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Megan Rapinoe - After the win, Rapinoe said, "We as players, every player at this World Cup, put on the most incredible show that you could ever ask for. We cannot do anything more to impress more, to be better ambassadors, to take on more, to play better or do anything. It’s time to take it forward to the next step."

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Billie Jean King - The woman responsible for introducing equal prize money across gender in tennis tweeted about the US Women's Soccer team: "These athletes have brought more attention, support, & pride to women’s sport than perhaps any other team in history. It is long past time to pay them what they rightly deserve."

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Jaime Lee Curtis - The actress tweeted, "Come on @FIFAWorldCup let’s take this great moment and remove gender from the equation and go for parity and EQUAL PAY! You can do it. The WORLD is watching! #EQUALPAYFOREQUALPLAY"

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Jessica Chastain - The actress tweeted, "I said it before. I’ll say it again. BEST TEAM IN THE WORLD," and added the hashtags #AllEyesOnUS and #PayThem. Keep clicking to see what she had to say about Hollywood.

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Jessica Chastain - Chastain admitted she doesn't accept jobs where she's paid less than the male actors anymore. "I’m not taking jobs anymore where I’m getting paid a quarter of what the male co-star is being paid. I’m not allowing that in my life."

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Michelle Williams - Williams found out last year that she was paid less than her co-star, Mark Wahlberg, for re-shoots for the movie 'All the Money in the World.' Apparently, most of the money went to Wahlberg, who earned US$1.5 million while Williams only made US$80 a day, which resulted in a total of US$1,000. She received tons of support from her fellow actresses, and Wahlberg decided to donate the money to the Times Up Legal Defense Fund.

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Gwyneth Paltrow - Paltrow opened up during an interview with 'Variety': "Your salary is a way to quantify what you’re worth. If men are being paid a lot more for doing the same thing, it feels s*****."

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Jennifer Lawrence - Lawrence wrote an essay in 'Lena Dunham's Lenny Letter' on gender pay gap titled 'Why do I Make Less Than My Male Co-Stars?'

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Nicki Minaj - In an interview with 'Cosmo', Minaj opened up about power and money. "Women are uncomfortable talking about money. I know it's taboo to discuss it at work. Technically, you shouldn't, but you need to know what people around you are making. Otherwise, you're not going to know what you're worth," the rapper said.

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Viola Davis - The 'How To Get Away With Murder' star opened up about the struggle for black actresses to be paid equal to white women. "I have a career that’s probably comparable to Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, Sigourney Weaver," she said. "They had the same path as me, and yet I am nowhere near them. Not as far as money, not as far as job opportunities, nowhere close to it."

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Priyanka Chopra - “I think gender pay gap is a global problem. It exits in every profession, be it Hollywood, Bollywood or the business sector where male are paid more than females. I feel it's a big problem and is not just confined to the film industry," Chopra told ANI.

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Salma Hayek - At Variety's Power of Women luncheon, the actress stated in her speech that women deserve equality. "This is a problem that is in every single industry. If you have the same capacities and you are doing the same job, it is criminal not to pay the same salary," Hayek said.

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Sharon Stone - Stone also shared her experience with wage disparity in an interview with People: "After 'Basic Instinct,' no one wanted to pay me," she said. "I remember sitting in my kitchen with my manager and just crying and saying I’m not going to work until I get paid," the actress added.

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Sandra Bullock - Bullock talked about gender equality as part of Variety's cover story: "We’re going to walk down the red carpet, I’m going to be asked about my dress and my hair while the man standing next to me will be asked about his performance and political issues. Once we start shifting how we perceive women and stop thinking about them as 'less than,' the pay disparity will take care of itself."

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Carey Mulligan - "It is unfair and something that should be remedied, but you hope that by speaking out about the pay gap within the entertainment business, that it has a wider effect," Mulligan told USA TODAY.

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Toni Colette - When commenting about the wage gap in Hollywood on HuffPost Live, Collette said that "It’s a f***ing sexist industry. I don’t understand why genitalia makes a difference. Creativity is creativity. Creativity is genderless. Money is genderless."

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Cate Blanchett - The actress turned down a role because she knew her male counterpart would be offered more money.

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Robin Wright - When Robin Wright discovered that co-star Kevin Spacey was paid more for his role in 'House of Cards,' she told Netflix: "'You better pay me or I’m going to go public.' And they did."

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Amy Adams - Adams depicted the wage-gap issue in an interview with The Telegraph: "I do believe in equal pay, but let’s start with our teachers. Let’s get waiters paid the minimum wage. That’s what’s great about what’s happening with Time’s Up—we’re starting to have bigger conversations than just about what’s happening in Hollywood."

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Mo'Nique - Comedian Mo'Nique appeared in the news recently for calling for a Netflix boycott over equal pay. The streaming company allegedly offered her US$500,000 for a stand-up comedy special, while comedians such as Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, and Amy Schumer were offered millions. Mo'Nique called for a Netflix boycott on Twitter for color and gender bias.

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Benedict Cumberbatch - Cumberbatch told Radio Times that he would refuse any role where his female co-star wasn't paid the same as he was. 

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Emma Stone - "I’ve needed my male co-stars to take a pay cut so that I may have parity with them. And that’s something they do for me because they feel it’s what’s right and fair," Stone told 'Out' magazine.

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Oprah Winfrey - Oprah stood up for her female producers of 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' by convincing her boss to give them a raise. "I went to my boss at the time and I said 'Everybody needs a raise,' And he said, 'Why?' He actually said to me, 'They’re only girls. They’re a bunch of girls — what do they need more money for?' I go, 'Well, either they’re going to get raises, or I’m going to sit down.' I will not work unless they get paid."

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Octavia Spencer - Octavia Spencer recalled a conversation she had with her friend and co-star Jessica Chastain in an interview with Hollywood Foreign Press: "Here’s the thing, women of color on that spectrum, we make far less than white women," Spencer said. "So, if we’re gonna have that conversation about pay equity, we gotta bring the women of color to the table," she continued.

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Emily Blunt - Emily Blunt says she takes "agressive action" to fight the wage disparity in Hollywood. "I took it on as my personal responsibility to make sure that I don’t feel shortchanged or less than," she told Vanity Fair.

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Sienna Miller - Miller admitted to have turned down a Broadway role because her salary was much lower than the male co-star. It was a play with just two of us on stage and I was offered less than half of what he was going to be paid. If it was two men, it wouldn’t probably happen. Sad, but I walked away," she told Vogue.

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Alicia Keys - "Until we’re in those rooms as equally as men are, it can’t shift," Keys stated in an interview with Variety. "We have to infiltrate our industries. Period. We have to. That alone will shift the power balance."

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Sarah Jessica Parker - "Equality, parity, and safe work environments for men and women across all industries are key; I know it’s affected your network," Parker said to Ryan Seacrest.

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Ellen Pompeo - 'Grey's Anatomy' actress Ellen Pompeo talked about her struggles with wage disparity in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter: "At one point, I asked for $5,000 more than [Patrick Dempsey] just on principle, because the show is Grey’s Anatomy and I’m Meredith Grey. They wouldn’t give it to me."

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Catt Sadler - The former host of 'E! News' found out that her male colleagues were paid way more than her and tried to negotiate a raise. After the network denied her request, she decided to quit.

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Debra Messing - "I was so shocked to hear that E! doesn’t believe in paying their female co-hosts the same as their male co-hosts. We want people to start having this conversation that women are just as valuable as men," Messing said after hearing about the gender discrimination at E! News.

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Eva Longoria - Eva Longoria, alongside other stars, showed her support for Catt Sadler. She told E! News' Ryan Seacrest: "We’re here for Time’s Up, we support gender equity and equal pay, and we hope that E! follows that lead with Catt as well. We stand with you, Catt."

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Reese Witherspoon - Witherspoon has often been vocal about gender wage gap in the movie industry, and even helped 'HBO' close its gender wage gap in 2018.

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Bradley Cooper -

When Jennifer Lawrence opened up about the gender pay gap in Hollywood, Cooper totally supported her. The actor told Reuters that he will team up with his female co-stars to negotiate salaries before shooting a film, and that it's time to be more open about the financial stuff.

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