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I've always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, 'Hi,' that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.
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Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.
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When you have only a single dream it is more than likely to come true - because you keep working toward it without getting mixed up.
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Everyones childhood plays itself out. No wonder no one knows the other or can completely understand.
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I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.
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I learned also that the best way to keep out of trouble was by never complaining or asking for anything.
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An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.
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It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment.
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Love and work are the only two real things in our lives. They belong together, otherwise it is off. Work is in itself a form of love.
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I'm thirty-six years old. I'm just getting started!
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Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life.
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Fame has a special burden, which I might as well state here and now. I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. But what goes with it can be a burden.
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They've said I want to direct pictures. I couldn't direct traffic.
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I have never liked sex. I do not think I ever will. It just seems the opposite of love.
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I could have loved you once And said it But then you went away And when you came back Love was a forgotten word, Remember?
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Maybe I’ll never be able to do what I hope to, but at least I have hope.
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There is a need for aloneness, which I don't think most people realise for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like sort of a chunk of you.
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The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.
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If you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell shouldn't schedule a meeting with me before 10am.
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You've got a way with words. You got me smiling even when it hurts. There's no way to measure what your love is worth, I can't believe the way you get through to me. ~ Shania Twain If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything
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I am good, but not an angel.
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She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important—you know.
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I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.
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Sex is nature, and I believe in going along with nature.
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