Being An Actress Quotes

#1. The good thing about being an actress is that it's very children-friendly. I can work for three months and then I can have six months off. And then I can work for six months and have six months off.

Gal Gadot

#2. You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.

Beatrice Wood

#3. What I like about being an actress is that it keeps you feminine. Being a director and producer makes you manly and very masculine and I don't like that quality in a woman. But I'll do it when the film is very close to me.

Bai Ling

#4. There's nothing I dislike more than being in a photo shoot where they say, 'Be yourself.' That's not why I became an actress. That's what I find so funny: that you become an actor, and all of a sudden, everyone wants to know about you. But I didn't become an actor so I could show you me.

Margot Robbie

#5. I loved being on the other side of the camera. I loved watching another actress in the spotlight, do an extraordinary job, and I loved making her beautiful and interesting, protecting her emotions, and showing people her talent.

Angelina Jolie

#6. Being a human being is all about experiencing all of the wonders of the world and therefore as an actress, I'm open to any opportunity that may enrich my horizon.

Sarah Polley

#7. I used to do plays and some television commercials when I was younger. I guess my mom's being an actress got me interested in that, but music definitely took its place.

Lenny Kravitz

#8. What's awful about being famous and being an actress is when people come up to you and touch you. That's scary, and they just seem to think it's okay to do it, like you're public property.

Winona Ryder

#9. People think you're really confident because you're an actress or whatever, but I'm, like, the worst. Although the good thing about being recognizable is that people approach me, which is good.

Rebel Wilson

#10. As an actor, I'm attracted to drama; as a director, it's humor - because it's the story of my life, and I can't be that serious about it. Being alone is a big theme in all my movies, both as a director and as an actress.

Jodie Foster

#11. I love being a mommy, and I love being an artist, and I love being a singer and an actress and making a movie - all that stuff I feel very passionate about, so I have a lot of energy for it.

Melora Hardin

#12. Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

Marilyn Monroe

#13. I saw that I could not afford the luxury of just being an actress. So I made a choice to use my career as a platform to address the issues of the race I was born into.

Cicely Tyson

#14. It's quite hard for me being an actress because I actually don't like attention.

Julie Christie

#15. Being an actress has something in common with being a housewife. They both look terribly easy to someone who hasn't done them. And the easier it looks, probably the better you are doing your job.

Glenda Jackson

#16. 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

#17. I think that there are a lot of reasons to be insecure as an actress ... But I don't really have a perception issue. I've been pretty good about being who I am in the public's eye.

Mila Kunis

#18. The only thing I like about being an actress is acting.

Elizabeth Ashley

#19. Not just as an actress, but on a human-being level, I've experienced frustration on many different levels. [With my] career, it would be more the frustration of not always finding challenging material or inspiring material ... [Acting is] therapeutic for me. I'm pretty accommodating.

Vera Farmiga

#20. I have a lot of fun playing a model on television, and I love being an actress. I don't think I could ever handle that world.

Sara Paxton

#21. The good thing about being shy though as a child is that you become very observant because you're not really actively participating. You're sitting back watching everyone. I think that's really helped me as an actress because I'm good at observing people and then copying them for comic effect.

Rebel Wilson

#22. Being an actress hasn't made me insecure. I was insecure long before I declared I was an actress.

Amy Adams

#23. Perhaps being an actress means that in a situation like this people will constantly be questioning whether the emotions you display are genuine.

Dorothy Simpson

#24. I think, being an actress, you know that you're getting old. I'm 44. I mean, an agent said when I turned 40, "It won't get better."

Charlotte Gainsbourg

#25. In my early years, there were a number of experiences that made me decide I could not afford the luxury of just being an actress. There were a number of issues I wanted to address. And I wanted to use my career as a platform.

Cicely Tyson

#26. It's been said that horror films are experimental forms of art, and I agree. As an actress, you're put in positions and have to experience emotions that are way beyond reality, whether fighting in a post-apocalyptic world or being possessed by the Devil.

Ashley Bell

#27. Being an actress is a very physical thing. If I didn't look the way I looked, I would never have started in films.

Catherine Deneuve

#28. I always wanted to be an actress. I couldn't imagine being anything else.

AnnaLynne McCord

#29. Outside of being an actress, I feel like being out is the biggest way that gay people can change perception. There are people that give millions of dollars to gay organizations but are closeted to their own families.

Jill Bennett

#30. Art and activism seem to go together naturally, the idea being that if you're an entertainer, you can have a voice, and if you have a voice, you can make a difference. But if I were not an actress, I would still try to extend myself beyond my little micro-universe of my job, family and personal joy.

Salma Hayek

#31. I look at being an actress as being like a mummy: You're bandaged up and preserved as soon as you start making other people money.

Anna Friel

#32. I would much rather sit, dimmed by inattention, and study the atmosphere and the silence and dance between people, but often times I'm not offered this privilege. The necessity for isolation, and the striving for attention is the only contradiction I find in being a writer and an actress.

Masiela Lusha

#33. The only other thing that interested me as a kid was being a bricklayer. So if I hadn't become an actress, I would probably be a bricklayer.

Nikki Cox

#34. For most women, whether you're an actress or whatever you do, there is this pressure in society and within the world to look a certain way, dress a certain way, act a certain way, say certain things, and be this idea as opposed to being a person.

Amber Tamblyn

#35. I want to look my best, but I'm not a model. I'm not an actress. I'm representing normal girls. It's OK to have a little bit of curve. I'm happy with my body. So many girls come up to me and say, "Thank you for being normal," and I'm proud of that.

Miranda Lambert

#36. Being an actress is similar to trying to fit in with the popular kids in high school. You're expected to drive the right car, wear the right clothes and say the right things.

Lauren Ambrose

#37. But I've never felt that being an actress is being in a comfortable place. It's seen from the outside that we're being driven in big cars and having these gorgeous suites and all of that. But come on, it's not about that.

Juliette Binoche

#38. I really like suspense in movies. I don't really like rom-coms. But that being said, as an audience member I really like horror films and actress I really like working with fake blood; I think it's so fun.

Grace Phipps

#39. I just want to do a good job with each role that I take and continue to better myself as an actress because that's what I love about this job ... being able to act and work with so many different people on such a wide range of projects.

Emma Stone

#40. I think that's what's great about being an actress is you get to learn so many different things like that, like learning a little bit of Tibetan here, learning a Southern accent there.

Jaime King

#41. I'm forever being told that I'm an odd-looking actress, so it's great playing parts where there's no vanity. You just look as rough as you possibly can!

Anna Maxwell Martin

#42. I don't sit around and wait for great parts. I'm an actress, and I love being one, and I'll probably be doing it till I'm 72, standing around the back lot doing 'Gunsmoke.'

Suzanne Pleshette

#43. I feel being an actress is probably not half as difficult as being a mother, and I do not know when I will be ready for that kind of a decision.

Freida Pinto

#44. My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recollection of my father is being taken to see him in a matinee.

David Cassidy

#45. 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

#46. I don't want to feel that I'm a singer or an actress - being able to say that those are just experiences is what I enjoy.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

#47. A part of being an actress that is sort of frustrating is that the writers get to tell you about your character.

Annabeth Gish

#48. Despite my mother saying I have been destined to be an actress my whole life, I remember being the kid who grew up not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.

Shantel VanSanten

#49. There was a period when I really had to ask myself, 'What does acting mean to me?' I'm not someone who's content being famous, with that whole lifestyle. I had to realize I could find a balance between what I like to do and what people think you're 'supposed' to do as an actress.

Lecy Goranson

#50. Dealing with these emotions as an actress is like being a boxer put into the ring.

Nicole Kidman

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

Kristin Scott Thomas

#52. When I got 'Family Ties', I wasn't even thinking about being an actress. I thought I might become a window dresser.

Justine Bateman

#53. I became an actress way into my 30s because I thought that I had to find my own way, and that's why I worked so much in modelling, until I realised that the differences between acting and modelling weren't that great. I always say that modelling is a little bit like being a silent actress.

Isabella Rossellini

#54. I'm working on a movie called 'Labor Day' with Kate Winslet while still balancing kite boarding. Being an actress and an athlete is a challenge, but I'm excited to see what happens.

Maika Monroe

#55. I loved my career as a model, and that evolved into being an actress.

Isabella Rossellini

#56. I have tried Botox, and I don't like it because it stops you being able to move your facial muscles which, as an actress, are essential. But I do have collagen injections.

Kate O'Mara

#57. The rehearsal time is almost my favourite part of being an actress, particularly if you're working on a play that hasn't been done before.

Jane Asher

#58. I do think that, at one time, being an actress was the equivalent almost of being a prostitute. It garnered roughly the same respect. That's changed a lot, thank goodness.

Michelle Pfeiffer

#59. I am only an actress when they say, 'action' and I stop being an actress when they say, 'cut'. I am a normal person outside of acting.

Paz Vega

#60. My mother was an actress in comedies. My father wrote scenarios. They were not opposed to my being an actor. I really didn't know what it meant, but I wanted to be one anyway.

Jean-Pierre Leaud

#61. I'm not a film star, I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity.

Vivien Leigh

#62. I'm an absolute fan of Angela Bassett. I think she's a great, great actress. In the biopics, she is so moving. She's very rare. It's something that doesn't happen that much, to see an actress inventing a new way of showing 'woman' onscreen, and a new way of being beautiful.

Arnaud Desplechin

#63. Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.

Zooey Deschanel

#64. I've always loved musical films; I find them really thrilling and exciting; it was part of what made me want to be an actress, that feeling of being really transported.

Hannah Murray

#65. (Every nerve and muscle in Rosamond was adjusted to the consciousness that she was being looked at. She was by nature an actress of parts that entered into her physique: she even acted her own character, and so well, that she did not know it to be precisely her own.)

George Eliot

#66. Being an actress, I find myself people-watching and I can be quite shy.

Emma Watson

#67. I dreamed of being an actress when I was a little kid because you don't know then that the writer writes everything the actor is saying. But as I got older, I got into college and became more aware that writing is another option, and I started getting into it, too.

Tina Fey

#68. At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance.

Candice Bergen

#69. Being an actress is to be in tune with the fantasies of a man. What woman never dreamt of that?

Jeanne Moreau

#70. Being an actress in Hollywood and being a celebrity tend to feed into one another, but just being a celebrity wouldn't really be interesting to me.

Demi Moore

#71. From the time I was very young, maybe five or six, I thought a lot about being an actress. I didn't tell my friends about my ambitions, though, especially when I got older, because I thought they would not receive them well. I never talked about what I wanted to do.

Louise Fletcher

#72. What is protecting me is that it is not a finality being an actress. I really think we tend to idealize this job a lot. When you're an actress and you're really famous, it means people believe you are on top of the world - and I think that's not true.

Charlotte Le Bon

#73. I never thought I would end up being an actress. I thought I really was going to do serious stuff like law or politics.

Rebel Wilson

#74. My daughter, Asia, has been in many of my movies. I love working with her. In the beginning, I was not supportive of her being an actress, but now I think she is fantastic.

Dario Argento

#75. My sisters both are working mothers. I understand that my being an actress as well as being at home isn't some heroic thing. That doesn't mean it isn't confusing or difficult - especially that question of how you find a balance.

Jennifer Garner

#76. 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

#77. It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to manage his voice properly, and it takes about ten years to master the subtle art of being able to hold one's audience.

D.W. Griffith

#78. An actress should never, ever, be asked to run beside a van in red disco boots for more than about half a block, and then only if her child is being kidnapped.

Roger Ebert

#79. My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress.

Anjelica Huston

#80. Someone once told me to "be a black belt at whatever you do." In other words, don't just be good or okay - be the best you can be. Not only do I apply that to my work as an actress, but I also went out and got my black belt.

Heather Hemmens

#81. You know I'm proud of all of them but I think that I am most proud of all my businesses and just being a business woman and being able to do that as well as you know hold my career as an actress.

Brande Roderick

#82. What's fun about being an actress is you change all the time.

Jane Levy

#83. In modelling or football, being 30 is very bad. But, for an actress, ageing is like wine. You taste better and better because your body, your mind, your feelings, all this is a tool and it's getting sharper with time.

Ludivine Sagnier

#84. I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.

Natalie Portman

#85. The best thing about being an actress is getting good concert tickets.

Sara Gilbert

#86. Coming from being a dancer, it was a great way for me to transition into being an actress. I get to really be expressive through my physical self, and that was just a comfortable way for me to start experimenting with how to get my character across.

Summer Glau

#87. I think of myself as only being an actress when I'm acting, but my friends will say I act all the time.

Marian Seldes

#88. I think being an actress is more how to cope with the fact that you can't do anything else than to express a talent. It's a way of being untalented for anything.

Isabelle Huppert

#89. The condition of being an actress can be unbearable.

Julie Delpy

#90. I don't see myself being an actress forever.

Carrie Snodgress

#91. When you're a young English person who wants to be an actress and you have dreams, you dream of being Vanessa Redgrave or Judi Dench.

Janet McTeer

#92. Becoming an actress takes a lot longer than being a star. I don't want to be a star. I want to be an actress. I want to build a career.

Carol Alt

#93. I never planned on being an actress, just as I never planned on being a model. I went to law and international-relations school. It wasn't my direction. It kind of happened to me. And because it wasn't my dream when I started, I wasn't starstruck.

Gal Gadot

#94. I loved movies, but I can't remember ever really wanting to be an actress, and I certainly didn't imagine ever being in a movie. I think I wanted to be a writer.

Winona Ryder

#95. While being called beautiful is extremely flattering, I would much rather be noticed for my work as an actress.

Halle Berry

#96. Never in my life have I ever even thought about anything else [ being anything other than an actress].

Gena Rowlands

#97. A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

#98. For a long time, I was almost ashamed of being an actress. I felt like it was a shallow occupation. People would be watching my every move.

Winona Ryder

#99. Being an actress doesn't make you popular in school.

Kirsten Dunst

#100. I hope I'm thought of as not just a showbiz personality, but as someone who has lived a life and who has hopefully made a contribution to something along the way - someone who is a human being as well as an actress.

Lauren Bacall