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You can have it all, but you can't do it all.
Michelle Pfeiffer
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Michelle Pfeiffer
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: April 29
Actress
Beauty Pageant Contestant
Film Actor
Film Producer
Model
Singer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Santa Ana
California
Michelle Marie Pfeiffer
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I relax by taking my bicycle apart and putting it back together again.
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If you're working on something that isn't very demanding, isn't very fulfilling, then you have all this energy to burn, and you can go crazy.
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Being from Orange County is in a lot ways very much like being from the Midwest.
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Most people in the world have seen more of me on-screen than my kids have.
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When I wasn't working I didn't know what to do with myself and sort of didn't exist, in a way, when I wasn't working, so I was like two different people. I am not like that anymore.
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When you're young and have a dream, it's pretty simplistic. You don't think about or have any way of knowing everything it can be, and anticipate that.
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Love humiliates you. Hatred cradles you.
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I act for free, but I demand a huge salary as compensation for all the annoyance of being a public personality. In that sense, I earn every dime I make.
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I still think people will find out that I’m really not very talented. I’m really not very good. It’s all been a big sham.
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I worked so hard for so long - I did a lot of movies. I also worked a lot when my kids were smaller, before they were in school.
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