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Katharine Hepburn: It's life isn't...

Katharine Hepburn: It's life isn't...

It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them....

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Lauren Bacall: I think your...

Lauren Bacall: I think your...

I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.

Source:...

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Sarah Bernhardt: Life begets life....

Sarah Bernhardt: Life begets life....

Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

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Jeanne Moreau: Acting deals with...

Jeanne Moreau: Acting deals with...

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he...

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Jean Harlow: I'm going to...

Jean Harlow: I'm going to...

I'm going to be a lady if it kills me.

Source: In Dinner at Eight, 1933.
-- Jean...

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Minnie Maddern Fiske: The great actors...

Minnie Maddern Fiske: The great actors...

The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.

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Thelma Ritter: If there's anything...

Thelma Ritter: If there's anything...

If there's anything worse than a woman living alone, it's a woman saying she likes it.

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Loretta Swit: M*A*S*H offered real...

Loretta Swit: M*A*S*H offered real...

M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was...

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Marie Dressler: In order to...

Marie Dressler: In order to...

In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves.

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Hermione Gingold: My father dealt...

Hermione Gingold: My father dealt...

My father dealt in stocks and shares and my mother also had a lot of time on her hands.

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Joan Collins: The secret of...

Joan Collins: The secret of...

The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it.

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Ann (and Jane) Taylor: Though man a...

Ann (and Jane) Taylor: Though man a...

Though man a thinking being is defined,
Few use the grand prerogative of mind.
How few think justly of the...

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Louise Erdrich: I was in...

Louise Erdrich: I was in...

I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.

Source: In...

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Louise A Bogan: Because language is...

Louise A Bogan: Because language is...

Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a...

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Anne Bradstreet: I am obnoxious...

Anne Bradstreet: I am obnoxious...

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue
Who says my hand a needle better fits,
A poet's pen all scorn I should...

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Ellen Terry: If it is...

Ellen Terry: If it is...

If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the...

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Ingrid Bergman: You must train...

Ingrid Bergman: You must train...

You must train your intuition -- you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what...

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Goldie Hawn: Once you can...

Goldie Hawn: Once you can...

Once you can laugh at your own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If...

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Shirley Temple Black: Make-believe colors the...

Shirley Temple Black: Make-believe colors the...

Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways in science, in...

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Mary Tyler Moore: Take chances, make...

Mary Tyler Moore: Take chances, make...

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to...

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