Actresses Quotes · Page 36

One of the rules about being an actor or an actress is that you never diss other actors or actresses, particularly when…

— Joan Collins

There's still a bit of a problem, in that so many leading English roles are taken by American or French actresses.

— Joely Richardson

Facials are my biggest beauty indulgence. Looking good is about having a good base. It's about taking care of your skin.

— Halle Berry

There's a kind of amateurishness among French actresses, but I don't share that completely.

— Clemence Poesy

I'm self-centered, inconsiderate, and what was the third adjective? Oh, yes, and I have this infantile fantasy that one day I'll amount…

— Jay Presson Allen

I wanted to watch the women interacting with [Warren Beatty], which takes he chose, and how the actresses were reacting in scenes…

— Lily Collins

For me, modelling has been an advantage because if I hadn't been modelling, I would never have been spotted as an actress.…

— Bipasha Basu

I've never been the kind of actress that just likes to show up and say my lines. I'm fascinated by what the…

— Charlize Theron

Blair liked to think of herself as a hopeless romantic in the style of old movie actresses like Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn…

— Cecily von Ziegesar

An actress reading a part for the first time tries many ways to say the same line before she settles into the…

— Stella Chess

Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and…

— Anonymous

I love films that make me react emotionally and physically when you walk out of the cinema. Two of my favorite films…

— Alicia Vikander

Initially I started in theatre as a Shakespearean actress before film and television. I've always been an artistic child growing up and…

— Lorraine Toussaint

I'm going with Charlotte Rampling. In 45 Years [movie], you start out feeling so bad for her, and then it kind of…

— Bun B

I was excited to play Lil' Kim and I wanted to do the role justice. I worked really hard on that role,…

— Naturi Naughton

Coming from Ireland, its quite hard to do a startup because youre culturally so far away from what everyone else is doing.…

— John Collison

I think Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they don't sell…

— Kathleen Turner

There are so many actresses that I love. I think Jennifer Lawrence is a prodigy. I think Elle Fanning is absolutely amazing.

— Marion Cotillard

I always wanted to get into the horror genre. I like scary movies. I want to go to the fan shows and…

— Illeana Douglas

There are very few actresses who can grow old and still get exciting parts... I think it's very important for me to…

— Clemence Poesy

I do think that there is an almost more old fashioned mentality to the way musical theatre people and actresses especially are…

— Laura Benanti

People used to always ask, and I would say I wanted to be an actress. When they would ask why, I would…

— Jennifer Ehle

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe…

— Marilyn Monroe

It was my life, playing Juliet. From that moment on I was convinced I was going to be an actress. That was…

— Mary Elizabeth Winstead

I think the actresses who are really successful are comfortable in their own skins and still look human.

— Emma Watson

I'm a theater actress. I love rehearsal. I could have six weeks of rehearsal and think it's not enough. But on film,…

— Kelly Reilly

I'm free of an abusive cult, based on money and power that worships a fictional deity and safely back with the Catholic…

— Katie Holmes

The common misconception is that as an actress you have to learn what you're doing. No, you just have to make the…

— Edie Falco

Lately I did a film called All I Want for Christmas and it was well received. This gave me a new point…

— Sarah Polley

Most women I know are not actresses, but they work for the U.N. or are documentary filmmakers, anthropologists.

— Annabelle Wallis

My first girlfriend in high school, I had a girlfriend in grade school, but my first girlfriend in high school was Mare…

— Val Kilmer

When youre a young English person who wants to be an actress and you have dreams, you dream of being Vanessa Redgrave…

— Janet McTeer

I may be the first actress to admit that beauty doesn't hold you back. I think beauty is a gift that you…

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

I was big on movies when I was little. I always wanted to be certain actresses and do my thing like that.

— LeToya Luckett

Actresses generally arent allowed to have haircuts, because short hair isnt considered as versatile.

— Rosamund Pike

I want people to look at my films and say 'Wow, she's a good actress', and I know I'll have to work…

— Bella Thorne

You dont grow up in a town of 700 thinking youre going to be an actress. I loved doing [school] plays, but…

— Michelle Monaghan

I think it's incumbent on actresses to bring something else to the part which isn't in the script.

— Natascha McElhone

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

— Reese Witherspoon

A lot of people don't make the correlation between acting and modeling, they think of them as two separate things. But I…

— Michael Flutie