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I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. Don't try to make me into something I'm not. If you want someone to tiptoe down the Barkley staircase in crinoline and politely ask where the cattle went, get another girl.

— Barbara Stanwyck

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People talk about 'my career,' but 'career' is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt very privileged to be paid for what I love doing.

Attention embarrasses me. I don't like to be on display.

I never got a Oscar. I never had an acting lesson. Life was my only training.

My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.

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