Actresses Quotes - Page 5

• I don't know why people think child actresses in particular are screwed up. I see kids everywhere who are totally bored. I've never been bored a day in my life.

  Jodie Foster

  Children, Kids, Thinking

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• My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.

  Sally Kirkland

  Kim, My Favorite, Stanley

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• I'm not skinny for the wrong reasons. It's not because I'm bulimic or anorexic or doing drugs. Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Birthday, Drug, Age

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• Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Birthday, Age, Overweight

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• There's a very small group of elite actresses who are my age, who people want to work with. It's not easy to get a good job with good actors.

  Amanda Peet

  Jobs, People, Age

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• If you've looked at all the glamour magazines lately, all the covers are actresses. If they are on those covers, they are going to try to emulate models. That's just the way it is.

  Portia de Rossi

  Style, Trying, Magazines

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.

  Denzel Washington

  Two, Lasts, Century

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• If I only dated actresses, Id be a very lonely man.

  Joshua Jackson

  Lonely, Men, Geek

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• It is something actresses need to go through and I think they look forward to being naked in a movie. I don't know why, but it is something you need to exhaust from yourself

  Sophie Marceau

  Thinking, Looks, Naked

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• I want to be left alone.

  Greta Garbo

  Lonely, Fear, Loneliness

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As an African American actress there are people who have been staples in my life that opened a door that I can walk through. I hope that I can have that impact.

  Monique Coleman

  Impact, Doors, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Obviously, I'm not a trained actress, and right now I'll come out and say I'm glad I'm not.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Glad, Right Now

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  The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

  Lily Tomlin

  Inspirational, Funny, Meaningful

  Quoted in People, 26 Dec. 1977. Although now associated with Tomlin, this saying appears anonymously in Robert Reisner, Graffiti (1971), in the form "Remember, even if you win the rat race - you're still a rat." Rosalie Maggio, in New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women, states that William Sloane Coffin said "Even if you win the rat-race, you're still a rat" as a chaplain at Williams College or Yale University in the 1950s or 1960s.

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• Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Funny, Radio

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• I'm obsessively opposed to the typical.

  Lady Gaga

  Musician, Typical, Mediocrity

  Song: The Fame Monster, Album: The Fame, 2008

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• You face the biggest challenge of all: to have the courage to seek your big dream regardless of what anyone says. You are the only person alive who can see your big picture and even you can't see it all.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Dream, Courage

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• Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.

  Carrie Fisher

  Life, Lines, Horrible

  Carrie Fisher (2011). “Postcards From the Edge”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe there's a calling for all of us. I know that every human being has value and purpose. The real work of our lives is to become aware. And awakened. To answer the call.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  "Every Person Has a Purpose" by Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. November 2009.

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• If only I'd known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.

  Bette Midler

  Being Different, Singers, Would Be

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• When people show you who they are ... believe them!

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

  Oprah Winfrey, Janet Lowe (1998). “Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice”, John Wiley & Sons

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• It's funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. Librarians have stood up to the Patriot Act, sat down with noisy toddlers and reached out to illiterate adults. Libraries can never be shushed.

  Paula Poundstone

  Truth, Women, Book

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  You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at.

  Tina Fey

  Witty, Smart, Humor

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. February, 2009.

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• I truly, truly believe that beauty is something that comes from within.

  Emma Watson

  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

  "Emma Watson: I wear too much makeup". www.today.com. April 18, 2013.

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• Being a teenager and figuring out who you are is hard enough without someone attacking you.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Being Yourself, Teenage, Comedian

  "Gay suicide sparks calls for tougher privcacy laws in the US". "AM" on ABC Radio, www.abc.net.au. October 2, 2010.

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