Actress Quotes
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I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.
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I'd really love to be a versatile, chameleon-like actress, stretching myself a bit.
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I just wanted to be like J.Lo when I started. The last thing I want to be is a model-slash-actress. But I love actress-slash-musicians.
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I think it's actually a misperception that I am a comedic actress. I do more drama than comedy but very little of it has been seen. When you are in big funny movies and they do well and your little part in it kind of explodes people perceive you as a comedian.
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I'd like to be an actress when I'm older. I sometimes do improv. I used to do it with my dad.
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I don't want to be known as an item dancer. I want to be known as an actress only.
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If I hadn't been a model, I couldn't have become a movie actress.
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I'm not some sort of tormented soul looking for an identity in the roles I take. I became an actress because I just love dressing up and playing.
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I am a character actress. Well, let's say, I am a leading character actress who does interesting, odd parts.
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At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance.
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I do want people to see me as a well-rounded actress, not just someone who plays in 'Turtle' movies.
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I am always friendly with my co-actors and even other actresses, too.
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I made up my mind to be an actress when I was 4 years old.
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I did modelling for a year, but then I always wanted to be an actress.
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I'm not a comedienne. I'm an actress.
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I'm not an actress; I'm not a professional testifier.
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I always feel like I'm an actress.
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I'm a writer. I'm not an actress.
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I hope the next actress offered millions to play the 'fat girl for the day' stops to think about this before she signs the contract - even if just to ask, like any professional actress would in any other situation, 'Why does she weigh 350 pounds? And why me for the part?' If the director can't answer these questions, don't do the movie.
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Yes, you want to do studio movies, but I also want to grow as an actor, and an actress like me is not going to get roles where you grow and evolve in a studio film. It's just not gonna happen.
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There are beauty icons that I can never be like, sorta like a Gena Rowlands - I'll never have that look. I love Giulietta Masina, the great Fellini actress. But I'm probably more Seymour Cassel. Or somewhere between Lou Reed and Nora Ephron?
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I have a tendency as an actress in general to ground my characters. Even when doing outlandish characters, that's my instinct.
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Imagine that the lines an actress reads are a river that runs calmly along the surface of the earth. Then imagine that the actress are the earth, and that under the earth is another river, a wilder one whose current leaps in the opposite direction, whose roar is muted. Every time the actress speaks her lines, she must offer a glimpse of the river that runs beneath: the mysterious churn of her consciousness, the lawlessness of a person's doubts or desires.
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You're always compared to someone, especially when you're a French actress.
