I've been, for want of a better phrase, a supporting…

For people to even think that I'd be considered or a good candidate for a supporting actress nomination is mind blowing to me.

— Naya Rivera

As a supporting actress, my job is almost like a boxer in the ring, to observe what my opponent is doing and learn how…

— Da'Vine Joy Randolph

Despite my mother saying I have been destined to be an actress my whole life, I remember being the kid who grew up not…

— Shantel VanSanten

I'd wanted to be [an actress] all my life.

— Gena Rowlands

I'd say my happiest moment as an actress came when I learned I'd won the Look Magazine Best Supporting Actress Award for 1956 in…

— Marie Windsor

I was pleased Melissa Leo won Best Supporting Actress for 'The Fighter' at the Oscars. I hope that her outfits are maintained in some…

— Frank Skinner

Men grow up expecting to be the hero of their own story. Women grow up expecting to be the supporting actress in somebody else's…

— Laurie Penny

I feel as though my career really hit its high point when I was cast as a supporting actress in 'American Wedding'. I thought…

— January Jones

People sometimes say, 'Oh, you were a movie star,' and I'm like, 'No, I was a supporting actress.' I wasn't an A-list actress, and…

— Zooey Deschanel

My Mother is an actress, so it's always been a part of my life.

— Alicia Vikander

Sometimes directors come to me when I have to play some horrible thing, scary or hysterical or crying; they ask, 'Did you study somewhere…

— Kristine Opolais

I haven't ever felt I've had to divide my 'actress' life from the rest of my life.

— Bonnie Wright

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

As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.

— Martha Plimpton

I'd wanted to be an actress my whole life, that was my goal, that was all I cared about.

— Kristin Davis