Actress Quotes
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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 don't feel like, 'Now I'm a great actress.'
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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.
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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.
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Any actor or actress that tells you that they don't watch their stuff is lying.
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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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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'd rather be thought as an international actress rather than a French one. Because I don't know what's coming up for me, my ambition is not to be typecast. So I'm working on my English accent, as well as my American one. I don't want to be like 'Okay, I'm French, and I want to succeed in Hollywood!'
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When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress.
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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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I'm going to become a real professional 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 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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If I wasn't an actress I would run a fortune 500 company.
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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 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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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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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 always want to learn and be challenged - and to get better 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 was a silent actress: a body. I belonged to dreams - to those who can't be broken.
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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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My hope as an actress is knowing that I'm someone who is more privileged - I'm biracial and lighter-skinned - and I hope it can open up the door for more women of color, especially darker-skinned black women. I hope everyone hops on the bandwagon and decides to start putting women of color in movies that aren't just about race.
