Actress Quotes
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I think it's absolutely about time that we have as many female leads as male. It's a very exciting time to be an actress.
Felicity Jones
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I didn't have that intense ambition to be a musician or an actress. I just enjoyed it. And by enjoying it, because I loved it, it enabled me to get better at what I was doing, because there was a love behind it.
Lauryn Hill
Fugees
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Not all actresses know how to express their looks, I think. For me, it's an on-again, off-again thing. I'm still struggling.
Rinko Kikuchi
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I adore going to movie sets and being part of a team trying to create something. And yet, I hate to miss even one bedtime with my girls. . . My sisters both are working mothers. I understand that my being an actress as well as being at home isn't some heroic thing. That doesn't mean it isn't confusing or difficult--especially that question of how you find a balance.
Jennifer Garner
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Because I'm a woman, because I'm a character actress, because I'm over 40, I'll be very interested to see, not just for me but for other actresses, how Hollywood treats us in the next ten, fifteen years. I'm hoping that it's not going to be so easy to shove people under the rug, as they have in the past.
Kathy Bates
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Different things work for different people. One thing I've realized, though, is that the work that I've done on myself outside of my work as an actress has really allowed me to open up my mind. I think I understand my emotional state and my complexities now in a much clearer way, and I can put them to rest in a way that there's almost a catharsis that happens through the work, where I can do it and then find myself again.
Scarlett Johansson
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For me, as an actress, being a dancer has helped me. I've done it with my feet bloody.
Elizabeth Berkley
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I can't imagine it if beauty was the only currency I used as an actress. It just doesn't interest me.
Hayley Atwell
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I want to be fulfilled creatively as an actress and get to be in roles that are meaningful and impactful. I hope the same thing for myself as a director, one day. I want to make things that have an impact on how we look at the world.
Amandla Stenberg
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A serious and composed young actress who won't let a line pass without making certain she's had it in for a private talk and perhaps tea.
Walter Kerr
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An actress plays all types of roles. When I play Bernadette I will become Bernadette, but when I am off the screen I am Jennifer Jones. No girl could, however, fail to want her life to be exemplary so that she is worthy of playing Bernadette.
Jennifer Jones
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When I went to Los Angeles right after high school, I got some acting jobs, and I never, ever wanted to be an actress! Public speaking and acting make me want to vomit. But I have never been nervous singing. When it comes to public speaking, I stumble on my words, sweat, and pull at my clothes.
Kelly Clarkson
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Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.
Bette Davis
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For an actress who really hasn't gotten to act for two years, it was like letting a wild dog out of its cage.
Vanessa Lengies
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There is a huge gap between the remuneration of an actor and actress.
Kangana Ranaut
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My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn't be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead.
Nicole Kidman
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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.'
Cate Blanchett
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An actress, around 40, on television, that's where you get the most torture, I think.
Lisa Kudrow
