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It's not so much what do I want to be doing in 15 years, it's how I want to be in 15 years.

Ali MacGraw

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Ali MacGraw
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: April 1
Actor
Actress
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Film Actor
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Television Actor
Pound Ridge
New York
Elizabeth Alice MacGraw
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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.
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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.
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People tell me that I am well-grounded. I am sane in the New England sense of the word.
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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.
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Modeling was so fleeting it doesn't count in my life scheme.
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I have always felt that the way we treat animals is a pretty good indicator of the compassion we are capable of for the human race.
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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.
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Every one of us gets to find our way, hopefully surrounded by love, but we still have to pick out our own way through the land mines of life. By accepting this and relinquishing control, there's just extraordinary beauty.
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Looking at beautiful things is what makes me the happiest.
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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.
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You know, the fashion business is this legendary repository of young girls on their way to getting husbands. I really wanted to work.
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I think it's tough when you're very young and you maybe fall for the celebrity and being the center of attention.
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I think we live in a time where people are just insane on the subject of how they look.
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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.
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Am I going to be able to be the person I want to be in this relationship?
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I had a romantic, 'Aren't I a good girl?' take on divorce, but the truth is that was stupid.
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It's been my experience that the longer I do yoga, the more I want to know, the more I am able to understand and the less judgmental I am.
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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.
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My ex-husband happens to be one of the most gifted moviemakers. And what is so bizarre about working with someone like that? I guess it is bizarre to be good friends with your ex-husband.
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There's so much craziness that comes along with being a movie star that you can get so confused. Unless you've spent your whole life waiting to be the centre of attention, it's pretty terrifying.
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