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4499 Actress Quotes

When you are in love it shows, so start loving LIFE, your JOB, and those around you. It makes a huge difference.

Love Loving Life Job Difference
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A lot can change in a second, a minute, a day, a week, a month and in a year, just try to hang in there a little longer. I’m rooting for you.

Change Second A day Rooting
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Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up. Didn’t work out? Try again, again, and again.

Champion Contender Give up Try again
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How do you want others to love you if you don’t love yourself FIRST? Don’t be afraid to put you first.

Love Yourself Afraid You first
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No day is late to change whatever you don't like about you
Change Day Late About you
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Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.

Above Any Anything Anything Else
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And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.

About Did Extraordinary Extraordinary Things
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Well, first of all, you read the script a million times. Because what the script gives you are given circumstances. Given circumstances are all the facts of your character.

All The Facts Because Character Circumstances
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When you're working as an actor, you don't think that when you get out of school, it's going to be so hard to get a job. Just to get a job. Any job. Whatsoever. You don't think that people are going to see you in a certain way.

Actor Any Certain Certain Way
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I've been online doing all kinds of research and that seems to be the constant criticism, that Aibileen's accent was just too thick. And for me, I don't want anything to distract from the character.

Accent Anything Been Character
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I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.

Accent Accents Accessible Adjust
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Your internal dialogue has got to be different from what you say. And, you know, in film, hopefully that registers and speaks volumes. It's always the unspoken word and what's happening behind someone's eyes that makes it so rich.

Always Be Different Behind Dialogue
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I love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.

Down Hang Husband I Love
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In life, you know, they do this in focus groups; if you were in such and such circumstance, what would you do? Well, you never know what you're going do unless you're faced with it.

Circumstance Faced Focus Focus Groups
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I worked in television; I'm the Failed Pilot Queen, I've done so many television shows, pilots, theater ... when you do it for so long, I'm telling you, you get to the point where it becomes varied because you take what's available for a number of reasons. It's just an occupational hazard.

Available Because Becomes Done
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Sometimes you take a job for the money, sometimes you take it for the location, sometimes you take it for the script; there are just a number of reasons, and ultimately what you see is the whole landscape of it. But I can tell you from behind the scenes - that's what it is, as an actor.

Actor Behind I Can Job
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I think that's something that people feel that I do really well; I don't mind it, because ultimately I think the characters I play move people, and who wouldn't want to move people?

Because Characters Feel I Think
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I can't deal with actors! I can't deal with myself. We're neurotic and miserable ... I love doing what I'm doing, but while I'm doing it, I'm miserable.

Actor Deal Doing I Love
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We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.

Abject Acting Age Environment
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The predator wants your silence. It feeds their power, entitlement, and they want it to feed your shame.

Entitlement Feed Feeds Power
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I suffered from low self-esteem for much of my life. And now to feel like maybe something that I'm projecting or saying could mean something to someone means a lot to me.

Could Feel Life Like
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I feel that confidence in women - especially young girls of color - but women, in general, is so important. It is so important for us to arm ourselves and become powerful at a very young age.

Age Arm Become Color
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What do you want? What do you want your life to be? What do you want your testimony to be? Go for it!

Go Go For It Life Testimony
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If I have to be at work at five A.M., I will get up at three and work out. I run. I do weights. I'm very toned. I'm like every other woman. I'd love to be 10 pounds or 20 pounds lighter. If I'm not, I'm OK with that, too. I'm good as long as I'm healthy.

Every Five Get Good
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I have been down and out, living in Brooklyn, no money even for a subway, no food whatsoever. Like, I remember just sitting in my room all day - even my television wasn't working!

All Day Been Brooklyn Day
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We all have different narratives; all of our narratives are at different stages of development.

Development Different Different Stages Narratives
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I played several maids in my career. I was tired of the maid after 'Far From Heaven.' I said, no more maids. Until I realized how difficult it was to get a role other than a maid, sometimes, in Hollywood, and sometimes you have to choose your battles, for lack of a better term.

After Battles Better Career
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I think many women are successful in their professional lives - they are making the money and all that - but in their personal lives are a complete mess, because they haven't paid any attention to it, because they spent all of their time being successful.

Any Attention Because Being
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I definitely have a happy marriage and family life.
Definitely Family Family Life Happy
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The reason I became an actress is because I wanted my acting to reflect life as it is. I want to put truth on the screen. I want real women to see real women on the screen.

Acting Actress Became Because
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I would love to do really great work and for women who are marginalised to see me as an inspiration.

Great Great Work Inspiration Love
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I've always felt like I was an actor for hire. And almost apologetic for being a woman of color, trying to stifle that voice. But I don't feel that way in Shondaland. I feel like I am accepted into a world where I'm a part of the narrative - I'm a part of it.

Accepted Actor Almost Always
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I always feel terrified whenever I put my work out there to be seen, to be scrutinized. I think it's a very vulnerable thing that we are asked to do.

Always Asked Feel I Think
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If it were just a dream to be famous, then I probably would have died a really quick death, because there is nothing about me that equals fame. I'm not a standup comedian. I don't sing.

About Because Comedian Death
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I didn't aspire to be just a celebrity; I aspired to be an actress... I always wanted to be respected as someone who knew their craft.

Actress Always Aspire Aspired
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You can't be perceived as 'the black actress who doesn't get the same kind of roles as the white actress.' You gotta run the same race. You gotta give the same quality of performances. You gotta have the same standard of excellence, even though people know that you're coming to the race in a deficit. That's just what life is about.

About Actress Black Coming
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When a character has so many secrets and so much inner life, it's a joy to play those characters because you can use your craft.

Because Character Characters Craft
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I don't care if someone is new to acting or experienced in acting: you always learn something from them. It's just like people in life - whether they're young or middle-aged or old, you always learn something from someone.

Acting Always Care Don't Care
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Every job I've ever gotten has transformed me in some way as an actor.
Actor Ever Every Gotten
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I know that love is real when it's not convenient, when it's not selfish, when it's challenged, sometimes even if it's not reciprocated.

Challenged Convenient Even Know
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Instant gratification takes too long.

Gratification Instant Instant Gratification Long
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I think of my body as a side effect of my mind.
Body Effect I Think Mind
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The manic end of is a lot of fun.

End Fun Lot Manic
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Kevin Smith is a very challenging conversationalist and Jay has many great stories.

Challenging Great Great Stories Jay
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I'm fine, but I'm bipolar. I'm on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day. This constantly puts me in touch with the illness I have. I'm never quite allowed to be free of that for a day. It's like being a diabetic.

Allowed Being Bipolar Constantly
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I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a light bulb in a world of moths. That is what the manic state is like.

Acid Bulb Doctor Felt
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I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress.

I Think Really Stern Think
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I spent a year in a 12-step program, really committed, because I could not believe what had happened - that I might have killed myself.

Because Believe Committed Could
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I really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing.

Amazing Find Internet Love
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I don't want to be thought of as a survivor because you have to continue getting involved in difficult situations to show off that particular gift, and I'm not interested in doing that anymore.

Anymore Because Continue Difficult
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