Actress Quotes

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

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.

Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.

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 wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to be a model.

Now, all the movies are for teenagers. It's very difficult for an actress to find really deep, beautiful characters to play.

I don't know what would have been worse: If Mira had come home one day to say she was gay or an actress.

It has to be a very specific role for me because of my accent. I can't complain; I've been working since I got to LA. But it is hard. I have no training as an actress so I try whatever I do like school, because I'm learning.

The thing about acting is you don't want to let on how enjoyable it is or then everybody would want to become an actress. But it really is. It's a pleasure to go and exchange your identity.

I'd wanted to be an actress my whole life, that was my goal, that was all I cared about.

Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better.

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

I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.

For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you're told you're too tall or you're too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You're rejected for your education, you're rejected for this or that and it's really tough.

Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique.

I'm not an actress, you know. I don't know what's going on. And I'm supposed to be the villain.

From now on, I approach the cinema as a business woman. I intend to be in more action movies because, apart from Angelina Jolie, no other actress stands out in this genre.

An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.

I played football when I was little. I didn't want to be an actress at all, I wanted to be a majorette in an Australian circus. That was my ambition.

I'd never played a cop before, and this particular role with what she is going thru, especially during the first season, covering her alcoholism to her on the job performance, was a great opportunity for me as an actress.

That's why I'm an actress, to do something completely opposite from myself.

I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.

At some point we have to stop and say, There's Marlee, not, There's the deaf actress.

As a brunette, I had previously been this serious actress. Then I became a blonde and got to play a completely different, comic role.

I love Joan Collins. She's a wonderful lady. She has such courage. She's such a good actress.

I am an actress, I earn money, I am well-known. I don't think it is altruism to become engaged in humanitarian work. It's the least one can do.

As an actress and comedienne, I'm a huge fan of he theatre and the Tricycle in Kilburn is my favourite in London. I dragged my kids to a performance of 'Twelfth Night' there, where they handed out pizza. Who knew that all it takes to get children interested in Shakespeare is a snack?

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

I think the era of the diva actress is coming to an end.

You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles. Does that make sense?