Actress Quotes

I started off as a model and struggled for some time until I got a break as an actress. I was too stubborn to let go and was sure I was in the right place at the right time. I just fought and I think that's how I am where I am today.

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

You can tell five minutes into it what a girl is after, when she starts asking how much money I make or tells me, 'I wanna be an actress.'

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

I never wanted to be a model. I never wanted to be a serious actress. I started off doing comedy. I did a stand-up comedy camp at the Laugh Factory, and I started out on Nickelodeon.

I had no desire to be an film actress, to always play somebody else, to be always beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me.

The theater is where I belonged; I simply wanted to be an actress my whole life.

Being an actress is similar to trying to fit in with the popular kids in high school. You're expected to drive the right car, wear the right clothes and say the right things.

You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me. That's why films like Fight Club were so important to me because I think I confounded certain stereotypes and limited perceptions of what I could do as an actress.

It was not easy for my mother, being a struggling actress and raising a child. We were these two sort of vagabonds, never knowing where the money was going to come from. She always says she couldn't afford a babysitter, which is why she put me on the stage.

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

I think being an actress is more how to cope with the fact that you can't do anything else than to express a talent. It's a way of being untalented for anything.

I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman.

I'm a working actress able to make choices based on characters rather than what I 'should' do for my career.

I think that's what's great about being an actress is you get to learn so many different things like that, like learning a little bit of Tibetan here, learning a Southern accent there.

I went to a public high school with a magnet program for law and psychology. But right before my junior year, I decided that I wanted to leave and become an actress, so I graduated early and moved out to L.A.

Right now, I love the fact that I have so many opportunities, but I know this privileged position cannot last. That doesn't mean that I'll stop working. I picture myself as an old actress doing cameos in films with people saying: "Isn't that that Bening woman?"

If you didn't know that I am an actress, I don't think you could tell from my lifestyle. I cook and cook and cook. I like to be with my daughter. She's 16, so of course I bore her.

Security has no place in the life of an actress.

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.

I'm not really an actress type. I'm an entertainer.

Then a year would go by and I'd realize I love the acting too much and it is my identity and I don't know how to be anything but an actress. It's who and what I am, so I always come back.

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

Having this other career in music made me work harder as an actress. It's made me more professional.

There are lots of moments that are great for an actress.

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

Being a mother, singer and actress is a definite juggling act, but I don't think I would be comfortable any other way.

Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.

I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.

Any actor or actress that tells you that they don't watch their stuff is lying.