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4499 Actress Quotes

In the Fifties, my parents were known as 'America's sweethearts'. Their pictures graced the covers of all the newspapers. They were the Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston of their day.

America Brad Brad Pitt Covers
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My parents had this incredibly vital relationship with an audience, like muscle with blood. This was the main competition I had for my parents' attention: an audience.

Attention Audience Blood Competition
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I'm in a business where the only thing that matters is weight and appearance. That is so messed up. They might as well say 'Get younger,' because that's how easy it is.

Appearance Because Business Easy
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We treat beauty like an accomplishment, and that is insane. Everyone in L.A. says, 'Oh, you look good,' and you listen for them to say you've lost weight. It's never 'How are you?' or 'You seem happy!'

Accomplishment Beauty Everyone Good
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If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously.

Fail Going Know Then
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If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.

Brink Could Disappointment Enough
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You know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what children do with Barbie dolls - it's a bit scary, actually.

Actually Barbie Been Bit
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I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?

Between Champagne Competition Deserve
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Look, it's one of the great mysteries of the world, I cannot answer that question. I think I'm vaguely blonde. To be perfectly frank, I don't know.

Answer Blonde Cannot Frank
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I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.

Australian Been Feel IFeel
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Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.

Bad Blind BlindEye Condemned
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You can't be trying to make a film that pleases all people, you know, so it's not a concern of mine.
AllPeople Concern Film Know
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It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me, it's a natural thing.

Back Experiences Feed Got
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I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset.

Beasts Corset Likes Really
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I live my life parallel with my work, and they are both equally important. I'm always amazed how much people talk about celebrity and fame. I don't understand the attraction.

About Always Amazed Attraction
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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.

Acting Actor Career Decided
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I think that's what I love about my life. There's no maniacal master plan. It's just unfolding before me.

About Before I Love IThink
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Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?

About Actor Actress Arms
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The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different.

Cities Common Different Great
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Planning cities is a necessary but risky business.

Business Cities Necessary Planning
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All cities do face similar, significant trends in the future... most importantly global warming and climate change.

Change Cities Climate ClimateChange
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The word 'circumnavigate' is quite a beautiful word.

Beautiful Beautiful Word Quite Word
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I'm not focused on what other people think of me.

Focused Me Other People
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I'm not well read.

Read Well
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I don't consciously think of how parenthood has changed me but I'm sure it must have.

Changed How Me Must
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For me, I think the bigger something is, the more difficult it is to make it nimble and fleet afoot.

Bigger Difficult Fleet IThink
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There's not a long, entrenched tradition of theatergoing in Australia.

Australia Entrenched Long Tradition
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People love events - they love performances, they love music - and I think Australians are great entertainers.

Australians Entertainers Events Great
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Marriage is a risk; I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.

Adventure Embark Glorious Great
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Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.
Form Going Ideas Life
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When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it.

About Decision Make Really
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I'm always without sleep. I've got two kids. I understand sleep deprivation on a profound leve

Always Deprivation Got Kids
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You can't really achieve anything in three years.
Achieve Anything Really Three
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When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.

Audience Course Courting Different
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It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible.

Age Because Been Death
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I'm not sure if I want to direct a film, but certainly, as an actress, I'm always thinking, 'Surely this must be my last film.'

Actress Always Certainly Direct
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I think we should stop drinking bottled water. There's no need to be drinking it if you're living in western communities.

Bottled BottledWater Communities Drinking
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My everyday beauty routine is always rushed and pretty simple.

Always Beauty Everyday Pretty
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I think Pilates is great, especially when you can do it with a trainer who keeps you on track.

Great IThink Keeps Pilates
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Look, I live in the modern world as much as anyone else.

Anyone AnyoneElse Else Live
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I'm not particularly interested in playing characters that think the way I do.
Characters Interested Particularly Playing
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I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.

Failure Other Running Than
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I think it's always good to take on things that at first seem bigger than you. Then you just try and surmount them.

Always Bigger First Good
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Do what is right and just. Forget pleasing people. They will never appreciate you anyway, However be the best you can be

Right Pleasing People Never Appreciate
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Say no to negative energy
Say no Negative Energy
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The beauty of an artwork is closely linked to its ability to stimulate emotions within us.

Beauty Ability Stimulate Emotions
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The person who says it can't be done should not interrupt the person who is is DOING IT!

Interrupt Person Doing
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The skill we all should develop this year is speaking up for yourself.

Skill Develop Speaking up Yourself
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Prayer is not a solution. It is a way to prepare your mind and body to find a solution to your challenges. So when you need help, don’t just pray and leave it at that. Pray, then go to work looking for the solution that God will reveal to you

Prayer Solution Just pray Work
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Nothing as good as being so in tune with your body.

Good Body Being Nothing
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