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"'It is my last wish to be burried sitting up.' - Bette Davis"
"'It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.' - Brigitte Bardot"
"'It may not be the most popular but there is a place for it. I think about the kind of music I love, acoustic, melodic, and I guess it kind of took a bit of courage on my part to think I could be one of those songwriters.' - Helen Slater"
"'It seems like all the good looking people have smaller dogs these days. Especially for the women, because they always come in with their little Chihuahuas and the guys come in with their Golden Retrievers.' - Elizabeth Perkins"
"'It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.' - Jasmine Guy"
"'In this business, you never say no to anything.' - Mercedes Ruehl"
"'If you can find something you love, go for it everyday of your life, and it would be really good to you.' - Jenifer Lewis"
"'If you just want to be a star, go away.' - Jenifer Lewis"
"'In 1979, Alien came out and Sigourney was in it with a bunch a guys. Nobody at that time expected the woman to be the hero, so that was a tradition that started.' - Sanaa Lathan"
"'In films, the fact that you can always do a scene again takes a load off your mind, enabling you to strive for perfection, which I always wanted.' - Jessie Matthews"
"'James Stewart was so kind and considerate and had such personal integrity.' - Brigitte Bardot"
"'Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.' - Bette Davis"
"'My sisters are very academically inclined so whenever they would fix me up, it would always be from someone in their world, people they would find attractive. When they came to the door in suits, it was over.' - Elizabeth Perkins"
"'My soul is not my own any more. I cannot live like I want to. I am going to give up films.' - Brigitte Bardot"
"'No actor ever forgets a role, so I should have realized something was wrong.' - Maureen Reagan"
"'Old age is no place for sissies.' - Bette Davis"
"'My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.' - Bette Davis"
"'My kids are old enough now that they can watch that, but I like to do the family movies.' - Elizabeth Perkins"
"'Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes.' - Bette Davis"
"'Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone-but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.' - Bette Davis"
"'Movies are getting more and more expensive to distribute. You need a lot of money to get people into theaters.' - Robin Tunney"
"'My friends that are snobs think its cool I did a movie with Albert Brooks.' - Robin Tunney"
"'If only every man who sees my films did not get the impression he can make love to me, I would be a lot happier.' - Brigitte Bardot"
"'If black people mistrust white people, they are mistrusting racism, and that is appropriate.' - Jasmine Guy"
"'I usually play disenfranchised youth.' - Robin Tunney"
"'I want to co-produce again.' - Jenifer Lewis"
"'I want word of mouth to be our biggest voice.' - Jasmine Guy"
"'I was born because my mother needed a fourth for meals.' - Beatrice Lillie"
"'I unwittingly became sort of this anorexia spokeswoman.' - Tracey Gold"
"'I took my waitress uniform. Seemed fitting.' - Shiri Appleby"
"'I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.' - Bette Davis"
"'I started out as a lousy actress and have remained one.' - Brigitte Bardot"
"'I started out doing theater and a soap in New York and that's... sort of what I got stuck in. I was blessed enough to have long runs, and it's sort of hard sometimes then to get out.' - Susan Sullivan"
"'I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.' - Bette Davis"
"'I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.' - Audrey Hepburn"
"'I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film.' - Brigitte Bardot"
"'I would kill the clone. That would be my first response.' - Elizabeth Perkins"
"'If I get married, I want to be very married.' - Audrey Hepburn"
"'If I go to a restaurant, other people stare. The meal is ruined.' - Brigitte Bardot"
"'If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.' - Angelina Jolie"
"'I work to stay alive.' - Bette Davis"
"'I will never be below the title.' - Bette Davis"
"'I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.' - Bette Davis"
"'I was the Marlon Brando of my generation.' - Bette Davis"
"'I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.' - Bette Davis"
"'I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.' - Maureen Reagan"
"'Only idiots refuse to change their minds.' - Brigitte Bardot"
"'People are forever finding something wrong with you.' - Brigitte Bardot"
"'What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.' - Eleanor Powell"
"'When I first began, the technicians, camera and makeup men made me feel so self-conscious that I began to have the biggest inferiority complex about my looks.' - Jessie Matthews"
"'When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.' - Angelina Jolie"
"'When you get to the top, stay there and make sure other women join you.' - Maureen Reagan"
"'What nourishes me also destroys me.' - Angelina Jolie"
"'What if Whitney was at her top, and we brought in a name like Whitney Houston, it would sell.' - Jenifer Lewis"
"'We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.' - Angelina Jolie"
"'We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.' - Bette Davis"
"'What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.' - Brigitte Bardot"
"'What does it mean, being a woman?' - Brigitte Bardot"
"'When you have a play, you have to be on every night.' - Sanaa Lathan"
"'Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.' - Angelina Jolie"
"'You are a black goddess when you come out the salon.' - Jenifer Lewis"
"'You have to be a star to be in this business.' - Jenifer Lewis"
"'You know, I once leased a Mercedes because I got a good deal on it because of my first name.' - Mercedes Ruehl"
"'You never know when you start a project just how good it can be.' - Jenifer Lewis"
"'Women tend to give political candidates only about 10 percent of what males give, and males give women candidates only 10 percent of what they give to males.' - Maureen Reagan"
"'Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.' - Brigitte Bardot"
"'With acting I am being led by the script, other actors, the director, etc. But with songwriting I feel it is much more self reliant and allows me to be in the creative experience without being as dependent on others.' - Helen Slater"
"'Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from over mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.' - Angelina Jolie"
"'Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.' - Bette Davis"
"'Women candidates have two unique problems. They have trouble raising money and being taken seriously by the media.' - Maureen Reagan"
"'Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.' - Bette Davis"
"'Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands.' - Brigitte Bardot"
"'Society historically has a difficult time with the concept of something new and foreign that shakes up our comfortable views, especially if it involves the very volatile question of sexual identity.' - Mercedes Ruehl"
"'Some of us just have to work harder to stay in the game.' - Sanaa Lathan"
"'Strong women only marry weak men.' - Bette Davis"
"'The Alien is gross, scary. There is something in a human being that looks at them and sees it as a cockroach. You can never feel nurturing towards the cockroach.' - Sanaa Lathan"
"'Saturday night is when my hair would be fixed up and that was my memory.' - Jenifer Lewis"
"'Percentages are why I am rich.' - Brigitte Bardot"
"'People make jokes about how black people are the first ones to be killed off.' - Sanaa Lathan"
"'People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.' - Bette Davis"
"'People work really hard to get to a certain point. But they have to work just as hard to stay there.' - Robin Tunney"
"'People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.' - Audrey Hepburn"
"'The Craft was what it was. People who respond to that movie respond to it really strongly.' - Robin Tunney"
"'This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.' - Bette Davis"
"'To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.' - Bette Davis"
"'To make a movie is very grueling at times. Long, long hours and cold weather.' - Sanaa Lathan"
"'Vadim changed my mind about acting. Vadim was the only man who was certain I had something special to offer.' - Brigitte Bardot"
"'Thirty years ago, there was definitely a huge difference between men and women, and the man wanting to feel like the protector, and not scare the wife.' - Robin Tunney"
"'They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself.' - Brigitte Bardot"
"'The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?' - Bette Davis"
"'The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?' - Angelina Jolie"
"'The people were just so lovely and accommodating and had really interesting questions and it was just interesting to see how the show is actually received in so many different countries.' - Shiri Appleby"
"'There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.' - Bette Davis"
"'I remember the guest stars who came, they were always trying to find a new plot for their characters because they wanted to stay. It was really a great working environment.' - Caroline Dhavernas"
"'I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.' - Audrey Hepburn"
"'Everybody has a heart. Except some people.' - Bette Davis"
"'Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.' - Angelina Jolie"
"'Fame had brought me so much unhappiness.' - Brigitte Bardot"
"'Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology.' - Catherine Deneuve"
"'Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.' - Brigitte Bardot"
"'Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about.' - Catherine Deneuve"
"'Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.' - Catherine Deneuve"
"'Directors have to push me. I have to be pushed up. Not all the time, but often.' - Catherine Deneuve"
"'Do you have to have a reason for loving?' - Brigitte Bardot"
"'Even if a woman is abused a very long time ago, it comes out in her life in a negative way.' - Catherine Deneuve"
"'Film-making was not at all what I had expected.' - Brigitte Bardot"
"'Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between two women.' - Brigitte Bardot"
"'I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand.' - Brigitte Bardot"
"'I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved.' - Catherine Deneuve"
"'I always play women I would date.' - Angelina Jolie"
"'I am 30, but there are things about me that are still 15.' - Brigitte Bardot"
"'Honestly, I like everything, boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny.' - Angelina Jolie"
"'Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.' - Gabrielle Union"
"'For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.' - Audrey Hepburn"
"'From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.' - Bette Davis"
"'Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?' - Brigitte Bardot"
"'Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.' - Bette Davis"
"'But in my own particular case, there was something that happened when I became a mother. Whenever in the news I saw an example of a child being abused or mistreated, my response went from being appalled to being physically revolted.' - Mercedes Ruehl"
"'Bjork is a very original, interesting person. I like her very much.' - Catherine Deneuve"
"'All I need to do to stay healthy is look at my three boys.' - Tracey Gold"
"'All this happens without him knowing - they actually install cameras in his apartment and hire this girl to get him to fall in love with her so that she can be in the apartment and present him products without him knowing.' - Caroline Dhavernas"
"'All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.' - Catherine Deneuve"
"'America has a relationship with Bobby and Whitney.' - Jenifer Lewis"
"'After the crash happened, I was so humiliated and embarrassed. I thought of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, that they must hate me.' - Tracey Gold"
"'After I do a big movie I get offered big movies. But I always do the weirdest indie.' - Robin Tunney"
"'A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.' - Brigitte Bardot"
"'A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.' - Bette Davis"
"'Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being.' - Catherine Deneuve"
"'Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.' - Bette Davis"
"'An activist is one who is actively involved in creating community, whether that is locally in their neighborhood or internationally. It is an admirable quality.' - Jasmine Guy"
"'An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.' - Bette Davis"
"'Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante.' - Debi Mazar"
"'Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely.' - Catherine Deneuve"
"'Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date.' - Caroline Rhea"
"'Bigotry and judgment are the height of insecurity.' - Jasmine Guy"
"'Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.' - Catherine Deneuve"
"'Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.' - Bette Davis"
"'Any actor will tell you, anybody in the public eye, that the tabloids are the worst kind of ramification of being a celebrity.' - Tracey Gold"
"'Anything that is non-violent is OK with me.' - Jasmine Guy"
"'Apart from being Jennifer Lewis. The name pulls people in.' - Jenifer Lewis"
"'As the middle begins to feel safe enough to accept some of the so-called radical thinking, ideas move to the middle and a new edge is created.' - Jasmine Guy"
"'I am all right when I work. I am not superficial and I am not ungrateful.' - Brigitte Bardot"
"'I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.' - Bette Davis"
"'I knew that by getting behind the wheel of the car and having had something to drink, the responsibility laid on my shoulders.' - Tracey Gold"
"'I know very few Americans, though I like the way they think. They think big.' - Brigitte Bardot"
"'I know what sin is.' - Brigitte Bardot"
"'I leave before being left. I decide.' - Brigitte Bardot"
"'I have to live with both my selves as best I may.' - Brigitte Bardot"
"'I have often felt bad that I am not great at any one thing. Like just a super super singer. Or the Gregory Hines of something.' - Jasmine Guy"
"'I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling audition process. It was almost as if I was learning to walk. It would be like teaching somebody to dance ballet for a role.' - Sanaa Lathan"
"'I have been involved in some films other actresses would not have done.' - Catherine Deneuve"
"'I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.' - Brigitte Bardot"
"'I have not always loved wisely, but I was young.' - Brigitte Bardot"
"'I like all these little animals that run and eat and hide all the time. I like their faces, They seem to be scared and curious at the same time.' - Catherine Deneuve"
"'I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then. What would interest me today is to do a silent film.' - Catherine Deneuve"
"'I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.' - Bette Davis"
"'I never do anything by chance.' - Brigitte Bardot"
"'I never like being touched, ever. People used to say I held my breath when they were hugging me. I still do.' - Angelina Jolie"
"'I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.' - Bette Davis"
"'I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.' - Angelina Jolie"
"'I love to do very long and complicated scenes.' - Catherine Deneuve"
"'I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.' - Angelina Jolie"
"'I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.' - Angelina Jolie"
"'I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants.' - Catherine Deneuve"
"'I look forward to going to work. Everybody is at the top of their game. It was like we just got to play.' - Sanaa Lathan"
"'I had a very public battle with anorexia.' - Tracey Gold"
"'I had a flair for comedy and could give a sustained performance.' - Jessie Matthews"
"'I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people.' - Jasmine Guy"
"'I believe people who practice their beliefs in daily life are activists.' - Jasmine Guy"
"'I can be very critical on myself and on other people; I can be very demanding.' - Catherine Deneuve"
"'I cannot imagine having a physical relationship with a woman. I have not done that. But I really love women.' - Catherine Deneuve"
"'I am the person who is a mother against drunk driver.' - Tracey Gold"
"'I am odd-looking. I sometimes think I look like a funny Muppet.' - Angelina Jolie"
"'I am frivolous. Then I feel guilty.' - Catherine Deneuve"
"'I am going to sing lesbian love songs and support gay rights no matter what. The rest is public relations.' - Jasmine Guy"
"'I am just too much.' - Bette Davis"
"'I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.' - Brigitte Bardot"
"'I choose my roles carefully.' - Catherine Deneuve"
"'I collaborated on most of my dance numbers, literally 50/50, with the choreographers I worked with.' - Jessie Matthews"
"'I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.' - Brigitte Bardot"
"'I get irritated, nervous, very tense or stressed, but never bored.' - Catherine Deneuve"
"'I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises.' - Catherine Deneuve"
"'I got nominated for a Tony, which was a complete surprise. It was an experience that I will always cherish.' - Sanaa Lathan"
"'I dreaded doing close-ups.' - Jessie Matthews"
"'I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express.' - Angelina Jolie"
"'I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.' - Audrey Hepburn"
"'I did a film about the Zodiac Killer. It turned out well.' - Robin Tunney"
"'I did important films when I was very young.' - Catherine Deneuve"
"'I did work out every day. I needed it to have the endurance to do what needed to be done and not get hurt. I have such a new respect for action stars now.' - Sanaa Lathan"
"'A diva is someone who pretends to know who she is and looks fabulous doing it.' - Jenifer Lewis"
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