Actresses Quotes · Page 4

I'd wanted to be [an actress] all my life.

— Gena Rowlands

And Brooke Elliott is a great actress.

— Tim Gunn

I am going to be a great actress.

— Vivien Leigh

I need a coffee to go with my coffee.

— Zooey Deschanel

As an actress, I'm an emotional person.

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Sometimes actresses are just insane.

— James Ransone

I knew I wanted to be an actress as soon as I popped out.

— Dee Wallace

Family issues and a failing career would be enough to consume most young actresses.

— Jane Velez-Mitchell

I'm an actress, model and athlete, and I'd put athlete third on the list.

— Serena Williams

If I only dated actresses, Id be a very lonely man.

— Joshua Jackson

Everything that I play as an actress is a different aspect of me.

— Virginia Madsen

In Spain, actresses work until they are old. That's my plan.

— Penelope Cruz

The shelf life of a movie actor or actress is so short, it's like milk.

— Graydon Carter

I’d really love to be a versatile, chameleon-like actress, stretching myself a bit.

— Gabriella Wilde

I like not knowing about my favourite actresses and actors. I love seeing Meryl Streep up there and knowing so little about…

— Alicia Vikander

Most things don't work out as expected, but what happens instead often turns out to be the good stuff.

— Judi Dench

My wife is my favorite actress. Without question. I have seen more jaws drop in little theaters when people see my wife…

— Jim Parrack

I'd love to work with Michelle Williams. I think that she's incredible. She's such a great actress and I love her.

— Abigail Breslin

In England, with all due respect, we have some of the plainest actresses in the entire world as our greatest.

— Minnie Driver

Actresses cannot have any inhibitions while portraying bold characters. It is something that we learn on the first page of the book…

— Jacqueline Fernandez

I mean, the actors that I admired were Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, an actress named Barbara Harris. And Greta Garbo. They were…

— Robert De Niro

To look into that persons eyes and find yourself so completely lost in another world, a world full of absolute comfort and…

— Lily Collins

Suddenly you're the mom, or you go from ... You're not an ingénue, you don't want to play an ingénue, but it's…

— Winona Ryder

You're responsible for yourself as an actress, you know that your personal growth goes through that alchemy, and you give as much…

— Jeanne Moreau

As a performer, you can't just sit around waiting for the phone to ring. You have to write and develop projects for…

— Wendi McLendon-Covey

I found it hugely insulting that people believed I'd go so far out of my way - living with Playmates, vacationing with…

— Mike Piazza

It was a lot of fun being a child actress. It suited me. I don't think it suits everybody, but I was…

— Alanna Ubach

What's awful about being famous and being an actress is when people come up to you and touch you. That's scary, and…

— Winona Ryder

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

— Peter Stone

The terrifying thing in my life is that I am just an actress. And I have to keep pushing it and getting…

— Elaine Stritch

I can tell you one other story about Rent Control. The lead actress in the film, her name was Elizabeth Stack, and…

— Brent Spiner

Sarah Brown is a sweetie to work with. She's a good actress. She's gutsy and she comes in and she knows her…

— Jacklyn Zeman

So I hope to stretch my acting skills. I got to a point in my dancing where I felt like I did…

— Julianne Hough

I had a Saturday job in a chemist. The pay was something ridiculous like £2 an hour - it was slave labour…

— Konnie Huq

Occasionally, on screen, Barbara [Stanwyck] had a wary, watchful quality about her that I've noticed in other people who had bad childhoods;…

— Robert Wagner

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

— Vanessa Redgrave

Parents can fail to cheer your successes as wildly as you expected, pointing out that you are sharing your Nobel Prize with…

— Frank Pittman

Jodie Foster did it, Natalie Portman did it. I think it's entirely possible to juggle university with filming... I actually think going…

— Emma Watson

I wasn't born an actress, you know. Events made me one.

— Jean Harlow

I didn't know whether I wanted to be an actress or a singer then.

— Julie Harris