Actress Quotes

I like to look like a person. It drives me crazy when you see women in movies playing teachers, and they have biceps. It totally takes me out of the movie. I start thinking, Wow, that actress playing this part really looks great!

I didn't choose to be an actress.

An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.

I didn't know whether I wanted to be an actress or a singer then.

Being an actress isn't as fun as it may seem. If I don't love something, I stop doing it. I don't love acting anymore, so I've stopped doing it.

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.

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.

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.

At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.

We are a very typical Spanish family - a bullfighter, an actress, a flamenco dancer and singer!

I like every single actor or actress in the world, because we never know what the conditions are like when they are working. I give everyone the benefit of the doubt and root for them like a psychotic sports fan.

My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.

I was never looking back in regret. I never thought, Oh, why didn't I become an actress? or Why did I just go paddling along after John? I've always walked along right by his side, and he's always supported everything I do.

I'm not a movie star. I'm just an actress.

I've been very lucky. I wanted to be an actress, but I didn't really have the drive to sell myself. Fortunately I had a terrific agent in New York who kept me going from job to job.

I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.

I am only an actress when they say, 'action' and I stop being an actress when they say, 'cut'. I am a normal person outside of acting.

You can't be a model at age 60, but you certainly can be an 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.