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Olympia Dukakis

Olympia Dukakis (born June 20, 1931) is a Greek American actress. She started her career in theater, and won an Obie Award for Best Actress in 1963 for her Off-Broadway performance in Bertolt Brecht's Man Equals Man. She later transitioned to film acting and in 1987 she won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, and a BAFTA nomination for her performance in Moonstruck. She received another Golden Globe nomination for Sinatra, and Emmy Award nominations for Lucky Day, More Tales of the City and Joan of Arc.

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Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or eviscerated in front of their daughters, is imprinted deep within me and has altered my DNA.

Altered, Daughter, Dna, Imprinted, Mother, Women

God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.

Androgynous, Energy, Female, Presence, Thinking

Follow your heart, your instincts. People might try to dissuade you from your passion, but no one can live your life but you.

Follow, Heart, Instincts, Passion, People

Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.

Age, Drama, Dramas, Example, Sexuality, Stories

I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that's worth doing, would be a miracle!

Like, Miracle, Work, Would Be, Writing

When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.

Believe, Born, Children, Mother, Women

I think it's because most of us talk one way and live another. There are a few people who truly, truly walk the talk.

Live, People, Talk, Thinking, Way

I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.

Affected, Altered, Being Me, Despair, Important, Things

When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary.

Kid, Kneel, Mother, Prayer, Sleep

Winning is everything in Hollywood.

Everything, Hollywood, Winning, Winning Is Everything

My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am.

Catholic, Fall, Feminist, Husband, Vengeance

Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we're not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don't evolve.

Eager, Happy, Honest, Real, Trying

You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you.

Friend, Real, Respect, Sex, Years