Actress Quotes

He didn't maintain my illusion of myself, he gave me an illusion of myself. Before I met him, I never thought of myself as an actress. Boy, he sidetracked me in a great way!

I'd say my happiest moment as an actress came when I learned I'd won the Look Magazine Best Supporting Actress Award for 1956 in The Killing.

I'm not an actress. I just have to be myself.

I remember when I first started in the business, I lost a lot of friends. Some were jealous, some were annoyed at the fact that I was an actress.

I think if you work as an actress and are supposed as a character to be in love with some actor, then to some extent you do have to be in love with him.

Actresses are nightmares. I don't hang out with any of them. That's a problem with my profession. I try not to be like an actress.

I hope to have a career like Jodie Foster, going from child to adult actress.

I started out as a lousy actress and have remained one.

Money's not important to me. Movie star acknowledgement is not important to me. I don't want to be a big studio actress. I don't want to be in the limelight.

But I've never felt that being an actress is being in a comfortable place. It's seen from the outside that we're being driven in big cars and having these gorgeous suites and all of that. But come on, it's not about that.

I look to longevity. I just consider myself an actress and getting good roles. If being a 'superstar' gets me good roles, then that's a positive thing. But my goal isn't just to be a superstar. It's to act for a long time.

The only thing I like about being an actress is acting.

I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.

I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think it must be every housewife's dream, to be an actress part-time.

Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.

Having been an actress before becoming a producer has helped, because I realize the needs.

What's the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get that blank, faraway look in their eyes. But in life, it's not that way.

I'm just a pack mule. I've played leads and I've played character roles. Any actress in Hollywood will tell you as your age climbs, the leads thin.

I'm not always the nicest person to meet, because I forget very easily that I'm an actress when I'm not working.

I believe that every role that I have done this far has had quality and content. My roles have been very demanding and every role has been a challenge and a learning experience that has helped me mature as an actress.

I'm a trained actress and I can do it, but I think that you have to prove yourself.

I don't see myself being an actress forever.

I got my dailies every day, although I couldn't always look at them because I was usually preparing for the next day's shoot, both as an actress and as the director.

Some actresses are just insane. I've never worked with a nasty actress - they're all absolutely delightful. But completely barking.

No, my mom kind of led me toward acting. She wanted to be an actress when she was younger. That made me interested in it when I was a kid, because she and I are very close.

I said, 'I'll give myself two years. If I can't support myself as an actress within two years, then I'll go back to choreography.'

There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them.

I came to L.A. to work and become a better actress, not to be a star.

I am a super-confident writer, and as a joke writer and as an actress, I'm like, 'I want to go head-to-head with every person.' I am an Indian woman and I'm a kind of double minority in this world.

I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother.