Linda Blair Quotes

#1. It's a masterpiece [The Exorcist]. This is an honor. I know you may not think so, but it really is. How many movies in our lifetime? This is an honor.

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#2. To ignore one's spiritual self is unsettling, to say the least. That's a very profound outlook on it.

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#3. I like having little kids look at me. It's fun. They make these little faces.

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#4. It's difficult to understand why people don't realize that pets are gifts to mankind.

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#5. When I was 13 I asked my mother if it was possible for this to end - I'd had enough of it. And that was right about the time that we got a call for 'The Exorcist' interview.

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#6. Look what they did to MaCauley Culkin. The poor child. I know because I've been there. But I could say after living my life, truth will always win out. And no one can take my character away from me anymore.

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#7. No animal has to suffer for me to live.

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#8. While you're in the moment of anything that's confusing in your life, you're in the moment, and you have to figure it out. You can go up or down. And I just kept working on the higher road, and trying. I got very involved with medication.

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#9. Turkeys are misunderstood. Once I adopted turkeys, I understood this large bird to be a great companion.

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#10. The Exorcist has been a very interesting cross to bear.

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#11. The only thing I can say is that people requested,when The Exorcist it going to be on the big screen? People want it on the big screen and they want to see the footage. I think it's going to do very well. I think it will please people, and the fact that they added the new sound.

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#12. If you know me, I don't live in this dismal world. I mean, I like to have fun. My friends are comedians.

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#13. Of all the projects I've worked on, I've never worked with another director like Billy Friedkin. I think he's a genius.

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#14. I was so sad from losing two of my dogs and my mother. I had this vision of all these animals sitting behind bars. They had no control and were scared. That's why I got into fostering and adopting animals out.

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#15. Of course The Exorcist changed my entire life. I don't think there are very many people that will have the experience of sitting in this room, doing a job, and the next thing you know you've been on every television camera around the world, and people are they're frightened of you.

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#16. We have a deep need to affiliate, to be around people, and no creature on earth spends as much of its life depending on others as we do

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#17. As all my friends said, 'Linda, enjoy this time.' It wasn't enjoyable the first time because they're were too many questions. But I think I've lived a solid life. You can look at who I've been, good, bad or indifferent.

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#18. There was a golden retriever who saved countless lives on September 11 by going back in to find people. His companion was in a wheelchair. He got him out and kept going back in to save others.

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#19. Kids shouldn't see all the violence they do these days. But the industry just doesn't care.

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#20. I was lucky. I had some really good people that were just here there and wherever who would come into my life that I felt would answer questions. I mean, I had some very powerful questions myself for what this earth was all about.

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#21. I work more than people realize. It doesn't mean you always see the project. Look at how many stations we have. I did a couple films in Australia. I like the movies.

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#22. One of the reasons I don't have kids is because I think people would have been very unfair to them. Think of it. You're still asking me questions about The Exorcist.

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#23. If I had children, I would be very selfish. I wouldn't be out doing things. But by not having kids, it makes me freer to travel the world and talk about things I feel are important.

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#24. People always joke that 'dog' spells 'god' backwards. They should consider that it might be the higher power coming down to see just how well they do, what kind of people they are. The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test.

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#25. I had no way to have a sense of humor about The Exorcist. I didn't know how. And this enabled me.

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#26. I think that if I'd not made the movie, I might be a veterinarian in Connecticut. I would probably be married with some children. That's probably the way it would be. But because of the film [the Exorcist], I don't have a normal life by somebody else's standards.

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#27. I've lived through what seems to most - and myself - many lives.

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