Actresses Quotes - Page 21

• 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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• As an actress, I was never thin enough, never pretty enough. My boobs weren't big enough.

  Felicity Huffman

  Enough, Bigs

  "Felicity Huffman is sitting pretty" by William Keck, usatoday30.usatoday.com. November 21, 2005.

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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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• I will have one of the cleanest obits of any actress. I never did cheesecake like Ann Sheridan or Betty Grable. I just used my hair.

  Veronica Lake

  Hair, Used, Cheesecake

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've been very lucky. I wanted to be an actress, but I didn't really have the drive to sell myself. Fortunately I had a terrific agent in New York who kept me going from job to job.

  Blythe Danner

  Jobs, New York, Lucky

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• The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique.

  Minna Antrim

  Beautiful, Pride, Moral

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• If I could change anything about Garden State, it would be to cast somebody else for the female lead. Natalie just isn't really that good of an actress. Especially when compared to me. Just watch the two of us, it's light and dark. I am by far the better Jew.

  Zach Braff

  Dark, Garden, Light

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• I have the desire to work as an actress, but I have no ambition to be a star.

  Ally Sheedy

  Stars, Ambition, Desire

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• I look to longevity. I just consider myself an actress and getting good roles. If being a 'superstar' gets me good roles, then that's a positive thing. But my goal isn't just to be a superstar. It's to act for a long time.

  Penelope Ann Miller

  Long, Goal, Roles

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• I always wanted to get into the horror genre. I like scary movies. I want to go to the fan shows and sign posters with my head hanging by a thread like a B-movie actress.

  Illeana Douglas

  Horror Genre, Scary, Want

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• To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the air, they make art impossible. It is not drama that they play, but pieces for the theatre. We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air; the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner.

  Eleanora Duse

  Art, Drama, Air

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• I go out with actresses because I'm not apt to marry one.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Marriage

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• This was an actress who, for twenty years, had the world at her feet. She kicked it away, and the ball rolled out of her reach.

  James Agate

  Women, Years, Feet

  James Agate (1940). “Ego 4: yet more of the autobiography of James Agate”

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• It was scary, and I knew what it was like to be an unemployed actress again.

  Hunter Tylo

  Scary, Unemployed

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• Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress

  Joyce Cary

  Mean, Artist, Law

  Joyce Cary (1957). “THE HORSE'S MOUTH”

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• I'm a huge movie buff, so I'm a fan of a lot of actors and actresses.

  Jared Gilman

  Fans, Actors, Huge

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• I loved being at the studio (20th Century-Fox). After all, I started at 15, and I grew up there. But there comes a time when an actress stays too long in the same place. People get used to having you around, and they can`t think of you in a different light.

  Jeanne Crain

  Thinking, Light, Long

  "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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