Actress Quotes

Playing good girls in the 30s was difficult, when the fad was to play bad girls. Actually I think playing bad girls is a bore; I have always had more luck with good girl roles because they require more from an actress.

Dakota Fanning is my favorite actress.

I think of myself as a journeyman actress. I will attempt almost anything that I think that I can bring off. It could be almost anything.

Anne Baxter was a very good actress, Donna Reid was great. You couldn't name an actress I wasn't crazy about.

Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be cool with it.

I am going to be a great actress.

I don't think I would ever have been able to be an actress had I not started at nine years old.

The three things I said when I came out of school were I want to work consistently, I want to do good work and I want to be paid fairly, and that's happened. But I didn't become an actress for the money. I do it for other reasons.

For me, as an actress, being a dancer has helped me. I've done it with my feet bloody.

The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So they sell shoes that an actress stepped in. If they turned up the amps some, maybe they could sell the actresses.

I went through the process of auditioning like every other struggling actress in this town.

If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.

When I told my mother that I wanted to be an actress, she said, you can't live here and do that, and so I moved out. I was determined to prove her wrong because she was so sure that I was going to go astray. And that's the juice that kept me going.

Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.

It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress... period.

I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to be a model.

Now, all the movies are for teenagers. It's very difficult for an actress to find really deep, beautiful characters to play.

I don't know what would have been worse: If Mira had come home one day to say she was gay or an actress.

It has to be a very specific role for me because of my accent. I can't complain; I've been working since I got to LA. But it is hard. I have no training as an actress so I try whatever I do like school, because I'm learning.

Terry's mother worked in the film industry for many years. She always wanted him to marry an actress.

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.