Actresses Quotes

I didn't want to be an actress at all, or famous even. I certainly enjoy acting now, absolutely. Time will tell whether or not I enjoy fame.

I didn't want to be an actress. I wanted to be a dentist, but you never know what life will bring you.

As an actress people always tease me like: if there's anything you can do to make yourself unattractive you will do it.

That's when I knew I wanted to be a singer and an actress.

That's the thing with animated films - I often feel that puppets get the better parts compared to us normal actresses.

There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them.

I am happy as happiness goes, for a woman who has so many memories and who lives the lonely life of an actress

If I was not an actress, I would be a homeopathic doctor.

Being an actress is to be in tune with the fantasies of a man. What woman never dreamt of that?

Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.

I am admiring of my fellow peers, black filmmakers and black actors and actresses.

I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.

I felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had experienced complete fulfillment in something that had nothing to do with me being in the spotlight.

Really skinny actresses make me hungry. I see them and think, 'Honey, you need to eat!'

My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.

I do not admire young actresses whose foreheads cannot move.

Frequently my life has been likened to a Greek tragedy, and the actress in me cannot deny that comparison.

I had never dreamt Id become an actress. It was destiny that put me in the right place at the right time and gave me the right opportunities.

I know of few actresses who have this incredible talent for communicating with a camera lens. She would try to seduce a camera as if it were a human being.

I have a theory that self-made, first-generation actresses don't feel entitled to success.

I'm not an actress, I'm a personality.

While being called beautiful is extremely flattering, I would much rather be noticed for my work as an actress.

As an actress, I'm drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I'm fortunate to have thoughts and feelings at my fingertips.

My ambition is to become one of those actresses that is like a chameleon that you don't recognize.

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

I made my last motion picture in March 1965 for Magna Pictures. 'Harlow,' based on the life of actress Jean Harlow... I didn't know at the time that 'Harlow' would be my last motion picture.

Even when I was young I wanted to be an actress.

The common misconception is that as an actress you have to learn what you're doing. No, you just have to make the audience think you've learned it.

I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.

I dont know what the secret to longevity as an actress is. Its more than talent and beauty. Maybe its the audience seeing itself in you.

Susan is just great. I know I'm biased, but she's a great actress.

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

I like Valentino a lot - they never use actresses in their campaigns.

The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title

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

I actually work at my craft, and I actually want to be the best in my category, and I want to be a true actress. And a lot of people just want fame, and there's a huge difference.

My sister has decided to become an actress too. It has ruined the close-knittedness of our family life.

And I love Jennifer Lawrence. She's a total fox. And such a good actress. It's ridiculous.

When I was 8 years old, I knew what I was going to be—an actress.

I'm an actress so the amount of rejection and commentary you get right to your face is pretty rough.

I was looking at these actresses sort of sitting around under umbrellas, people bringing them cold drinks and I was like, 'That looks so much easier than what I'm doing' and I was so wrong.

You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.

There was no way I could live in Hollywood and not become an actress.

You can't sleep your way into being a star. It takes much, much more. But it helps a lot of actresses get their first chance that way.

It's quite hard for me being an actress because I actually don't like attention

I'm a size 8, and I feel proud of that, because it's healthy. I've never felt compelled to be a skinny actress.

I must have seen more sunrises than any other actress in the history of Hollywood.

I'm a trained actress and I can do it, but I think that you have to prove yourself

An actress must never lose her ego -- without it she has no talent.

My Mother's an actress, and she's always told me, "Boy, you're an actor." I would look forward to seeing if I'm any good. I want to be good at it, that's the only thing.