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"In terms of Cube I think he's very conscious of the technical aspect of the business whereas when you're just hired as an actor, you're not really secure in that part of your work and you're not really paying attention to where the camera."
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Nia Long
"In terms of Cube I think he's very conscious of the technical aspect of the business whereas when you're just hired as an actor, you're not really secure in that part of your work and you're not really paying attention to where the camera."
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"I don't see myself as competing with other actresses. I mean, I went through a time when I was in New York, and I was going to lots of auditions and trying to get parts, but even then, you're not really competing with the other actresses. There is a competition going on, but it's not like something you can win in that way."
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Annette Bening
"I don't see myself as competing with other actresses. I mean, I went through a time when I was in New York, and I was going to lots of auditions and trying to get parts, but even then, you're not really competing with the other actresses. There is a competition going on, but it's not like something you can win in that way."
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"My life is very crazy and busy, but I love it that way."
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Hilary Duff
"My life is very crazy and busy, but I love it that way."
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"I think at some stage, I would love to have another child. I would love to settle into a relationship that was really important to me. I actually am not good at the balance at that."
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Nicole Kidman
"I think at some stage, I would love to have another child. I would love to settle into a relationship that was really important to me. I actually am not good at the balance at that."
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"One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other."
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Camryn Manheim
"One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other."
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"My own personal connection with God was not in a religious sense, so I wasn't really thinking in that way when I got the role and when I started doing it."
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Amber Tamblyn
"My own personal connection with God was not in a religious sense, so I wasn't really thinking in that way when I got the role and when I started doing it."
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"When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool could tell my hair is dyed."
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Felicity Kendal
"When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool could tell my hair is dyed."
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"I have a very highly developed sense of denial."
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Gwyneth Paltrow
"I have a very highly developed sense of denial."
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"I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me."
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Mary Tyler Moore
"I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me."
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"If I'm walking very, very fast down Madison Avenue in the middle of the day, I'll say I'm stopped 10 times."
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Kristin Davis
"If I'm walking very, very fast down Madison Avenue in the middle of the day, I'll say I'm stopped 10 times."
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"This is a Disney animated feature; it's eternal, it's history. What's there to think about'"
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Tia Carrere
"This is a Disney animated feature; it's eternal, it's history. What's there to think about'"
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"When I am home for like a two-year stretch, I get antsy, because I want to work."
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Jessica Lange
"When I am home for like a two-year stretch, I get antsy, because I want to work."
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"Archers are pretty focused."
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Geena Davis
"Archers are pretty focused."
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"Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex."
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Maggie Gyllenhaal
"Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex."
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"I was having such a hard time when I made Sylvia. I gave everything I had for that role. It's one or two or three things I'm most proud of in terms of my work. But it was very dark."
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Gwyneth Paltrow
"I was having such a hard time when I made Sylvia. I gave everything I had for that role. It's one or two or three things I'm most proud of in terms of my work. But it was very dark."
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"Aging gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. Don't worry girls, look like a wreck, that's the way it goes."
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Jeanne Moreau
"Aging gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. Don't worry girls, look like a wreck, that's the way it goes."
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"I trained 8 hours a day 7 seven days a week and I had 2 weeks off in a year."
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Julie Benz
"I trained 8 hours a day 7 seven days a week and I had 2 weeks off in a year."
Day,
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"I know it's a lot harder for women who don't have enough help, but the truth is, no matter how much money you have, if you want to stay involved with your children and don't want to lose being a primary parent to them, you're still in the game."
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Patricia Richardson
"I know it's a lot harder for women who don't have enough help, but the truth is, no matter how much money you have, if you want to stay involved with your children and don't want to lose being a primary parent to them, you're still in the game."
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"People think actors have such glamorous lives, but the truth is actors go where nobody wants to go."
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Juliette Binoche
"People think actors have such glamorous lives, but the truth is actors go where nobody wants to go."
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"My desire is to let go of my ego and let in His direction."
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Janine Turner
"My desire is to let go of my ego and let in His direction."
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"I've never had to pretend to be having sex with somebody. I'm like the queen of the foreplay dissolve."
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Julia Roberts
"I've never had to pretend to be having sex with somebody. I'm like the queen of the foreplay dissolve."
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"I have three sons, and I think we're both fierce protectors of our children."
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Jami Gertz
"I have three sons, and I think we're both fierce protectors of our children."
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"I'm very old-fashioned in some ways because of my father, who thought that being a public servant was an honor. Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society."
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Kathleen Turner
"I'm very old-fashioned in some ways because of my father, who thought that being a public servant was an honor. Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society."
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"My first speaking part was to read for John Forsythe for Bachelor Father. I was the lead, opposite him."
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Linda Evans
"My first speaking part was to read for John Forsythe for Bachelor Father. I was the lead, opposite him."
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"In terms of my own film experience, I'm definitely used to morose and very heavy, heavy dramas."
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Mia Kirshner
"In terms of my own film experience, I'm definitely used to morose and very heavy, heavy dramas."
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"Teenagers only have to focus on themselves - its not until we get older that we realize that other people exist."
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Jennifer Lawrence
"Teenagers only have to focus on themselves - its not until we get older that we realize that other people exist."
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"With Aerobic Strip Tease, you can do it at home - it makes it easier for women that don't want to go to the gym."
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Carmen Electra
"With Aerobic Strip Tease, you can do it at home - it makes it easier for women that don't want to go to the gym."
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"When I got a call from Los Angeles to do the Tonight Show, I considered it more of an inconvenience than an opportunity."
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Lorna Luft
"When I got a call from Los Angeles to do the Tonight Show, I considered it more of an inconvenience than an opportunity."
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"Me, I'd prefer to have a good reputation rather than getting press for being scandalous, getting drunk in public, staying out late and so on."
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Sophia Bush
"Me, I'd prefer to have a good reputation rather than getting press for being scandalous, getting drunk in public, staying out late and so on."
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"There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood."
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Fay Wray
"There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood."
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"When I was 34, people would say, What's going to happen to you when you're 40? What are you going to do? You don't have much time left. And I was like, what are you talking about?"
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Melanie Griffith
"When I was 34, people would say, What's going to happen to you when you're 40? What are you going to do? You don't have much time left. And I was like, what are you talking about?"
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"Well, my mom is single and we've both been single at the same time over the last ten years, so I really related to the bond between my character and Diane's."
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Amanda Peet
"Well, my mom is single and we've both been single at the same time over the last ten years, so I really related to the bond between my character and Diane's."
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"So I was asked to do horror film after horror film, a series of about five, after that, and some of those were a little too gruesome. I wasn't too comfortable all the time in those. I didn't really care for them."
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Fay Wray
"So I was asked to do horror film after horror film, a series of about five, after that, and some of those were a little too gruesome. I wasn't too comfortable all the time in those. I didn't really care for them."
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"I can't think of anything I want and need that I don't already have but at the same time, I'm not sated."
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Ashley Judd
"I can't think of anything I want and need that I don't already have but at the same time, I'm not sated."
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"My father in the film - which we probably haven't seen in previous movies, and in British Asian movies you could probably count on one hand - he says exactly why, actually why he's frightened for his daughter. He came to this country, England, and had a bit of a crappy time."
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Parminder Nagra
"My father in the film - which we probably haven't seen in previous movies, and in British Asian movies you could probably count on one hand - he says exactly why, actually why he's frightened for his daughter. He came to this country, England, and had a bit of a crappy time."
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"I'm a person that carries everything that happened to me in my past, with me into the future. I refuse to let it make me bitter. I still completely believe in love and I remain open to anything that will happen to me."
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Nicole Kidman
"I'm a person that carries everything that happened to me in my past, with me into the future. I refuse to let it make me bitter. I still completely believe in love and I remain open to anything that will happen to me."
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"As much as most of the actors were kind of curious to know what their character meant in relation to the script and to the plot, they really were quite happy to be part of the adventure of not knowing."
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Radha Mitchell
"As much as most of the actors were kind of curious to know what their character meant in relation to the script and to the plot, they really were quite happy to be part of the adventure of not knowing."
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"Some people work hard in this business and become really popular, really big stars but they never receive an award from within the business. Somehow, when your colleagues and friends believe in you to the point of handing you an award it means so much more."
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Sharon Stone
"Some people work hard in this business and become really popular, really big stars but they never receive an award from within the business. Somehow, when your colleagues and friends believe in you to the point of handing you an award it means so much more."
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"As far as pacing the shoot is concerned, I know when I've got it. I don't think there's any reason to take ten takes unless you need them."
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Debbie Allen
"As far as pacing the shoot is concerned, I know when I've got it. I don't think there's any reason to take ten takes unless you need them."
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"My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor."
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Victoria Pratt
"My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor."
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"One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays."
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Vivien Leigh
"One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays."
Act,
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"In the next shot the cameras zoomed to the fiancee who noticed the lights in the Czarina's room go out and the camera then turned to the pond where two goldfish were making love."
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Pola Negri
"In the next shot the cameras zoomed to the fiancee who noticed the lights in the Czarina's room go out and the camera then turned to the pond where two goldfish were making love."
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"And you know, we did it as an independent film, and we weren't expecting it to be on television, and Lifetime ended up buying it. And the viewers responded intensely to that film."
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Jenna Elfman
"And you know, we did it as an independent film, and we weren't expecting it to be on television, and Lifetime ended up buying it. And the viewers responded intensely to that film."
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"East Hampton happens to have been the first place in the world where I was a star, a real star with a star pasted above my name on the dressing-room door."
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Eva Gabor
"East Hampton happens to have been the first place in the world where I was a star, a real star with a star pasted above my name on the dressing-room door."
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"I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're just women, you know."
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Esther Williams
"I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're just women, you know."
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"Yet there's a hunger in me still. I'm like only beginning. I feel like I still have so much to learn."
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Charlize Theron
"Yet there's a hunger in me still. I'm like only beginning. I feel like I still have so much to learn."
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"When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied."
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Rhona Mitra
"When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied."
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"When I was anorexic it just seemed like I literally wanted to disappear. And now I would like to reappear."
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Portia de Rossi
"When I was anorexic it just seemed like I literally wanted to disappear. And now I would like to reappear."
Now,
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"To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past."
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Jeanne Moreau
"To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past."
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"Every time your picture is taken, you lose a part of your soul."
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Anna May Wong
"Every time your picture is taken, you lose a part of your soul."
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