Famous Quotes & Sayings

I was in the room with a great actress who had no experience with Cherry?s performance ... and we just started working together from scratch.

Abbey Clancy

I was already in a band, and the teachers called my mum in and said: 'Abbey's so clever, it's a total waste if she follows her dream'. But I never wanted to do a job I didn't love, and I'd always wanted to be a model or an actress or a singer.

Maisie Williams

I didn't want to escape my life and become a big actress and live my dreams. That was never the way it was; it was just these amazing opportunities that happened.

Richard Avedon

Marilyn Monroe gave more to the still camera than any actress, any woman I've ever photographed; infinitely more patient, more demanding of herself and more comfortable in front of the camera than away from it.

Virginie LeDoyen

You're always compared to someone, especially when you're a French actress.

Jessica Simpson

I'll be playing this all-American celebrity actress who everybody loves, but she can't get the Oscar-winning drama roles - she thinks the roles she gets are cheesy. She ends up joining the army!

Shohreh Aghdashloo

I proud to say that most of the Iranians love me and love my work. I love them, and I always have them in my mind when I work. There are few people who do not agree with me, but truly, I don't care. I call myself an actress with a mission.

Serinda Swan

I'm pretty sure I became an actress solely because of craft services. When you're a kid and there's a lady walking around with a tray of chocolate and other free candy, that's the best reason to be in the industry!

Jamie Lee Curtis

If I were an actress today at the age of 18, I would never make it, because now our young actresses all seem to be very beautiful and very talented right away.

Kurt Russell

I guarantee you, (Dakota) is the best actress I will work with in my entire career.

Rhea Perlman

I never pictured myself in California. I just thought I would be a character actress in New York on the stage. I never really had that stardom goal; I just wanted to be able to work as an actress and not as a waitress.

Jill Ireland

I'm in so many Charles Bronson films because no other actress will work with him.

Andie MacDowell

I mean, how many times does an actress get to play a school headmistress and then go out and have sex on top of a tombstone? Even when I see it now, I blush.

Allison Anders

I hope the next actress offered millions to play the 'fat girl for the day' stops to think about this before she signs the contract - even if just to ask, like any professional actress would in any other situation, 'Why does she weigh 350 pounds? And why me for the part?' If the director can't answer these questions, don't do the movie.

Jane Badler

I'm a chanteuse and a diva, and I'm an actress who likes a script.

Mili Avital

I loved putting on stories as plays when I was just six. I was the director, the actress and the set designer; I cast my girlfriends in parts, and I suggested to the local kindergarten teachers that we do free performances for the children.

Rachel Bilson

I never actually knew anyone in a coma, ... Well, on 'The Valley' (her favorite show-within-a-show teen soap) there's someone in a coma like every week, but I think they only do that so when the person wakes up, another actress can play the part.

Amy Landecker

The first red carpet I did was at New York's Paris Theatre... It was this beautiful night, and everyone is screaming my name. I'm the least pretentious actress you can ever meet. Someone said to me that I look like I've been doing this forever, and I said that's because I watch E!

Khandi Alexander

I'm not a method actress.

Naomie Harris

I would say only be an actress if you genuinely feel the calling, because it's a tough profession.

Danielle Harris

The characters I've played as an actress have been really challenging and emotionally rewarding, but there was just something missing. I was finding over and over again that directors were looking to me to help with troubles on set as far as characters' relationships, special effects and story points were concerned.

Loni Anderson

The theater is where I belonged; I simply wanted to be an actress my whole life.

Felicity Huffman

And I thought some lucky actress will get to do it. But not me. Someone with clout.

Emily Blunt

Cate's absolutely spellbinding. She was like that just eating a sandwich. I knew at the time I was privileged, but since she's become God's gift to actresses I realise exactly how lucky I was.

This scene originally looked very different. The actress was standing on a wooden platform, surrounded by a railing to keep tourists from falling down the mountain, hardly as dramatic as the finished product. It was amazingly challenging, due to the fact that the camera was constantly moving around her, and the sheer amount of work required to perfect the shot. Trees and bushes had to be added, a village in the background required removal, and clothing was even added to the actress. It was a complete and all encompassing transformation.

Fred Wilson

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Everyone has tried on quite a number of hats to winnow down to what looks good for the actress and works for her character, ... You can tell that some actresses have worn hats a great deal. I have a good time watching them work a hat.

Demi Moore

not through Sean Combs, as everyone said, but through a mutual friend, Sara Foster, an actress who's known Ashton from the day he arrived in Los Angeles.

Wes Craven

The audience that would see that movie, by and large, doesn't go to see horror films, ... It was a great pleasure to make, and to see Meryl (Streep) nominated (for a best actress Oscar) for it. But most of the people I run into who loved it are surprised that I made it. When you have a name that means scares, you have to live with that.

Nothing she's done as an actress has bothered me.

Kurt Russell

Dakota is as good as Meryl Streep. She's as good as Goldie Hawn. There are things about Goldie as an actress that Meryl doesn't carry. And there are things about Meryl that Goldie doesn't carry. But Dakota does. She carries things of both of them. Her perceptions are very sharp.

Ariel Winter

I want to be the kind of actress where, if I'm in the press, I'm in for the right reasons - for my work. To be in the press about family drama is kind of embarrassing.

Gisele Bundchen

It was not like I was taking myself seriously and being like, OK, now I'm going to be an actress and I'm going to do a Shakespeare movie.