Actress Quotes

Don't get married to an actress because they're also actresses in bed.

I'm only realizing now that I was a child actress because I always took myself so seriously.

Well, I was lucky in that my being an actress totally overshadowed my having some kind of a... legacy at Yale, so that was kind of great.

My first job now is as a mother, everything else is secondary. My kids understand that I am an actress, and they are always so surprised to hear my voice on a cartoon character, or see my face on a video box. If it ever gets to be too much though, the career and the kids, I will simply set the career aside.

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.

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.

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?

Basically, I'm living the life of an actress in L.A. And I've recently had some pretty good fortune.

I suppose that if I could have quit, I would have, because in those days I never wanted to be an actress, the acting was something to do while I waited for a chance to study writing and directing. But I guess I was just meant to be an actress. Because, here I am.

I have an older sister named Haley and she wanted to be an actress. So I wanted to be an actress. It's really funny the way that some people don't give kids enough credit for like really being driven, and really wanting to do things so badly.

Everybody thinks about Bo Derek as being this extravagant looking lady but she is also a wonderful actress.

For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.