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8 quotes by Louise Fletcher

Estelle Louise Fletcher (born July 22, 1934) is an American film and television actress. She initially debuted in television series such as Maverick in 1959 before being cast in Robert Altman's Thieves Like Us (1974). The following year, Fletcher gained international recognition for her performance as Nurse Ratched in the 1975 film One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress, BAFTA Award for Best Actress...
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Life had stopped for her a long time ago. She was so out of touch with her feelings that she had no joy in her life and no concept of the fact that... →

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If I fell down and hurt myself, I never cried. There was no one to hear me.

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From the time I was very young, maybe five or six, I thought a lot about being an actress. I didn't tell my friends about my ambitions, though... →

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She and my uncle were very sociable and would have a lot of people over at night to play cards or whatever. The high spot of those evenings was when... →

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I really would rather have gone to New York, since all my training had been in theater, but I didn't have the guts to go there alone. I knew only... →

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I want to thank my mother and my father for teaching me to have a dream. You are seeing my dream come true.

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Live television drama was like live theater, because you moved without thinking about the camera. It followed you around. In film you have to be more... →

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That's the main reason I gave up my career after John was born and I was pregnant with Andrew. I could not handle going away day after day. The... →

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