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Quotes of Donna Mills (Usa)1916-1962 American Sociologist
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“I was very uncomfortable in the habit-all that starched white stuff. I smoked at the time and used to love to walk down the halls of CBS with a cigarette dangling out of my mouth. People were just aghast.” (image)
“That's certainly what I grew up with-ballet and musical comedy. My mother taught ballroom dancing and, I think, would have liked to have been a dancer herself. So she pushed me a lot when I was very young, but I loved it. All I really wanted to be was a dancer. There's a discipline in dance that you don't get anywhere else.” (dance and dancing)
“Once I left Knots Landing, I didn't shop for years. I was so tired of shopping!” (unknown)
“There were episodes where I would wear seven or eight outfits. It took a lot of time to get those together. What the character wears is very essential to how I create the character.” (work)
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“I always wanted to know what lens they were on, how close they were. I didn't do it with a plan in mind, but I would instinctively gear what I was doing toward what lenses they were using.” (unknown)
“I really want to spend as much time as I can with my daughter and really participate in her growing up. I'm very active in her school.” (children)
“Rita Hayworth in Gilda... there's not a shot of her in that movie that isn't gorgeous.” (movies)
“I thought it was very important that femininity wasn't lost.” (women)
“I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.” (interest)
“I was always cutting dialogue out when we were rehearsing, and when I produced movies, too. I felt that people don't say things in life-they act, they do things. I always wanted my characters doing, rather than saying what they were doing-which was redundant.” (movies)
“I found through my fan mail that women... really wanted a role model.” (role model)
“Abby would do things that weren't very ethical, but she was never evil. She had a humanity that characters like her on the other soaps didn't have.” (character)
“I feel more comfortable in front of a camera than anywhere else.” (work)
“I'm back to doing everything I used to, loving life as ever.” (life)
“I always wore the highest heels possible, because the other women on the show were tall.” (fashion)
“Abby was designed to be the troublemaker and stir things up. She wasn't evil, she was naughty.” (unknown)
“I would spend at least one day a week-whatever day I had off-shopping for the next show. A lot of times, I'd have seven or eight outfits in one show. There might be a gown or cocktail dress, but... I felt the clothes had to be special.” (work)
“You really have to love the work. You can't look for stardom. That's a by-product.” (work)
“My message is-Keep moving. If you do, you'll keep arthritis at bay.” (unknown)
“The shoulder pads were very powerful-and made the waist and hips look smaller, too.” (fashion)
“Early on in my career, I'd go into the makeup trailer, and they'd spend an hour doing my makeup, and I would hate it. I'd go into the bathroom, wash it off and start over again, which took an enormous amount of time. So I just started doing it myself.” (career)
“Dallas and Dynasty would be finished at 4:30 in the afternoon. On Knots, we never shot less than a 12-hour day. Everybody tried to make it special. And I think it showed.” (unknown)
“I was brought up Catholic, and my family is still very religious.” (religion)
“The lighting is so important. One thing that makes me nuts about the lighting now is that they spend an enormous amount of time lighting the set, the background. But the most important thing in the scene is the actor.” (actors)
“I kept bugging them about making it more upscale, because I felt Abby, through her cleverness and business sense, was a character who would move up. And that's what she did.” (unknown)
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