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" If there's ever a woman who's smart, funny, or witty, people are afraid of that, so they don't write that. They only write parts for women where they let everything be steamrolled over them, where they let people wipe their feet all over them. "

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" My agents have me in the Actors' Protection Program. It seems to be working very well. Nobody can find me. "