Actress Quote by Heather Langenkamp

I guess I became an actress because I didn't want to be myself.

— Jean Arthur

With acting, I always felt like I didn't have control of it. It was all about other people giving me a job.

— Nina Conti

When I announced that I wanted to become an actress, my parents were dead against it. I had to put up a huge fight.

— Simi Garewal

I decided to be an actress, and the day after, I was an actress. That was quick and very scary at the same time.…

— Carole Bouquet

For a long time, I was almost ashamed of being an actress. I felt like it was a shallow occupation. People would be watching…

— Winona Ryder

When you're an actress, you become this thing in people's hands that people are trying to manipulate. I cannot stand it.

— Julie Delpy

There was a lot I wanted to do. I wasn't an actress out there trying to be an actress. I was really kind of…

— Shannyn Sossamon

It changed my life, being in 'Company.' I didn't think I was going to be an actress.

— Barbara Barrie

You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me. That's why…

— Helena Bonham Carter

At the age of 16, I decided to rebel and become an actress. I wasn't happy with rules and regulations.

— Leslie Hope

Not to get overly psychological about this, but it's probably why I became an actress in the first place: for that kind of freedom…

— Marisa Tomei

I was really conflicted. I had always planned to help the world. Instead, I was going to become an actress? That seemed like such…

— Maria Bello