Actress Quotes

I still love coming into work everyday after so many years working as an actress. I've been working more or less continuously and I find I have to really want to do the project to make it work because you have to put such an enormous amount of effort into it.

TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary; with independent films, you just can't.

I've learned to take jobs as an actress that is meaningful to me because I've never taken a job for the money.

I have a certain way of thinking where I see something, and I know that I want it and I make up my mind - and that's pretty much all there is to it. It was like, This is what I want to do, and I'm going, and everything's going to work out. I'm going to be an actress. There was no way around it.

I didn't picture myself as a movie actress. I began to think about it around college. I remember thinking, "Well somebody has to be in them," so maybe I could do that eventually. It's all been a surprise.

I am not an actress. I can only play me - on and off the screen.

I play a character every day of my life, and I don't want to play a character as myself. They can judge me as an actress, not as a person. I'm not a spokeswoman for Anna.

As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life.

There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.

An actress who has the gift of swaying the emotions of an audience, of compelling tribute of tears, or of moving the public to joyous merriment, cannot always be satisfied to set aside her whole career, in the work that she loves, simply because she is married.

It's a paradox to be an actress, living in the city, taking planes all the time, trying to find the right balance in this life, which is not so eco-friendly, and still try to respect the environment.

I just don't want to be known as the actress who can sing. I want to be known as the singer who can act, too. It's great cross-promotion.

It's not that I don't want to become famous or that I'm obsessed by my work as an actress, but it's all about not limiting myself, such as putting myself in a little jail that I can escape from.

I was the first actress in the family, and I am still the only actress in the family. I shouldn't be saying it, but it slipped out!

I know it's popular to say this because she's the woman of the moment, but Halle Berry. Not only does she have obvious audience appeal and star quality, but she's a damn good actress too.

You can't be a model at age 60, but you certainly can be an actress.

And while I might not always agree with the viewpoint I have to portray, because I play a district attorney, as an actress I can always tell myself that my character is trying to take the moral high ground.

My sister wanted to be an actress, but she never made it. She does live in a trailer. She got halfway. She's an actress, she just never gets called to the set.

I am no size zero or super-thin Hollywood actress. I am built for men who like women to look like women.

I don't want to say, 'This is where Im going to be in five years and Im going to get there no matter what.' I want to leave it open. I'm not a desperate actress dying to star in a B movie in a bikini.

I decided to an actress because of the film 'La Dolce Vita.'

I don't know where I'm going to be in three years. Because I have the feeling that the future is so full of possibilities, to stop being an actress, to do something else... for me, the future is just a huge bunch of discoveries.

Becoming an actress takes a lot longer than being a star. I don't want to be a star. I want to be an actress. I want to build a career.

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

This war is like an actress who is getting old. It is less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous.

When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted really to be the kind of actress I became.

The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked.

Oh, she didn't schlep me. I schlepped her, actually. I was the one who wanted to be an actress.

I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.

I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, Shouldn't get face work? My mother and Anne Bancroft said, We're not going to fall into that.