Actresses Quotes - Page 14

• Interestingly, the actress who, in her own persona, may be gentle, shy, and socially awkward, someone whose hand trembles when pouring a cup of tea for a visiting friend, can convincingly portray an elegant, cruel aristocrat tossing off malicious epigrams in an eighteenth-century chocolate house.

  Wallace Shawn

  Hands, House, Awkward

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

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• Actresses are kind of a little crazy.

  Russell Simmons

  Crazy, Littles, Kind

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• Honestly, ever since I've been married, the part of a job as an actress where you have to kiss other people, I find totally bizarre.

  Leelee Sobieski

  Jobs, Kissing, People

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

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• I don't go to parties and all that. I don't think being seen or being in the right place is going to make me a better actress. I care about my work and try to do what's right in my heart.

  Sherilyn Fenn

  Party, Heart, Thinking

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

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

  Emily Perkins

  Fans, Mia, Woody

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

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• I'll always be this once-famous actress nobody recognizes... because of a nose job.

  Jennifer Grey

  Jobs, Noses, Famous Actress

  "Let's Get Nosy: Who's Had a Nose Job in Hollywood?", www.foxnews.com.

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• Believe me, when an actress is told that her very name is synonymous with bad acting, she's had it.

  Piper Laurie

  Believe, Names, Acting

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• I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

  Frances McDormand

  Stars, Character, Simple

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

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• I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson - character actresses who have something to say. I also said that I loved Madeline Kahn and Jessica Lange.

  Rachael Harris

  Love, Character, Careers

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

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• I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened, and then I went to L.A. and an agent said, 'I think you belong in commercials and TV.' So I did that and got some opportunities that I absolutely love.

  Rachael Harris

  Love, New York, Opportunity

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

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• 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.

  Fred Savage

  Directors, Share, Willing

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

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• I'm pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.

  Abbie Cornish

  Hollywood, Body, Unusual

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• Having been an actress before becoming a producer has helped, because I realize the needs

  Shelley Duvall

  Needs, Becoming, Realizing

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• I would point out that I'm an actress for a reason! If I were popular in high school, I would have considered another career because I wouldn't have been alone in my room, making up other characters for myself. I definitely had growing pains. The popular kids didn't want anything to do with the girl who was starting the drama club.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Girl, Pain, Drama

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The theater is where I belonged; I simply wanted to be an actress my whole life.

  Loni Anderson

  Theater, Whole Life, Wanted

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• I became super claustrophobic with Hollywood. I don't like Hollywood. I don't like what it represents. I think that Hollywood is great if you're an actor, actress, established. But for reality people or what people perceive as reality, it's tough. People are constantly discrediting everything you put on camera.

  Brody Jenner

  Reality, Thinking, People

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• Being an actress is the sublimation of feminity.

  Monica Bellucci

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

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• I love Joan Collins. She's a wonderful lady. She has such courage. She's such a good actress.

  Robert Wagner

  Courage, Wonderful, Wonderful Lady

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• Every actress has to face the facts there are younger, more beautiful girls right behind you. Once you've gone beyond the vanity of the business, you'll take on the tough roles.

  Jean Simmons

  Beautiful, Girl, Vanity

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

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• I like Valentino a lot - they never use actresses in their campaigns.

  Emma Watson

  Campaigns, Use, Valentino

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• I wasn't one of those girls who always dreamed of being an actress. I went to a normal school and then these film auditioners turned up when I was nine. Then I just fell into this whirlwind.

  Emma Watson

  Girl, School, Nine

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• As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.

  Rachel Weisz

  Jobs, Able, Imagine

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• Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.

  Mae West

  Success, Congratulations, Personality

  Mae West (1959). “Goodness Had Nothing to Do with it: Autobiography”, Chelsea House

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• In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.

  Olivia Wilde

  Years, Age, Humans

  "Olivia Wilde Tells Us Her Dos and Don'ts of Turning 30". www.glamour.com. August 5, 2013.

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• People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.

  Olivia Wilde

  Bad Ass, Play, People

  "Olivia Wilde On Turning 30: ‘I’m Welcoming This Development With Open Arms", www.huffingtonpost.com. August 5, 2013.

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