Actress Quotes

It was a really fun idea to have a fashion label with my sister but I don't have an awful lot of time for it because my first love and job is to be an actress.

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

As a mother, you feel much more vulnerable. And when you're vulnerable, you're a much better actress.

I'm here not just as an actress but as a woman, an African-American, a granddaughter of Ellis Island immigrants, a person who could not have afforded college without the help of student loans and as one of millions of volunteers working to re-elect President Obama!

My mother told me never explain, never complain. Even as a young actress, I determined I would never give personal interviews, since they made me so uncomfortable.

An actress in a film starts every day with an hour and a half in front of a mirror, with hair and make-up and costumes.

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

I'm an actress. It's my passion.

I've always wanted to be an actress, ever since I was a little girl. I always played the mom and I played my sister as the daughter. I wanted to be an actress on television and movies instead of just around the house.

I'm an actress who likes a strong, communicative director.

I find it irresponsible to go, 'She's an actress, what does she know?' That means if you're a dentist, what do you know? If you're a lawyer, what do you know? It's our profession, it's what we do. It's not who we are.

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to check out the fairy tales. And she was an actress, so she used to act out for me the different characters in all these fairy tales.

It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to manage his voice properly, and it takes about ten years to master the subtle art of being able to hold one's audience.

I don't enjoy the life of an actress, but I don't want to go into that.

I've done a lot of serious roles, but they're, like, independent, so it's harder for them to come out. The big ones have been comedies, but I would love to get a big drama to let people see the other side of me, that I am a serious actress.

As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.

It's quite hard for me being an actress because I actually don't like attention.

When I was at school at Paris, I had special lessons from Mademoiselle Antoine, an actress at the Comedie Francaise, and I was taken to every sort of play. I felt very grand.

I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.

It was a lot of fun being a child actress. It suited me. I don't think it suits everybody, but I was in it because I had a passion, not because my parents wanted me to make money. If other kids want to do it, and they really like acting, go for it.

Irreversible is not glamorous at all. I try to do different things because I want to grow as an actress and I like to take risks.

The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.

Honestly, I am not trying to discourage anyone from becoming an actress, but if you want to become one be prepared to face everything that comes - along with it.

It is so fantastic being an actress because you have the chance to be a thousand different people when you act.

That's why I'm an actress - escaping into a world.

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

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.

I'm not always the nicest person to meet, because I forget very easily that I'm an actress when I'm not working.

I believe that every role that I have done this far has had quality and content. My roles have been very demanding and every role has been a challenge and a learning experience that has helped me mature as an actress.