| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 54143 |
| QUOTATION: | I suspect there isn’t an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family’s questions after his first day’s activity in his future profession. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Simone Signoret (1921–1985), French movie actor. Nostalgia Isn’t What It Used to Be, ch. 3 (1976).
Referring to the dull and unpleasant, rather than glamorous, nature of a movie actor’s first day of work. |
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