Actresses Quotes - Page 33

• I find it difficult to explain, but I'm quite ashamed of being an actress.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Ashamed, Difficult

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• I am first and foremost an actress of Indian origin.

  Freida Pinto

  Firsts, Indian

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• Wayne Wang, the director, really helped me become a more mature actress. When I first started filming, I was really over the top. He just helped bring me down and make me real. That was really wonderful, a really wonderful experience. Also, what I learned about filming is it takes forever. I mean, there are so many different angles and shots. I mean, it just takes forever.

  AnnaSophia Robb

  Real, Mean, Forever

  "An Interview with AnnaSophia Robb, 11-Year-Old Star of 'Because of Winn-Dixie'". Interview with Rebecca Grace, catholicexchange.com. March 18, 2005.

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• There are so many glamorous actresses, but you know what? In the real world, nobody looks like that.

  Rebel Wilson

  Real, Looks, World

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• When I was just a kid, growing up in Brooklyn, I was constantly making home videos with my family – real silly high-concept productions like, 'Attack of the Killer Handkerchief.' I guess I knew even then that I wanted to be an actress.

  Lana Parrilla

  Growing Up, Real, Silly

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• What I do for a living means that people look at me. As an actress, you are scrutinized. You are not just dealing with your looks privately, you are on display. I have never been 100 percent comfortable in my own skin. I go through different phases. But I don't feel beautiful all the time, no.

  Sophia Myles

  Beautiful, Mean, People

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

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• Because I never set out to be an actress, I always feel so lucky and grateful. There are so many people who are really desperate to be stars, and it was completely the opposite for me - I fell into it.

  Sophia Myles

  Stars, Grateful, Opposites

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• As an actress, I think it’s important to look back and realize that we aren’t always quite as original as we think we are. There’s this grand, textured history for us over the last 100 years of incredible writers, directors, and performers.

  Natalie Dormer

  Thinking, Years, Important

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• One of the rules about being an actor or an actress is that you never diss other actors or actresses, particularly when you don't know them.

  Joan Collins

  Actors, Knows

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• I read the books and I really, really wanted to play the part. I started kundalini yoga, kickboxing and running, and completely changed my diet. I felt I wanted to undergo what was necessary for the part. I love a challenge. And I love defying limitation, gender stereotypes and people’s expectations of me as an actress.

  Gwendoline Christie

  Running, Yoga, Book

  "Game of Thrones' Gwendoline Christie shreds Brienne of Tarth for super-seductive photo shoot" by Claire Rutter, www.mirror.co.uk. November 13, 2014.

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• I think audiences, producers and directors included, develop crushes on actors (actresses in particular) and then lose interest and move on to the next one.

  Julia Stiles

  Crush, Moving, Thinking

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

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• I already feel a bit annoyed at myself for writing screenplays. It's a bit, I don't know, model-singer-dancer-actress that went to a posh school. There's something too weirdly predictable about it.

  Emily Mortimer

  Writing, School, Dancer

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• I'm an actress and a singer and I'm also a Christian. We're not all crazy right-wingers. I just want to be like Jesus, forgiving and loving and nonjudgmental, accepting of everyone even if they don't agree.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Christian, Jesus, Crazy

  "Talented and old school" by Retta Blaney, natcath.org. July 1, 2005.

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• I don't like acting and I never have liked acting and I never wanted to be an actress.

  Elsa Lanchester

  Acting, Wanted

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• I said, 'I'll give myself two years. If I can't support myself as an actress within two years, then I'll go back to choreography.'

  Khandi Alexander

  Years, Two, Giving

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• I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'

  Tamsin Egerton

  Littles, Horrible, Bloody

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• As a performer, you can't just sit around waiting for the phone to ring. You have to write and develop projects for yourself, because casting people aren't always going to see you the way you want to be seen. Write a one-person show, shoot a short film, do plays, whatever - activity breeds activity. No one's interested in a stay-at-home actress.

  Wendi McLendon-Covey

  Home, Writing, Phones

  "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 only ever wanted to be an actress, not a star.

  Teresa Wright

  Stars, Wanted

  Biography/Personal Quotes, 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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• It was really fun being in Tara's trailer, working on my lines. Tara is such an amazing actress. She's so good at what she does. I learned a lot from watching her.

  Carson Daly

  Fun, Doe, Lines

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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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