Actress Quotes
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I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.
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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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I'd really love to be a versatile, chameleon-like actress, stretching myself a bit.
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I was already in a band, and the teachers called my mum in and said: 'Abbey's so clever, it's a total waste if she follows her dream'. But I never wanted to do a job I didn't love, and I'd always wanted to be a model or an actress or a singer.
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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'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'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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If I hadn't been a model, I couldn't have become a movie actress.
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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 am a character actress. Well, let's say, I am a leading character actress who does interesting, odd parts.
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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 did modelling for a year, but then I always wanted to be an actress.
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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'm not a comedienne. I'm an actress.
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I made up my mind to be an actress when I was 4 years old.
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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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I always feel like I'm an actress.
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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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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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I will have one of the cleanest obits of any actress. I never did cheesecake like Ann Sheridan or Betty Grable. I just used my hair.
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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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I'm not an actress; I'm not a professional testifier.
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I'm a writer. I'm not an actress.
