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Robert J. Avrech: Emmy Award winning screenwriter. Movie fanatic. Helplessly and hopelessly in love with my wife since age nine.

True Hollywood Confessions

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“I get angry when I hear other actors blame the studios for all their problems. It really bothered me when Judy Garland used to say, ‘The studio made me do this, the studio made me do that.’ Nobody makes you do anything. You make your own choices.”
— RIP Jane Powell ((born Suzanne Lorraine Burce; 1929 – 2021)

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“I’ve probably understood men too well. I realize they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.”
—Jacqueline Bisset (b. Winifred Jacqueline Fraser Bisset, England, 1944)

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“My family was very conservative, and I had a traditional upbringing. I was not brought up to be a sex symbol, nor is it in my nature to be one. The fact that I became one is probably the loveliest, most glamorous and fortunate misunderstanding.”
—Raquel Welsh (born Jo Raquel Tejada; 1940- )

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“The important thing is to find a role that gives one a satisfying feeling of accomplishment. To know that you have brought a difficult characterization to life is the accomplishment I have longed for over a period of years.”
—Ann Blyth (1928 – )

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“I want to do the best that I can do in that moment, when the camera starts, until it stops.’
—Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; 1926 – 1962)

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