Top 100 An Actress Quotes
#1. There are reports that French President Francois Hollande had an affair with an actress who is 18 years younger than him. It's pretty serious. Under French law, he could face up to 30 high fives.
Jimmy Fallon
#2. I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to be a model.
Delta Burke
#3. I'm looking forward to playing the meatier roles you get in your 30s. The early 20s can be a hard time for an actress - it's always bombshell or romantic lead. The good stuff you can really sink your teeth into comes later.
Jessica Marais
#4. I love playing serious! That's a relief for me. It means something. It sounds dead corny and cheesy, but on a day-to-day basis, you can't just let loose and cry. So as an actress playing those gritty roles, I can play it quite decently.
Lauren Socha
#5. From the time I was twelve I was dancing for bread and butter, but in my heart I was always an actress.
Rita Hayworth
#6. Either you're one hell of an actress, or you're the dumbest person to ever walk the face of this planet.
Kimberly Spencer
#7. Security has no place in the life of an actress.
Claire Bloom
#8. Acting is glamour but writing is hard work, so I'm going to be an actress.
Jacqueline Susann
#9. Most of your life as an actor in Hollywood, either an actress or an actor, you have to look - you have to work out, you have to look - you rarely get to play someone who's just human, who's real, who is overweight, even not grossly overweight, but who has aspects of just everyday life.
Kim Cattrall
#10. She'd been an actress, an artist's model, once or twice a kept woman, through all a voracious reader.
Glen Duncan
#11. A lot of people are like, 'So you want to be famous.' And I'm like, 'No, I want to be good at my craft. I don't care about fame, I don't care if I even ever make it. As long as people know what I am as an actress in this business, I'm set for my career right now.'
Chloe Grace Moretz
#13. I don't know what the secret to longevity as an actress is. It's more than talent and beauty. Maybe it's the audience seeing itself in you.
Joan Blondell
#14. From the time I was a child I wanted to be like my mother. Not necessarily an actress - I never dreamed I'd have the courage. But an active, volatile woman like she was.
Isabella Rossellini
#15. I felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had experienced complete fulfillment in something that had nothing to do with me being in the spotlight.
Patricia Heaton
#16. The more famous an actress becomes, the less she's allowed to eat. Unless she wants to play people's mothers. And in bad clothes, yet.
Lana Turner
#17. You dont grow up in a town of 700 thinking youre going to be an actress. I loved doing [school] plays, but it was just something to keep me busy.
Michelle Monaghan
#18. I don't know where I'm going to be in three years. Because I have the feeling that the future is so full of possibilities, to stop being an actress, to do something else ... for me, the future is just a huge bunch of discoveries.
Audrey Tautou
#19. 'Blanche' opened a new door for me without really making me more famous. 'Blanche' was a risk, but that is the only thing that excites me in this profession. The knowledge that I am an actress who takes risks lifts my soul.
Lou Doillon
#20. For me, as an actress, one of the most essential things that I need to know is what do I want for and from the people around me in the story.
Mary McDonnell
#21. People think that I changed my name. I could've been an actress, a superhero, or a stripper.
January Jones
#22. More than anything else, my mother wanted to be an actress - a famous actress - which in the 1950s was all about being young, sexy, and available. She was all that, and more. She had big blue eyes, alabaster skin, a heart-shaped face, a beautiful figure. She was just a knockout.
Meredith Baxter
#23. Then a year would go by and I'd realize I love the acting too much and it is my identity and I don't know how to be anything but an actress. It's who and what I am, so I always come back.
Delta Burke
#24. I'm not really a songwriter - I'm an interpreter. So in a sense I am an actress first and foremost. I act out the songs, and I lead with my heart.
Diana Ross
#25. An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.
Richard Burton
#26. As an actress, I'm constantly watching different shows and films and am always gathering information and inspiration for characters and techniques to make my performances the best they can be.
Rachel G. Fox
#27. Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.
Mae West
#29. I was never looking back in regret. I never thought, Oh, why didn't I become an actress? or Why did I just go paddling along after John? I've always walked along right by his side, and he's always supported everything I do.
June Carter Cash
#30. I think it is kind of important to direct someone so the character is appealing, but, as an actress, I find it frustrating because I think, "Why do I have to be more likable than a man would have to be saying the same line?"
Romola Garai
#31. It's always possible as an actress that your last job could really be your last job.
Melissa Peterman
#32. I don't really like to call myself a brand, and I don't like to think of myself as a brand. I'm a singer, a songwriter, a musician and a performer. And an actress, and all the other things that I do. When you add it all together, some might call it a brand, but that's not my focus.
Beyonce Knowles
#33. I wouldn't date an actress. There's only room for one actor in my life and I'm it. Too difficult. On the one hand, they understand the job. But on the other hand, it's very competitive within the relationship. Two actors, say one becomes a mega-star and the other doesn't.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
#34. I've been very lucky and been able to work, as an actress, but I'm definitely a working actress. I get a script, I audition, and then I pray.
Laura Haddock
#35. When I was little, I had a feeling that I was going to end up being an actress. I spent a lot of time alone, I was a very shy girl, and I would pretend I was telling someone about this new role that I got.
Summer Glau
#36. Having this other career in music made me work harder as an actress. It's made me more professional.
Mandy Moore
#37. I'm self-centered, inconsiderate, and what was the third adjective? Oh, yes, and I have this infantile fantasy that one day I'll amount to something as an actress.
Jay Presson Allen
#38. I think Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they don't sell out to the new ones.
Kathleen Turner
#39. Ever since I started as an actress, just to catch up on some money, but not having an income for three years was tricky.
Famke Janssen
#40. When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.
Imani Hakim
#41. I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.
Natalie Dormer
#42. If you really want to be an actress, go to school. I think it's great what people are doing on YouTube, but don't forget to go to class. Have a vision for yourself, but don't forget to do the work.
Bresha Webb
#43. When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato, and I heard laughter. I wanted to be an actress from that moment on.
Doris Roberts
#45. I think the reason I'm an actress is because I love playing kind of a more extreme people.
Melissa McCarthy
#46. I was not interested in what I could bring to myself by being an actress, but in what I could bring out of myself.
Sophia Loren
#47. As an actress, I am always interested in the new writers.
Donna McKechnie
#48. As an actress, you're already disregarded for a lot of the parts by the people who are setting up those shows. You don't need your agent to be doing the same.
Tia Carrere
#49. I remember being about eight and watching 'Pollyanna' with Hayley Mills. I looked at my mum and said, 'Mum, I want to be Pollyanna.' She said, 'You're going to have to make yourself cry if you want to be an actress.' So I turned my head away, and when I turned it back I was in floods of tears.
Laura Haddock
#50. If I wasn't an actress I'd definitely want to do something in the arts and something that was very creative.
Nikki DeLoach
#51. You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me. That's why films like Fight Club were so important to me because I think I confounded certain stereotypes and limited perceptions of what I could do as an actress.
Helena Bonham Carter
#52. When I see an actress or actor drag deeply in a movie, I imagine the pyrenes and phenols ravaging the tender epithelial cells and hardworking cilia of their bronchi, the monoxide and cyanide binding to their hemoglobin, the heaving and straining of their chemically panicked hearts.
Jonathan Franzen
#53. Well, I was lucky in that my being an actress totally overshadowed my having some kind of a ... legacy at Yale, so that was kind of great.
Jordana Brewster
#54. [Roger] Vadim became famous worldwide as a director, and I as an actress, but the other side of the coin was terrible. My life was totally turned upside down. I was followed, spied upon, adored, insulted. My private life became public.
Brigitte Bardot
#55. I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience, otherwise why go for it? I have to change me, and I have to learn things, and I have to push me and my limits. By acting, I find a freedom inside of a prison in a way.
Juliette Binoche
#56. As an actress you can participate, you can be a co-author, help the director. But I always wanted to be able to make the big decisions.
Valeria Golino
#57. I was a dancer before I was an actress, so I've always been someone who likes to communicate from my body and movement.
Caity Lotz
#58. I've always felt that to deliver a song successfully, you have to be an actress. A good actress becomes the part, just as a good singer becomes the song.
Vesta Williams
#59. I love being challenged physically, as an actress.
Julie Benz
#60. As an actress, it appeals to me because I love the idea of playing those in-between moments, the sort of behavioral stuff that one might not normally see.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
#61. I'm about to graduate senior year and I don't know what I'm going to do. I don't want to lose the momentum with what I'm doing now as an actress.
Kaitlyn Dever
#62. I mean, the actors that I admired were Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, an actress named Barbara Harris. And Greta Garbo. They were great actors.
Robert De Niro
#63. Two of an actress's greatest assets are love and pain. A great actress, even a good actress, must have plenty of both in her life.
Katharine Hepburn
#64. I'm here not just as an actress but as a woman, an African-American, a granddaughter of Ellis Island immigrants, a person who could not have afforded college without the help of student loans and as one of millions of volunteers working to re-elect President Obama!
Kerry Washington
#65. I'll make phone calls. I'll call anybody and knock on any door to try and get a location, or get an actor, or get an actress. But no, it was just very easy. We just hit the ground running.
Pierce Brosnan
#66. I have the desire to work as an actress, but I have no ambition to be a star.
Ally Sheedy
#67. I guess I became an actress because I didn't want to be myself.
Jean Arthur
#68. I'm not a fashionista, definitely. I'm an actress. I have a great team working with me.
Stephanie Sigman
#69. I proud to say that most of the Iranians love me and love my work. I love them, and I always have them in my mind when I work. There are few people who do not agree with me, but truly, I don't care. I call myself an actress with a mission.
Shohreh Aghdashloo
#70. Terry's mother worked in the film industry for many years. She always wanted him to marry an actress.
Marta Kristen
#71. To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the chance to do music, I'm always, like, just in it. It's like, 'Oh my God, I finally get to do this. I'm so happy.'
Ariana Grande
#72. When you're a regular gal, you look in the rearview mirror, and in the bright daylight you see that line around your mouth, but when you're an actress and you see that line up on the big screen, it's, like, seven feet long.
Sharon Stone
#73. As an actress, I have put myself out there as an independent black woman, a single mom, a go-getter, a hustler who isn't afraid to survive.
LisaRaye McCoy-Misick
#74. Demi Moore is a terrific woman and a hell of an actress.
Mark Goddard
#75. I'm just lucky to have great parents. My sister's an actress. My brother's a musician. I found it hard growing up in such a ... creatively driven family. I wanted to have this thing to create, myself.
Grace Gummer
#76. 'Sophie's Choice' is actually the reason I became an actress.
Kathryn Morris
#77. You can tell five minutes into it what a girl is after, when she starts asking how much money I make or tells me, 'I wanna be an actress.'
Scott Baio
#78. I'm not an actress, you know. I don't know what's going on. And I'm supposed to be the villain.
Gisele Bundchen
#79. I look to longevity. I just consider myself an actress and getting good roles. If being a 'superstar' gets me good roles, then that's a positive thing. But my goal isn't just to be a superstar. It's to act for a long time.
Penelope Ann Miller
#80. I got pigeonholed a bit. When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted to be the kind of actress I became.
Rachel Ward
#81. I'm not a comedienne. I'm an actress.
Pam Dawber
#82. I've always wanted to be an actress, ever since I was a little girl. I've always played the mom and I play my sister as the daughter. I wanted to be an actress on television and movies instead of just around the house.
Dakota Fanning
#83. Right now the music is more of a hobby since I'm making a good living as an actress.
Amy Jo Johnson
#84. As an actress, I really love people like Anna Magnani and Debra Winger. I also think there is nobody better than Meryl Streep.
Penelope Cruz
#85. I felt that if I'm serious about acting, I would like people to see me as an actress. It's less of a stretch if I'm singing, unless I'm playing a character who sings.
Natalie Cole
#86. I'm an actress, model and athlete, and I'd put athlete third on the list.
Serena Williams
#87. My parents are very modern. My father is a cosmopolitan person. He always supported the fact that I will be an actress. There is nothing else I would do rather than being an actor.
Kareena Kapoor Khan
#88. I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.
Zosia Mamet
#89. As an actress, you're perpetually about to be unemployed. That fear - when you have two parents who worked 9-to-5 jobs and went through periods of being unemployed - is real. Those were not welcome times in my childhood.
Anna Kendrick
#90. The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So they sell shoes that an actress stepped in. If they turned up the amps some, maybe they could sell the actresses.
Bruce Sterling
#91. It's scary but as an actress it is my job to be vulnerable, so I try to just embrace it and focus on the things I can control.
Sadie Calvano
#92. It is so fantastic being an actress because you have the chance to be a thousand different people when you act.
Maria Grazia Cucinotta
#93. As an actress, I'm drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I'm fortunate to have thoughts and feelings at my fingertips.
Diane Keaton
#94. I would like to be an actress in Hollywood and win an Oscar. The only difference is my height.
Jyoti Amge
#95. My dad was a very funny man - he's the one who taught me life would be awfully hard without humor! I'm sure his Irish wit in some way influenced my decision to become an actress.
Joan Cusack
#96. I don't enjoy the life of an actress, but I don't want to go into that.
Claire Bloom
#97. It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress ... period.
Christine Lahti
#98. My agent called me and said, "You have an audition for James Bond. They're looking for the girl." And I told him, "Listen, it's all in English. I'm not an actress. I'm not going to go." He thought I was kidding with him.
Gal Gadot
#99. I think, as an actress, whether you want to or not, whether you're ready for it or not, people are going to look at what you're doing, and they are going to look up to you, and it's not even really about you; it's who you portray on the screen.
Rita Volk
#100. I put my films together in Europe and it kick-starts the financing when I'm attached as an actress. It makes it easier to move forward.
Julie Delpy
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