car buying habits, and the only way government will get behind alternatively fueled vehicles, is if gasoline prices continue to go up."
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"Actually I did, because I saw the film like everyone else, ten years ago and I remembered some of it. I just wanted to see it, to kind of remember the tone a little bit."
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Julianne Moore
"Actually I did, because I saw the film like everyone else, ten years ago and I remembered some of it. I just wanted to see it, to kind of remember the tone a little bit."
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"You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words."
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Eartha Kitt
"You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words."
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"To work with a director that has emotional commitment and passion toward the characters, and the piece, and the experiences, it only enriches your work."
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Jessica Lange
"To work with a director that has emotional commitment and passion toward the characters, and the piece, and the experiences, it only enriches your work."
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"All my references are 50 years old-when somebody shot J.R., you know? Oh my god, I'm 100!"
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Lauren Graham
"All my references are 50 years old-when somebody shot J.R., you know? Oh my god, I'm 100!"
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"The triangle of success for an Entrepreneur is not only composed of his Net Worth, but also his Self Worth, and Net Works."
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Farshad Asl
"The triangle of success for an Entrepreneur is not only composed of his Net Worth, but also his Self Worth, and Net Works."
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"I was completely nuts for most of my life."
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Roseanne Barr
"I was completely nuts for most of my life."
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"Any time that we have time to take off, we love being home."
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Mary-Kate Olsen
"Any time that we have time to take off, we love being home."
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"So many directors are solely focused on their own success in Hollywood and multimillion dollar budgets and deals."
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Shirley Knight
"So many directors are solely focused on their own success in Hollywood and multimillion dollar budgets and deals."
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"Even at al my mother's concerts, I had never seen people go crazy the way they did with the Beatles."
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Lorna Luft
"Even at al my mother's concerts, I had never seen people go crazy the way they did with the Beatles."
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"This is a free country, and nobody should be criticized for their political beliefs. We're all allowed to have our opinions."
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Shannen Doherty
"This is a free country, and nobody should be criticized for their political beliefs. We're all allowed to have our opinions."
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"I like friends who are honest and loyal. They also shouldn't be afraid to be a kid. I like having fun."
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Vanessa Hudgens
"I like friends who are honest and loyal. They also shouldn't be afraid to be a kid. I like having fun."
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"A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused."
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Shirley MacLaine
"A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused."
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"Some people enjoy celebrity. I admire those who do, because if you're going to go through it, you might as well enjoy it."
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Julie Christie
"Some people enjoy celebrity. I admire those who do, because if you're going to go through it, you might as well enjoy it."
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"I believe life takes us where we need to be."
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Sasha Alexander
"I believe life takes us where we need to be."
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"I don't believe in dieting."
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Joan Collins
"I don't believe in dieting."
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"I've noticed a growth in Spike and definitely in myself. I feel like the seeds that he planted in me five years ago have ripened up to a place where I could even tackle this role in the way that I did."
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Rosario Dawson
"I've noticed a growth in Spike and definitely in myself. I feel like the seeds that he planted in me five years ago have ripened up to a place where I could even tackle this role in the way that I did."
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"In France, you're with the crew, and you have lunch with them. It's more like a family."
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Charlotte Gainsbourg
"In France, you're with the crew, and you have lunch with them. It's more like a family."
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"I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in."
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Francesca Annis
"I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in."
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"Oftentimes, in fact I think this is to my fault, I look at usually scripts as a whole. I should probably pay more attention to the character that I'm going to play and what they do."
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Cameron Diaz
"Oftentimes, in fact I think this is to my fault, I look at usually scripts as a whole. I should probably pay more attention to the character that I'm going to play and what they do."
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"It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career."
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Cate Blanchett
"It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career."
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"I was 23, and that was my first professional job. Anybody who has curly hair knows you don't want it to be brushed out because it becomes a never-ending tangle."
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Judy Davis
"I was 23, and that was my first professional job. Anybody who has curly hair knows you don't want it to be brushed out because it becomes a never-ending tangle."
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"We have a real role in how our own collective lives, our nation, and our world and society turn out. Seizing those opportunities is important, and disasters are sometimes one of those opportunities."
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Rebecca Solnit
"We have a real role in how our own collective lives, our nation, and our world and society turn out. Seizing those opportunities is important, and disasters are sometimes one of those opportunities."
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