Actress Quotes

Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.

Norma Shearer
- Actress
- Motion
- Ecstasy
I'm looking forward to becoming a marvelous - excuse the word marvelous - character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.

Marilyn Monroe

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
- Laugh
- Actress
- Figure
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
- Make
- Actress
- Talanted
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
- Gay
- Actress
- Worse
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.

Adele
- Career
- Singing
- Weight
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
- People
- Doing
- Ready
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
- Theater
- Cry
- Private