There's a great deal of difference between temperament and temper. Temperament is something you welcome creatively, for it is based on sensitivity, empathy, awareness ... but a bad temper takes too much out of you and doesn't really accomplish anything.

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Luck? Luck is hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.

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I don't suppose that hard work, discipline, and a perfectionist attitude toward my work did me any harm. They are a big part of my makeup today, as any of my co-workers will tell you. And when life seemed unbearable, I learned to live in my imagination, and to step inside other people's skins- indispensable abilities for an actress.

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I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

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Ability is of little account without opportunity.

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Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

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I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.

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Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

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