Loni Anderson Quotes
Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.
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When I was in Thailand, I went into the up-country because Marco Polo didn't get down into the flesh pots of Bangkok because they didn't exist in those days.
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My hair and make-up secret is 'the messier the better.'
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I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?'
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I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.
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I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
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I grew up a Detroit Tigers fan, and now to be an owner of the Dodgers is amazing.
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What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.
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I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.
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I went to UCLA as pre-med. When I was there my freshman year, I auditioned for a play and got it, and I was so passionate. I just loved acting so much that I decided to switch majors and pursue acting.
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It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn't want the question raised, 'What's your relationship with Daniel Ellsberg?' And not one of them wrote me a letter because they didn't want a letter of theirs to show up in my trash - which the FBI had been going through.
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I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.
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Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it.
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Here's the miracle: I grew up thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to write 'Superman' someday? Wouldn't it be great to create my own show, or work on 'Lensman,' or 'Forbidden Planet?' Those were very literally the goals I set for myself, the dreams that I thought I didn't have a chance in hell of ever actually achieving. But it's happened.
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I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
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I'm used to packing up and leaving, to condensing myself into a digestible version because people don't have much time to get to know me.
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Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up.
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I get star-struck anytime I meet performers that I grew up watching and appreciating. I mean, it's still incredibly surreal to me that I was a kid in San Antonio watching movies and then now I'm working with some of the people that were in those movies. I don't think it'll ever stop being surreal on some level.
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It takes courage, of course, to step out of the fray, as it takes courage to do anything that's necessary, whether tending to a loved one on her deathbed or turning away from that sugarcoated doughnut.
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Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.
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'Raiders of the Lost Ark' is my favorite movie, and it's why I wanted to be an actor.
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I've always admired the work that Save the Children does to improve the lives of children and their families all over the world.
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Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.
