Actress Quotes

In government, one actress is enough.

As an actress, there's nothing worse than not knowing your cues.

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.

I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

I was always a singer and a dancer, and I always wanted to be an actress. For me, it's all just one thing.

I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people.

When you're a regular gal, you look in the rearview mirror, and in the bright daylight you see that line around your mouth, but when you're an actress and you see that line up on the big screen, it's, like, seven feet long.

Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress.

Being an actress, I find myself people-watching and I can be quite shy.

We were the laughingstock of that first season... It was with great relish several years later that I received a TV Guide award for favorite actress on television.

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.

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.

I always want to be an actress.

I think I'm a better actress for having friends and interests outside the theatre. I wouldn't want to live my life surrounded by other actors all the time.

We were using Brooke as an actress; she was playing different roles: a liberated woman, a teenager, a vamp.

Blythe Danner is somebody whose career I admire. She's a great actress and does good work, but also has a life of her own. I love my job but, at the end of the day, I want to come home and watch a movie and drink a bottle of wine with my husband.

If I wasn't an actress I would run a fortune 500 company.

If I had made it in cheerleading, I would have never been an actress.