Actresses Quotes - Page 29

• I'd say my happiest moment as an actress came when I learned I'd won the Look Magazine Best Supporting Actress Award for 1956 in The Killing.

  Marie Windsor

  Awards, Looks, Magazines

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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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• The subjective actress thinks of clothes only as they apply to her; the objective actress thinks of them only as they affect others, as a tool for the job.

  Edith Head

  Jobs, Thinking, Clothes

  EDITH HEAD (1959). “The Dress Doctor”

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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 studied painting and sculpting at school and became an actress by mistake .... I've had many lovers and still have romances. I am very spoiled. All my life, I've had too many admirers.

  Gina Lollobrigida

  Mistake, School, Romance

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• There’s something about Olivia de Havilland that has always set her apart from other actresses. Maybe it’s the combination of warmth, sensitivity and intelligence she conveys, or the way her good looks have always been further enhanced by the ever-present twinkle in her eyes or the wisdom you sense behind those orbs.

  Robert Osborne

  Eye, Olivia, Looks

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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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• My real difficulty was to become a normal person again, after having been a movie actress for so long. For me, at the time I was living in New York and Hollywood, a normal person was someone who made movies.

  Grace Kelly

  New York, Real, Long

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

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• I'm from a generation of fantastic actresses. It's a big pool of really wonderful actresses, and so many of them we never even get to see on the screen anymore.

  Karen Allen

  Generations, Wonderful, Pool

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

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• I'm such a fan of Shailene Woodley, so I'm super excited to see all her stuff. She's an awesome actress.

  Zoey Deutch

  Fans, Stuff, Excited

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• I am an actress and acting is my passion... period!

  Christine Lahti

  Passion, Acting, Periods

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• I think if you work as an actress and are supposed as a character to be in love with some actor, then to some extent you do have to be in love with him.

  Dorothy Stratten

  Character, Thinking, Actors

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• I really always felt that I was going to be an actress. I had a lot of confidence in the fact that I would do well from a very early age. I didn't know how tough the business is.

  Susan Lucci

  Confidence, Age, Facts

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• I remember feeling that Michael was extremely sensitive when it came to that moment. Most directors are and they usually rely, at least in my experience, on the actress to take over. And Michael is a gentleman.

  Madeleine Stowe

  Feelings, Gentleman, Experience

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• So now I feel I'm lucky in the respect that I can sort of pick a little more carefully, which is tricky because as a black actress, there aren't that many roles to pick from.

  Rachel True

  Respect, Black, Lucky

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• I don't want my tombstone to say actress. I want it to say human being.

  Laurie Holden

  Tombstone, Want, Headstone

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

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• I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That’s what makes me interested in them, that they didn’t present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.

  Imelda Staunton

  Jobs, Idols, Adore

  "Vera Drake: Imelda Staunton about Mike Leigh". Interview with Emanuel Levy, emanuellevy.com. February 9, 2005.

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• As women, we often think we have to be all things to all people, all at the same time. As a wife, mother, actress and businesswoman, I definitely feel the pressure to perform well in all areas.

  Niecy Nash

  Mother, Thinking, People

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• I hope the English-speaking world can see that I'm not only an Israeli actress.

  Hani Furstenberg

  World, Israeli, English Speaking

  "FUTURES: 'The Loneliest Planet' Star Hani Furstenberg Movies Beyond the Israeli Stage". Interview with Eric Kohn, www.indiewire.com. October 25, 2012.

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• My wife told me one of the sweetest things one could hear: 'I am not jealous. But I am truly sad for all the actresses who embrace you and kiss you while acting, for with them, you are only pretending.'

  Joseph Cotten

  Jealous, Kissing, Wife

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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