Actress Quotes
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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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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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An actress is not a lady; at least, when she is, she is not an actress.
George Bernard Shaw
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I don't think of myself as a dancer. I think of myself as a singer-actress who moves really well.
Sutton Foster
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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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Every woman actress is somewhat vain, and I am, too. You really have to take care of yourself.
Sibel Kekilli
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Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.
Norma Shearer
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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 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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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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An actress must never lose her ego - without it she has no talent.
Norma Shearer
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I must have seen more sunrises than any other actress in the history of Hollywood.
Ava Gardner
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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'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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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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I don't feel comfortable doing movies. It's not what I trained to do. I trained to be a theater actress. You put me on a stage in front of 2,000 people, I know what to do.
Anne Hathaway
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Anybody can say she's an actress. It's another thing to get a job.
Heather Locklear
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I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to.
Isabella Rossellini
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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!'
Eva Green
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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 believe in myself, and that's why I take criticism. You need to be very strong to survive in Bollywood. If someone calls me a bad actress, I won't live with it but will work towards improving myself.
Esha Gupta
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I hope to have a career like Jodie Foster, going from child to adult actress.
Evan Rachel Wood
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Sometimes, an actress maybe knows how to think.
Isabelle Huppert
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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