American - Businesswoman | August 19, 1946 - December 20, 1997
There's no training for the business, no credentials necessary to enter... It's all about entrepreneurs, innate street intelligence, and instincts. It's a business which encourages people with dreams. That's the essence of Hollywood.
Dawn Steel
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If the doors are going to close on me, it's a little late.
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What sets Iris Stevenson apart is her success in a system that in no way supports her - with the hardest possible children to convert.
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We manufacture a culture in the movie business, and whatever we put out creates a dark side and a bright side, too.
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It hurt me deeply, this reputation as tough, hard, mean.
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In some ways I was curt because there's an unbelievable amount to accomplish in a day.
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I'm not Mary Poppins, but I think I functioned with integrity.
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I was so busy climbing up this ladder, staying above the water. If there was only room for one woman in a room, I wanted to be her. I'm not proud of it. I certainly don't feel that way now. It was an absolute evolution for me.
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I wanted to be respected by filmmakers, and why should they respect me if they saw that my superiors did not treat me with respect.
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I would walk into my office, and I would close the door, and I would say, 'I won't cry, I won't cry, I won't cry'... At least, I wasn't going to let them see me cry.
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That's my proudest accomplishment: that I don't feel like a grown-up.
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In my family, education was something you endured. My parents weren't educated past high school, and the only book in our house was a 'Reader's Digest' condensed book. Can you imagine?
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