Famous Quotes & Sayings

A serious and composed young actress who won't let a line pass without making certain she's had it in for a private talk and perhaps tea.

As Catherine, this luminously beautiful actress is intelligent, bewitching, troubled, and often deeply touching.

Jaime Winstone

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

Elle Fanning

Dakota Fanning is my favorite actress.

Jacqueline Emerson

I wanted to be a professional singer/actress, though I knew it would be hard.

Christine Baranski

It's a great time to be an actress at this point in my life.

Chris O'Dowd

Going out with other actors is never good; actresses are neurotic, and actors are horrendous egotists.

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.

Gisele Bundchen

I'm not an actress, you know. I don't know what's going on. And I'm supposed to be the villain.

Gene Tierney

I used up every cent I earned as an actress.

Gene Tierney

As an actress, I was trained to show emotion I did not feel, or no emotion at all.

Felicity Huffman

As an actress, I was never thin enough, never pretty enough. My boobs weren't big enough.

Jennifer Nettles

As far as actresses go, I love Meryl Streep.

Jennifer Lawrence

There are actresses who build themselves, and then there are actresses who are built by others. I want to build myself.

Anne Heche is a phenomenal actress and, along with the addition of Scott Wolf, brings a great new sense of excitement to what is already an outstanding show.

Angelina Jolie embodies so many qualities of what St. John represents. She is strong, independent and dynamic. She's a mother, actress and a philanthropist.

Sheryl Lee

Every actress has a line she'll draw, where she'll say, This I will do and this I won't. For me, everything has to be important to the story and the director has to be able to tell me why.

Mark Knopfler

Emmy brings such a wealth of experience that it's like a director having the finest actress for a film. What is on the page is given a real living dimension and a character who you can see.

Isn't it every director's dream to gene-splice to get the ideal person for every role? We had the same problem with the female lead: one actress with the perfect look, one with the voice. I thought, what has Hollywood done in this situation?

Michelle Gomez

I used to say Edinburgh was a beautiful actress with no talent. I thought it was just like a shortbread tin. I think that's because I did six Festivals in a row there, and I never saw the real Edinburgh, just a lot of deeply annoying Cambridge Footlights kids wanting to be actresses.

Ana Layevska

When I started acting classes, I was inspired. The truth is I never dreamt of being an actress as a child. But it just happened. When I started studying and getting on stage, it just came to me. I never said 'I want to be an actress.' It just happened. I started discovering myself and realized I loved it.

Marc Cherry

We had a different actress in mind, a white actress, and that deal fell through. Alfre is a little bit older than our gals, but she just has a stunning face.

Ayelet Zurer

There's no such thing as too late. There are different roles for different ages, assuming an actress has something to offer. There aren't many Helen Mirrens and Meryl Steeps, and it takes a lot of talent to get to that level. I hope I have it. That's the model I aspire to if I'm lucky enough. It's all about luck.

Michelle Trachtenberg

I was always wanting to learn and be one of those actresses who can actually hold a conversation as opposed to standing there looking pretty.

Mia Wasikowska

When you dance intensely, you are really aware of your physicality, and that's always great to have as a tool, when you're an actress.

Martha Plimpton

As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.

Norma Shearer

Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.

Joey Lauren Adams

I am one of the few actresses who isn't recognized by the way she looks. I'm recognized by the way I talk

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.

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.

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.