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Halle Berry (1966- )

Halle Berry (1966- )

Halle Berry ( /ˈhæli ˈbɛri/; born August 14, 1966) is an American actress and a former fashion model. Berry received an Emmy, Golden Globe, SAG, and an NAACP Image Award for Introducing Dorothy Dandridge and won an Academy Award for Best Actress and was nominated for a BAFTA Award in 2001 for her performance in Monster's Ball, becoming the first and, as of 2012, only woman of African American descent to have won the award for Best Actress. She is one of the most highly paid actresses in Hollywood and also a Revlon spokesmodel. She has been involved in the production side of several of the films in which she performed.

Before becoming an actress, Berry entered several beauty contests, finishing as the 1st runner-up in the Miss USA Pageant (1986), and coming in 6th place in the Miss World Pageant in 1986. She made her film debut with a small role in 1991's Jungle Fever. This led to starring roles in The Flintstones (1994), Bulworth (1998), X-Men (2000) and its sequels, and as Bond Girl Jinx in Die Another Day (2002). She also won the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress in 2005 for Catwoman and accepted the award in person—one of the few performers to do so.

Quotes·Quotation by Halle Berry

Halle Berry as Jinx from Die Another Day (2002)

¶ I thought it was the humane thing to do.

Halle Berry as Catwoman from Catwoman (2004)

¶ Cats come when they feel like it. Not when they're told.

¶ It all started on the day that I died. If there had been an obituary, it would have described the unremarkable life of an unremarkable woman, survived by no one. But there was no obituary, because the day that I died was also the day I started to live. But that comes later. This was my life. Days blended together, consistently ordinary, thanks to a job that was the practical version of my passion. I was supposed to be an artist by now. Instead, I was designing ads for beauty cream. [first lines]

¶ The day I died was the day I started to live. In my old life, I longed for someone to see what was special in me. You did, and for that, you'll always be in my heart. But what I really needed was for me to see it. And now I do. You're a good man, Tom. But you live in a world that has no place for someone like me. You see, sometimes I'm good. Oh, I'm very good. But sometimes I'm bad. But only as bad as I wanna be. Freedom is power. To live a life untamed and unafraid is the gift that I've been given, and so my journey begins. [last lines]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halle_Berry

Patrick Hale (Wrong Is Right, 1982)

Patrick Hale (Wrong Is Right, 1982)

Quotes·Quotations by Patrick Hale

Sean Connery as Patrick Hale from Wrong Is Right (1982)

¶ I was an actor, and a coal miner, and a bartender, and a sailor, and a soldier of misfortune.

Gwen Cooper (Torchwood)

Gwen Cooper

Gwen Cooper is a fictional character portrayed by Welsh actress Eve Myles in the BBC science-fiction television programme Torchwood, a spin-off of the long-running series Doctor Who. The lead female character, Gwen has featured in every episode of the show to date as well as two crossover episodes of Doctor Who. Gwen appears in Expanded Universe material such as the Torchwood novels and audiobooks, comic books and radio plays. Portraying Gwen increased Eve Myles' profile as an actress and has been cited as effective in promoting her native Wales.

Gwen is introduced as an audience surrogate, much like the perennial "companion" character in Doctor Who. Within the series narrative, Gwen is a South Wales Police officer who discovers the mysterious Torchwood Institute, into which she is recruited by Captain Jack Harkness. Gwen operates as a field agent on Torchwood missions and brings a humane and rounded approach to her team's investigations of extraterrestrial cases through her police procedural training. Despite promoting her as empathetic and conscientious the creative team have also stressed Gwen's moral ambiguity by having her ethically compromised by her line of work.

Gwen starts off in the mould of the "girl next door", and becomes more militant as the series progresses. As the character has developed as an action heroine the production team have also sought to keep the character grounded through her on screen family. The relationship dynamics between Gwen, her boss Jack and her boyfriend-cum-husband Rhys typify the character's conflict between her domestic world and her extraordinary life with Torchwood. Reviewers have generally responded positively to the conflicting elements of Gwen's characterisation and Eve Myles' portrayal. Eve Myles received a Welsh BAFTA for the first series of the show and has been nominated for several other acting awards across each of Torchwood's four series'.

Quotes·Quotations by Gwen Cooper

Eve Myles as Gwen Cooper from Torchwood

¶ Martha: Jack's right. These attacks are not random. They're clinical, professional. More like assassinations.
Gwen: Except Barry Leonard was a student. Who'd assassinate a student?
Martha: Student loans company?
Gwen: Yeah, I think you just cracked it.
[They both laugh.]
[Torchwood, Reset (2.6)]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwen_Cooper

Matthew Gray Gubler (1980- )

Matthew Gray Gubler (1980- )

Matthew Gray Gubler (born March 9, 1980) is an American actor and director. He is best known for his role as the criminal profiler Dr. Spencer Reid in the CBS television show Criminal Minds, of which he has also directed seven episodes. Gubler has appeared in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, (500) Days of Summer and as the voice of Simon in Alvin and the Chipmunks and its two sequels.

Quotes·Quotations by Matthew Gray Gubler

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Matthew Gray Gubler as Spencer Reid from Criminal Minds

¶ Bob Dylan once said, "I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay." [Criminal Minds 04x06 The Instincts]

¶ "What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret fo the father." Friedrich Nietzsche. [Criminal Minds 04x07 Memoriam]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Gray_Gubler

Grusinskaya (Grand Hotel)

Grusinskaya from Grand Hotel (1932)

Quotes·Quotation by Grusinskaya

Greta Garbo as Grusinskaya from Grand Hotel (1932)

¶ I want to be alone. I think I have never been so tired in my life.

Groucho Marx (1890-1977)

Groucho Marx (1890-1977)

Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx (October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977) was an American comedian and film star famed as a master of wit. His rapid-fire delivery of innuendo-laden patter earned him many admirers. He made 13 feature films with his siblings the Marx Brothers, of whom he was the third-born. He also had a successful solo career, most notably as the host of the radio and television game show You Bet Your Life. His distinctive appearance, carried over from his days in vaudeville, included quirks such as an exaggerated stooped posture, glasses, cigars, and a thick greasepaint mustache and eyebrows.

Quotes·Quotation by Groucho Marx

Animals

¶ Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.

Entertainment·Television

¶ I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Food·Dieting

¶ Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

Groucho Marx as Capt. Geoffrey T. Spaulding from Animal Crackers (1930)

¶ How much would you want to run into an open manhole?

¶ One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.

Groucho Marx as Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff from Horse Feathers (1932)

¶ Tell him I've got one.

Groucho Marx as Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush from A Day at the Races (1937)

¶ If I hold you any closer, I’ll be in back of you!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groucho_Marx

Matt Groening

Matt Groening

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Greta Garbo (1905-1990)

Greta Garbo (1905-1990)

Greta Garbo (18 September 1905 – 15 April 1990), born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, was a Swedish film actress. Garbo was an international star and icon during Hollywood's silent and classic periods. Many of her films were sensational hits, and all but three of her twenty-four Hollywood films were profitable. Garbo was nominated four times for an Academy Award and received an honorary one in 1954 for her "luminous and unforgettable screen performances". She also won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress for both Anna Karenina (1935) and Camille (1936). In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Garbo fifth on their list of greatest female stars of all time, after Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn, and Ingrid Bergman.

Garbo launched her career with a leading role in the 1924 Swedish film The Saga of Gosta Berling. Her performance caught the attention of Louis B. Mayer, chief executive of Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM), who brought her to Hollywood in 1925. She immediately stirred interest with her first silent film, Torrent, released in 1926; a year later, her performance in Flesh and the Devil, her third movie, made her an international star.

With her first talking film, Anna Christie (1930), she received an Academy Award nomination. MGM marketers enticed the public with the catch-phrase "Garbo talks!" That same year she won a second Oscar nomination for her performance in Romance. In 1932, her immense popularity allowed her to dictate the terms of her contract, and she became increasingly choosy about her roles. Many critics and film historians consider her performance as the doomed courtesan Marguerite Gautier in Camille to be her finest. The role gained her a third Academy Award nomination. After working exclusively in dramatic films, Garbo turned to comedy with Ninotchka (1939), which earned her a fourth Academy Award nomination, and Two-Faced Woman (1941).

In 1941, she retired after appearing in only twenty-seven films. Although she was offered many opportunities to return to the screen, she declined most of them. Instead, she lived a private life, shunning publicity.

Quotes·Quotation by Greta Garbo

Greta Garbo as Grusinskaya from Grand Hotel (1932)

¶ I want to be alone. I think I have never been so tired in my life.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_Garbo

Gretel (Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters)

Gemma Arterton as Gretel from Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters

Richard Greenberg (1958- )

Richard Greenberg (1958- )

Richard Greenberg (born 22 February 1958) is an American playwright and television writer known for his subversively humorous depictions of middle-class American life. He has had more than 25 plays premiere on and off-broadway in New York City and eight at Los Angeles' South Coast Repertory Theatre, including The Violet Hour, Everett Beekin, and Hurrah at Last.

Quotes·Quotations by Richard Greenberg

Civility

¶ I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Greenberg

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