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4499 Actress Quotes

Drugs made me feel more normal.

Feel Made Me More
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I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.

Drive Rodeo Smart Street
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As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't.
Get Older People You
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You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.

Any Because Closeness Does
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I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.

About Another Being Christian
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People are still asking me if I knew Star Wars was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.

Asking Big George Going
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I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

Am Back Battle Event
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I was born into big celebrity. It could only diminish.

Big Born Celebrity Could
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Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolescence.

Acting Adolescence Behind Best
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He's a very strange guy, my father. I can't get mad at him because he's so adorable.
Adorable Because Father Get
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My mother's career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone's buddy, always smiling for the cameras.

Always Buddy Cameras Career
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I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did.

Always Books Did Falling
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Egos are an occupational hazard in acting, but I don't have much of one, and my husband doesn't have much of one, so it's good.

Acting Egos Good Hazard
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I live a fantastic life. Why should I complain about awards?

About Awards Complain Fantastic
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The only picture I have of my childhood is the picture of me in kindergarten. I have this expression on my face - it's not a smile, it's not a frown. I swear to you, that's the girl who wakes up in the morning and who looks around her house and her life saying, 'I cannot believe how God has blessed me.'

Around Believe Blessed Cannot
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I was the kind of poor where I knew right away I had less than everyone around me. Our environment, our physical space reflected our income.

Around Away Environment Everyone
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It became motivation as opposed to something else - the thing about poverty is that it starts affecting your mind and your spirit because people don't see you. I chose from a very young age that I didn't want that for my life. And it very much has helped me appreciate and value the things that are in my life now because I never had it.

About Affecting Age Appreciate
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It's a dream to be able to just play a multi-faceted character.
Able Character Dream Just
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You want to be able to really tackle a character and make it a fully-dimensional human being who is complicated, funny, and all the things that a person could be. If you can achieve that, you feel great. You so rarely get to do that as an actress in general, but as a black actress, it's almost never.

Able Achieve Actress Almost
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Flashy characters are more entertaining to people because you get it. You don't have to work to get someone who says what they mean and says what they think. They're out there. It's harder to play a quiet character because everything happens in their stream of consciousness.

Because Character Characters Consciousness
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People who are alone all the time never grow. Those hermits just stay the same. It's only through relationships. Relationships change us and make us grow.

Alone Change Grow Hermits
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I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish. A lot of lawyers or doctors who have names but absolutely no lives. You're going to get your three or four scenes; you're not going to be able to show what you can do.

Able Absolutely Been Doctors
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When you grow up in abject poverty, you see people exactly the way they are.

Abject Exactly Exactly The Way Grow
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Vanity destroys your work. That's the one thing you have to let go of as an actor. I don't care how sexy or beautiful any woman is. At the end of the day, she has to take her makeup off. At the end of the day, she's more than just pretty.

Actor Any Beautiful Care
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My whole thing is, I've got to be as good, as courageous as what's written on the page.

Courageous Good Got Page
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When you see a parent pass, and you literally are there, and you're sitting at that deathbed, man, and you have to tell them to go, it defines life for what it really is.

Deathbed Defines Go Life
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I like performing. I like partnering with an audience.

Audience Attitude Like Performing
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People see me and they squeal like tropical birds or seals stranded on the beach.
Beach Birds Like Me
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No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it's tragic.

Being Like Loss Much
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I have a chemical imbalance that, in its most extreme state, will lead me to a mental hospital.

Chemical Extreme Hospital Imbalance
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The world of manic depression is a world of bad judgment calls.
Bad Calls Depression Judgment
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I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you.

Am Ashamed Better Bring
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Certainly there are people who like me, but then there are those who don't know me who gossip about me. You can't believe the things I've heard.

About Believe Certainly Gossip
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I am a very discreet human when it comes to other people.

Am Discreet Human I Am
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I'm very sane about how crazy I am.

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Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen.

Bad Everything Great Happen
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Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.

Anything Excess Exciting Me
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Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing.
Another Easy Everything Negotiation
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I'll never be known for my work with boundaries.

Boundaries Known Never Work
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There's a line I have that our family was designed more for public than for private. But there are definitely some things that are only mine. I am someone who dreams at night, and you don't know what I'm dreaming.

Am Definitely Designed Dreaming
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If anything, my mother taught me how to sur-thrive. That's my word for it.

Anything How Me Mother
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My father was a joyous, joyous spirit, he really was. He was a hedonist, that was just - he enjoyed life, thrust up to the elbows with it. He was a terrible father. I don't know that he was parented that well.

Elbows Enjoyed Father He
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Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity.

Area Because Drag Get
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Females get hired along procreative lines. After 40, we're kind of cooked.

After Along Cooked Females
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There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'

Might Nap No Point Now
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Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And L.A. is the 'What party?' capital of the world.

Capital English English Language Language
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I started out doing my mother's nightclub act, and I had stage fright.

Act Doing Fright Had
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I found out when I did the Oprah Winfrey show that there was a cookie jar of me. So she gave it to me. I had no idea prior to that that it even existed.

Cookie Did Even Existed
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I enjoy taking jobs that make fun of me - or me as Princess Leia, or me as the writer, or whatever, as some idea.

Enjoy Fun Idea Jobs
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I am truly a product of Hollywood in-breeding. When two celebrities mate, someone like me is the result.

Am Celebrities Hollywood I Am
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