Actresses Quotes - Page 12

• 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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• 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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• I'm not used to being asked what I want to talk about. That's why I'm an actress. Get told what to do, stand on the mark, say your words, wear this, look this way, look that way.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Looks, Want, Way

  "'I'm a horrible bully'". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2003.

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• I like being a mother, and I want to be involved in my work, so I have to make choices. If you're a film actress, your career is from 20 to 45, but you can still dream.

  Juliette Binoche

  Mother, Dream, Careers

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• Fighting the ageing process just doesn't work. I think that actresses, ultimately, are responsible for the faces we give to women.

  Juliette Binoche

  Fighting, Thinking, Giving

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• To save the Theatre, the Theatre must be destroyed, and actors and actresses all die of the Plague ... they make art impossible.

  Eleanora Duse

  Art, Theatre, Actors

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• I never had any desire to become a well-known actress.

  Rebecca Miller

  Desire, Well Known, Wells

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• I don't consider myself a great actress. I'm just trying to stay alive, actually. I think I'm good, and I've learned a lot, certainly, mostly in the theater. I've been sloughed off movies for years. But what can you do? That's life.

  Lauren Bacall

  Thinking, Years, Trying

  "Actress Lauren Bacall reflects on life (w/ audio)". Interview With Maggie Galehouse, www.chron.com. March 11, 2009.

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• Marilyn Monroe gave more to the still camera than any actress, any woman I've ever photographed; infinitely more patient, more demanding of herself and more comfortable in front of the camera than away from it.

  Richard Avedon

  Cameras, Patient, Stills

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• The New World is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). There is some intense, bloodless violence and the beautiful underage lead actress (15-year-old Q'orianka Kilcher) may cause cardiac arrest among some viewers.

  Manohla Dargis

  Beautiful, Years, Parent

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• There will be a competition among critics for the best Paris Hilton insult. Here's my first: Her attention span is so short that she can't even maintain her concentration while running away from a psycho... Maybe the ultimate insult is that she makes her co-star Elisha Cuthbert seem, by comparison, the sexiest and most interesting actress in modern cinema.

  David Edelstein

  Running, Stars, Paris

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• What is Camille Paglia doing, writing that an actress as gifted as Anne Heche has the mental depth of a pancake? How many pancake brains could do what Heche did with David Mamet's dialogue in Wag the Dog? No doubt Heche has been stuck with a few bad gigs, but Paglia, of all people, must be well aware that being an actress is not the same safe ride as being the tenured university professor of humanities and media studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

  Clive James

  Dog, Art, Writing

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• I'm a great believer in conversational rhythm. I think in terms of rhythmic dialogue. It's so easy, you can talk naturally. It's like peas rolling off a knife. Take the great screen actors and actresses, Bette Davis, Eddie Robinson, Jimmy Cagney, Spencer Tracy. They all talk in rhythm. And rhythm and movement are the life of the screen.

  Lorenz Hart

  Thinking, Knives, Rolling

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• I'm a huge fan of Steve Martin. He's hilarious, but he has this depth to him and this way of dealing with the difficult things in life with a sense of humor that I think has helped me as an actress.

  Alexandra Daddario

  Thinking, Things In Life, Way

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 5, 2014.

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• I love being challenged physically, as an actress.

  Julie Benz

  Love Is

  Source: collider.com

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• I think the hardest thing about the part is the responsibility that you feel playing something that is so real and resonant in our times. There are people coming home right now with those stories, and I'm just an actress pretending to be that person. You hope that you can shed some light on somebody's predicament.

  Linda Cardellini

  Real, Responsibility, Home

  "Linda Cardellini’s Return". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2012.

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• When you're working on something where there's usually one sex scene in the film, it all gets a little bit of a gray area and people get a bit uncomfortable and awkward. You just get through it. But, it became very clear on this that that can't happen. There can't be any gray areas on this because there are actors and actresses coming in for a day or a couple of days, as well as people who are there regularly.

  Michael Sheen

  Sex, Couple, People

  Source: collider.com

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• We knew, very early on, that we had to be very, very clear that directors need to speak to actors and actresses and be very clear about what is expected, and find out whether they're comfortable with that. Wardrobe has to be in place. There have to be checks.

  Michael Sheen

  Directors, Needs, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm certainly not on a mission to be taken seriously as a dramatic actress, any more than I am just to be able to get roles that are exciting and satisfying to me. If that means action, then that means action.

  Zoe Bell

  Taken, Mean, Roles

  Source: collider.com

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• There's a kind of amateurishness among French actresses, but I don't share that completely.

  Clemence Poesy

  Kind, Share

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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