Jean Simmons Quotes
Every actress has to face the facts there are younger, more beautiful girls right behind you. Once you've gone beyond the vanity of the business, you'll take on the tough roles.
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Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.
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Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.
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I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
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I'm a genuine person - I will never promote something I don't believe in.
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I don't want to lose what I've won.
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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I walk my dog at dawn because I don't like people to be around.
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.
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I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.
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I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.
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I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.
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The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it.
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I don't have any style icons, but I get inspiration from my friends. My style motto is that it is better to be overdressed than underdressed.
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In the old-fashioned sitcoms, to be gay was, in itself, funny, and you laughed at the characters rather than with them.
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Judi Dench and Ian McKellen taught me how to work hard and respect the theatre.
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It is because we are predominantly purposeful beings that we are perpetually correcting our immediate sensations. But men are free not to be utilitarianly purposeful. They can sometime be artists, for example. In which case they may like to accept the immediate sensation uncorrected, because it happens to be beautiful.
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Every actress has to face the facts there are younger, more beautiful girls right behind you. Once you've gone beyond the vanity of the business, you'll take on the tough roles.
