Actresses Quotes - Page 30

• After all the work I've done, why should I suddenly be treated as a bona fide actress?

  Eva Gabor

  Done, Should, Treated

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• I made up my mind to be an actress when I was 4 years old.

  Eva Gabor

  Years, Mind, Made

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• I was the first actress in the family, and I am still the only actress in the family. I shouldn't be saying it, but it slipped out!

  Eva Gabor

  Firsts, Stills

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I never wanted to be a model. I never wanted to be a serious actress. I started off doing comedy. I did a stand-up comedy camp at the Laugh Factory, and I started out on Nickelodeon.

  Amanda Bynes

  Laughing, Serious, Comedy

  "Fashion, food and fun are dear to Amanda Bynes". Interview with Tali Yahalom, usatoday30.usatoday.com. August 22, 2007.

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• I only began to sing because I couldn't get a job as an actress.

  Barbra Streisand

  Jobs

  "Barbra Streisand: I refused Marlon Brando's advances" by Katie McLaughlin, www.cnn.com. December 14, 2012.

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• I got all the schooling any actress needs. That is, I learned to write enough to sign contract.

  Hermione Gingold

  Writing, Needs, Hermione

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• There's always an imbalance with actors and actresses in the industry. And I think because there are just fewer movies overall being made, it's that trickle down effect.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Movie, Thinking, Actors

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• Lindsay Doran goes round the table and introduces everyone - making it clear that I am present in the capacity of writer rather than actress, therefore no one has to be too nice to me.

  Emma Thompson

  Nice, Writing, Tables

  Emma Thompson (2007). “Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay & Diaries”, Newmarket Press

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• Not to get overly psychological about this, but it's probably why I became an actress in the first place: for that kind of freedom and refuge, as well as for the fact that I just love acting so much.

  Marisa Tomei

  Acting, Firsts, Facts

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• I was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up.

  Jenny Eclair

  Punk, Convincing

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• I used to go out with actresses and other female impersonators.

  Mort Sahl

  Acting, Female, Used

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• I've learned to take jobs as an actress that is meaningful to me because I've never taken a job for the money.

  Emmy Rossum

  Meaningful, Jobs, Taken

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• Within the various acts of the ecodrama should be included scenes in which men's and women's roles come to center stage and scenes in which Nature 'herself' is an actress.

  Carolyn Merchant

  Men, Roles, Scene

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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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• The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.

  Beth Henley

  Dog, School, College

  Interview with Jackson R. Bryer, www.encyclopedia.com. 2005.

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• Anne Baxter was a very good actress, Donna Reid was great. You couldn't name an actress I wasn't crazy about.

  Richard Widmark

  Crazy, Names, Madness

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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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• I don't think of myself as a star. An actress is nothing remarkable.

  Gong Li

  Stars, Thinking, Acting

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• I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think it must be every housewife's dream, to be an actress part-time.

  Meg Tilly

  Dream, Book, Reading

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• I don't want to be a great actress. I want to be a sexy movie star.

  Angie Dickinson

  Sexy, Stars, Want

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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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• I think actresses are imagined to be these subjects of great vanity. Life is change; physicality changes. It's transient, and that's a beautiful and a painful thing.

  Uma Thurman

  Beautiful, Thinking, Vanity

  "Uma Thurman On Acting, Turning 40, And Ex-Husbands: “My Aim Is True”, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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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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