Actress Quotes
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You can't be a model at age 60, but you certainly can be an actress.
Eva Herzigova
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Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.
Norma Shearer
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I had no interest in really becoming an actress or doing that kind of thing I just knew that I wanted to do something in making films.
Susan Downey
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The theater is so big and dark and private. Nobody knows that I am there. I am relaxed. I forget completely I am an actress. I laugh, I applaud, I cry.
Monica Vitti
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I was lazy. I would have been a hell of a lot better actress had I taken it more seriously. I never had the proper respect for acting. Quite often, I learned my lines on the way to the studio.
Ava Gardner
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I'm looking forward to becoming a marvelous - excuse the word marvelous - character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.
Marilyn Monroe
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Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work.
Marilyn Monroe
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I've wanted to be an actress my whole life, and the - none of the women I aspired to be like had natural hair.
Teyonah Parris
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Every woman actress is somewhat vain, and I am, too. You really have to take care of yourself.
Sibel Kekilli
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As an actress, you go where the stories are. I don't really care where it's seen, at this point. I just want to tell good stories and do good roles that I haven't done before.
Winona Ryder
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I don't know what would have been worse: If Mira had come home one day to say she was gay or an actress.
Paul Sorvino
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I think, as an actress, whether you want to or not, whether you're ready for it or not, people are going to look at what you're doing, and they are going to look up to you, and it's not even really about you; it's who you portray on the screen.
Rita Volk
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I don't sit around and wait for great parts. I'm an actress, and I love being one, and I'll probably be doing it till I'm 72, standing around the back lot doing 'Gunsmoke.'
Suzanne Pleshette
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Hitch suggested a name actress to play Marion because the bigger the star the more unbelievable it would be that we would kill her.
Joseph Stefano
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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.
Jamie Lee Curtis
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An actress is not a lady; at least, when she is, she is not an actress.
George Bernard Shaw
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Being an actress is a very physical thing. If I didn't look the way I looked, I would never have started in films.
Catherine Deneuve
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When people say 'You're so beautiful' it makes me want to kill myself! As an actress you want to be seen for what you do, for the characters you can play, otherwise I'd be a model.
Eva Green
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I'm a character actress. It doesn't mean I can't do leading roles; I don't think of myself as a leading lady.
Rena Sofer
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As an actress, you want to try new things. You don't want to repeat yourself. That becomes more important to you, as you get older.
Winona Ryder
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I find it irresponsible to go, 'She's an actress, what does she know?' That means if you're a dentist, what do you know? If you're a lawyer, what do you know? It's our profession, it's what we do. It's not who we are.
Eva Longoria
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Always wanted to be an actress or work with animals and now I get to do both.
Julia Barr
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I've never been the kind of actress that just likes to show up and say my lines. I'm fascinated by what the crew does.
Charlize Theron
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Anybody can say she's an actress. It's another thing to get a job.
Heather Locklear