When you trust your director completely, then you can relax, be spontaneous, be malleable.
BO DEREKI 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.
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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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 grew up on the beaches, and I always found it kind of funny that it’s considered decent if you cover three tiny spots with pieces of fabric.
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I think a high school girl hitchhiking is stupid. It was dangerous then and it’s dangerous now.
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I hate to run. I never, ever run.
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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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Laws exist in every state that make animal cruelty a crime. Horse slaughter is simply another form of animal abuse.
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Glorifying violence is terrible. Simulating sex is nothing – it’s something so impersonal really.
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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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I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I’ve always loved horses so it was part of my dream that I was able to fulfill to have horses.
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There’s an incredible fascination for that and that goes with violence and everything else in pictures.
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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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Horses are a symbol of America and can be marketed that way overseas.
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I feel so fortunate. I was brought up along the beaches in Southern California, and then got to have horses.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness simply didn’t know where to go shopping.
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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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You could be as vulgar as you want, as long as three tiny spots were covered.
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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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When you look at women who have had plastic surgery, they have lost something – usually an expression, something unique to their face.
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I was alone for five years. Having a love is a gigantic bonus in life, but I wasn’t unhappy when I was single, either.
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I found my love when I was 17-years-old and my love is one hundred percent honest. We’ve never had any ugly, rocky things to overcome.
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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 Spain. I go back two or three times a year usually to visit friends and ride horses.
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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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I love horses. I spent seven years as a racing commissioner on a horse-racing board.
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