Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dakota Fanning

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

Kim Alexis

You have to be a model and multifaceted, but there's not a lot of ways for a model to be multifaceted because the actresses took all the covers.

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.

Peter Tolan

Sometimes an actress is so good you get ideas, ... She's really someone who inspired Denis and me early on. We're always thinking, what if. I said to her, 'I don't know where we're going to go with you, but you're our Lady Macbeth.'

Peter Tolan

Sometimes an actress is so good, you get ideas,

Demi Moore

not through Sean Combs, as everyone said, but through a mutual friend, Sara Foster, an actress who's known Ashton from the day he arrived in Los Angeles.

Wes Craven

The audience that would see that movie, by and large, doesn't go to see horror films, ... It was a great pleasure to make, and to see Meryl (Streep) nominated (for a best actress Oscar) for it. But most of the people I run into who loved it are surprised that I made it. When you have a name that means scares, you have to live with that.

Kurt Russell

Dakota is as good as Meryl Streep. She's as good as Goldie Hawn. There are things about Goldie as an actress that Meryl doesn't carry. And there are things about Meryl that Goldie doesn't carry. But Dakota does. She carries things of both of them. Her perceptions are very sharp.

Gisele Bundchen

It was not like I was taking myself seriously and being like, OK, now I'm going to be an actress and I'm going to do a Shakespeare movie.

Fred Wilson

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Everyone has tried on quite a number of hats to winnow down to what looks good for the actress and works for her character, ... You can tell that some actresses have worn hats a great deal. I have a good time watching them work a hat.

Ethel Barrymore

For an actress to be a success she must have the face of Venus, the brains of Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros

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.

Jacqueline Emerson

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

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.

Gillian Jacobs

I feel like I go through cycles as an actress.

Gena Rowlands

Never in my life have I ever even thought about anything else [ being anything other than an actress].

Gena Rowlands

I'd wanted to be [an actress] all my life.

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.

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.

Francesca Annis

I didn't choose to be an actress

Mira Nair

I wanted to add something that you've never seen about an actress before and this was my chance, and Reese's chance ... to make her a full-blown sensual woman. And to see also that emotional depth, that real range,

Serinda Swan

I'm pretty sure I became an actress solely because of craft services. When you're a kid and there's a lady walking around with a tray of chocolate and other free candy, that's the best reason to be in the industry!

Cate Blanchett

An actress once advised me, 'Make sure you do your own laundry - it will keep you honest.'

Shantel VanSanten

Despite my mother saying I have been destined to be an actress my whole life, I remember being the kid who grew up not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.

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.