Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Allison Anders

I hope the next actress offered millions to play the 'fat girl for the day' stops to think about this before she signs the contract - even if just to ask, like any professional actress would in any other situation, 'Why does she weigh 350 pounds? And why me for the part?' If the director can't answer these questions, don't do the movie.

Jane Badler

I'm a chanteuse and a diva, and I'm an actress who likes a script.

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.

Joanna Lumley

Oh, I'm not beautiful. I can look beautiful; I can put beauty on. When I'm tired, I look bloody awful. I think I'm turning into the actress from 'Dynasty,' Linda Evans.

Ariel Winter

I want to be the kind of actress where, if I'm in the press, I'm in for the right reasons - for my work. To be in the press about family drama is kind of embarrassing.

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.

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?

Shohreh Aghdashloo

I proud to say that most of the Iranians love me and love my work. I love them, and I always have them in my mind when I work. There are few people who do not agree with me, but truly, I don't care. I call myself an actress with a mission.

I guess you could say the beginning of my career as an actress was when I started performing in music videos.

Hedy Lamarr

If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude, ... I hope to make you use your imagination.

Isabelle Huppert

I never wondered whether I should be a stage actress or a movie actress

Jack Nicholson

Charlize Theron and Cate Blanchett are very good actresses.

Harry Chapin

That's when I asked her where was that actress She said "That was somebody else" And then I asked her why she looked so happy now She said "I finally like myself, at last I like myself.

Jamie Lee Curtis

If I were an actress today at the age of 18, I would never make it, because now our young actresses all seem to be very beautiful and very talented right away.

Kurt Russell

I guarantee you, (Dakota) is the best actress I will work with in my entire career.

Rhea Perlman

I never pictured myself in California. I just thought I would be a character actress in New York on the stage. I never really had that stardom goal; I just wanted to be able to work as an actress and not as a waitress.

Maika Monroe

I'm working on a movie called 'Labor Day' with Kate Winslet while still balancing kite boarding. Being an actress and an athlete is a challenge, but I'm excited to see what happens.

I'm having a lot of fun with the fight scene because Emily and I are friends. I'm lucky to be doing that with such a good actress because Emily makes me stay in character. Once we start, we don't break character.

Jessica Simpson

I'll be playing this all-American celebrity actress who everybody loves, but she can't get the Oscar-winning drama roles - she thinks the roles she gets are cheesy. She ends up joining the army!

Christians may come to the conclusion that she found God, while people like me who are just spiritual will think she found faith within herself. I had one actress who did make a thing about her beliefs on abortion.

This guy is great and he'll tap us directly into this exciting new trend in the adult movie industry. Eon will find the first actress to give a fresh, new face to the imprint. He'll also be looking for all sorts of alternative and progressive talent and programming to keep us at the top of this genre. I can't wait to see his first work.

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.

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.

Rani Mukerji

Though I technically come from a film family, my father had stopped making films even before my brother and I were born. So I did not really grow up in a filmi environment. And when I was growing up, becoming an actress was still quite a taboo. And you may not believe this, but even my father did not want me to join films.

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.

Dakota Fanning

I've always wanted to be an actress, ever since I was a little girl. I've always played the mom and I play my sister as the daughter. I wanted to be an actress on television and movies instead of just around the house.