Actress Quotes
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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!
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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.
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I've never really seen myself as an actress. I told myself, 'I'm not going to get a job where I need to put on makeup, or one that I need to do my nails.' I hate the idea of putting on makeup, then removing it.”
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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.
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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.
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After all the work I've done, why should I suddenly be treated as a bona fide actress?
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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.
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I'm going to become a real professional actress.
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I hope I'm thought of as not just a showbiz personality, but as someone who has lived a life and who has hopefully made a contribution to something along the way - someone who is a human being as well as an actress.
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I was mid-sentence when the casting director said, "Listen, kid. You should not be an actress. You are not pretty enough. You should go back to wherever you came from and you should go to school. You don't have it." She was very blunt - I honestly think that she thought she was doing me a favor.
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I've come to really believe that I have something to offer as a filmmaker, that goes beyond what I had to offer as an actress and maybe this is what I'm meant to do.
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It took a while for me to be able to sit in a room of studios and financiers and say, "I'm not some hoity-toity actress looking for a vanity deal - I really know how to make a film!" In order to do that, you've got to break your f-cking back.
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All that some actresses want is for people to take them seriously instead of caring about how they look.
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I think that an actor is more likely to be forgiven in the public's eye than an actress.
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My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.
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The fact that I got into acting at all was kind of fluke-ish. I loved movies, but I can't remember ever really wanting to be an actress, and I certainly didn't imagine ever being in a movie. I think I wanted to be a writer.
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I'm trying to show I'm a trained actress - I can transform myself into different characters. I'm not just an ingenue.
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There's nothing wrong with making little kids happy, but there's nothing wrong with wanting to be an adult actress. I mean a grown-up actress.
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Show me an actress who isn't a personality and I'll show you a woman who isn't a star.
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As an actress I feel that if you start to impose your own inhibitions, then you are not doing your job.
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I may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!
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I'd lose weight if I was an actress and had to play a role where you're supposed to be 40 lbs lighter, but weight has nothing to do with my career. Even when I was signing a contract, most of the industry knew if anyone ever dared say lose weight to me, they wouldn't be working with me.
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I got old the way that women who aren't actresses grow old.
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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.
