Probably some of the projects I chose to do after that had more to do with what people thought of me. The industry was very open and probably hoping that I could do anything.
BO DEREKWhen you trust your director completely, then you can relax, be spontaneous, be malleable.
More Bo Derek Quotes
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He’s just fun, so much fun. I’m very happy now.
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My mother was working a lot, so she was gone often. I would leave school and hitchhike to the beach. I can’t believe I hitchhiked now. It scares me to death now.
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I played a definite part in it. I guess the things that I played in films and the way the nudity and the love scenes were handled were really different.
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10′ was amazing! I had no career before ’10’ and then all of a sudden I was able to do pretty much whatever I was able to do in the business.
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I’m getting to the place where I can sort of go through airports now and there’s no hysteria. I can go places alone even. But at the same time, if you get in trouble, you can find somebody in your age group who might recognize you.
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It is inconceivable that, in the richest nation in the world, we have 30 million people at risk of hunger. I believe that, if we truly make a commitment as a nation, we can defeat hunger.
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In California, I guess you belong to the state; you don’t even belong to your parents. It’s an old Spanish law. It doesn’t require your parents to swear out a complaint; anybody can.
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It’s so easy to conform and to follow. It’s very difficult to be rebellious and live by what you believe is right. And to make decisions and to take the consequences. Very few people do.
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Life has played some funny tricks on me and taken me on a wild ride. How did I ever get into this wonderful mess that is my life?
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I love horses. I spent seven years as a racing commissioner on a horse-racing board.
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I found that whatever interested me in life, I could pretty much pick up the phone, call somebody, and all of a sudden be in the middle of it.
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I think a lot of my girlfriends growing up gave themselves up to any boy who paid attention to them. I think young women now are a lot more particular. They pick and choose.
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I love Spain. I go back two or three times a year usually to visit friends and ride horses.
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Horses are a symbol of America and can be marketed that way overseas.
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We were on the island of Hawaii. I think I was there three months. It was fantastic. It is not much different than films. It depends on the television show but much of television today is as good or better than most films.
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