Ali MacGraw quotes

I think that I was lucky that I was 30 when I did 'Love Story', which came with this extravagant pop celebrity. I had already done 15 years of what I call 'real' work.' I was a waitress, chambermaid, and a photographer's assistant, so I knew that I was tremendously lucky as a novice actor to have that big hit. (Ali MacGraw)
I think something will soon have to be done to protect people from hacking and blogging and lying and spreading rumors and chasing you down the street. Lives are wrecked that way. View quote
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Modeling was so fleeting it doesn't count in my life scheme. View quote
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I'm in total awe of the technique of great film people. Because if you get your emotional life up to perfection by miracle on Take One, you better have a technique to keep doing it again and again and again. View quote
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I don't enjoy other people's dramas, and I don't enjoy mine. View quote
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Looking at beautiful things is what makes me the happiest. View quote
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I'm very touched on a deep level by cruelty to animals. View quote
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I've always loved animals and I always thought that they were, if not better, then the absolute equal of any two legged creature that God ever created. View quote
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If you're a baby about the media, as I was, you can't imagine what it's like when the great approval machine shines its beam on you, when every time you cross the street someone comes out of a manhole to talk about your haircut. View quote
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I want to be a person who makes a quiet difference. View quote
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I can't remember when I wasn't an animal rights activist. (Ali MacGraw)
I had a romantic, 'Aren't I a good girl?' take on divorce, but the truth is that was stupid. View quote
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I had no real experience studying acting; I came to it having done other things for a living for many, many years, and I have this gigantic respect for experience and technique. View quote
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My parents made no money whatsoever, but they really knew how to see, as artists. So a big adventure might be, on a hot, dreadful day with no place to go, to go out and draw our chickens with pastels. My parents gave me a sense of wonder. View quote
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I'm much more famous than I am rich, but I'm able to scale back my lifestyle. I know a lot of people who were where I was who can't imagine living any simpler, but I haven't got a lot of expensive wants. View quote
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I fully expect to be doing yoga for the rest of my life. View quote
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I live in Santa Fe, New Mexico. And I travel a tremendous amount. I'm in New York and California a lot, but then also I like faraway places a lot. View quote
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The quality of my life has changed dramatically - not the events - but the way I handle them and my priorities and my sense of drama. View quote
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People tell me that I am well-grounded. I am sane in the New England sense of the word. View quote
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I'm a New Yorker, and working in New York was divine for me. I loved working there and going to work there, which I've been able to do three or four times in my career, and I just love it. It's my favorite. View quote
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If you want to be watched 24 hours a day in everything you do, you can't turn that around. You can't wake up three years later and say, 'Stop bothering me, I'm a serious actor,' if all you've done is wear certain clothes and show up half-loaded at clubs. (Ali MacGraw)
I think it's tough when you're very young and you maybe fall for the celebrity and being the center of attention. View quote
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I think we live in a time where people are just insane on the subject of how they look. View quote
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There are so many kinds of love, and they're all very intense for me. View quote
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I was really involved with other people's opinions of me, and it got heightened during my film career. I don't have any opinion, good or bad about it, it just was. It's not the way I feel now, and I think yoga has a lot to do with that. View quote
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