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Elise

You think that because I'm a movie star I don't have feelings. Well you're wrong. I'm an actress. I've got all of them!

— The First Wives Club  ·  1996

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What it means

Our interpretation.

She flips the assumption instantly. Being a movie star supposedly means numbness, but she insists on the opposite. As an actress, she claims to carry every emotion there is, treating the label as proof of feeling rather than its absence.

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