Claudette Colbert Quotes
The casting couch? There's only one of us who ever made it to stardom without it, and that was Bette Davis.
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I'm like a sight gag.
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It is up to you to decide who to believe: the same people as usual or those who endanger their lives to save the country.
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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.
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When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
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I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs.
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I love the romcom. I thought I had a career playing the best friend. What happened to that? It's really sad to me.
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As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.
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What I expect of a movie reviewer is that he should love cinema as much as I do.
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The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
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We wish Pakistan both stability and security; we expect them to understand our legitimate concerns of preventing people from using its soil to inflict problem in India.
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I believe that I'm an actor to this day because of 'Star Wars.' I saw 'Star Wars' as a child, and I was completely enamored by it.
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If I were a liberal Democrat, people would say I'm the super genius of all time. The super genius of all time. If you're a conservative Republican, you've got to fight for your life. It's really an amazing thing.
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What I have learned over hundreds of campaigns is if you have lost voters who have supported you in the past, you can get them back. If you never had them, it is a very difficult sell.
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I grew up poor and used to look at people in big houses and thought they had everything. Then later on I looked at models in magazines and thought they had it all.
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Few comedians can go to their shows and have people yell out bits that they want to hear. It's like going to see your favorite band and yelling out your favorite songs and to say the words along with them.
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Being out of a job can erode people's confidence and their sense of possibility; and employers, often unfairly, tend to take long-term unemployment as a signal that something is wrong.
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There are certain songs that are sacred. People want to hear them just as they are in their head; they don't want you messing around with them. And then there are some other songs, if they've been around a long time in our set list, that I think we can take some creative liberties with.
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I try to avoid people's eyes because I don't like to get that intimate with just anybody. i don't need the responsibility.
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The good name of the United Nations is one of its most valuable assets - but also one of its most vulnerable. The Charter calls on staff to uphold the highest levels of efficiency, competence and integrity, and I will seek to ensure to build a solid reputation for living up to that standard.
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I've played many characters that have consumed me and owned me.
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The casting couch? There's only one of us who ever made it to stardom without it, and that was Bette Davis.
