Ingenue Quotes

26 quotes by 25 authors

I don't want to be the ingenue anymore. It's nice to be glamorous, but I don't want to always be an object of desire. Because… — Scarlett Johansson
I've never been interested in playing the boring ingenue, — Melissa McCarthy
Onstage, I was never the ingenue. — Kristen Johnston
In my fantasies, I always wanted to play the ingenue, but in reality, in my bones, I am so used to playing the grandmother that… — Camryn Manheim
I spend a lot of time at my sonâ€™s school and I really wanted to do a movie that the kids could see. The good… — Virginia Madsen
I'm trying to show I'm a trained actress - I can transform myself into different characters. I'm not just an ingenue. — Ming-Na Wen
I'm not afraid to play my age. I never was. I've never been an ingenue. I like getting older. — Maria Bello
I've never wanted to be the ingenue. Now that I'm getting into my forties, I think my time as a woman has arrived; I think… — Debi Mazar
I can't be an ingenue forever, and I wouldn't want to be. — Lea Salonga
But I've always been hard to cast, I've never been an ingenue, I've never been the romantic lead. I'm an actor; give me the script… — Edie Falco
I guess I've never really had a great desire to be a leading lady, or be seen as an ingenue. — Melanie Lynskey
I come from the theater, and I've done a lot of character work in the theater, but Hollywood stuff in film and TV, they've been… — Sanaa Lathan
I couldn't get any of the ingenue roles when younger because at 5 feet 9 inches with a deep voice I was always too... genue.… — Olivia Williams
Not that it was Twiggy's fault, but the ubiquity of her image created a sense in young women that to be stylish meant to be… — Susie Orbach
I was never an ingenue. I've always just been a character actor. When I was younger, it was a real problem, because I was never… — Kathy Bates
I was never the ingenue, so hopefully that'll make it easier to age and still work. I know a lot of actors who are really… — Hope Davis
I think of myself more as a character actor than that ingenue leading lady, who started out something like Michelle Pfeiffer, or Jessica Lange. I'm… — Joan Allen
For me to want to be an actor was an improbable idea. I wasn't beautiful or pretty in any conventional way. I wasn't an ingenue… — Linda Hunt
I always chose sophisticated parts because you can't really be interesting as a young girl or outstanding as an ingenue. — Norma Shearer
I was never the ingenue or the pretty girlfriend of Tom Cruise in a movie. I didn't have that career, so I don't have to… — Jodie Foster

Who Wrote These Ingenue Quotes

25 authors contributed a total of 26 Ingenue Quotes as follows: