Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amanda Burton

No, I always wanted to be an actress.

Maude Adams

The delightful sense of importance that had been mine as a child actress was taken out of me. It seemed as if anyone could do better than I did. In every part I was worse than in the one before, and even my mother admitted that it would be a mercy if gestures could be dispensed with entirely.

Brad Paisley

I have a very down-to-earth father. My wife is an actress and famous herself is more down-to-earth than anyone I know.

Ethel Barrymore

For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.

Keiko Agena

I am really fortunate to have parents who supported my plan to become an actress when I was a little kid. And then there was my grandma. She was the best. She was always there and ready to drive me to all my plays and stuff.

Sophie Marceau

You know I could stop working as an actress and still be doing promotion on movies I did ten years ago. And I don't like to do the same thing forever.

Jennifer Garner

My sisters both are working mothers. I understand that my being an actress as well as being at home isn't some heroic thing. That doesn't mean it isn't confusing or difficult - especially that question of how you find a balance.

Joel Kinnaman

My sister was an actress when I was a kid - she still is a successful stage actress in Sweden.

Raj Babbar

It is a shame that an actress of her stature has to go through this.

Tamsin Egerton

Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.

I was completely thrilled. I was just really happy. She's just a wonderful, wonderful collaborator. She's a really good actress and a genuinely nice person and that's a rare thing. She works incredibly hard -- she's in virtually every scene.

Mandy Moore

I think it's the fun and the challenge as an actress to get a meaty part like this and sort of play against type. Sally is pretty far from who I am, so I definitely enjoyed it.

Ravi Shankar

It is natural to have your favorite actor or actress or musician or composer. But India is the only place where we fight over it.

John Cusack

I was working with a great actress - a superior artist in every way - and she really liked Celine Dion. I tried very hard, but I couldn't understand it. I just can't listen to Celine Dion! So I guess music is a deal breaker.

Tanit Phoenix

I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.

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.

Alicia Silverstone

I knew that I wanted to be a film actress and I never watched TV. I was always too busy.

AnnaLynne McCord

I always wanted to be an actress. I couldn't imagine being anything else.

Kathy Bates

what informs her, both as an actress and as a director, is that she's a keen observer of the human condition.

Dree Hemingway

My favorite question is 'What do you do?' I'm like, 'I'm a walking cliche: I'm a model and an actress.

Christy Turlington

Now every model wants to be an actress

Clive Owen

You see these actresses who have had Botox or something else done, and it takes you out of the film.

Angela Lansbury

I really wanted to go back to the theater, the live theater. That was the thing I had never had a chance to do, even though I had trained to be a stage actress.

Garry Marshall

I was much surprised by how good an actress she is.

Jyoti Amge

I would like to be an actress in Hollywood and win an Oscar. The only difference is my height.

Sammi Hanratty

I would like to do something that pushes me as an actress to make me better. I would love to do something dramatic or crazy. I think that would be so much fun.

Anna Nicole Smith

I just know I'm going to be an actress. I want it so bad.

Anna Nicole Smith

I wanted to become a model and an actress.

Claire Bloom

Security has no place in the life of an actress.

Shelley Long

I don't get bothered about statistics. If somebody had pointed out to me the odds of my being a working actress getting paid for what she does, I probably would have quit early in the game.

Isabella Rossellini

I became an actress way into my 30s because I thought that I had to find my own way, and that's why I worked so much in modelling, until I realised that the differences between acting and modelling weren't that great. I always say that modelling is a little bit like being a silent actress.

Isabella Rossellini

Once I realised that my job as a model was to emote in front of the camera, I thought, 'Well now, I just have to add words, and I can do films.' But also, my success as a model made me more confident about becoming an actress because, just in case I failed, I thought, 'Well, you know, if I failed as an actress, I can do another job.'