Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joel Kinnaman

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

Theater owners are scrambling to get the Best Picture nominees or the big stars. If your film only gets a supporting actor or actress nomination, you can get squeezed out.

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.

Dakota Fanning

I would love to have a career like the one she's had, from child actress to just actress. And she directs. And everybody knows how smart she is.

Maria Valverde

My best actress of all time is Kate Winslet. I want to be just like her. 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' is one of my favourite films.

Deborah Kerr

I suppose the part nearest me is Laura Reynolds in Tea and Sympathy. Of course playright Bob Anderson didn't know that, but he wrote Laura Reynolds and Laura Reynolds happened to be me. It was the coming together of a part and an actress - the same attitude to life, a certain shyness in life, a deep compassion for people who are being persecuted for anything.

Honeysuckle Weeks

WI played a young Helena Bonham Carter in a BBC film called 'A Dark Adapted Eye,' and I thought she was a completely spellbinding person. Totally unmoved by other people's expectations, fashions or opinions. She's probably the coolest English actress there is. Incredibly idiosyncratic.

Jayne Mansfield

To function as an actress, I have to be in love. I have to have that incentive to work.

Carla Gugino

I've joked that I would have either become schizophrenic or an actress, but as an actress you can do both.

Janet Fitch

she was such a bad actress. she never said her lines rite, it was something perverse in her nature. and wat was her line anyway?

Gisele Bundchen

I never really thought about being an actress or being anything like that. I was always a bit scared as well because of the thing about models becoming an actress and all that.

Gillian Jacobs

I feel like I go through cycles as an actress.

Jaime Winstone

As an actress, you have to keep yourself fresh and new.

Jean Harlow

I'm not a great actress, and I never thought I was. But I happen to have something the public likes.

Jenny Eclair

I was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up.

Jenny McCarthy

Obviously, I'm not a trained actress, and right now I'll come out and say I'm glad I'm not.

Fred Savage

I'd like to work with any actress from whom I can learn-one who has had many experiences with many directors and is willing to share some of her knowledge with me

Elle Fanning

Dakota Fanning is my favorite actress.

Lauren Bacall

If I could have lived as an actress in any period, it would have been the 1920s - I would have loved to have been part of that speakeasy era.

Susan Hampshire

I don't want to be someone people feel sorry for; I don't want to be a martyr. I think life is amazing and at the end of the day whether I'm the best actress in the world or the worst, on my deathbed it's not going to count. What your input into life is actually what counts so that makes me have a completely different attitude.

To join or not to join films was the biggest choice I had to make. I'd done two years of biogenetic engineering, was an economics graduate and a gold medalist. I had also been a Bharatanatyam dancer from age five, always won the best actress award in school. Finally, I decided to do things for my soul, chose to act.

Believe me, it's not easy being an actress and a producer, especially with no big daddy to support you.

Common

Technically, my first acting job was in one of my videos for a song called 'Retrospect For Life,' which Lauryn Hill directed and featured an actress by the name of N'bushe Wright, who played my girlfriend who was about to be pregnant. I remember being so nervous about it, but now I feel like I can conquer the world with it.

Bel Powley

When you're portraying someone that really existed, there has to be a time as an actress where you leave reality and move into the fantasy world so you can do your job of creating a character.

Brooke Burke

I don't want to say, 'This is where Im going to be in five years and Im going to get there no matter what.' I want to leave it open. I'm not a desperate actress dying to star in a B movie in a bikini.

Bikram Choudhury

When actress Shirley Maclaine arrived 30 minutes late for a class, I asked her to leave.

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.

Virginia Madsen

I hope Britney doesn't get bummed out that Lindsey is a better singer. It is not Lindsey saying it, it's me. Lindsey would never say that. She's an actress first. It's just a bonus that she can dance and sing.

Valeria Golino

As an actress you can participate, you can be a co-author, help the director. But I always wanted to be able to make the big decisions.

Sarah Jessica Parker

I don't know how an actress is supposed to observe and create new stuff if she hasn't been on the streets, brushing up against humanity. You have to have a life.