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Acting, for me, is the last vestige of doing something that I would like to feel really naive about. - Interview, November 1995.

- Holly Hunter

I`m trying to eliminate every vestige of my own personality, style, approach and get into somebody else`s skin. Sometimes I feel I`ve accomplished it. But when I don`t, I`m nobody at all, having left myself at home.

- Judy Holliday

No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals.

- Kenneth Clark

When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women? In some ways we`re as committed to the old madonna-whore dichotomy as ever. And the madonna stays home, feeding the baby behind the blinds, a vestige of those days when for a lady to venture out was a flagrant act of public exposure.

- Anna Quindlen

History will show that Gov. Schwarzenegger had a chance to end the last vestige of legal discrimination in our state, ... Instead of choosing the way of the future the governor has aligned himself with the enemies of equal rights for all.

- Antonio Sciortino