Acting Quote by Barbie Ferreira

Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting. They only think of stardom. If you photograph…

— Lauren Bacall

Where I come from, out in the suburbs, I didn't know anyone who was a professional actor. And girls that looked like me? No…

— Rebel Wilson

I didn't see a lot of women who looked like me on TV when I was growing up.

— Kelly McCreary

I feel strongly for the younger actresses when a lot of their career is based on how they look. That must be hard when…

— Janet McTeer

It's important for me to not just do the same type of roles and movies that I've seen actresses that look like me do.

— KiKi Layne

I want to push the boundaries on the roles that have historically been given to actresses who look like me. There is so much…

— KiKi Layne

Growing up, I remember watching TV, and I didn't see a lot of people who looked like me, especially someone who passed as a…

— Hannah Simone

Part of me has always wanted to be like Marilyn Monroe or any Fifties Hollywood starlet. On screen, they seemed so sexy and simple…

— Katherine Ryan

I didn't see a lot of role models or women who looked like me on screen when I was growing up. For me, one…

— Letitia Wright

I'm a character actor but unlike a lot of character actors, I don't look radically different from film to film and there was a…

— Curtis Armstrong

“the casting had been typically Hollywood: they didn't look or act a bit alike.”

— Thomas Pynchon

I've become accustomed to not being cast for television and film because of how I look.

— Donna Lynne Champlin