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All we demanded was our right to twinkle.
—
Marilyn Monroe
man
There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed.
—
Peter Sellers
real
Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.
—
Angelina Jolie
life
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
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Ingrid Bergman
love
The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.
—
Grace Kelly
freedom
The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.
—
Audrey Hepburn
life
Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.
—
Tom Cruise
end
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
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Julie Andrews
time
To single out a particular group and say we can't make a joke about them is almost a form of prejudice and it's kind of patronizing.
—
Sacha Baron Cohen
art
Failures are infinitely more instructive than successes.
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George Clooney
success
A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... Thats the trade-off. But Ill take it all.
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Brad Pitt
love
I'd rather be in Las Vegas 104 degrees than New York 90 degrees, you know why? Legalized prostitution. In any weather that takes the edge off.
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Ray Romano
you
Speaking about his Irish/Jewish/Russian ancestors, Harrison Ford said that he is “Irish as a person but I feel Jewish as an actor.”
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Harrison Ford
wish
Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion – they're two words which are both … different. In spelling.
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Eddie Izzard
philosophy
The use of the word 'just' by an Australian means that whatever it is you have to do, it will not be easy, as in 'Just pull that sword out of the stone' or 'Just split that atom'.
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Michael Palin
hate
I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT PEOPLE LIKE ME AS A MEMBER
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Groucho Marx
people
was an easy character for me. For some reason, portraying a mean uptight incompetent bully comes naturally to me.
—
John Cleese
character
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed - they produced ,and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love and five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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Orson Welles
love
I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.
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Nancy Reagan
life
I'll clue you in on a secret: death is not the worst thing that could happen to you. I know we think that; we are the first society ever to think that. It's not worse than dishonor; it's not worse than losing your freedom; its not worse than losing a sense of personal responsibility.
—
Bill Maher
death
I think the hard thing about this job [stand-up] — I mean, I think this part is great — but that the traveling is y'know, 'cause — 'cause I'm gone a lot from home and this time I'm out for three-and-a-half weeks without going home, and that's hard, to be gone three-and-a-half weeks 'cause then I have to ask my friends, "Would you mind going to the house and watering the plants, and turn some lights on and make it look like somebody's home, and make sure that the mobile over the crib isn't tangled or the baby's gonna get bored..."
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Ellen DeGeneres
time
Andre [Recke] and I and my mom worked very hard to really get good music that I related to and was age-appropriate for me and wasn't just cheesy pop stuff. There are definitely people I respect and I love their music, but there was never really an artist that I said, "I want to be just like them, I love the way their career is going. I love their music." It wasn't really like that. I wanted to be like myself. I love writing, but I feel like you need time to really get in touch with yourself to do that. On [Metamorphosis], I would have liked to have had more time to work with the writers [and] write some more of my own stuff. Hopefully I can do that on my second album.
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Hilary Duff
love
I thought I might die. But then I thought, 'Other people have made it through these things before'. I kept my eyes on the lights on shore and kept swimming.
—
Clint Eastwood
people
If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life — that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment — that would be the perfect state.
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Cate Blanchett
life
Ifwere alive today he'd be working for Vogue.
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Peter Ustinov
work
Do you know what the good side of crack is? If you're up at the right hour, you can get a VCR for $1.50. You can furnish your whole house for $10.95.
—
Chris Rock
good
To look back is to relax one's vigil.
—
Bette Davis
Once they get their hooks into you, you're a dead pigeon.
—
Bud Abbott
you
I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam.
—
F. Murray Abraham
sin
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.
—
Victoria Abril
passion
I thought I'd be edgy and dye my hair red. And I dyed my hair, like, Jessica Rabbit red. It kind of allowed me to have this whole new confidence and this whole new swagger and this whole new sense of self. It kind of brought out the inner rock star in me. I had never dyed my hair like that, and no one forgot me after that.
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Candice Accola
self
What I enjoy most is travelling to different places and meeting new people. For me, it's all about life experiences, and I'm very grateful that acting allows me so many interesting and fulfilling ones.
—
Jensen Ackles
life
I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled.
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Amy Adams
time
I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.
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Isabelle Adjani
fear
I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger', and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.
—
Ben Affleck
wit
For people who have... had curve balls thrown at them, it is easier to digest change and digest change in other people. Change only scares the small-minded. The small-minded and me.
—
Casey Affleck
change
Cinema is a reflection of its own society.
—
Shohreh Aghdashloo
society
My goal has always been not to look forward to the next thing, but to relish and celebrate the successes I have at the moment. Whether it's landing a part in a student film or having a good day in acting class, I never discredit anything.
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Dianna Agron
success
I need distractions. Good distractions, not bad ones. A good distraction for me is a great play.
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Danny Aiello
action
You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
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Anouk Aimee
beauty
I'm of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe. Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life.
—
Adewale Akinnuoye Agbaje
life
My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.
—
Jessica Alba
you
Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
—
Alan Alda
life
Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.
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Tim Allen
lies
I binge when I'm happy. When everything is going really well, every day is like I'm at a birthday party.
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Kirstie Alley
art
You can't judge a character that you're playing, because then you're fighting against doing what the character's doing.
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Marshall Allman
character
I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.
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Gillian Anderson
hope
My hair was so much a part of my personality and all my photo shoots. I hid behind my hair. And then, I just decided I was okay with myself. To have short hair and really show my face is even more revealing than anything. It's a statement - not to everyone else, more to myself. I'm just ready to get out from behind my hair and be myself.
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Pamela Anderson
art
Dogs are my favorite people.
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Richard Dean Anderson
people
I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
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Ursula Andress
joy
Older women know who they are, and that makes them more beautiful than younger ones. I like to see a face with some character. I want to see lines. I want to see wrinkles.
—
Naveen Andrews
women
I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special.
—
Jennifer Aniston
love
My dream is to have a house on the beach, even just a little shack somewhere so I can wake up, have coffee, look at dolphins, be quiet and breathe the air.
—
Christina Applegate
dream
For everybody, the tide comes in, the tide goes out - if you're an actor, particularly.
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Alan Arkin
art
I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a lot of falsehoods with people hiding behind different facades. I don't want to be a part of that.
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David Arquette
art
I liked the premise of this material. I love the marriage relationship. They kind of keep each other honest, and they enjoy each other's sense of humor. Kind of a sexy but boring relationship.
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Patricia Arquette
love
Criticism really used to hurt me. Most of these critics are usually frustrated artists, and they criticise other people's art because they can't do it themselves. It's a really disgusting job. They must feel horrible inside.
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Rosanna Arquette
art
My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I'm very grateful for the fact that we had to learn to save. I used to get like 50 pence a week, and I'd save it for like five months. And then I'd spend it on Christmas presents. I'd save up like eight pounds. It's nothing, but we did that.
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Gemma Arterton
war
I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.
—
Ed Asner
music
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
—
Fred Astaire
learning
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves of books about Tolkien and Middle-earth, and I was like, 'Holy cow, what else am I missing out on?'
—
Sean Astin
books
I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience. I'm not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And I'm certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
—
Rowan Atkinson
funny
You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle!
—
Dan Aykroyd
you
Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight, out of mind.' But when you walk outside and see them on a billboard or on TV or on the cover of a magazine, it reopens the wound. It's a high-class problem, but it's real.
—
Hank Azaria
mind
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
—
Lucille Ball
love
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
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John Barrymore
you
I am not a has-been. I am a will be.
—
Lauren Bacall
will
A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy.
—
Abhishek Bachchan
love
I like to feel the butterflies in the stomach, I like to go home and have a restless night and wonder how I'm going to be able to accomplish this feat, get jittery. That hunger and those butterflies in the stomach are very essential for all creative people.
—
Amitabh Bachchan
people
I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.
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Kevin Bacon
life
My life is pretty hectic, but I'm really into it.
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Simon Baker
life
Remember, sex is like a Chinese dinner. It ain't over 'til you both get your cookie.
—
Alec Baldwin
sex
My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message.
—
Christian Bale
hope
I look my best when I take my helmet off after a long motorcycle ride. I have a glow and a bit of helmet hair.
—
Eric Bana
best
I was at a point where I was ready to say I am what I am because of what I am and if you like me I'm grateful, and if you don't, what am I going to do about it?
—
Anne Bancroft
you
Expectation is the mother of all frustration.
—
Antonio Banderas
mother
I actually think that secrets are just a part of human nature and that everybody should have some.
—
Elizabeth Banks
art
We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.
—
Javier Bardem
truth
A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
—
Brigitte Bardot
life
It is clear I was never the Pretty Girl. I had my two front teeth knocked out when I was 10 and didn't fix them until I was 19. I have a crooked smile and a nose that looks like it's been broken 12 times but never has been. My nose was always red, so people called me Rudolph. My whole face is off-center.
—
Ellen Barkin
time
I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war.
—
Ben Barnes
life
There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say, oh God, I've got to see my friends 'cause I'm too content being by myself.
—
Drew Barrymore
people
Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.
—
Lionel Barrymore
people
Everyone loves the seventies because that's when movies were character-based, and you saw great characters and you saw very interesting filmmaking. There are interesting movies being made now, but it's harder and harder to make them.
—
Justin Bartha
love
I'm still getting used to changing earrings - It still feels really weird to be pushing bits of metal through holes in my earlobes that weren't there a few weeks back, and actually seeing and feeling the holes in my lobes is still a bit freaky.
—
Mischa Barton
weird
You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they're going to write in whatever clever manner they desire.
—
Kim Basinger
people
I have always believed that if you need to take your clothes off to get your man, you've begun to lose the battle. If you pull it off right, you can do it in a very classy way... Being sexy is about suggestion; it's about the tease. It's not about being obvious and forcing yourself out in the open. That takes all the fun out of being a woman.
—
Bipasha Basu
sex
I don't worry about people misinterpreting my kindness for weakness.
—
Jason Bateman
people
I want to be defined by my own essence.
—
Kathy Bates
want
It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.
—
Anne Baxter
life
I don't think Roger Dodger is really about men. I think it is more about relationships and about how you present yourself, not only to the opposite sex, but to yourself. What lies are you going to tell yourself in order to get through the day?
—
Jennifer Beals
relationships
Listen to people and treat people as you find them. There's an inherent goodness in most people. Don't pre-judge people - that was me Mam's advice anyway.
—
Sean Bean
people
Beauty is not something you can count on. Usually, when people say you are beautiful, it is when there is a harmony between the inside and the outside.
—
Emmanuelle Beart
people
How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.
—
Warren Beatty
time
I think I like playing the bad girl. I like complicated. I like flawed, messed up complicated. It's more interesting.
—
Kate Beckinsale
law
I'm okay. Nobody's bothering me. Everyone's very kind, and very polite. I don't feel like my whole life changed.
—
Berenice Bejo
life
I actually don't mind rats at all. I kind of think they're quite cute, but that's just me.
—
Jamie Bell
mind
I have the best roommates in the world! It creates a fun sense of family... and that's really important to me. Things can get so lonely without it.
—
Kristen Bell
family
For me everything in the film was gradually building, becoming more emotional, so it helped. At the end of it all I was emotionally drained. At that point I took Rose's view, that this has to happen, there's nothing I can do about it.
—
Camilla Belle
emotion
When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life.
—
Monica Bellucci
life
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