Actress Quotes

If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot.

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 to be in tune with the fantasies of a man. What woman never dreamt of that?

I'm not really a songwriter - I'm an interpreter. So in a sense I am an actress first and foremost. I act out the songs, and I lead with my heart.

What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being.

I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.

My Mother is an actress, so it's always been a part of my life.

I was really conflicted. I had always planned to help the world. Instead, I was going to become an actress? That seemed like such a selfish thing to do.

People go 'You look a lot like Minnie Driver.' Once I said, 'Thanks, Minnie is a great actress.' But, it blew up in my face. This person said, 'Nah, didn't like the last movie she did.'

Demi Moore is a terrific woman and a hell of an actress.

No, I always wanted to be an actress.

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

If I didn't have children I'd be a much better actress. I wouldn't be so distracted. I could pour 100 percent of my energies into it, to promote the investigation which acting is.

Actually, I started to become an actress because I met someone who was just a friend and I found his life wonderful, I thought, Oh my god, you can travel, you're free, you can do what you want, you're the boss. And then I met an actor and I was in love with him.

I cannot absorb living in a world where I have an Oscar for best actress and Denzel doesn't have one for best actor.

So I kind of lost track for a while, then I came back, I pulled myself together and I decided when I was 15 that I'm going to get sober and I'm going to become an actress.

I wasn't one of those girls who always dreamed of being an actress. I went to a normal school and then these film auditioners turned up when I was nine. Then I just fell into this whirlwind.

I work with Sally and I can see Sally doing that. She is very aggressive. Very fun loving and charming... and pushy in a very competitive way and a very healthy way and a very good actress.

Obviously, I'm not a trained actress, and right now I'll come out and say I'm glad I'm not.

Supermodels are over, and the new picture girl has become the television actress.

The thing with me is, if I wake up one morning and I'm not happy working as an actress, I'll stop. It's not something I have to do. It's not a vocation.

I feel as though my career really hit its high point when I was cast as a supporting actress in 'American Wedding'. I thought the script had a lot of depth and intelligence, and it really just jumped off the page.

If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude... I hope to make you use your imagination.

I've never been a fearful person. When I was growing up, I wanted to be an actress, a writer, and a musician and I never really processed that those are the three hardest jobs - I just never even processed it.

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

In government, one actress is enough.

I just thought acting would be something to help out with my student loans, but my first year as an actress, I made more money than my parents. That's when I realized it could turn into a career. After that, I put everything I had into it.

I don't think I can call myself an actress yet. I just don't think my skill level is that high. I hope that with every job it gets better. But until I'm good, I can say I'm trying to be an actor, but I don't think I've completely made it.

I think every day there is some new actress comes out and inspires me to do something else... like Hilary Swank. After she did Boys Don't Cry, I felt this yearning to go out and be even half as good as she was.

I'm a character actress.