Actress Quotes
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There have been instances when people have told me that I look too intelligent to be an actress.
Swara Bhaskar -
I think what I've learned most from being an actress is that there's no method. That you have to invent this process over and over and over again, depending on who you're working with and what you're doing.
Sarah Polley
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When an actor marries an actress they both fight for the mirror.
Burt Reynolds -
I was a silent actress: a body. I belonged to dreams - to those who can't be broken.
Sylvia Kristel -
After all the work I've done, why should I suddenly be treated as a bona fide actress?
Eva Gabor -
I grew up around the theatre. My mother is an actress. I would fall asleep on tons of theatre chairs. It's in my blood; it's in my spirit and my fabric of who I am.
Alicia Keys -
How long an actress lives professionally depends on her stamina, the extent of her masochism, her imagination, and her yearning for recognition or approval.
Lauren Bacall -
Two of an actress's greatest assets are love and pain. A great actress, even a good actress, must have plenty of both in her life.
Katharine Hepburn
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The thing that I've run up against is that it's always been an either-or proposition, especially in Hollywood. You're either young and glamorous and you're going to get the lead and get the man at the end of the picture, or it's the opposite: you're a character actress, you're not attractive enough for the other role, and so you're playing the friend or the killer or the lesbian or the doctor or whatever.
Kathy Bates -
There was no way I could live in Hollywood and not become an actress.
Eva Gabor -
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 -
Any actor or actress that tells you that they don't watch their stuff is lying.
Amy Poehler -
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 -
I always wanted to be a movie actress. I thought it was very romantic. And it was.
Katharine Hepburn
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Joan Crawford is a movie star. I am an actress.
Bette Davis -
My mom Kate McCauley is an actress, so I guess she's the one that taught me it was a possibility. For as long as I can remember, I've always played make-believe ... It's something that I've always done, that I've always been comfortable doing.
Anne Hathaway -
On the red carpet, I can be different women with every event and change my style and that's funny because at the end of the day, that's my work as an actress.
Alessandra Mastronardi -
I was your typical struggling actress. I went to every audition, took a million acting, dancing and singing lessons and spent years wondering where my next meal was coming from.
Cassandra Peterson -
I don't feel like, 'Now I'm a great actress.'
Cate Blanchett -
I'm going to become a real professional actress.
Esther Renay Dean
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I was the first actress in the family, and I am still the only actress in the family. I shouldn't be saying it, but it slipped out!
Eva Gabor -
If I were an actress today at the age of 18, I would never make it, because now our young actresses all seem to be very beautiful and very talented right away.
Jamie Lee Curtis -
Show me an actress who isn't a personality and I'll show you a woman who isn't a star.
Katharine Hepburn -
I can never remember a time when I didn't want to be an actress, to be honest. And so, all through high school, I knew that I was gonna go to college in Los Angeles. I just didn't know where. And I knew that I was gonna try to get my theater degree.
Mikaela Hoover