Estelle Quotes
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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I always focused on being an actor. I did stand-up briefly, but I also did a lot of dramatic work. But since I've been on 'The Daily Show,' people think I'm a comedian. That's not how I see myself.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.
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A mystery is a whodunit. You know what happened, but not how or who's behind it. A thriller, or a suspense, is a howdunit. You know what happened, and you usually know who did it, but you keep reading because you want to know how they pulled it off.
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I don't have parts of my body that I hate or would like to trade for somebody else's or wish I could surgically adjust into some fantasy version of what they are.
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Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.
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People stopped me on the street and said 'I can't live up to you.' Of course, they're referring to June Cleaver.
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Dare to visualize a world in which your most treasured dreams have become true.
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Once I got started acting I loved it.
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I've never understood the 'things to do before you die' idea. If I was ill, I'd be in no mood to have a swim with a dolphin.
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The mental never influences the physical. It is always the physical that modifies the mental, and when we think that the mind is diseased, it is always an illusion.
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You can't just watch people type all day, and you can't really show screenshots of code and make it interesting in any way.
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My philosophy is to treat people how you want to be treated.
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I know how to tell a story to a thousand people. Sometimes I don't know how to tell a story to a piece of tape on a wall and a camera.
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It's so much easier for me to get up and be someone else than expressing my own thoughts and feelings. There's definitely something about creating a cloak of a character that helped me deal with my shyness.
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Iraq is better without Saddam Hussein than with Saddam Hussein. Without a doubt.
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This was tough. The Kerry people were determined not to have a leak.
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The Pope talks so much shit. The Pope was castigating the media for making gays look normal. YEAH, you're a real GOOD judge of normal, with your gold dress and your matching gold hat, living it up in the Vatican with 500 men surrounded by the finest antiques in the world! Queen, please! You live like Versace did!
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Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process.
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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
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Garage music came up when people weren't paying attention.
