Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

Carla Gugino

I've joked that I would have either become schizophrenic or an actress, but as an actress you can do both.

Janet Fitch

she was such a bad actress. she never said her lines rite, it was something perverse in her nature. and wat was her line anyway?

Eva Gabor

I was the first actress in the family, and I am still the only actress in the family. I shouldn't be saying it, but it slipped out!

Eva Gabor

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

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.

Fred Savage

I'd like to work with any actress from whom I can learn-one who has had many experiences with many directors and is willing to share some of her knowledge with me

Jayne Mansfield

To function as an actress, I have to be in love. I have to have that incentive to work.

Kristin Scott Thomas

I find it difficult to explain, but I'm quite ashamed of being an actress.

Grace Jones

I am an actress first, a singer second.

Jean Harlow

I wasn't born an actress, you know. Events made me one.

Jean Harlow

I'm not a great actress, and I never thought I was. But I happen to have something the public likes.

Lauren Bacall

If I could have lived as an actress in any period, it would have been the 1920s - I would have loved to have been part of that speakeasy era.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

Kate Winslet

I'm always inspired by actresses who are older than me. Because I know that person has lived so much more life than I have. There's a whole other toolbox.

Peta Wilson

I'm the Magoo of actresses, very accident-prone.

Emily Perkins

I'm a big fan of 'Woody Allen' movies, so I like all the actresses in his movies like 'Diane Keaton' and Mia Farrow.

Elisabeth Shue

It took a lot to get attention in my family. No wonder I'm an actress.

Elisha Cuthbert

Some of the things I've seen a lot of my female-actress friends who are relatively famous receive - I've seen some hideous things. Like some really, really bad things... like, the FBI should be contacted immediately.

Joan Collins

One of the rules about being an actor or an actress is that you never diss other actors or actresses, particularly when you don't know them.

Lindsay Lohan

I have always admired and had enormous respect for Elizabeth Taylor. She was not only an incredible actress but an amazing woman as well.

Leigh-Allyn Baker

If you’re an actress, you’re always on one diet or another — it’s a way of life,