Actress Quotes

1218 Actress quotes by 803 unique authors

As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself.… — Naturi Naughton
I don't think of myself as a star. An actress is nothing remarkable. — Gong Li
I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think it must be… — Meg Tilly
I don't want to be a great actress. I want to be a sexy movie star. — Angie Dickinson
As a dancer I couldn't outdance Ginger Rogers or Eleanor Powell. As a singer I'm no rival to Doris Day. As an actress I don't… — Betty Grable
Everybody thinks about Bo Derek as being this extravagant looking lady but she is also a wonderful actress. — Wayne Rogers
My hard work and excellent training entitled me to be a better actress than some of my competitors — Pola Negri
Make your wardrobe as versatile as an actress. It should be able to play many roles. — Joan Crawford
The only thing I like about being an actress is acting. — Elizabeth Ashley
The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how… — Terence McKenna
My male counterpart will get paid ten times more than me -- ten times. Not double, but ten times for the same job. We only… — Hilary Swank
You see, she was gonna be an actress and I was gonna learn to fly. She took off to find the footlights, and I took… — Harry Chapin
I made a conscious decision back then that I would rather be the best actress who ever lived than the most famous one. — Sally Kirkland
As a model, I didn't have an identity; I was a chameleon, a silent actress. I was an amorphous thing. I wasn't full of personality,… — Carmen Dell'Orefice
There are people who expect me to look the way I do on-screen, where I have a great director of photography and fantastic lighting. I'm… — Catherine Zeta-Jones
I may be the first actress to admit that beauty doesn't hold you back. I think beauty is a gift that you have to make… — Catherine Zeta-Jones
It's hard in L.A. not to go out, it gets lonely. Being an actress is lonely, and I never want to be alone. I hate… — Lindsay Lohan
My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in the blanks… — Amy Adams
I think that when you’re an actress, you have to think about what kind of a role model you’re going to be. I hope that… — Saoirse Ronan
I am a super-confident writer, and as a joke writer and as an actress, I'm like, 'I want to go head-to-head with every person.' I… — Mindy Kaling
What's awful about being famous and being an actress is when people come up to you and touch you. That's scary, and they just seem… — Winona Ryder
Good actresses can often accomplish miracles, and it is possible to be someone you've never been or will be. But in a sitcom, there's no… — Patricia Richardson
I love theatre - it's where I started - and I've directed a play myself. I'm not sure if I want to direct a film,… — Cate Blanchett
I think the reason I'm an actress is because I love playing kind of a more extreme people. — Melissa McCarthy
It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be… — Christine Lahti

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