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I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.


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MY TEACHER I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with...
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PAT CONROY My teeth are crooked, my nose is broken. I've never thought of myself as beautiful
JESSICA LANGE My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' A...
BARBRA STREISAND My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' A...
BARBRA STREISAND I love Barbra Streisand. Anybody who knows me knows I just love her, love her, love her!
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CHARLIZE THERON I guess my name was gonna be Michael Vernon Wells, and I came out, and my dad saw my nose. He always...
VERNON WELLS I never liked the name Eldred. Since nobody knew me in New York, I just changed to my middle name.
GREGORY PECK I've always been unhappy with my teeth. I've lost most of them from my bottom jaw, and those...
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BILLY PORTER [Barbra Streisand submits the unreleased] I Believe, ... I Will Not Be Broken.
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KATHI NAHASS Barbra Streisand, for one, is one of my idols. I've listened to her since I was a little kid - t...
IDINA MENZEL Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to li...
ARTHUR MILLER I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit.
TONY GOLDWYN Given my district, it would not have been right to put together a 99-song playlist and not include B...
TED DEUTCH I changed my name at 14 because no one outside of my family could pronounce my first name correctly.
J. AUGUST RICHARDS I realized I was gay in the shower one day with Barbra Streisand. It happened while I was lathering,...
ROSS MATHEWS My parents loved music, and my father would come home with cassette tapes of Chic and the Village Pe...
MARJORIE GUBELMANN The myth that people with epilepsy swallow their tongues is very injurious. When I had seizures with...
KURT EICHENWALD It changed my life. I've learned to relax and be more in control of my body, instead of having my bo...
IMOGENE BENSON I won?t have to brush my teeth or floss tonight. Any food trapped in my teeth got knocked out.
CHARLES THOMAS My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please hel...
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BILLY PORTER Barbra Streisand has accomplished so much, and Dustin Hoffman as well. They are down to earth and ap...
KEVIN HART I grew up without a father, who was kept a mystery to me. There was a sense of uprootedness, things ...
JOHN IRVING There's no great shame in having your nose fixed.
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MAX CASELLA Kathy Dewar, my high-school English teacher, introduced me to journalism. From the moment I wrote my...
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STEPHEN HAWKING All of Hollywood has plastic surgery. I don't know why they point me out. The press exaggerated it. ...
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PARK SHIN-HYE abundant feeling of your presence in front of Allah is enjoy full solitude state where you are in bo...
M.I.SHAIKH MY SELF It's raining spiders, seriously. Maybe that's a bad sign.
MY MORNING JACKET At Dawn/Tennessee Fire Demos
MY MORNING JACKET You go up there and it's just this amazing place on top of a mountain,
MY MORNING JACKET The army taught me to sign my name very quickly, and that's stood me in good stead the rest of m...
NICKY OPPENHEIMER I thought Barbra Streisand had walked on stage, ... When they wouldn't stop clapping and when they s...
JULIE CHEN I got rid of my glasses and they changed my hair. That's really all they did. They went shopping...
CLAY AIKEN Something that is yours forever is never precious
CHAIM POTOK It is clear I was never the Pretty Girl. I had my two front teeth knocked out when I was 10 and didn...
ELLEN BARKIN I don't believe that my first name is Leo or that my last name is Tolstoy. I'm a storyteller...
ROBERT LUDLUM In 1970 I realized that the Sixties were passing me by. I had never even smoked a joint, or slept wi...
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NORMAN GRANZ The part of my writing I find the most rewarding is when people write to me or speak to me in public...
SIDNEY SHELDON There are several peculiarities that I share with children which, like having no front teeth, are pe...
ZILPHA KEATLEY SNYDER My hands are bloody; so are Hollywood's. My cancer has caused me to attempt to cleanse mine. I don't...
JOE ESZTERHAS Music is my life.
ROBERT ILER I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed m...
MARY CASSATT I dreaded the dance scene in 'Love Actually' more than having my teeth extracted.
HUGH GRANT I don't watch my own past films: when I watch them, I find they don't work very well, becaus...
BRUNO DUMONT My name is Jidenna, which means 'to hold or embrace the father' in Igbo. It was my father wh...
JIDENNA My face is not perfect. Because my nose is not sharp, many people suggested I should get my nose don...
PARK SHIN-HYE When I first got here, I arrived in my room and looked at the slopes, and I had to take a minute to ...
CHRISTOPHER REEVE I never had plastic surgery. I had a nose procedure done because I had to. I had no cartilage in my ...
TAMAR BRAXTON The world I travel is my inspiration. I name my dresses after cities that inspire me.
NAEEM KHAN David Holdaway was my stage name. I was an actor for about eight years in the '90s. I had to cha...
DAVID NICHOLLS I am so stressed that my dentist told me I am grinding my teeth due to stress. So, every evening, I ...
ALIA BHATT When I am brushing my teeth, I'm bending my leg behind me, or I'm lifting my leg up and hold...
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY My first agent dissuaded me from calling myself 'Cumberbatch.' I had six months of not very ...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH Evan Hunter is not a pseudonym. It has been my legal name since 1952. It is the name I answer to, th...
EVAN HUNTER When I'm having a seizure, she holds me down putting her paws on my shoulders and sticking her nose ...
GINNY DEGROFF His murder filled me with a nearly uncontrollable rage ... so yes, I changed the spelling of my name...
KARL EVANZZ Well, because music is my life and music is not work for me.
GUNTHER SCHULLER I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my h...
RAY CHARLES I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my h...
RAY CHARLES I am no David Beckham. I have not changed my life since I was 15 years old. My family is the only th...
ADOLFO CAMBIASO People in America and Hollywood are very good at pronouncing my name, to begin with. Socially, they&...
IOAN GRUFFUDD I changed my name when I was about twelve because I didn't like being called Sue or Susie. I fel...
SIGOURNEY WEAVER I am not too proud of having my name associated with some of my restaurants.
COLONEL SANDERS My first agent told me to change my name or I'd only play Jewish parts or Indians. Of course I r...
MALACHI THRONE I told my dentist my teeth are going yellow. he told me to wear a brown tie.
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JOHANN VON GOETHE Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and l...
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KURT VONNEGUT JR. I remember when your name was just another name that rolled without thought off my tongue.

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