Claire Bloom Quotes

#1. I am interested in the art. I'm a professional woman.

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#2. I learned from watching and I learned form doing.

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#3. In my day, people didn't do nude scenes. I mean they didn't exist.

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#4. Film is different for me now. If the money is good and it's not totally revolting, I'll do it.

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#5. In my book, I was trying to get into my own soul.

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#6. My face has always been my fortune anyway, not my body.

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#7. I've spent my life pursing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.

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#8. I started on a very high note and I was alwasy able to choose. I want to be able to do that until my last breath. And to do that, you have to have money.

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#9. I have no intention of discussing my private life with anyone.

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#10. Even the most stoic of men will be childlike at least once in a day.

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#11. I had a burning ambition. Otherwise, I wouldn't have accomplished it.

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#12. I remember seeing some little wrinkles in my early 30s and thinking they were interesting. But you know the horror of it is that the screen image has to be perfect.

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#13. Security has no place in the life of an actress.

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#14. When I was in England doing Romeo and Juliet as a child star, I was interviewed by the British press, who are even more vicious and cruel than the Americans. So I have been extremely guarded ever since.

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#15. I don't enjoy the life of an actress, but I don't want to go into that.

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#16. I don't think actresses' lives in general are very good.

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#17. You can't pretend to be a Sharon Stone or a Marilyn Monroe. You really can't fake that.

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#18. There are several paths one can take, but not every path is open to you.

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#19. In any of the arts, you never stop learning.

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