Actresses Quotes · Page 7

There are some actresses who cannot function on the set without having a close relationship with their directors. Their way of communicating…

— Peter Stone

I don't want to say, 'This is where I'm going to be in five years and I'm going to get there no…

— Brooke Burke

When I see an amazing play or movie, it inspires me as an actress and a filmmaker.

— Laura Prepon

[Victoria Clark] is one of those people who has the rarest combination of gifts. I can put her in any classical play…

— Bartlett Sher

When I went to my parents I was at the University of Wisconsin, and I just couldn't wait anymore to go be…

— Gena Rowlands

Failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

— Mary Pickford

Having been an actress before becoming a producer has helped, because I realize the needs

— Shelley Duvall

Many people don't understand the difference between a vocation and your own idea about something. A vocation is a call-one you don't…

— Dolores Hart

My parents never pushed me to be an actress. You can come from a family of actors, and sometimes there have been…

— Violante Placido

It's definitely like being in some weird sorority. I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest.

— Ana Gasteyer

I didn't want [actress] just to be a woman standing at the window, waving hello and goodbye to men as they came…

— Sergio Leone

I think that we're in a really amazing time, where there are really a lot of really fantastic female actresses and comedians.…

— Whitney Cummings

The thinnest I've ever been was after I had my appendix out, during the London run of The Seagull. I went down…

— Carey Mulligan

Film has always been hard for me, I'm basically a stage actress. I never felt comfortable in front of the camera.

— Blythe Danner

I don't believe athletes should be role models. . . . We're a one-shot deal, one in a million, so we should…

— Charles Barkley

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 finally made up my mind I wanted to be an actress and I was not going to let my lack of…

— Marilyn Monroe

The good thing about being shy though as a child is that you become very observant because you're not really actively participating.…

— Rebel Wilson

I think that as actresses - and I've definitely gone through this in a really bizarre way, because I worked so much…

— Winona Ryder

I think women are very powerful and I think we're more powerful together than separated.

— Zendaya

Victor Hugo makes one of his heroines--an actress--say, "My art endows me with a searching eye, a knowledge of the soul and…

— Charlotte Saunders Cushman

My first big acting performance was in the Marilyn Monroe biography piece, and it required frontal nudity. I talked to Mira Sorvino,…

— Ashley Judd

As an actress and comedienne, I'm a huge fan of he theatre and the Tricycle in Kilburn is my favourite in London.…

— Arabella Weir

I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing…

— Tamsin Egerton

If I had known how much I hate auditioning, I doubt I would have become an actress.

— Jaime Murray