Patrick Marber
English comedian, playwright, director, actor, and screenwriter
Ali MacGraw is an acclaimed American actress who rose to fame in the late 1960s and 1970s. She won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Academy Award for her roles in films like Goodbye, Columbus and Love Story. MacGraw was also a box office sensation, becoming the top female star in the world in 1972.
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About the Ali MacGraw
Elizabeth Alice MacGrawis an American actress. She first gained attention with her role in Goodbye, Columbus (1969), for which she won a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer. She then starred in Love Story (1970), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. In 1972, MacGraw was voted the top female box office star in the world and was honored with a hands and footprints ceremony at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre after having made just three films. She went on to star in The Getaway (1972), Convoy (1978), Players (1979), Just Tell Me What You Want (1980), and The Winds of War (1983). In 1991, she published an autobiography, Moving Pictures.
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Ali MacGraw was born on April 1, 1939.
Ali MacGraw’s most famous film is Love Story, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama.
Ali MacGraw had made only three films before being voted the top female box office star in the world in 1972.
In addition to Goodbye, Columbus and Love Story, Ali MacGraw also starred in The Getaway, Convoy, Players, Just Tell Me What You Want, and The Winds of War.
Yes, in 1991 Ali MacGraw published an autobiography titled ,Moving Pictures,.
Ali MacGraw won a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer for her role in the film Goodbye, Columbus.
12 Quotes by Ali MacGraw
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I want to be a person who makes a quiet difference.
Ali MacGrawAmerican actress
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I’m very touched on a deep level by cruelty to animals.
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Looking at beautiful things is what makes me the happiest.
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It’s been my experience that the longer I do yoga, the more I want to know, the more I am able to understand and the less judgmental I am.
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I don’t enjoy other people’s dramas, and I don’t enjoy mine.
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You know, the fashion business is this legendary repository of young girls on their way to getting husbands. I really wanted to work.
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It’s not so much what do I want to be doing in 15 years, it’s how I want to be in 15 years.
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I can’t remember when I wasn’t an animal rights activist.
Ali MacGrawAmerican actress
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I fully expect to be doing yoga for the rest of my life.
Ali MacGrawAmerican actress
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The quality of my life has changed dramatically – not the events – but the way I handle them and my priorities and my sense of drama.
Ali MacGrawAmerican actress
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I was really involved with other people’s opinions of me, and it got heightened during my film career. I don’t have any opinion, good or bad about it, it just was. It’s not the way I feel now, and I think yoga has a lot to do with that.
Ali MacGrawAmerican actress
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I’ve always loved animals and I always thought that they were, if not better, then the absolute equal of any two legged creature that God ever created.
Ali MacGrawAmerican actress