Actress Quotes
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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.
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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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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.
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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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When I was a young actress, I was called in just to do my part, and I didn't have any say or weight as far as any decisions go. But today, having worked as a producer and also having lived a little, I feel like I've found my voice more. I'm sure that it has influenced me as an actor and it will continue to do so.
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Don't get married to an actress because they're also actresses in bed.
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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 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.
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I wrote a pilot for myself. It's about a Latina actress trying to make it in Hollywood. It's pretty funny.
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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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Working with Meryl Streep I just felt like I was shaving years off my discovery as an actress to realize, "Okay, that's what this feels like."
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I always want to learn and be challenged - and to get better as an actress.
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I was the youngest actress to win the Best Actress award at the Berlin festival. Everybody was talking about me, and my mother was very proud.
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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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How long an actress lives professionally depends on her stamina, the extent of her masochism, her imagination, and her yearning for recognition or approval.
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If I wasn't an actress I would run a fortune 500 company.
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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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I'm going to become a real professional actress.
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There was no way I could live in Hollywood and not become an actress.
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My mother is an actress and very well known in France; hence, I move to London to start my own life.
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I didn't want everybody to be pretty. I didn't want everybody to be thing. I didn't want everybody to be a size 4. I wanted it to be like the world. I think that we got there, and that was really special. I wanted texture and grit to everything. And then, you have an actress like Sarah Gadon, where you could rub dirt on her face and she'd look like she stepped off of a Vogue cover, and that's fine.
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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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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.
