Actress Quotes
1218 Actress quotes by 803 unique authors
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I'm proud of my wrinkles. They give my face character. As an actress, you mess with that at your peril.
— Jane Seymour
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Interestingly, the actress who, in her own persona, may be gentle, shy, and socially awkward, someone whose hand trembles when pouring a cup of tea…
— Wallace Shawn
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Actresses are kind of a little crazy.
— Russell Simmons
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I mean, I think that - as an actress, in particular, I'm basically a fool, and I see the world upside down.
— Anna Deavere Smith
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When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses…
— Anna Deavere Smith
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I have been criticized a lot for not looking perfect in every photograph. I'm not embarrassed about it. I'm proud of it. If I took…
— Kristen Stewart
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I've been working as an actress since I was very young, and I know a lot of people who are actors who don't have to…
— Kristen Stewart
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I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.
— Meryl Streep
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There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material.
— Meryl Streep
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
— Barbra Streisand
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I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
— Barbra Streisand
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I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
— Barbra Streisand
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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
— Barbra Streisand
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Certain type of actresses get younger instead of older. I always say, 'Only ingenues age.'
— Elaine Stritch
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I've been on 'Days' since I was 16, and being surrounded by such thin, gorgeous actresses made me so insecure and self-conscious.
— Alison Sweeney
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Sally Field looks amazing in general, never mind her age! She's a phenomenally talented actress and has had a career spanning so many decades.
— Alison Sweeney
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I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.
— Taylor Swift
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I remember when I first started in the business, I lost a lot of friends. Some were jealous, some were annoyed at the fact that…
— Amber Tamblyn
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I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother.
— Kristin Scott Thomas
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The problem with being a film actress or a movie star is that people see you so huge that somehow you're visually massive or somehow…
— Kristin Scott Thomas
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I used up every cent I earned as an actress.
— Gene Tierney
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I just thought acting would be something to help out with my student loans, but my first year as an actress, I made more money…
— Gabrielle Union
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After Halle Berry does her films and Queen Latifah does her films, it's left to all the black, Latino and Asian actresses to fight over…
— Gabrielle Union
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I am only an actress when they say, 'action' and I stop being an actress when they say, 'cut'. I am a normal person outside…
— Paz Vega
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I didn't want to be an actress. I wanted to be a dentist, but you never know what life will bring you.
— Sofia Vergara
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