Actress Quotes
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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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There was no way I could live in Hollywood and not become an actress.
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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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I'm going to become a real professional 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 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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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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After all the work I've done, why should I suddenly be treated as a bona fide 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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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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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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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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My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.
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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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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.
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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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I guess you could say the beginning of my career as an actress was when I started performing in music videos.
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I'm looking forward to becoming a marvelous - excuse the word marvelous - character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.
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If I wasn't an actress I would run a fortune 500 company.
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What's awful about being famous and being an actress is when people come up to you and touch you. That's scary, and they just seem to think it's okay to do it, like you're public property.
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A lot of times people have you pegged for what you are, and that's what you are and need to stay in. Going from an actress into my true passion for other people, it may seem kind of backwards.
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I got old the way that women who aren't actresses grow old.
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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 think the best decade of my life was between 40 and 50. Forty was the turning point for me as an actress.
