Actresses famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I'm pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.
-- Abbie Cornish -
I'd love to work with Michelle Williams. I think that she's incredible. She's such a great actress and I love her.
-- Abigail Breslin -
It helps if you don't date other actors, but actresses are beautiful. How can you say no?
-- Adam Brody -
Just to be working again as an actress and possibly doing TV would just be great. It's not about how big the role is.
-- Aileen Quinn -
I wanted to work with Cate Blanchett. She is one of the five greatest movie actresses of her generation.
-- Alec Baldwin -
My ambition is to become one of those actresses that is like a chameleon that you don't recognize.
-- Alexandra Roach -
Actresses are mental on the whole. But I think I'm pretty normal.
-- Alexandra Roach -
I knew that I wanted to be a film actress and I never watched TV. I was always too busy.
-- Alicia Silverstone -
I've been on 'Days' since I was 16, and being surrounded by such thin, gorgeous actresses made me so insecure and self-conscious.
-- Alison Sweeney -
I never wanted to be a model. I never wanted to be a serious actress. I started off doing comedy. I did a stand-up comedy camp at the Laugh Factory, and I started out on Nickelodeon.
-- Amanda Bynes -
I think the era of the diva actress is coming to an end.
-- Amanda Seyfried -
My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in the blanks for anybody else, you know what I mean?
-- Amy Adams -
As an actress people always tease me like: if there's anything you can do to make yourself unattractive you will do it.
-- Amy Adams -
Being an actress hasn't made me insecure. I was insecure long before I declared I was an actress.
-- Amy Adams -
In the U.S., with very few exceptions, actresses older than 35 are simply discarded.
-- Amy Irving -
Right now the music is more of a hobby since I'm making a good living as an actress.
-- Amy Jo Johnson -
I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest. The experience of working there is something of a battleground, a great one, but complicated. I think there's a deep connection for having survived that workplace.
-- Ana Gasteyer -
It's definitely like being in some weird sorority. I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest.
-- Ana Gasteyer -
I think of myself as a journeyman actress. I will attempt almost anything that I think that I can bring off. It could be almost anything.
-- Angela Lansbury -
I think Gina Rowlands is an amazing actress.
-- Angela Sarafyan -
I listened to a lot of tapes of British theatre actresses and tried to learn from them. As Americans, we don't have such a gift with language.
-- Angelina Jolie -
Sometimes I'll watch an old movie on television and, once in a while, one of mine, such as April Showers, will come on and I'll watch it. And you know something? I'm always amazed at what a lousy actress I was. I guess in the old days we just got by on glamour.
-- Ann Sothern -
I'm a huge fan of Jessica Lange and 'American Horror Story.' I would love to work with her. She's been one of my favorite actresses for a while.
-- Anna Camp -
I look at being an actress as being like a mummy: You're bandaged up and preserved as soon as you start making other people money.
-- Anna Friel -
I just know I'm going to be an actress. I want it so bad.
-- Anna Nicole Smith -
I wanted to become a model and an actress.
-- Anna Nicole Smith -
I knew I wanted to be an actress when I was 9 years old.
-- AnnaLynne McCord -
I always wanted to be an actress. I couldn't imagine being anything else.
-- AnnaLynne McCord -
There are some roles you just don't say 'no' to. Those compass points: you get them so rarely as an actress.
-- Anne-Marie Duff -
When I first became an actress, I expected to do regional and classical theater; I just love the whole creative process.
-- Annie Parisse -
Why, when I was a child, I didn't say, as most children do, that I was going to become an actress. I felt that I was an actress and no one could have convinced me that I wasn't!
-- Antoinette Perry -
I'm the seagull. No, that's not it. I'm an actress. That's it.
-- Anton Chekhov -
Ive felt the pressure of wanting to be known as a young actress rather than just Alisha from Misfits.
-- Antonia Thomas -
I always wanted to be a model, never an actress. I would see children in ads and stuff and wanted to be like them.
-- Anushka Sharma -
I got to work with Jennifer Tilly, she was amazing. Such, such a smart actress.
-- April Bowlby -
I just wanted to be an actress. It never occurred to me that I could become famous, because I'm not one of those people who's automatically going to be the lead. I always saw myself as the mate.
-- Ashley Jensen -
I tend to be a lazy actress, unless I'm pushed.
-- Asia Argento -
When I was doing comedy in New York, before I was in movies, I was never known as the deadpan actress. I was just a comedienne.
-- Aubrey Plaza -
I was never an actress -- none of us kids at Metro were. We were just good to look at.
-- Ava Gardner -
I must have seen more sunrises than any other actress in the history of Hollywood
-- Ava Gardner -
Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.
-- Bai Ling -
I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
-- Barbra Streisand -
My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
-- Barbra Streisand -
You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
-- Beatrice Wood -
Right now I'm the most famous silent movie actress in the world and I want to keep that for me. So I hope there's not going to be any other silent movies.
-- Berenice Bejo -
People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
-- Bette Davis -
Joan Crawford is a movie star. I am an actress.
-- Bette Davis -
My favorite actress of all times is Bette Davis in Dark Victory. I have seen it six or seven times, and I still cry.
-- Bettie Page -
There is no reason why marriage should necessarily compel an actress to forego her career.
-- Billie Burke -
I haven't ever felt I've had to divide my 'actress' life from the rest of my life.
-- Bonnie Wright -
What keeps me interested--and it always does--is how can she be a bad actress on film but a good one in reality?
-- Bret Easton Ellis -
I am not an actress. I can only play me - on and off the screen.
-- Brigitte Bardot -
I started out as a lousy actress and have remained one.
-- Brigitte Bardot -
I mean, most actresses can't host and most hostesses can't act, and that's the general rule in the industry.
-- Brooke Burke -
The smouldering eroticism of great European actresses like Jeanne Moreau demonstrated to my generations women's archetypal mystery and glamour, completely missing from the totalitarian world-view of the misogynist Foucault. For me, the big French D is not Derrida, but Deneuve.
-- Camille Paglia -
I've never been obsessed with celebrity or star-struck or anything. I met Penelope Cruz when we were in Toronto, who I think is a goddess and an unbelievable actress, and she introduced herself. As she walked away from the table I had to take a deep breath, which was strange because I've never had that with anyone.
-- Carey Mulligan -
I've joked that I would have either become schizophrenic or an actress, but as an actress you can do both.
-- Carla Gugino -
Within the various acts of the ecodrama should be included scenes in which men's and women's roles come to center stage and scenes in which Nature 'herself' is an actress.
-- Carolyn Merchant -
I don't see myself being an actress forever.
-- Carrie Snodgress -
An actress once advised me, 'Make sure you do your own laundry - it will keep you honest.'
-- Cate Blanchett -
I have been involved in some films other actresses would not have done.
-- Catherine Deneuve -
Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him.
-- Catherine Deneuve -
I'm not always the nicest person to meet, because I forget very easily that I'm an actress when I'm not working.
-- Catherine Deneuve -
Being an actress is a very physical thing. If I didn't look the way I looked, I would never have started in films.
-- Catherine Deneuve -
I long for the day where we don't have to talk about our age as actresses,
-- Celia Imrie -
I know Raft did have some genuine affairs with actresses.
-- Cesar Romero -
That’s my next journey - to be a great actress.
-- Chanel Iman -
Claire Danes is lovely and a really great actress.
-- Charlie Cox -
I'd like to break some new ground, maybe in TV presenting, rather than just be an actress.
-- Cherie Lunghi -
My nana was an actress, my mom was an actress, and my sister, too. So because I was surrounded by it, it really came naturally.
-- Chris Pine -
It's a great time to be an actress at this point in my life.
-- Christine Baranski -
I am an actress and acting is my passion... period!
-- Christine Lahti -
It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress... period.
-- Christine Lahti -
If I had made it in cheerleading, I would have never been an actress.
-- Christine Taylor -
Now every model wants to be an actress
-- Christy Turlington -
When I told my mother that I wanted to be an actress, she said, you can't live here and do that, and so I moved out. I was determined to prove her wrong because she was so sure that I was going to go astray. And that's the juice that kept me going
-- Cicely Tyson -
Security has no place in the life of an actress.
-- Claire Bloom -
I don't think actresses' lives in general are very good
-- Claire Bloom -
I don't know if I see myself as an actress for the rest of my life.
-- Clemence Poesy -
You see these actresses who have had Botox or something else done, and it takes you out of the film.
-- Clive Owen -
Before I did 'How I Met Your Mother,' I was not considered a comedic actress.
-- Cobie Smulders -
I am admiring of my fellow peers, black filmmakers and black actors and actresses.
-- Cuba Gooding, Jr. -
My favorite actresses are Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts and Julie Andrews.
-- Dakota Fanning -
I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.
-- Dakota Fanning -
It delights me that I don't fit the stereotype of an actress.
-- Danica McKellar -
Her [ Onata April] great talent as an actress is that she has the ability to understand and listen to the scenario and what the story is, and then she can pretend and live that.
-- David A. Siegel -
When Shana Alexander interviewed me for Life magazine in 1952, she gave up after 4,000. At one time or another, I've worked for every studio in Hollywood, for almost every director with most of the actors and actresses.
-- David Sharp -
I always loved working as an actress, but I didn't understand why I couldn't just opt out of being famous. And then I realized you can, and I think I did. And eventually, I came to understand that you can do that and also keep working.
-- Debra Winger -
I knew I wanted to be an actress as soon as I popped out.
-- Dee Wallace -
I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to be a model.
-- Delta Burke -
As an actress, I'm drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I'm fortunate to have thoughts and feelings at my fingertips.
-- Diane Keaton -
I lost many a role to actresses who couldnt do the job one-hundredth as good as I could.
-- Diane Ladd -
The second host that I had was an actress I didn't know named Susan St. James.
-- Dick Ebersol -
I sing as an actress. Whatever I'm singing about, I just become the story.
-- Dolly Parton -
I loved working with Jamie Lee Curtis, and I felt she was a wonderful actress even that early in her career.
-- Donald Pleasence -
And I don’t want to turn actress. I want to do both. I wouldn’t have built the confidence to do acting if I didn’t model.
-- Dree Hemingway
