You really have to love the work. You can't look for stardom. That's a by-product.

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Rita Hayworth in Gilda... there's not a shot of her in that movie that isn't gorgeous.

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I always wore the highest heels possible, because the other women on the show were tall.

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Scarlett O'Hara didn't think she was manipulating. That's just the way she got what she wanted.

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You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!

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Even colors were important to me. If it was a somber scene, the colors were muted and dark. If it was a happy or seductive scene, the colors were brighter.

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My father was a middle manager at an oil company, but I never knew anything about his work. Whatever business acumen I have just got gleaned over the years.

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I kept bugging them about making it more upscale, because I felt Abby, through her cleverness and business sense, was a character who would move up. And that's what she did.

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There were episodes where I would wear seven or eight outfits. It took a lot of time to get those together. What the character wears is very essential to how I create the character.

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I always wanted to know what lens they were on, how close they were. I didn't do it with a plan in mind, but I would instinctively gear what I was doing toward what lenses they were using.

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