Hayley Atwell Quotes

I don't think I'm curvaceous. It's simply that most other actresses are really, stupidly tiny.

Hayley Atwell

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• I know I'm never going to be one of those size 2 actresses – that's just not me. But I do want to be the healthiest I can be, and a role model to women of all shapes and sizes.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
  • Model
  • Role

• All actresses, including me, want to look great on screen.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Great
  • Want
  • Look

• There are ways in which you can make sure that even if people come to the theatre because they know an actor or actress, by the end, theyve forgotten that, and they leave going, Wow - what an amazing play.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • People
  • Amazing
  • Theatre

• Being a mother, singer and actress is a definite juggling act, but I don't think I would be comfortable any other way.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Thinking
  • Mother
  • Actresses

• For some reason, my main movie, Lady Sings the Blues, to me really isn't me. I really can let go of Diana Ross when I see the movie. I'm really objective when I'm watching it. I liked that movie so much. That movie was like magic so that when I'm looking at it I'm really not seeing myself, I'm seeing the actress. I'm seeing another person, not the me of me.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Movie
  • Reason
  • Magic

• I love doing lesbian love scenes. Before I did my lesbian scenes in Gia, I talked to actresses who said love scenes are easier with another woman than a man. Bound's Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly said they'd lie there and discuss the sale at Barney's between takes.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Men
  • Lying
  • Scene

• There's something really special for a young person to sit in an audience and discover somebody, and it's rare to do because so much of a movie's economics are based on pre-existing actors or actresses.

  

  Craig Brewer
  • Movie
  • Person
  • Movies

• It's very difficult today for girls to become supermodels. There is a lot more competition, a lot of countries in the East have opened up so there are many more models than there were in the Nineties. Now they have to compete with famous actresses but also with, say, reality stars to be on the magazine covers.

  

  Claudia Schiffer
  • Up
  • Today
  • Reality

• I don't like acting and I never have liked acting and I never wanted to be an actress.

  

  Elsa Lanchester
  • Acting
  • Wanted
  • Actresses

• Mostly I've just worked with actors and actresses that are fun and easy to talk to and had nothing but great experiences.

  

  Kaitlyn Dever
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Actors

• It was really fun being in Tara's trailer, working on my lines. Tara is such an amazing actress. She's so good at what she does. I learned a lot from watching her.

  

  Carson Daly
  • Good
  • She
  • Fun

• You absolutely feel, as a black actress, that you've got to ride the wave because there's just so few roles. I hate to play that card, but it's the truth. There's not a lot of roles.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Black
  • Hate
  • Actresses

• When I was at school at Paris, I had special lessons from Mademoiselle Antoine, an actress at the Comedie Francaise, and I was taken to every sort of play. I felt very grand.

  

  Vivien Leigh
  • School
  • Taken
  • Special

• I'm a good actress. That's why you know me as likable.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Knows
  • Actresses

• I think that as actresses - and I've definitely gone through this in a really bizarre way, because I worked so much and was really lucky with the roles that I got when I was younger - I remember hearing the older actors saying, "It gets tough," and thinking, "Really? I can't imagine."

  

  Winona Ryder
  • Way
  • Roles
  • Actresses

• You want to take some responsibility for you choices so that it sets the groundwork for that next generation of actresses.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Responsibility
  • Choices
  • Actresses

• It's not that I don't want to become famous or that I'm obsessed by my work as an actress, but it's all about not limiting myself, such as putting myself in a little jail that I can escape from.

  

  Sarah Paulson
  • Obsessed
  • Actresses

• I know plenty of actresses in their early thirties who look amazing, although there's that old saying: 'Ladies get older, men get more distinguished.

  

  Scott Porter
  • Men
  • Saying
  • Actresses

• I've been getting my reel together. I think they are looking at me more as an actress because I have a lot of potential and a lot of skills.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Thinking
  • Together
  • Skills

• Honesty is a big deal, and when your honest everything will fall into place.

  

  Gabrielle Dennis
  • Fall
  • Honesty

• With my music, with what I do, I would like to bring a light into the world.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • World
  • Music
  • Light

• I don't think I'm curvaceous. It's simply that most other actresses are really, stupidly tiny.

  

  Hayley Atwell
  • Actresses
  • Curvaceous