Actresses Quotes - Page 35

• Hi. My name is Debby, and I am a storyteller. I don't think of myself as an actress. I am more like a face that takes words on a page, and puts them in front of your eyes.

  Debby Ryan

  Eye, Thinking, Names

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• I had one actress who trained with me and took six Spin classes a week. And all she ate was lettuce and Swedish Fish. When the press asked her how she'd transformed' her body, she said, Oh, I do yoga and hike with my puppy.' That made me laugh. Don't lie about how much you work out, because other women are going to think, I walk my dog, why don't I look like that?

  Gunnar Peterson

  Dog, Lying, Yoga

  "Scary Celeb Diet Tricks No Woman Should Try!" by Shaun Dreisbach, www.glamour.com. February 3, 2008.

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• I'm not a politician, She says evenly. If I want to be one, I'll run for office. Susan Sarandon, whom I know and love, is a fantastic actress. It's her right as an American to say whatever she wants. [But] just because you're rich and famous doesn't qualify you to make political statements. I don't put my opinions out there to influence people. You have alot of influence. And sometimes I feel it's undeserved influence.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Running, Love Is, People

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• I think I'm the only 65-year-old actress in Los Angeles who hasn't had plastic surgery, so somebody's gotta play the old-lady parts!

  Jane Elliott

  Thinking, Play, Years

  "Jane Elliot Dishes Her Role as General Hospital's Queen of Mean". Interview with Michael Logan, www.tvguide.com. May 15, 2012.

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• I complain a lot. That's one way of coping. But I'm in a profession where nobody tells you to quit. No board of other partners tells you it's time to get your gold watch, and no physical claim is made on you like an athlete or an actress. So I try to plug along on the theory that I can still do it. I still keep trying to produce prose, and some poetry, in the hope that I can find something to say about being alive, this country, but generally the human condition.

  John Updike

  Country, Athlete, Trying

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• I used to pride myself on being impervious to the sentimentalities of soap opera, but when that loveliest of actresses, Rachel Gurney, of Upstairs, Downstairs, perished on the Titanic, I wept so convulsively and developed such anorexia that I had to be force-fed.

  S. J. Perelman

  Pride, Anorexia, Television

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• 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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• An actress without talent, forty years old, ate a partridge for dinner, and I felt sorry for the partridge, for it occurred to me that in its life it had been more talented, more sensible, and more honest than the actress.

  Anton Chekhov

  Sorry, Years, Dinner

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• I knew that I wanted to be a film actress and I never watched TV. I was always too busy.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Tvs, Busy, Film

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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 was in Jacques Brel Off-Broadway for many years, so I've always been a singing actress, but the songwriting was a complete surprise. I had never written a song in my life. We were on the road with Jacques Brel doing the national tour, and I picked up a guitar one day and I wrote a song.

  Amanda McBroom

  Song, Guitar, Years

  "DIVA TALK: Chatting with Woman of Will's Amanda McBroom, Returning to Piazza and a Wicked Thought". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. August 19, 2005.

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• I started in London, as a kid. My mother knew I had sort of an inbred talent. She was an actress, so I inherited it from her. But I think I got a lot of it from my grandfather, who was a great politician.

  Angela Lansbury

  Mother, Kids, Thinking

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• I think of myself as a journeyman actress. I will attempt almost anything that I think that I can bring off. It could be almost anything.

  Angela Lansbury

  Thinking, I Can

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• It's the idea that when you say 'actress', people think of an airy, floaty, no-brain person, which of course you can't be if you are an actor. It is an unfortunate word, which is why, for a time, I hung on to 'actor', because it just seemed more workmanlike, you know, like you say 'woman doctor' not 'doctoress'.

  Miranda Richardson

  Thinking, Doctors, Ideas

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• I've been in showbusiness all my life, but as an actress I have never been overly driven.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Driven

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• Now supposing I had the part of a young woman to give out, one that wanted some excellent acting. If I were to go to the stage for my actress I would have to take a matured woman, one who would act splendidly, but who would look too old for the requirements.

  D. W. Griffith

  Supposing That, Giving, Acting

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