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• Even colors were important to me. If it was a somber scene, the colors were muted and dark. If it was a happy or seductive scene, the colors were brighter.

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• Early on in my career, I’d go into the makeup trailer, and they’d spend an hour doing my makeup, and I would hate it. I’d go into the bathroom, wash it off and start over again, which took an enormous amount of time. So I just started doing it myself.

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• I feel more comfortable in front of a camera than anywhere else.

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• I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting

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• You really have to love the work. You can’t look for stardom. That’s a by-product.

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• You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!

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• There were episodes where I would wear seven or eight outfits. It took a lot of time to get those together. What the character wears is very essential to how I create the character.

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• The lighting is so important. One thing that makes me nuts about the lighting now is that they spend an enormous amount of time lighting the set, the background. But the most important thing in the scene is the actor.

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• I also loved musicals because I was a dancer

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• One of my favorite movies is The Little Foxes.

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• I always wanted to know what lens they were on, how close they were. I didn’t do it with a plan in mind, but I would instinctively gear what I was doing toward what lenses they were using.

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• My message is – keep moving. If you do, you’ll keep arthritis at bay.

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• My father was a middle manager at an oil company, but I never knew anything about his work. Whatever business acumen I have just got gleaned over the years.

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• If there is anything I would do differently in my life, it is that I would study business more. I’m trying to teach my daughter Chloe at an early age about investing and money so she’s not afraid of it.

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• I always wore the highest heels possible, because the other women on the show were tall.

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• I’m back to doing everything I used to, loving life as ever.

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• I was tired of playing the goodie-two-shoes.

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• I was always cutting dialogue out when we were rehearsing, and when I produced movies, too. I felt that people don’t say things in life – they act, they do things. I always wanted my characters doing, rather than saying what they were doing – which was redundant.

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• I was brought up Catholic, and my family is still very religious.

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• I thought it was very important that femininity wasn’t lost.

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Donna Mills (23)

Birth:	11th December, 1940
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress, Producer

About

Donna Mills was born in Chicago, Illinois. She is an American actress and producer. She began her television career in 1966 with a recurring role on The Secret Storm, and in the same year appeared on Broadway in the Woody Allen comedy Don't Drink the Water. She made her film debut the following year in The Incident. In 2014, she joined the cast of long-running daytime soap opera General Hospital, for which she won a 2015 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Guest Performer in a Drama Series.

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