Actresses Quotes · Page 45

I love theatre - it's where I started - and I've directed a play myself. I'm not sure if I want to…

— Cate Blanchett

I actually made an effort to reject acting, to shove it out of my body, because I didn't want my kids to…

— Lisa Kudrow

I love the variety of films. In theater, you go into a room and the director runs the room, so you all…

— Eddie Redmayne

I met with Hitchcock when I was a very, very young actress just starting out and he was making 'Frenzy' in London…

— Helen Mirren

We should try to hold on to the Christmas spirit, not just one day a year, but all 365.

— Mary Martin

My dad is a director/producer and my mom is a dancer; she performed with Alvin Ailey, but I didn't even think about…

— Sanaa Lathan

There's always an imbalance with actors and actresses in the industry. And I think because there are just fewer movies overall being…

— Michelle Pfeiffer

... actresses require protection in their art from blind abuse, from savage criticism. Their work is their religion, if they are seeking…

— Nance O'Neil

Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin.…

— Zooey Deschanel

But I remember the morning after The Mask of Virtue-which is the first play I did at the West End-that some critics…

— Vivien Leigh

You're an actress! It's not about your ideas! You're there to tell other people's stories.

— Reese Witherspoon

If I hadn't been an actress, I was thinking seriously about going into psychology. It's just really what I'm interested in: the…

— Claire Danes

The art of an actress is sublimated sexuality. But off the stage the fire must be able to reconvert the steam into…

— Karl Kraus

When you're an actress, there are only a few times you can really get paid. One of them is doing a sequel.…

— Jennifer Coolidge

It's a new low for actresses when you have to wonder what is between her ears instead of her legs.

— Katharine Hepburn

Look at the parts the Oscar-nominated actresses played this year: hooker, hooker, hooker, hooker, and nun.

— Nora Ephron

The first time an autograph hunter told me, 'You are my mother's favorite actress,' I aged twenty years.

— Ingrid Bergman

As a woman, she [Penelope Cruz] obviously has changed as she has become an adult. But, as an actress, I actually might…

— Pedro Almodovar

I always loved working as an actress, but I didn't understand why I couldn't just opt out of being famous. And then…

— Debra Winger

My mom's a nurse so I'd kind of grown up with, around medicine which is probably why I became an actress instead.

— Rachel McAdams

I love actresses who are brave and don't do what's expected of them or don't play off how they look or take…

— Kelly Reilly

A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being…

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

I wanted to be an actress. In college I was a serious feminist and very political. I was determined to get one…

— Christine Lahti

As soon as an actress is past 40, they call her a grande dame. As long as I'm here in good health,…

— Jeanne Moreau

[Roger] Vadim became famous worldwide as a director, and I as an actress, but the other side of the coin was terrible.…

— Brigitte Bardot