Actresses Quotes · Page 23

Marilyn was a great actress, not a dumb blond bombshell. She was very smart, very astute and a good businesswoman.

— Lawrence Schiller

As an actress, you want to try new things. You don't want to repeat yourself. That becomes more important to you, as…

— Winona Ryder

I listened to a lot of tapes of British theatre actresses and tried to learn from them. As Americans, we don't have…

— Angelina Jolie

I was thinking, who of the English actresses in the last 30 or 40 years have achieved as much as I have?

— Joan Collins

I know some black actresses who have to wait every 19 films for a role. I can be cast in practically every…

— D. B. Sweeney

There is a pressure on actresses to look in a certain way. Like, when I have to go out for promotion or…

— Radhika Apte

There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material.

— Meryl Streep

At the Academy Award Dinners all the actors and actresses in Hollywood gather around to see what someone else thinks about their…

— Bob Hope

I'm a theater actress and I thrive on working with other actors, and you can't be even a smidge bad, when you're…

— Daniela Bobadilla

My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it.…

— Nicole Kidman

Most actors and actresses are performative as people. It goes part and parcel with the profession and New York actors who are…

— Zoe Lister-Jones

I'd love to play a femme fatale in a film noir. I'm thinking of one of those roles that Lauren Bacall or…

— Diana Quick

Charlotte Rampling is someone I've wanted to work with for a very long time. I've always looked up to her as an…

— Kirsten Dunst

Actors always have to fight for the good parts. There are so few good roles written for women each year, and when…

— Halle Berry

I'm kind of a disciplined person but I don't take anything too seriously. And I think a lot of that had to…

— Angela Cartwright

The cynical, caustic, acid-tongued New York drama critic Addison De Witt introduces his protege/date of the moment, a bimbo date and so-called…

— George Sanders

Anna Magnani, Sophia Loren, Meryl Streep - I love actresses that are strong and fragile at the same time. They bring complexity…

— Moran Atias

I am one of the few actresses who isn't recognized by the way she looks. I'm recognized by the way I talk

— Joey Lauren Adams

I wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses' plastic…

— Bette Midler

A man who opens a door for a woman or gives up his seat for her-even offering to carry something! Those are…

— Andie MacDowell

I still feel, when I meet actresses, no matter how high-profile they are, that they are starved for good roles.

— Susanna Fogel

Actresses are nightmares. I don't hang out with any of them. That's a problem with my profession. I try not to be…

— Gina Gershon

I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened…

— Laura Bell Bundy

Usually, if there is a woman's part in a piece, there's only one, so you've got no other actresses to work with.

— Glenda Jackson

We've all seen great actors and actresses who are missing a certain chemistry. And it's not about getting along or not getting…

— Johnny Galecki

How many actresses get to say that they played an astronaut? Those roles don't come easy.

— Pooja Batra

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

I personally love Jennifer Lawrence. She's an amazing actress, but so young and fresh and youthful.

— Maria Sharapova

I'm a guy who is married to an actress, who has three children, and lives in Tribeca. Where do you draw the…

— Paul Bettany

There are so many talented people in film today. There seem to be poor scripts, but the actors and actresses are very…

— Frederick Lenz

There are so many glamorous actresses, but you know what? In the real world, nobody looks like that.

— Rebel Wilson

I've joked that I would have either become schizophrenic or an actress, but as an actress you can do both.

— Carla Gugino

I was the youngest of five, and I think my mother always knew I was meant to be an actress.

— Isabelle Huppert

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

I had no interest in really becoming an actress or doing that kind of thing I just knew that I wanted to…

— Susan Downey

I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity, and that includes all kinds of parts.

— Marilyn Monroe

You never know what's around the corner unless you peek. Hold someone's hand while you do it. You will feel less scared.

— Amy Poehler

As an actress, I'm drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I'm fortunate to have thoughts…

— Diane Keaton

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

— Ellen Page

As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within…

— Rachel Weisz