Actresses Quotes - Page 17

• I'm ambitious but I'm not particularly competitive. I'll try to get roles, as I think it's healthy to go for things, but... I think there's too much competition between women already. It's important to have female solidarity and support each other and other actresses.

  Rose Byrne

  Thinking, Support, Competition

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• Blythe Danner is somebody whose career I admire. She's a great actress and does good work, but also has a life of her own. I love my job but, at the end of the day, I want to come home and watch a movie and drink a bottle of wine with my husband.

  Anna Faris

  Jobs, Husband, Home

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

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• Speaking as an actress, I wish all actors would be more like Duke Wayne. And speaking as a person, it would be nice if all people could be honest and as genuine as he is. This is a real man.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Real, Nice, Men

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• The doctors must tell you that one of the risks of surgery is that you might die. This poor doctor was talking to an actress. It was very dramatic to me. To him, it was just a thing he had to say

  Patty Duke

  Doctors, Talking, Risk

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• There's so much more I want to do. I refuse to get to 50 and wait at home for the phone to ring. In Spain, actresses work until they are old. That's my plan.

  Penelope Cruz

  Home, Phones, Waiting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The thinnest I've ever been was after I had my appendix out, during the London run of The Seagull. I went down to 112 pounds and realized my brain doesn't work when I'm that thin, so I can't do my job. That's why, when I came out here, I never had that whole Hollywood pressure thing. I never said I wanted to be a lead actress; I never said I wanted to be a film actress. This need to trump everyone bewilders me. I'm only 25. I'm not better than anyone. I just want to watch other people and learn to be good.

  Carey Mulligan

  Running, Jobs, People

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• I think I've always sort of been on the more boyish spectrum of girls. For example, I've never been chosen as 'one of the top-five hottest actresses in a bikini.' And honestly, it's a godsend. When I was younger, I'd think, 'Oh, I'm the prettiest one. It's not Halle Berry. It's not!' But it is, you know?

  Julia Roberts

  Girl, Thinking, Example

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• People think actresses find public speaking easy, and it's not easy at all; we're used to hiding behind masks.

  Jane Fonda

  Thinking, People, Public Speaking

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

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• I started off when I was seven years old doing musicals. I was in ‘Les Miserables’ and ‘The Sound of Music,’ and my mum’s an actress. My parents divorced when I was young, and when she couldn’t find a babysitter, I was in the wings, sleeping.

  Alicia Vikander

  Sleep, Wings, Years

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• There's always [on women's magazines] that great photo of the actress or model lifting up her shirt just to show you the bone structure and the six-pack of her own. It's almost like when horses are auctioned and they show you their teeth. 'Am I good enough?'

  Janeane Garofalo

  Horse, Teeth, Magazines

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• It's weird because here I am, an actress, representing - at least in some sense - an industry that places crushing standards on all of us. Not just young people, but everyone. Standards of beauty. Of a good life. Of success. Standards that, I hate to admit, have affected me.

  Ellen Page

  Crush, Good Life, Hate

  "Ellen Page Joins HRCF's Time to Thrive Conference". Youtube video, www.youtube.com. February 14, 2014.

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• You hear things like, ‘People shouldn’t know about your life because you’re creating an illusion on-screen.’ But I don’t see other actresses going to great lengths to hide their heterosexuality. That’s an unfair double standard.

  Ellen Page

  Creating, People, Heterosexuality

  "Reading Ellen Page’s Sexuality" by Marcie Bianco, www.indiewire.com. May 13, 2014.

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• I hate how box office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don’t see a box office failure blamed on men. I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that. I guess it’s because we live in a patriarchal society, where feminism is a dirty word.

  Ellen Page

  Hate, Dirty, Destiny

  "I don't want to sound like a piece of poop, but". Interview with Helen Pidd, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2008.

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• My whole life, when I was growing up, not one race has ever accepted me, ... So I never felt connected or attached to any race specifically. I had a very American upbringing, I feel American, and I don't speak Spanish. So, to say that I'm a Latin actress, OK, but it's not fitting; it would be insincere.

  Jessica Alba

  Growing Up, Latin, Race

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• Of all the actresses ... to me, only Faye Dunaway has the talent and the class and the courage it takes to make a real star.

  Joan Crawford

  Stars, Real, Class

  Roy Newquist, Joan Crawford (1980). “Conversations with Joan Crawford”

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• I'm not a great actress, and I never thought I was. But I happen to have something the public likes.

  Jean Harlow

  Likes, Happens

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• I don't like being compared to anyone or being in a class with someone. I'm a teen actress and therefore I'm competing against Hilary Duff. We're different people like everyone else.

  Amanda Bynes

  Class, People, Different

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

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• I didn't choose the fact that I was gay, but I did choose whether to live my life as a gay woman-that was the terrifying thing for me. Especially being a gay actress.

  Portia de Rossi

  Gay, Scary, Facts

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

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• As an actress, I was trained to show emotion I did not feel, or no emotion at all.

  Gene Tierney

  Emotion, Shows, Feels

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title

  Gene Tierney

  Jobs, Titles, Description

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• As an actress, I'm drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I'm fortunate to have thoughts and feelings at my fingertips.

  Diane Keaton

  Feelings, Emotion, Form

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• I think Gina Rowlands is an amazing actress.

  Angela Sarafyan

  Thinking, Gina, Continuing To Grow

  "Q&A:'Breaking Dawn" costar Angela Sarafyan on finding her 'American Animal'". Interview with Matt Patches, www.mtv.com. May 18, 2012.

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• As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director.

  Joan Chen

  Acting, Want, Directors

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

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• I hope to be known as a chameleon actress, as someone who can play any part out there, and someone who can transform herself into any kind of character there is.

  Shannon Elizabeth

  Character, Play, Kind

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• When people say 'You're so beautiful' it makes me want to kill myself! As an actress you want to be seen for what you do, for the characters you can play, otherwise I'd be a model

  Eva Green

  Beautiful, Character, Play

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