Actress Quotes
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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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I got a BFA in Fine Art, and then I told my family I was going to be an actress.
Brigitte Michael Sumner
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I tend to be a lazy actress, unless I'm pushed.
Asia Argento
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I've been in showbusiness all my life, but as an actress I have never been overly driven.
Jamie Lee Curtis
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As an actress, you're already disregarded for a lot of the parts by the people who are setting up those shows. You don't need your agent to be doing the same.
Tia Carrere
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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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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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Before I became an actress, I used to think, 'When I get famous, there's so much love for you. And I think that's what everyone's after with trying to achieve celebrity.
Lisa Kudrow
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I could not do well in Hollywood, because I’m a typical European actress.
Ornella Muti
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An actress, around 40, on television, that's where you get the most torture, I think.
Lisa Kudrow
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I'm not this big Hollywood mainstream actress, but who cares? I think I just have a certain sensibility for smaller projects. I like intimate things. I think I do well in that kind of environment. That doesn't mean that I wouldn't love to do bigger projects. I feel everyone has their own journey.
Melonie Diaz
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I guess you could say the beginning of my career as an actress was when I started performing in music videos.
Sheri Moon Zombie
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I love watching faces as they grow up. It's the difference between so many strong British actresses compared to what America does to women. I like a face that hasn't been tampered with.
Florence Pugh
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Joan Crawford is a movie star. I am an actress.
Bette Davis
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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
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I blame it never taking a break on my mother. She was a born entertainer. Leave the songwriting, the singing and all that behind, and I still would have found some way to be an entertainer. I would have never been an actress, though, because I realized early in my life, in like sixth grade, I was a terrible actress.
Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
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Don't get married to an actress because they're also actresses in bed.
Roberto Rossellini
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There have been instances when people have told me that I look too intelligent to be an actress.
Swara Bhaskar
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I think the best decade of my life was between 40 and 50. Forty was the turning point for me as an actress.
Catherine Deneuve
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When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress.
Marilyn Monroe
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Any actor or actress that tells you that they don't watch their stuff is lying.
Amy Poehler
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I never even wanted to be an actress. I studied mass communication and wanted to study law in Newcastle, for which I even got a scholarship. But by then, I had started modelling. So, I took a year off to decide what to do. But once you are used to working, it's difficult to get back to studies.
Esha Gupta
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I don't feel like, 'Now I'm a great actress.'
Cate Blanchett
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That's how I see myself as an actress. I may not be the best in the world, but I love my craft more than just about anything, and I will give everything I have to it, whatever the cost.
Anne Hathaway