Actresses Quotes · Page 29

As an actress, and as a person, I really admire Diane Keaton. She's feisty, strong, beautiful and talented, and intelligent.

— Evangeline Lilly

I didn't want to be an actress at all, or famous even. I certainly enjoy acting now, absolutely. Time will tell whether…

— Gabourey Sidibe

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

Hi. My name is Debby, and I am a storyteller. I don't think of myself as an actress. I am more like…

— Debby Ryan

Well, I'm not a method actress by any stretch of the imagination so the best thing that I can do is be…

— Rashida Jones

I just want to do a good job with each role that I take and continue to better myself as an actress…

— Emma Stone

I am changing the notion that actresses can’t have happy marriages

— Mercy Johnson

I'm sporting some really blonde hair because I live in Hollywood and I'm an actress.

— Sarah Paulson

There's so much more I want to do. I refuse to get to 50 and wait at home for the phone to…

— Penelope Cruz

I consider myself an actress first, a dancer second, and a singer third. Why? Because the dancer needs a reason to move-that's…

— Liza Minnelli

I didn't want to be known as the reality-show star trying to be an actress, so I kept a lot of the…

— Jamie Chung

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

When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is…

— Doris Roberts

You absolutely feel, as a black actress, that you've got to ride the wave because there's just so few roles. I hate…

— Viola Davis

I was hoping to be a healthy example, because we can't all look like all of these actresses and the models you…

— Ginnifer Goodwin

I think actresses are imagined to be these subjects of great vanity. Life is change; physicality changes. It's transient, and that's a…

— Uma Thurman

If I wasn't an actress I would run a fortune 500 company.

— Sela Ward

When the movies first started, audiences were dumbstruck to see actresses walking around in evening gowns. They'd never seen anything like that.…

— Bette Midler

I believe in Amy Winehouse. I know she’s not with us anymore but I believe she was who she was and in…

— Lana Del Rey

I want to keep growing and I want to be an actress for as long as I can.

— Jenny Slate

This world would be a whole lot better if we just made an effort to be less horrible to one another.

— Ellen Page

The great writers like Chekhov know that tragedy and laughter are just a few steps from each other ... but it took…

— Vanessa Redgrave

It [prejudice] is such a waste. It makes you logy and half-alive. It gives you nothing. It takes away.

— Dorothy Dandridge

I'm an actress and mom, and I probably don't have enough of an active spiritual life. And I don't know why people…

— Uma Thurman

I hope Hong Kong and Asia wants to hire American Asian actresses as much as Hollywood has been hiring Chinese actors from…

— Ming-Na Wen