You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
BEATRICE WOODYou can’t change the world, you can only change yourself.
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You know, God, the power that makes life, whatever it is, had just to make two things, masculine and feminine, for all this mischief. And made them so there is this entirely different point of view about love and sex
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First of all, I’d like to say here the fact that I’m not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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I was in a convent for a year.
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There’s so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else.
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Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That’s just hot air.
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But you can’t realize, you can’t know what another person goes through.
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Do be true to yourself, whether it’s bad doesn’t matter. The important thing – you have to copy while you’re studying.
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You can’t change the world, you can only change yourself.
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And culture is – each of us – is like one pearl added to another to make a chain. We each contribute to the other. And that’s all right. But once you’re on your own, do that which comes from within. And I feel this very strongly.
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I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.
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I’m not too interested in books about India.
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I happen to believe that there is an afterlife
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I don’t like to sell my finest pieces.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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