Actresses Quotes

• I don't really like dressing up. Some people probably think actresses dress up everywhere they go. I'm in sweatpants half the time with my hair in a ponytail.

  Selena Gomez

  Thinking, Hair, Dressing Up

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• My sister wanted to be an actress, but she never made it. She does live in a trailer. She got halfway. She's an actress, she just never gets called to the set.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Doe

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• An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Inspirational, Women, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Actresses have more fear of being disliked. I, on the other hand, revel in it.

  Michael Douglas

  Hands

  FaceBook post by Michael Douglas from May 09, 2013

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

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Puppets, Normal, Film

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• An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Money, Acting, Machines

  Ms. Magazine (p. 38), August 1972.

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• Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.

  W. C. Fields

  Husband, Devil, Acting

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• You know, I had my mother and my father convincing me that he would be going back to Hollywood and he'd be back with the actresses and dating them and that he wasn't serious about me at all. So I had him saying one thing to me and my parents telling me something else.

  Priscilla Presley

  Mother, Father, Dating

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• Most of the top actors and actresses may be working in ten or twelve films at the same time, so they will give one director two hours and maybe shoot in Bombay in the morning and Madras in the evening. It happens.

  Satyajit Ray

  Morning, Two, Giving

  Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.100, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Ive had more of an opportunity to work with Katie Holmes, which is incredibly enjoyable. I think she is really one of the best actresses on the market right now. She forces you to bring your best stuff to the table, because if you dont, she just completely overpowers you.

  Joshua Jackson

  Opportunity, Thinking, Tables

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• Hollywood will accept actresses playing ten years older, but actors can play ten years younger.

  Greta Scacchi

  Years, Play, Hollywood

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• I think male roles are generally much better written. So for actresses, we're always dealing with trying to inject a role with more truth than the writer possibly had in mind.

  Judy Davis

  Thinking, Glowing, Mind

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• The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So they sell shoes that an actress stepped in. If they turned up the amps some, maybe they could sell the actresses.

  Bruce Sterling

  Movie, Shoes, Bollywood

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• Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Film, Intense, Wanted

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

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• When two characters or two actresses are together for a while there is bound to be chemistry developing.

  Joan Van Ark

  Character, Two, Together

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I went back to New York with somewhat of a name, they didn't want movie actresses.

  Gloria Stuart

  New York, Names, Want

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• You always hear actresses talk about how unromantic it is to act a love scene or a sex scene - which it is. You're doing it with all these lights on and cameras flying around and people on the set.

  Sheryl Lee

  Sex, Light, People

  "The Bliss of Being Sheryl Lee / The career of `Twin Peaks' ' famous corpse has come alive on screen". Interview with Edward Guthmann, www.sfgate.com. June 8, 1997.

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• I know Raft did have some genuine affairs with actresses.

  Cesar Romero

  Affair, Genuine, Knows

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• The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.

  Viola Davis

  Badass, Opportunity, Color

  "The 10 Best Emmy Moments for Women Last Night" by Inkoo Kang, www.indiewire.com. September 21, 2015.

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• You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.

  Viola Davis

  Winning, Roles, African American Women

  "Zendaya Posts Beautiful Thank You to Viola Davis After Her History-Making Emmy Win" by Noelle Devo, www.seventeen.com. September 21, 2015.

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• First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Trying, Firsts

  "Ms." magazine, p. 42, August 1972.

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• I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Character, Play

  TV Guide, 1970.

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• A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Teacher, Memories, Latin

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• I'm not an actress, you know. I don't know what's going on. And I'm supposed to be the villain.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Villain, Supposed To Be, Knows

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• I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.

  Cameron Diaz

  Girl, Supermodel, Models

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