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 And even then when you take it, you`ve got to take it with your whole heart. And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after.
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But then I became so disillusioned... I had very little life experience and certainly no technique to deal with comedy with any flair.
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I`m one of those people who has always been a bridesmaid.
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Back then, everyone was Lana and Rock. No one had ethnic names.
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Nobody thought of me as an actress. They just remembered that publicity story about my munching flower petals for breakfast. I even thought of giving up the name `Piper Laurie` because I felt there was a stigma attached to it. I never could figure out just how many parts I lost and how many parts I won because of this name. I know some producers and directors said, `Well, maybe she can act even if her name is Piper Laurie!`
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I`ve always felt robbed of something by people not knowing I was a Jew.
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I never forget, remember that. Not an action, not a name, not a face.
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I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff.
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If I had stayed in Hollywood, I would have killed myself. Or someone would have done it for me.
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The fact is, I never wanted to be a movie star.
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I dropped the script in the fireplace, called my agent and said, they can jail me, sue me, but I`m never acting again, unless I can do something worthwhile.
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I would love to still be using my name.
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One thing is certain. The old Piper Laurie is no more.
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It took a long time, but I have learned that you just can`t take anything you want out of life without putting something back in exchange.
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Believe me, when an actress is told that her very name is synonymous with bad acting, she`s had it.
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If you can see what the outside is like, it stimulates the imagination, it frees you in a way, to think and feel the way a character might.
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Trivia
She won an Emmy in 1986 opposite James Garner and James Woods in Promise (1986) (TV).
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Along with Sissy Spacek, Sigourney Weaver, Jodie Foster, Janet Leigh, Ellen Burstyn and Linda Blair, she is one of the few actresses to have been nominated for an Oscar for a performance in a horror movie.
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In Italy, almost all her films were dubbed by Rosetta Calavetta. She was dubbed, albeit briefly by Miranda Bonansea at the beginning of her career; and later on by Maria Pia Di Meo. The talented Fiorella Betti lent her distinctive voice to Laurie in the acclaimed The Hustler (1961).
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Starred alongside Sissy Spacek in three movies: Carrie (1976) (she played her mother), The Grass Harp (1995) (she played her sister!), and the TV movie Midwives (2001) (TV).
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Has a daughter, Anne Grace.
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Measurements: 36-25-36 (in 1953), (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine).
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