Actresses Quotes - Page 15

• 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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• 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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• Being an actress is the sublimation of feminity.

  Monica Bellucci

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

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• Irreversible is not glamorous at all. I try to do different things because I want to grow as an actress and I like to take risks

  Monica Bellucci

  Risk, Trying, Different

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• Occasionally, on screen, Barbara [Stanwyck] had a wary, watchful quality about her that I've noticed in other people who had bad childhoods; they tend to keep an eye on life because they don't think it can be trusted. After her mother was killed by a streetcar, she had been raised in Brooklyn by her sisters, and from things she said, I believe she had been abused as a child. She had lived an entirely different life than mine, that's for sure, which is one reason I found her so fascinating. I think her early life was one reason she had such authenticity as an actress, and as a person.

  Robert Wagner

  Mother, Children, Believe

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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 look at being an actress as being like a mummy: You're bandaged up and preserved as soon as you start making other people money.

  Anna Friel

  People, Looks, Making Money

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

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• Before I did 'How I Met Your Mother,' I was not considered a comedic actress.

  Cobie Smulders

  Mother, Mets, Comedic

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• If I took perfect pictures all the time, the people standing in the room with me, or on the carpet, would think, 'What an actress! What a faker!' That thought embarrasses me so much that I look like s**t in half my photos, and I don't give a f***. What matters to me is that the people in the room leave and say, 'She was cool. She had a good time. She was honest.'

  Kristen Stewart

  Thinking, What Matters, People

  "Kristen Stewart on the People Who Critique Her Red Carpet Poses: 'I Don't Care About the Voracious, Starving Shit Eaters'". www.vanityfair.com. June 5, 2012.

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• I don’t think I would ever have been able to be an actress had I not started at nine years old. I would have been the last person to stand up and say, ‘I’d like to star in the play.’

  Kristen Stewart

  Stars, Thinking, Years

  "Kristen Stewart: Coming on Strong". Interview with Eve Macsweeney, www.vogue.com. January 18, 2011.

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• Honestly, I am not trying to discourage anyone from becoming an actress, but if you want to become one be prepared to face everything that comes - along with it

  Amber Tamblyn

  Trying, Want, Faces

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• I've done a lot of serious roles, but they're, like, independent, so it's harder for them to come out. The big ones have been comedies, but I would love to get a big drama to let people see the other side of me, that I am a serious actress.

  Tara Reid

  Drama, Independent, People

  "13 Questions With Tara Reid". MovieWeb Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• I have an older sister named Haley and she wanted to be an actress. So I wanted to be an actress. It's really funny the way that some people don't give kids enough credit for like really being driven, and really wanting to do things so badly.

  Hilary Duff

  Kids, Funny Things, Giving

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• I got started as an actress doing musical theater, and I always loved 'Grease' and 'West Side Story,' and all those kind of movies.

  Sara Paxton

  Grease, Musical, Stories

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• I have three lives: actress, model, producer. Sometimes I'm aware that there's a fourth life, which is somewhat neglected, which is living a bit.

  Elizabeth Hurley

  Three, Sometimes, Producers

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• I really believe that what I do as an actress is my God-given talent. This is my calling, not my career.

  Angela Bassett

  Believe, Careers, Calling

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The three things I said when I came out of school were I want to work consistently, I want to do good work and I want to be paid fairly, and that's happened. But I didn't become an actress for the money. I do it for other reasons.

  Angela Bassett

  School, Three, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was hired to be an actress, not a personality for the press.

  Grace Kelly

  Personality, Presses

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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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