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| 1. | At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance. |
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| 2. | Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior. |
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| 3. | But it was hard to leave because the show's been so important in our lives. |
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| 4. | But when I disappeared, it sort of pissed me off, that guys get to go on being sexual until they're seventy or eighty, and we disappear at forty-five or fifty. |
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| 5. | Chloe feels confident about her looks, but they're not important to her. Not at all. |
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| 6. | Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans. |
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| 7. | Glamorized... am I glamorous? |
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| 8. | Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom. |
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| 9. | I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention. |
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| 10. | I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you. |
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| 11. | I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it. |
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| 12. | I couldn't hold it together today. George Clooney asked me if I was OK, and I practically collapsed. I couldn't stop crying, I had to go off sobbing like an idiot. |
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| 13. | I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment. |
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| 14. | I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out. |
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| 15. | I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread. |
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| 16. | I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me. |
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| 17. | I have never savored life with such gusto as I do now. |
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| 18. | I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless. But his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did. |
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| 19. | I remember being in tears at the hospital after Chloe was born, at the thought that someday she would have to leave home. |
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| 20. | I remember the pilot like it was yesterday... From the day I read that script, there was some kind of destiny to it. |
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| 21. | I traveled and read a lot, but I didn't have any real desire to work, though I harbored the knowledge I should get off my butt and back to work. |
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| 22. | I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles. |
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| 23. | I've never felt more comfortable in my skin, I've never enjoyed life as much and I feel so lucky. |
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| 24. | It's impossible to be more flat-chested than I am. |
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| 25. | It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too. |
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| 26. | Maybe if people are getting worn out with reality shows, which they don't seem to be, comedies will start reasserting themselves. |
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| 27. | Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly. |
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| 28. | Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick. |
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| 29. | Most of the kids I grew up with, their parents were in show business - they were away a lot. |
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| 30. | Murphy was a television character. |
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| 31. | Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids. |
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| 32. | People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart. |
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| 33. | Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age. |
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| 34. | Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while. |
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| 35. | Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies? |
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| 36. | When are you going to realize that if it doesn't apply to me it doesn't matter? |
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