Actresses Quotes · Page 23

I've never understood the notion that actors and actresses should look great on-screen just because they're on-screen. That doesn't make sense to…

— Kate Winslet

I said, 'I'll give myself two years. If I can't support myself as an actress within two years, then I'll go back…

— Khandi Alexander

I think male roles are generally much better written. So for actresses, we're always dealing with trying to inject a role with…

— Judy Davis

I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother.

— Kristin Scott Thomas

An actress spends a lifetime observing people. You build up a mental library. No, not a library. Make that a repository.

— Marian Seldes

My father was a director, and he used to always tell me, "You should be an actress." When I was 17, he…

— Katey Sagal

People that are obsessed with hating you, feel flattered. Their whole lives revolve around you.

— Lady Gaga

Within the various acts of the ecodrama should be included scenes in which men's and women's roles come to center stage and…

— Carolyn Merchant

If you read reviews that you think by their very nature are not respectful of the actresses involved or not appreciating the…

— Romola Garai

My mother wanted to be an actress. She wanted to follow her dreams and she never really got a chance to do…

— Mike Colter

When I was a kid, I was into psychological thrillers. When I was 12, my favorite movie was 'Thirteen.' I just really…

— Leven Rambin

My mom (Kate McCauley) is an actress, so I guess she's the one that taught me it was a possibility. For as…

— Anne Hathaway

There’s something about Olivia de Havilland that has always set her apart from other actresses. Maybe it’s the combination of warmth, sensitivity…

— Robert Osborne

She [Monica Vitti] was a great actress, but a very difficult person. I am not in contact with her at the moment…

— Giovanna Cau

I would like to be one of those actresses who can do anything. I would like to be like Meryl Streep some…

— Amanda Seyfried

I know a lot of people who are 12 and doing things they shouldnt be doing. Whether youre an actress or a…

— Serena Williams

When you're an actress, you become this thing in people's hands that people are trying to manipulate. I cannot stand it.

— Julie Delpy

My mother told me that when I was born a wave of feeling came over her. She just knew that I was…

— Kirsten Dunst

I don't want to feel that I'm a singer or an actress - being able to say that those are just experiences…

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

It's really maddening out there for dark-skinned actresses in terms of the opportunities we get. There's just so much talent that is…

— Rutina Wesley

I got started as an actress doing musical theater, and I always loved 'Grease' and 'West Side Story,' and all those kind…

— Sara Paxton

“Now my uncle knew many of them [actresses] personally, and also ladies of another class, not clearly distinguished from actresses in my…

— Marcel Proust

I do think that, at one time, being an actress was the equivalent almost of being a prostitute. It garnered roughly the…

— Michelle Pfeiffer

When you dance intensely, you are really aware of your physicality, and that's always great to have as a tool, when you're…

— Mia Wasikowska

I'd like to break some new ground, maybe in TV presenting, rather than just be an actress.

— Cherie Lunghi

As an actress - and as an actor, too, but it's worse for actresses - you constantly get picked apart for how…

— Lizzy Caplan

It's a misnomer to say that actresses are not smart; they're deeply in touch with their emotions.

— Soha Ali Khan

There's a lot of actresses out there who are the girl next door. I relate more to characters who have an edge.

— Eliza Dushku

It's bad enough that I'm an actress that wants to be recognized as an actress. Instead, I am known for doing game…

— Betsy Palmer

This was an actress who, for twenty years, had the world at her feet. She kicked it away, and the ball rolled…

— James Agate

Molly Shannon such an interesting actress that portrays vulnerability and danger at the same time, because she seems brittle in that role.

— Bryan Fuller

At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger.

— Jacqueline Bisset

I know there are a lot of tall, beautiful actresses like Uma Thurman and Nicole Kidman who are my height, but they're…

— Allison Janney

Jodie Foster may continue to outwardly ignore me for the rest of my life, but I have made her one of the…

— Anonymous

I know of few actresses who have this incredible talent for communicating with a camera lens. She would try to seduce a…

— Philippe Halsman

I think I can be beautiful with all the little stuff done, and I can be ugly. A lot of attractive actresses…

— Juliette Lewis

I don't think I'm curvaceous. It's simply that most other actresses are really, stupidly tiny.

— Hayley Atwell

The pressure for an actress to look good and be skeletally thin is insane and unrealistic and it's a subject I've been…

— Zoe Cassavetes

While complex acting roles are lacking for actresses, what's even more rare are female directors.

— Phoebe Robinson

I wanted to be an actress. I think it had a lot to do with being a kid and watching how every…

— Eleanor Mondale