Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hayley Atwell

I can't imagine it if beauty was the only currency I used as an actress. It just doesn't interest me.

Helena Bonham Carter

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

Khandi Alexander

I'm not a method actress.

Naomie Harris

I would say only be an actress if you genuinely feel the calling, because it's a tough profession.

Olivia De Havilland

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

Olga Kurylenko

If I hadn't been a model, I couldn't have become a movie actress.

Mia Wasikowska

When you dance intensely, you are really aware of your physicality, and that's always great to have as a tool, when you're an actress.

Martha Plimpton

As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.

Danielle Harris

The characters I've played as an actress have been really challenging and emotionally rewarding, but there was just something missing. I was finding over and over again that directors were looking to me to help with troubles on set as far as characters' relationships, special effects and story points were concerned.

Emma Roberts

I never not wanted to become an actress.

Amy Landecker

The first red carpet I did was at New York's Paris Theatre... It was this beautiful night, and everyone is screaming my name. I'm the least pretentious actress you can ever meet. Someone said to me that I look like I've been doing this forever, and I said that's because I watch E!

Nicholas Ray

As a human being, Joan Crawford is a great actress.

Michelle Trachtenberg

I was always wanting to learn and be one of those actresses who can actually hold a conversation as opposed to standing there looking pretty.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

It was my life, playing Juliet. From that moment on I was convinced I was going to be an actress. That was all I really wanted to do.

Lisa Nicole Carson

It's definitely an exciting time to be an actress.

Felicity Huffman

And I thought some lucky actress will get to do it. But not me. Someone with clout.

Marlee Matlin

At some point we have to stop and say, There's Marlee, not, There's the deaf actress.

Maria Sharapova

I personally love Jennifer Lawrence. She's an amazing actress, but so young and fresh and youthful.

Megan Gallagher

I would like to remain an actress, but am very anxious to direct and produce.

Norma Shearer

Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.

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,

Juliette Binoche

As an actress we don't beat one another. It's whoever's right for the part.

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.

Karen Allen

I'm from a generation of fantastic actresses. It's a big pool of really wonderful actresses, and so many of them we never even get to see on the screen anymore.

Katharine Cornell

An actress' best friend is a body which responds instinctively to thought.

Katharine Hepburn

I always wanted to be a movie actress. I thought it was very romantic. And it was.

Karrine Steffans

I've never been a model, I was an actress for like a minute, but I've always been a writer. That's where I'm going to stay.

Ludivine Sagnier

You know, when you start, especially with me, I didn't really know I was going to be a movie actress. I thought I was going to do theater.

Freida Pinto

I am first and foremost an actress of Indian origin.