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I think people respect my work, but I was never in one of those movies that made me a star.

I didn't start out to be a movie star. I started out to be an actor.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

I never thought of myself as a movie star. I'm just a working girl. A working girl who worked her way to the top - and never fell off.

I wasn't a kid who moved out from Iowa with aspirations of becoming a famous star - I was intrigued by the idea of filmmaking and by the idea of what it would be like to play a character in a movie.

Maybe because I didn't have a huge film career right off the bat, I've been able to create something different, which is so important to me. That's myself, my idea of who I am.

I'm not a film star, I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity.

I don't think of myself as a movie star. I'm a movie worker. I come from a railroad family. I come from the corn.

I don't feel that I was a Hollywood-created star.