“Even from the beginning, when I was doing junk television, I still had this focus. I knew I wasn't going to be doing that forever, that I wasn't going to be like that…”

— Michelle Pfeiffer

Vanity Fair (1989) http://www.pfeiffertheface.com/Mag_1989-02_Vanity.htm

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