Top 100 Actress Quotes
#1. You absolutely feel, as a black actress, that you've got to ride the wave because there's just so few roles. I hate to play that card, but it's the truth. There's not a lot of roles.
Viola Davis
#2. I don't go to parties and all that. I don't think being seen or being in the right place is going to make me a better actress. I care about my work and try to do what's right in my heart.
Sherilyn Fenn
#3. After I finished 'E.R.', I wanted to concentrate on re-examining what kind of actress I am and taking time for real-life things.
Linda Cardellini
#4. As an actress, there's nothing worse than not knowing your cues.
Kristin Davis
#6. An actress in a film starts every day with an hour and a half in front of a mirror, with hair and make-up and costumes.
Debra Winger
#7. Even after 'Gangster' being a success, I was considered a B-grade actress and was a sidekick, even though I was good at what I did, and was jobless for two years.
Kangana Ranaut
#8. My mother wanted to be a teacher when she was young, and my father didn't approve of it, so she fought very hard to become one. And she did it. So when I said I wanted to become an actress, my mother was very supportive. She always said to me, 'There's no such thing as 'can't.'
Archie Panjabi
#9. When you spend your entire life as a child actress, being told where to go and where to stand, you're performing constantly for people. It definitely breeds the kind of person who's dependent on other people's approval.
Kirsten Dunst
#10. My mother told me that when I was born a wave of feeling came over her. She just knew that I was destined to be an actress.
Kirsten Dunst
#11. I became an actress because I'm lazy. I wouldn't apply myself at school.
Michelle Gomez
#12. 'Boomerang!' I love that movie just because of Halle Berry, Robin Givens, Eddie Murphy, Grace Jones and Eartha Kitt. There were so many characters. As an actress, to see African-American actors be so diverse was different from what I was used to seeing.
Drew Sidora
#13. The thing I always thought of myself as was an actress. I never thought: 'I want to be.' It was always: 'I am.'
June Squibb
#14. As an actress I really like exploring and doing new experiences.
Violante Placido
#15. Today what is more important for me is performance. At the risk of sounding immodest, I have done it all - 61 movies over 12 years. But now I am looking for quality. It's easy to be a star. Now I want to be an actress.
Karisma Kapoor
#16. My mother told me never explain, never complain. Even as a young actress, I determined I would never give personal interviews, since they made me so uncomfortable.
Jennifer Jones
#17. I am an actress, a producer, a philanthropist, a wife, and above all a mommy to my beautiful babies, Leonardo and Valentino.
Joyce Giraud
#18. I think as a young actress, it's very rare that you read something where you're not either 'the girl' or there to serve some romantic purpose in a male dominated cast.
Sienna Miller
#19. As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.
Rachel Weisz
#20. My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
Barbra Streisand
#21. Everyone at home thought I was nuts when I said I wanted to be an actress, and I'm sure they were just trying to protect me from disappointment.
Kerry Condon
#22. I'm an actress and mom, and I probably don't have enough of an active spiritual life. And I don't know why people run around calling themselves by the names of religions when they don't actually practise them.
Uma Thurman
#23. I think, from a really early age, I just wanted to be an actress. And I ended up doing comedy because it was the thing that kind of, like, came out of my nature the most easily. But, I've always wanted to do as many different kinds of performances - whatever I could.
Jenny Slate
#24. I don't speak English, so I cannot foresee a career in Hollywood. But I do see myself more and more as an actress rather than a dancer.
Monica Cruz
#25. Many people don't understand the difference between a vocation and your own idea about something. A vocation is a call-one you don't necessarily want. The only thing I ever wanted to be was an actress. But I was called by God.
Dolores Hart
#26. I'm just a stage actress. I'm very comfortable onstage.
Julie White
#27. The problem with being a film actress or a movie star is that people see you so huge that somehow you're visually massive or somehow you're in some removed space, which is a television or wherever. It somehow takes your humanity.
Kristin Scott Thomas
#28. I think every day there is some new actress comes out and inspires me to do something else ... like Hilary Swank. After she did Boys Don't Cry, I felt this yearning to go out and be even half as good as she was.
Elisabeth Moss
#29. I'm trying to find myself as a person, sometimes that's not easy to do. Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do. The best way for me to find myself as a person is to prove to myself that I am an actress.
Marilyn Monroe
#30. I started off as a model and struggled for some time until I got a break as an actress. I was too stubborn to let go and was sure I was in the right place at the right time. I just fought and I think that's how I am where I am today.
Natasha Henstridge
#31. I'm a theater actress and I thrive on working with other actors, and you can't be even a smidge bad, when you're acting with Charlie [Sheen]. He's just so natural, so present and so good that you have to step up to his level, or else.
Daniela Bobadilla
#32. I'll always be figuring out what parts I want to play, because I want to play all parts. I'm a very hungry actress.
Kristen Bell
#33. I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.
Dakota Fanning
#34. The inability to listen and to depict in the countenance what others have said has spoiled many a good actress.
Julia Marlowe
#35. I announced to my mother one day when I was 8 that I wanted to be a serious actress.
Meredith Salenger
#36. As a means to an end, modelling was good, but I had to distance myself from it when I started working as an actress, because even though I wasn't high-profile, I found in my first write-ups that I'd be referred to as 'model Gemma Chan.'
Gemma Chan
#37. I'm very literate on policy. I'm very literate on the issues, and I'm an American first. I've been involved in politics long before I was an actress. I just happen to have a platform now. I just happen to have a voice.
Eva Longoria
#38. Even though I am in this weird position of being a semi-recognizable screenwriter, which isn't that common, at the same time, I'm not an actress. I'm pretty isolated.
Diablo Cody
#39. I met this girl, she was an actress, and she gave me her number. It started with 555.
Mitch Hedberg
#40. I don't want my tombstone to say actress. I want it to say human being.
Laurie Holden
#42. I became an actress because I discovered the world of the imagination when I was about 14 or so and the concept that you could engage in this amazing world of storytelling. I saw a production of Hamlet, and I didn't know Hamlet died in the end.
Helen Mirren
#43. I never had any desire to become a well-known actress.
Rebecca Miller
#44. In the creative arts you draw a special power. The discipline required is awesome to be an actor or an actress, to be really good, not just another one waiting tables.
Frederick Lenz
#45. Coming from Ireland, it's quite hard to do a startup because you're culturally so far away from what everyone else is doing. In the Bay Area, it's much easier. It's the equivalent of an actor or actress moving to Hollywood.
John Collison
#46. I've been doing my job for a long time and I never really thought about being an actress or being anything like that. I was always a bit scared as well because of the thing about models becoming an actress and all that. I just never really took it seriously.
Gisele Bundchen
#47. My parents and my family really tried to maintain as much of a normal environment as possible. When I went home, it wasn't Keshia Knight Pulliam the actress, the glitz, the glamour. It was Keshia the daughter. Oldest of four children, who washed the dishes and did everything she was supposed to do.
Keshia Knight Pulliam
#48. I wasn't a glamour-puss, and there were more interesting roles for an actress like me in the theater and in live television.
Nancy Marchand
#49. That's why I'm an actress, to do something completely opposite from myself.
Taryn Manning
#50. Every actress hopes to play a wide range of characters because not often you don't.
Megalyn Echikunwoke
#51. I've never been a fearful person. When I was growing up, I wanted to be an actress, a writer, and a musician and I never really processed that those are the three hardest jobs - I just never even processed it.
Krysten Ritter
#52. I don't need a Hollywood girl. They're crazy. If you're with an actress, you don't know who you're going to come home to every day. But I wouldn't mind a relationship with the right girl. Every artist needs a muse.
JC Chasez
#53. If some actress thinks she is sexy and she can dance, it's her choice. I do what I want to do, and I set my own benchmark. I will never compare myself with anyone.
Preity Zinta
#54. I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity, and that includes all kinds of parts.
Marilyn Monroe
#55. I think people are always like, 'She's a model-turned-actress.' And I don't want to turn actress. I want to do both. I wouldn't have built the confidence to do acting if I didn't model.
Dree Hemingway
#56. Over the course of my career as both an actress and an author, I have met many wanna-bes. I distinguish the wannas from the gonnas because the WBs all think someone else is to blame for their problems ... By contrast, GBs say: 'What? There's no door here? I'll build one.
K Callan
#57. There are ways in which you can make sure that even if people come to the theatre because they know an actor or actress, by the end, they've forgotten that, and they leave going, 'Wow - what an amazing play.'
Kevin Spacey
#58. I'm sporting some really blonde hair because I live in Hollywood and I'm an actress.
Sarah Paulson
#59. I liked the idea of being an actress, but thought better of it.
Sara Cox
#60. Rose.It was her. Not some copy, not some actress. I knew it with every beat of my frantic heart. Then terror filled her eyes.
"Evelyn," she gasped. "He's in here - "
A hand appeared out of the shadows and clamped over her mouth. And she vanished.
Tarun Shanker
#61. I have the highest regard for Meryl Streep as an actress and think she's a fabulous person as well.
Lindsay Duncan
#62. I don't care if every porn actress in california is healthier and more well-adjusted, as well as better paid, than all other women in the world combined it's still misogynist propaganda used to discipline women and men who defend the production and use of it are pathetic
E.M. Quangel
#63. I loved the playfulness of fashion. I think maybe that's why I became an actress. You put on one outfit and feel one way, and another one will make you feel another way. Clothes are a wonderful tool.
Melissa McCarthy
#64. I'm not a model or an actress; I'm just a 23 year old who likes to talk about science. Why does what I look like matter so much?
Elise Andrew
#65. I would love to be remembered as a wonderfully dynamic and multitalented actress who left a legacy through her work and through her life of helping people and of being a positive force in the world.
Keshia Knight Pulliam
#66. I'm merely trying to be something akin to a nice, kind, good actress.
Christina Ricci
#67. I would love to play 'Wonder Woman'; I have the abilities and the strength because I am definitely not the typical Hollywood actress.
Nadia Bjorlin
#68. I loved modeling. I absolutely loved it. I was so happy to get the cover of 'Vogue' - 23 times. I keep each copy. I made more money as a model than as an actress or as a filmmaker. In monetary terms, beauty pays more than anything.
Isabella Rossellini
#69. It was really cool because you can tell that she directs in a way that she wants to be spoken to, as an actress. That's really nice, and you appreciate that. Dealing with the actors was more important to her than anything else, which was really nice.
Laura Prepon
#70. The first time an autograph hunter told me, 'You are my mother's favorite actress,' I aged twenty years.
Ingrid Bergman
#71. Sometimes I think I don't want to grow old as an actress and deal with the fact that I'm getting less jobs 'cause my face is changing, and then the men ... But at the same time, I'm pretty competitive. I don't know if I'd bow out. I might still be acting when I'm in a wheelchair.
Kerry Condon
#72. It's always a great day going to work with Ginnifer Goodwin; she's a fantastic actress and I learn so much from her.
Josh Dallas
#73. When I got home I peered down at the lobster to see how he was doing. The inner plastic bag was sucked tight around him and clouded up. It looked like something out of an eighties made-for-TV movie, with some washed-up actress taking too many pills and trying to off herself with a Macy's bag.
Julie Powell
#74. I'd like to work with any actress from whom I can learn-one who has had many experiences with many directors and is willing to share some of her knowledge with me.
Fred Savage
#75. I became an actress and studied human emotions so that I could give the gift of feelings to my son. This is what my whole journey has been about.
Tisha Campbell-Martin
#76. [Victoria Clark] is one of those people who has the rarest combination of gifts. I can put her in any classical play tomorrow because she such an extraordinary actress.
Bartlett Sher
#78. Always wanted to be an actress or work with animals and now I get to do both.
Julia Barr
#79. I was never an actress
none of us kids at Metro were. We were just good to look at.
Ava Gardner
#81. I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
Barbra Streisand
#82. I'm a guy who is married to an actress, who has three children, and lives in Tribeca. Where do you draw the line on what I am allowed to discuss?
Paul Bettany
#83. For me, as an actress, being a dancer has helped me. I've done it with my feet bloody.
Elizabeth Berkley
#84. Frequently my life has been likened to a Greek tragedy, and the actress in me cannot deny that comparison.
Patricia Neal
#85. I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to.
Isabella Rossellini
#86. The last thing a director needs is an actress who feels an ownership towards a particular character.
Romola Garai
#87. Playing good girls in the 30s was difficult, when the fad was to play bad girls. Actually I think playing bad girls is a bore; I have always had more luck with good girl roles because they require more from an actress.
Olivia De Havilland
#88. Victor Hugo makes one of his heroines
an actress
say, "My art endows me with a searching eye, a knowledge of the soul and the soul's workings; and, spite of all your skill, I read to the depths." This is a truth more or less powerful, as one is more or less gifted by the good God.
Charlotte Saunders Cushman
#89. My grandmother was an actress too. In the thirties and forties she was under contract with Universal Studios. Crazy credits, lots of them. My dad was also under contract with Universal Studios. And my first film was shot on the same stage they both worked on at Universal.
Chris Pine
#90. I didn't want to escape my life and become a big actress and live my dreams. That was never the way it was; it was just these amazing opportunities that happened.
Maisie Williams
#91. I had this totally impossible dream of being an actress. Trust me, just because I'm lucky enough to be doing this doesn't make any of this less of a pipe dream. And nothing gets my juices flowing like a really great performance. To see someone on stage, I get really excited.
Olivia Thirlby
#92. I'm an actress and I want to act, and I'm a mom and I want to be with my kids, and it's trying to find a way to do both.
Julianne Nicholson
#93. The sad truth for American actors is that they really have no control whatsoever over the material that they get, or can do, particularly actresses. And if you're over 40 and you're an actress, forget it.
James Gray
#94. I am first and foremost an actress of Indian origin.
Freida Pinto
#95. 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
#96. When I was younger, I didn't have any aspirations to be an actress.
Taissa Farmiga
#97. I always joke that I'm a British actress trying to break into Scandinavian TV.
MyAnna Buring
#98. Vivien Leigh was a phenomenal actress, a very complicated woman, living on the edge of mental problems, haunted by demons and angels. And though I've never thought of myself like Marilyn Monroe, I was inspired by the tremendous risk she took - of being vulnerable.
Rebecca De Mornay
#99. I'm an actress who likes a strong, communicative director.
Kristin Davis
#100. But there's something flirty/sexy about his voice that's appealing to my inner romantic comedy actress.
Then again, maybe it's just his penthouse apartment I'm hearing. My inner gold digger frequently beats the crap out of my inner Meg Ryan.
Josh Kilmer-Purcell
