- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
You Quotes
Quotes that speak straight to you.
This collection gathers quotes framed around 'you' - from candid reflections on body image pressures passed down in families to observations about how humor can mask real vulnerability. Many touch on how what you know about yourself differs from how others perceive you.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
You would give up your career if you lost your voice for good, or if the impresarios stopped calling, or the audiences stopped coming. But as long as those things are there, I don't plan to stop. There is nothing that makes me feel better than to be with my public.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you can believe it, Hollywood wanted to change my birthdate. I was born after Valentine's Day, so they wanted to change it to February 14. A Latin lover should be born on Valentine's Day. I said no.
- Cats
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- Nov 07, 2020
Take one female cat over a seven-year period. If all the kittens survived and bred, she would be responsible for 21,000 cats - they are such prolific breeders: you can see how important it is to neuter.
- Left
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody in Hollywood was in Around the World in 80 Days. If you weren't, you left town and made up an excuse.
- Phone
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing about members of your family is that if you met them for the first time at a party, you might not bother to take their phone number, and yet something binds you.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Monet - I've nicknamed him King Blob. When you go up to the painting, it's a series of blobs - amazing.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
That is perceptive of you, because in this country men dancers have always been viewed with suspicion. If you were an actor, a star, and a dancer, you had to be, or have a name like someone 'mainstream.'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When someone's acting for a scene, they can fool the camera. But in everyday life, unless you're watching and censoring yourself every minute, or spending all your time in the company of ladies, what you feel is bound to show in your eyes.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anorexia is an awful thing, but you get yourself into it, and only you can get yourself out of it.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love not knowing what's going to happen next. With work, you never know. You rehearse and strive and get it right sometimes, and still you never know. Some people are like that with their marriages. They work and strive and labour and toil at them. God, what a bore! What an unromantic bore!
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't remember me as too nice or beautiful or funny, because then you'll be disappointed.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great lesson in theatre is that you live the story every night, and that is a wonderful vehicle for getting to the richest places in a performance or investing a character with the richest life.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew it was going to be the most extraordinary thing in my life, but how powerful it is, you can never know until you have a baby.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020