Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cecilia Bartoli

You have different directors, and as a singer you have to be an actress too. It's a fusion-make singers interesting, or this makes an artist actually, the fusion between music and comedienne is together.

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.

Marian Seldes

I think of myself as only being an actress when I'm acting, but my friends will say I act all the time.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Maximilian Schell

My mother was an actress and a director, as well. And my father was a playwright and poet.

Marissa Jaret Winokur

I was 27, an unemployed actress living in a really crappy studio apartment. I had just moved to Los Angeles alone, away from my family. I had cervical and uterine cancer and I was told that I would never be able to carry a baby.

Paul Lieberstein

Catherine Tate was a proven comedy actress from a comedy background with great taste. I knew her work, and was an incredible fan.

Paula Garces

I think the reason why I'm an actress is because I got hooked on the feeling of studying for an audition, going to the audition, and then getting that phone call.

Paul Kane

I know it's popular to say this because she's the woman of the moment, but Halle Berry. Not only does she have obvious audience appeal and star quality, but she's a damn good actress too.

Megan Fox

When you're in something as successful as 'Transformers,' you can't use it as a sales piece for your ability as an actress because it's all about the special effects.

Drew Barrymore's Guess shoot took place as she was making the transition to serious actress after having been more known as a child actress who had become overwhelmed by the Hollywood lifestyle.

Patrick Macnee

Linda Thorson was a great actress with a great body, but she arrived just as 'The Avengers' was losing its appeal.

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.

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.

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.

Zhou Xun

Being an actress in China, I'm actually a very lucky actress... Especially now that Chinese movies are becoming more diverse with more viewers overseas.

Victoria Abril

The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked.

Cassandra Peterson

The only roles I got were of strippers and hookers. I think I'm the only actress to play a stripper on 'Happy Days.'

Robert Scott

We went to see the movie together, ... They got these good looking actors and actress to play him and his wife, so he was really happy. Afterwards he said: 'I get letters and e-mails from all over the world and now they've made a movie of my life story. I have to pinch myself. You can't buy things like that'.

Gina Rodriguez

Being an actress wasn't realistic. I knew that I was going to have to do it in a way that would speak to my parents. So I went to NYU Tisch School of the Arts for theater, and I studied at the conservatory.

Joey Lauren Adams

The last person they expected to connect with a screenplay was the comedic, blonde actress with the funny voice.

Khandi Alexander

I'm not a method actress.