Actresses Quotes - Page 23

• 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 work with Sally and I can see Sally doing that. She is very aggressive. Very fun loving and charming... and pushy in a very competitive way and a very healthy way and a very good actress.

  Dabney Coleman

  Fun, Healthy, Way

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• I quite like convincing the person the broom is their favourite actress. They are talking to a broom and they think it's Julia Roberts and they snog it. In Reading one guy took the broom into the wings and was getting amorous with it. I had a struggle to get it back. He was exhausted when he came out.

  Paul McKenna

  Reading, Struggle, Thinking

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• As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.

  Naturi Naughton

  Giving Up, Focus, Black

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• As a dancer I couldn't outdance Ginger Rogers or Eleanor Powell. As a singer I'm no rival to Doris Day. As an actress I don't take myself seriously...I'm the girl the truck drivers love.

  Betty Grable

  Girl, Dancer, Rivals

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• It's never been integral to the story that I take my clothes off. I've always had clauses in my contracts saying no nudity and no body doubles... I admire actresses who can do it without feeling exploited. As long as it's their own free will, I think it's great. It's not a moral judgement, I've just never felt comfortable doing it - I'm too modest.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Dirty, Thinking, Moral Judgement

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• Everybody thinks about Bo Derek as being this extravagant looking lady but she is also a wonderful actress.

  Wayne Rogers

  Thinking, Aerospace, Wonderful

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• Make your wardrobe as versatile as an actress. It should be able to play many roles.

  Joan Crawford

  Play, Roles, Able

  Joan Crawford (2017). “My Way of Life”, p.79, Graymalkin Media

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• The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being.

  Terence McKenna

  Real, Adventure, Giving

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• My male counterpart will get paid ten times more than me - 10 times. Not double, but 10 times for the same job. We only have this much left for the female actress. I mean, there’s two genders on this Earth. Both are compelling, interesting, diverse, wonderful in all their own separate ways. And yet there’s an influx of male roles and there's just not for women.

  Hilary Swank

  Jobs, Mean, Two

  "Hilary Swank on Why Hollywood Still Favors Men and Her 60-Eggs-a-Day Diet for 'Million Dollar Baby'". Hilary Swank's speech to the students at the Loyola Marymount University School of Film & TV in Los Angeles, California, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 12, 2014.

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• This is hilarious. First, people say how so many actresses in Hollywood look anorexic, and now they are criticizing me for looking normal. Body images are too often adopted by young girls and women - thanks to what they are constantly being shown as being attractive.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Girl, People, Hollywood

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• You see, she was gonna be an actress and I was gonna learn to fly. She took off to find the footlights, and I took off for the sky. And here, she's acting happy, inside her handsome home. And me, I'm flying in my taxi, taking tips, and getting stoned. I go flying so high, when I'm stoned.

  Harry Chapin

  Travel, Home, Sky

  Song: Taxi, 1972

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• I made a conscious decision back then that I would rather be the best actress who ever lived than the most famous one.

  Sally Kirkland

  Decision, Engagement, Being The Best

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• There are people who expect me to look the way I do on-screen, where I have a great director of photography and fantastic lighting. I'm sorry to disappoint people, but I don't look like that all the time - no actress does.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Photography, Sorry, People

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• I may be the first actress to admit that beauty doesn't hold you back. I think beauty is a gift that you have to make the most of. I've worked hard at trying to look my best.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Thinking, Trying, Looks

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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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• For an actress who really hasn't gotten to act for two years, it was like letting a wild dog out of its cage.

  Vanessa Lengies

  Dog, Years, Two

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• I dont know what the secret to longevity as an actress is. Its more than talent and beauty. Maybe its the audience seeing itself in you.

  Joan Blondell

  Secret, Talent, Longevity

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• As an actress and comedienne, I'm a huge fan of he theatre and the Tricycle in Kilburn is my favourite in London. I dragged my kids to a performance of 'Twelfth Night' there, where they handed out pizza. Who knew that all it takes to get children interested in Shakespeare is a snack?

  Arabella Weir

  Children, Kids, Night

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