Actress Quotes

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.

That's why I'm an actress - escaping into a world.

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.

I had never even thought I'd be an actress - I was supposed to be a lawyer. But the motivation is the same: when you act, you defend a role; you have to be convincing. It's the same career.

I'm not sure if I want to direct a film, but certainly, as an actress, I'm always thinking, 'Surely this must be my last film.'

Honestly, ever since I've been married, the part of a job as an actress where you have to kiss other people, I find totally bizarre.

As an actress I take roles I find interesting.

I don't know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function - you are an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it's more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain way.

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.

I felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had experienced complete fulfillment in something that had nothing to do with me being in the spotlight.

I don't think I would ever have been able to be an actress had I not started at nine years old. I would have been the last person to stand up and say, 'I'd like to star in the play.'

I was one of those kids who wanted to do everything, I wanted to be a marine biologist, an actress, a writer, an environmentalist, an activist.