Onstage, I was never the ingenue.

I love playing an ingenue, and I love doing revivals, and I will continue to do that.

— Kelli O'Hara

I've always wanted my characters to have more dimension and realistic cores than the ingenue material often provides. It's been a challenge.

— Kelli O'Hara

I could never play the ingenue, the girl next door or the very successful young doctor. That would be a bore.

— Jennifer Jason Leigh

I never played an ingenue.

— LaTanya Richardson

I saw I wasn't an ingenue like Debbie Reynolds.

— Charlotte Rae

I was never an ingenue. I've traveled the globe, I've backpacked through South America, I've done conservation work in Africa. I was never the…

— Annabelle Wallis

I've never wanted to be the ingenue.

— Debi Mazar

“She wished she had eyes like her sister, huge and bright, constantly straddling the line between terrified child and ingénue.”

— Thomm Quackenbush

I'm certainly not 10 pounds away from being an ingenue! Of course I would love to lose 10 pounds. I would never lie and…

— Marissa Jaret Winokur

I can't be an ingenue forever, and I wouldn't want to be.

— Lea Salonga

I've never wanted to be the ingenue. Now that I'm getting into my forties, I think my time as a woman has arrived; I…

— Debi Mazar

I would not want to go back to playing the ingenue.

— Winona Ryder

I was never one of those actors who believed, 'I'm so gonna be an ingenue.' I already knew that wasn't gonna happen, and I…

— Keala Settle

I know the fact I've worked continuously since drama school means I fit a stereotype - the ingenue.

— Phoebe Fox

Frankly, there is no shorter shelf life other than that of a child actor, than that of the ingenue.

— Patricia Arquette