Actresses Quotes - Page 27

• Well my taste wasn't very good when I first started out. But later, when I began to appreciate the art of acting, I would say the actress I most admire is Vanessa Redgrave.

  Ellen Burstyn

  Art, Appreciate, Acting

  "Ellen Burstyn - part two". Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2000.

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• We are a very typical Spanish family - a bullfighter, an actress, a flamenco dancer and singer!

  Paz Vega

  Dancer, Typical, Singers

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• I felt, this is what I want to be in my life. I want to be an actress.

  Paz Vega

  Want, Felt

  "Spanish actress talent translates well" by Hugh Hart, www.sfgate.com. December 12, 2004.

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• I hope to make acting my career for the rest of my life, if I can. If acting doesn't work out, I'd love to produce or direct or write. I just want to stay in this business, definitely. That would be my number one thing. I always want to be an actress.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Writing, Numbers, Careers

  "Chloe Moretz Exclusive Interview LET ME IN; Plus Updates on EMILY THE STRANGE, HUGO CABRET, HICK and THE RUT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 4, 2010.

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• I loved working with Jamie Lee Curtis, and I felt she was a wonderful actress even that early in her career.

  Donald Pleasence

  Careers, Wonderful, Jamie

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• I was worried that all the corners of the earth had been explored, all the great battles fought. The famous people on TV were athletes and actresses and singers. What did they stand for? I wondered: Had the time for heroes passed?

  Eric Greitens

  Hero, Athlete, People

  Eric Greitens (2012). “The Warrior's Heart: Becoming a Man of Compassion and Courage”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There's no point putting your heart and soul into a part when you know in advance it isn't worth the trouble. I'm not speaking as a dedicated actress. Enthusiasm and hard work are requisites for any job a person undertakes. I tried working just for money once and it made me almost physically ill.

  Lizabeth Scott

  Jobs, Hard Work, Heart

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

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• Demi Moore is a terrific woman and a hell of an actress.

  Mark Goddard

  Hell, Terrific

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• I'm an actress who likes a strong, communicative director.

  Kristin Davis

  Strong, Talking, Directors

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• When I started off as an actress, I did at a play at the Taper Too Theatre here in Los Angeles, called 'In The Abyss Of Coney Island.' That was more of a dramatic play. It was a small theater house. This was the first time I was literally on the road, doing a play, for four months.

  Vivica Fox

  Islands, Play, House

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. February 17, 2010.

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• I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a childrens author, a distance runner, a poet, a pianist, a pet store owner, an astronaut, an environmental and humanitarian activist, a psychiatrist, a ballet teacher, and the first woman president.

  Rachel Corrie

  Mother, Teacher, Distance

  Rachel Corrie (2009). “Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie”, p.16, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I think I've developed into an actress because I've worked darn hard at it and I've learned a great deal from a lot of gifted people. And if I have nothing else to show for my life, apart from a scrapbook full of cuttings, I have the knowledge that my early days in Hollywood weren't in vain.

  Veronica Lake

  Cutting, Thinking, People

  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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• It's so nice after 10 years as a blond actress in Hollywood to have people let you do smart things.

  Emily Procter

  Nice, Smart, Years

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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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• There was no way I could live in Hollywood and not become an actress.

  Eva Gabor

  Hollywood, Way

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• No one but Gene Tierney could have played 'Laura.' There was no other actress around with her particular combination of beauty, breeding, and mystery.

  Vincent Price

  Mystery, Genes, Laura

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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 don't believe athletes should be role models. . . . We're a one-shot deal, one in a million, so we should be the least likely role models. . . . I think one of the problems in society today is that we don't stress education enough, because we glorify athletes, actors and actresses.

  Charles Barkley

  Education, Stress, Believe

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• I was your typical struggling actress. I went to every audition, took a million acting, dancing and singing lessons and spent years wondering where my next meal was coming from.

  Cassandra Peterson

  Struggle, Years, Dancing

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

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• You know what's the worst part about being an actress? It's the pressure to look gorgeous all the time and to behave perfectly. But I'm not perfect, nobody is.

  Preity Zinta

  Perfect, Looks, Pressure

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

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• I actually made an effort to reject acting, to shove it out of my body, because I didn't want my kids to have an actress as a mother-to have, like, a silly person.

  Lisa Kudrow

  Mother, Stupid, Silly

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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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