Actresses Quotations

I didn't want to be an actress. I wanted to be a dentist, but you never know what life will bring you.

It's definitely an exciting time to be an actress.

There are so many glamorous actresses, but you know what? In the real world, nobody looks like that.

My talents fall within definite limitations. I am not as versatile an actress as some think.

You have to be the best of whatever you are, but successful, cool actresses come in all shapes and sizes.

I'd like to do a comedy with Emma Thompson. I admire her as an actress so much. I love her. And I didn't know it until recently that her whole career started in comedy.

Do you think I'm going to be one of those flash-in-the-pan actresses?

I hope the English-speaking world can see that I'm not only an Israeli actress.

I'm a big fan of 'Woody Allen' movies, so I like all the actresses in his movies like 'Diane Keaton' and Mia Farrow.

Vivien Leigh was a phenomenal actress, a very complicated woman, living on the edge of mental problems, haunted by demons and angels. And though I've never thought of myself like Marilyn Monroe, I was inspired by the tremendous risk she took - of being vulnerable.

Don't get married to an actress, because they're also actresses in bed.

The only thing I like about being an actress is acting.

It's definitely like being in some weird sorority. I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest.

Some people are suspicious of others who have more than one talent. I've had poets tell me to my face that an actress can't be a poet.

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.

I wasn't born an actress, you know. Events made me one.

I was one of those kids who wanted to do everything, I wanted to be a marine biologist, an actress, a writer, an environmentalist, an activist.

Life as a voice actress is tough. It's not an easy career.

I don't think I'm curvaceous. It's simply that most other actresses are really, stupidly tiny.

I lied to everybody. I lie very well, being an actress, naturally.

I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.

Marilyn was a great actress, not a dumb blond bombshell. She was very smart, very astute and a good businesswoman.

My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.

I don't sit around and wait for great parts. I'm an actress, and I love being one, and I'll probably be doing it till I'm 72, standing around the back lot doing Gunsmoke

At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.

The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So they sell shoes that an actress stepped in. If they turned up the amps some, maybe they could sell the actresses.

It's bad enough that I'm an actress that wants to be recognized as an actress. Instead, I am known for doing game shows.

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.

I never wondered whether I should be a stage actress or a movie actress

It was scary, and I knew what it was like to be an unemployed actress again.

I was lucky enough to be able to grow and mature in a natural way as an actress.

I got all the schooling any actress needs. That is, I learned to write enough to sign contract.

My hard work and excellent training entitled me to be a better actress than some of my competitors

Increasingly, stars are recruited from the ranks of professional models, with the result that today`s starlets are better dressed and better groomed than ever before, though it is doubtful if they are better actresses.

Two of my favorite actresses are Meryl Streep and Angelina Jolie. So, I would love, love, love to work with them. But I also really love AnnaSofia Robb. There are a lot of great actresses I would love to work with.

I know Raft did have some genuine affairs with actresses.

Right now the music is more of a hobby since I'm making a good living as an actress.

Being an actress isn't as fun as it may seem. If I don't love something, I stop doing it. I don't love acting anymore, so I've stopped doing it.

I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.

Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.

As a human being, Joan Crawford is a great actress.

I had very little confidence in myself as an actress.

From the time I was very young, maybe five or six, I thought a lot about being an actress. I didn't tell my friends about my ambitions, though, especially when I got older, because I thought they would not receive them well. I never talked about what I wanted to do.

If you're an actress and even one person knows your name, you're lucky.

I'm 40 next year and I'm very well aware that where I am now, it becomes a bit of a wilderness for actresses.

I am the luckiest actress on the planet.

I really want to try to become a great actress when I get older and continue to do what I'm doing now.

I do have a lot of female friends who are stand-ups and also women who are actresses and also happen to have an act.

As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director.

Being an actress is the sublimation of feminity.

If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.

I used to get some ego thing out of saying I wasn't a star, just an actress. Forget it. I'm a star. I wanted it. I worked for it. I got it.

You're always compared to someone, especially when you're a French actress.

Everybody thinks about Bo Derek as being this extravagant looking lady but she is also a wonderful actress.

My favorite actress of all times is Bette Davis in Dark Victory. I have seen it six or seven times, and I still cry.

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.

I think if you work as an actress and are supposed as a character to be in love with some actor, then to some extent you do have to be in love with him.

I really believe that what I do as an actress is my God-given talent. This is my calling, not my career.

After all the work I've done, why should I suddenly be treated as a bona fide actress?

I feel like I'm the luckiest actress in the world.

When I came to America, I told my dad I wanted to be an actress.

I didn't choose the fact that I was gay, but I did choose whether to live my life as a gay woman-that was the terrifying thing for me. Especially being a gay actress.

I can't imagine it if beauty was the only currency I used as an actress. It just doesn't interest me.

If you’re an actress, you’re always on one diet or another — it’s a way of life,

Being an actress is a very physical thing. If I didn't look the way I looked, I would never have started in films.

I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.

There is no reason why marriage should necessarily compel an actress to forego her career.

I always considered myself the world's worst actress.

No amount of skill on the part of the actress can make up for the loss of youth.

Someone I've always admired is Catherine O'Hara... I think she's one of the best actresses in the country, not only comedy. I just think she's just a step aside from everybody, she's just wonderful.

I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.

People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.

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.

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.

At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance.

I have a tendency as an actress in general to ground my characters. Even when doing outlandish characters, that's my instinct.

I felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had experienced complete fulfillment in something that had nothing to do with me being in the spotlight.

I am an actress. I am not a movie star.

I went through the process of auditioning like every other struggling actress in this town.

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.

I knew I wanted to be an actress as soon as I popped out.

I loved working with Jamie Lee Curtis, and I felt she was a wonderful actress even that early in her career.

I had never even thought I'd be an actress - I was supposed to be a lawyer. But the motivation is the same: when you act, you defend a role; you have to be convincing. It's the same career.

I have a surfboard that says 'Linda Hunt Choice TV Actress: Action.' I am an action star! I don't know what that is about, but I like it.

We are a very typical Spanish family - a bullfighter, an actress, a flamenco dancer and singer!

You have actresses like Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, who have roles specially written for them.

Erica Kane was a spectacular role for any actress to play, and I felt so lucky to be the one who got to do it.

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.

The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique.

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

I know so many people who are so much better at it than I am, and I think I'm a goofier person rather than a serious, dramatic actress, so I probably belong in comedy.

I am happy as happiness goes, for a woman who has so many memories and who lives the lonely life of an actress

Anybody can say she's an actress. It's another thing to get a job.

If I only dated actresses, Id be a very lonely man.

Most actors and actresses are performative as people.

I made my last motion picture in March 1965 for Magna Pictures. 'Harlow,' based on the life of actress Jean Harlow... I didn't know at the time that 'Harlow' would be my last motion picture.

I'd like to work with any actress from whom I can learn-one who has had many experiences with many directors and is willing to share some of her knowledge with me

I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.

An actress, around 40, on television, that's where you get the most torture, I think.

Even though I've done Hollywood films, I still don't think of myself as a Hollywood actress.