Top 100 Quotes About Actresses
#1. Actors and actresses make magic,' I said. 'They make things happen on the stage; they invent; they create.
Anne Rice
#2. My sister has decided to become an actress too. It has ruined the close-knittedness of our family life.
Olivia De Havilland
#3. The actresses I most admire are Cameron Diaz and Sofia Vergara. They're amazing comedic actresses and also gorgeous. That's the direction I'd like my career to go in.
Bar Paly
#4. I'm an actress, a brand, a businesswoman. I'm all kinds of stuff.
Paris Hilton
#5. I would say that Emma Stone and Emma Watson are two very talented young actresses who are very intelligent and have a great sense of humor and have learned to balance what they love with their acting career, and I think that's really a great thing.
Kara Hayward
#6. For theater, the fashion had to have a certain grandeur that would read on the stage while also flattering the actress. The same thing applies when doing a wedding dress, but the treatments can be more delicate and there can be much more detail.
Austin Scarlett
#7. I've always had a strange acting life. I'm the daughter of a director, and a very French, typical director who fell in love with every single one of his actresses. And that's also something that's kind of normal in the acting business, because everything is based on desire, one way or the other.
Lou Doillon
#8. There are a lot of French actresses who just hate me now. I've made enemies.
Melanie Laurent
#10. 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
#11. There are a lot of actresses out there who are the girl next door. I relate more to characters who have an edge.
Eliza Dushku
#12. I definitely look up to Meryl Streep because she's been in so many amazing movies, and I just think that she's one of the greatest actresses out there. I also look up to Jennifer Lawrence, especially knowing her and knowing that she is so awesome and so nice.
Willow Shields
#13. We still want to idealize moms, and sometimes we want to idealize actresses who are moms, too. I know that's something I've experienced, but we're all just doing the best we can and we're all trying to raise our kids and talk to them about everything that needs to be discussed.
Annette Bening
#14. We knew, very early on, that we had to be very, very clear that directors need to speak to actors and actresses and be very clear about what is expected, and find out whether they're comfortable with that. Wardrobe has to be in place. There have to be checks.
Michael Sheen
#15. Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods.
Teri Hatcher
#16. I really like Shakespeare a lot. The characters that he writes for females, I think, are really great and a lot more compelling than what modern writers write, which is weird because they didn't have actresses then.
Julia Stiles
#17. Doing the long lines - it looks easy when actresses do it: they just say it straight up, looks like they do nothing wrong, they just keep going, but it's not like that.
Quvenzhane Wallis
#18. If you've looked at all the glamour magazines lately, all the covers are actresses. If they are on those covers, they are going to try to emulate models. That's just the way it is.
Portia De Rossi
#19. When actresses play actresses, or actors play actors, they have to find another level.
Kristen Stewart
#20. The thing about Canadian women is that they seem less likely to bring up that they're Canadian. You here less about Canadian actresses than actors, I don't know why.
Dustin Milligan
#21. I don't really diet or anything. I'm miserable when I'm dieting and I like the way I look. I'm really sick of all these actresses looking like birds I'd rather look a little chubby on camera and look like a person in real life, than look great on screen and look like a scarecrow in real life.
Jennifer Lawrence
#22. I loved Cookie [Mueller]. She was a much better writer than actress. She shouldn't have stuck with me in the beginning; she should have immediately become a writer. She would have had more of a chance.
John Waters
#23. Challenge America grants go to the towns and hamlets of this sprawling country, where big touring companies will rarely go, and major actors, actresses, writers and artists may never appear in person.
Louise Slaughter
#24. I admire Cate Blanchett and Kate Winslet. I like a lot of comedians. I like Cameron Diaz - she's funny and has a very light spirit. That's quite rare nowadays. There are many actresses I admire.
Catherine Deneuve
#25. I long for the day where we don't have to talk about our age as actresses,
Celia Imrie
#26. Fighting the ageing process just doesn't work. I think that actresses, ultimately, are responsible for the faces we give to women.
Juliette Binoche
#27. I've had Susan Sarandon play my mom, and now Lesley Ann Warren has played my mom, so if I could have Debra Winger play my mom, then I would have the trifecta of my favorite actresses playing my mother.
Jenna Fischer
#28. A magazine feature can reach hundreds of thousands of potential customers for a fashion brand. The way to reach a billion? Dress the actresses competing for attention at a highly televised event.
Tamara Mellon
#29. I grew up in Mexico, not the U.S., and the fact is that there just aren't any parts for Latin actresses. I have to persuade people that my accent won't be a problem, but an asset.
Salma Hayek
#30. This is hilarious. First, people say how so many actresses in Hollywood look anorexic, and now they are criticizing me for looking normal. Body images are too often adopted by young girls and women - thanks to what they are constantly being shown as being attractive.
Jennifer Lawrence
#31. This film [ Into the Forest], it was special for that reason, because as an actress, you usually don't get to work with other actresses because you are usually up for the same roles, and you don't get to hang out that much.
Evan Rachel Wood
#32. I grew up in the theater, my mother is an actress, I was always around the world of acting and theater.
Alicia Keys
#33. One of my favourite actresses is Kate Winslet. She plays strong female characters and seems like she has a strong political awareness. I really like Naomi Watts and Juliette Lewis.
Emily Perkins
#34. [ Working Meryl Streep] I just felt like I was shaving years off my discovery as an actress to realize, "Okay, that's what this feels like."
Anne Hathaway
#35. I'm a fan of movies and television shows, and I don't expect anything from actors and actresses, or anyone, but good work. What they do. I don't feel like I deserve a piece of their personal life, or even what they think about the work they do.
Kristen Stewart
#36. I think to be an amazing actress, you have to be present, you have to be in the moment and not thinking about other things.
Tamera Mowry
#37. I think that actresses can be in all different shapes and sizes, but it is a profession, and as an actor, your body is one of your big tools. So you've got to be fit in a sense.
Rebel Wilson
#38. I really wanted to go back to the theater, the live theater. That was the thing I had never had a chance to do, even though I had trained to be a stage actress.
Angela Lansbury
#39. Charlize Theron and Cate Blanchett are very good actresses.
Jack Nicholson
#40. Everybody smokes! Models, actresses, everyone! Don't they realize that it's gross? I understand it's an addiction, but it still pains me to see my friends do it.
Kirsten Dunst
#41. I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson - character actresses who have something to say. I also said that I loved Madeline Kahn and Jessica Lange.
Rachael Harris
#42. I think that Hollywood misconstrues actresses saying, 'Oh I wanna play a strong female character,' like we all want to play, like, superheroes or something.
Bel Powley
#43. I've had some great times with actresses, but that's in a movie.
Clive Owen
#44. Part of me relates to Perez Hilton because he's an outcast. I don't have a lot of friends who are actresses. They're catty, and they'll cut you down. I like that Perez is proud of who he is and doesn't care what anybody thinks.
Amanda Bynes
#45. I don't like acting and I never have liked acting and I never wanted to be an actress.
Elsa Lanchester
#46. Most of the top actors and actresses may be working in ten or twelve films at the same time, so they will give one director two hours and maybe shoot in Bombay in the morning and Madras in the evening. It happens.
Satyajit Ray
#47. 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
#48. Joan Crawford is a movie star. I am an actress.
Bette Davis
#49. I don't compete with actresses; I only compete with heroes.
Sonam Kapoor
#50. I'm not one of those actresses that's going to feel like I never achieved my dreams and goals and just get disgruntled and hate everything about the business. I've had so much fun.
Ming-Na Wen
#51. My thinking is lot more different with many actresses in the industry. I don't understand why people in showbiz put their profession of acting in the back seat after marriage.
Kareena Kapoor Khan
#52. There were no examples of girls like myself becoming successful actresses. To be an actress in England was a serious, upper-middle class girl's profession. I just thought I would never be accepted unless I pretended to become somebody I wasn't.
Tracey Ullman
#53. Look at the parts the Oscar-nominated actresses played this year: hooker, hooker, hooker, hooker, and nun.
Nora Ephron
#54. I admire actresses like Jennifer Lawrence, who says what she thinks.
Lily James
#56. Make your wardrobe as versatile as an actress. It should be able to play many roles.
Joan Crawford
#57. What we need is more women writers, writing for older women. There are some actresses who have production companies and create their own material, and I truly admire that.
Kathleen Turner
#58. That's the thing with animated films - I often feel that puppets get the better parts compared to us normal actresses.
Helena Bonham Carter
#59. I'm one of those actresses that really enjoys staying home with my children. To be told you've got to get to work, it is just unbelievable what it does to you.
Olivia Hussey
#61. The advent of digitally enhancing images - and the fact that actresses weren't protesting against that - created an environment where big corporations felt like they had total ownership over the bodies of actresses.
Romola Garai
#62. The truth is that the actresses who I look up to are either my age or a few years older or a lot older.
Judy Greer
#63. I still don't have any crushes on actresses or models. It's always been one of those things with girlfriends. They say, "Who's on your list?" What do you call it, the Get Out of Jail Free card?
Henry Cavill
#64. Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.
Kareena Kapoor Khan
#65. 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
#66. I have a music career as well, so I was going to either be an actress or a musician. Then, I did both. But, I was always going to do something creative.
Zooey Deschanel
#67. To be an actor or actress, you have to feel on a deep level and tap into emotions that you've never felt before. You're imagining how something would feel. You have to use your imagination so much.
Elle Fanning
#69. I hope that I will be able to work all of my life - even when I am older. It's easier to do that in Europe than in America, because in America it is difficult for older actresses to find work.
Penelope Cruz
#70. Rosemary Rodriguez directed on Rescue Me for us, and I love her. She's fantastic with actresses and she's got a great sense of humor. That was a huge thing for me.
Denis Leary
#71. A lot of actresses like to repeat things over - and I don't once I've been there and done that. I like to see what the next thing is that comes along.
Kim Basinger
#72. I began dancing when I was just 5, and I never really wanted to become an actress because its what every other model does.
Patricia Velasquez
#73. I have just wanted to be an actress. That's always been my goal. I didn't want to be famous.
Kate Winslet
#74. I'm always slightly embarrassed to meet other actresses of my vintage. We have so little in common. They're all so dedicated. I find - so desperate.
Paulette Goddard
#75. As a Japanese actor, I really want to work with a lot of actors and actresses in the world and many directors who have many different kinds of talents. I feel like nationally doesn't matter at all.
Ken Watanabe
#76. I don't really like dressing up. Some people probably think actresses dress up everywhere they go. I'm in sweatpants half the time with my hair in a ponytail.
Selena Gomez
#77. I'm the biggest nerd - I love comic books and stuff like that! I don't have any friends who are actresses. I only had one girlfriend when I was growing up. Most of my friends were boys. I was such a tomboy. I enjoyed doing guy things.
Megan Fox
#78. I'm very lucky, as I've never ever felt any pressure from any producer to lose weight, whereas a lot of actresses have.
Holliday Grainger
#79. The British theatre and establishment is so hard to penetrate, and there are so many talented people involved in it. So, to be counted among some of those actresses ... It doesn't get better than that.
Kelly Reilly
#80. I'm not one of these actresses like, 'Okay, where's the camera? Is it here? Is it here?' I don't even ask the questions because I don't really want to know. I like not performing for a camera but giving it my best every single time whether you're close or whether you're far.
Halle Berry
#81. When women's parts are being written, they are more and more for under 30s who are nubile and beautiful. Actresses over 40 are finding very little happening.
Samantha Bond
#82. I admire actresses who are good to women. I don't like the ones who just don't like women. You can feel it. They're degrading themselves.
Sandra Bullock
#83. There is only room for a certain amount of black actresses in this industry. I don't want to fall into the zone of playing the 'ghetto bootalicious baby mama drama.' I want to play something with depth, like a crackhead or something.
Selita Ebanks
#84. Her [ Onata April] great talent as an actress is that she has the ability to understand and listen to the scenario and what the story is, and then she can pretend and live that.
David A. Siegel
#85. Cate Blanchett and Eileen Atkins are definitely among my top five actresses whose work I aspire to.
Hattie Morahan
#86. I worked before I had my daughter, enough for three actresses.
Helen Hunt
#87. My now-wife - we got together in '81, we married a few years after - she's been very good in the past about going in the theater with me to see actresses I had known. But then, she's not an actress.
Tom Courtenay
#88. Most female actresses will have a very difficult time being made unattractive.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
#89. I'm not gonna become Ann Bancroft or Meryl Streep and have all the burden that being a "serious actress" entails.
Cher
#90. There are not that many roles in comedies that are completely driven by a young actress.
Will Gluck
#91. An actress' best friend is a body which responds instinctively to thought.
Katharine Cornell
#92. After Halle Berry does her films and Queen Latifah does her films, it's left to all the black, Latino and Asian actresses to fight over a couple of roles. I opted for some TV. There's just not a ton of work in film.
Gabrielle Union
#93. Cher's great, she's incredible. She is an enormous, enormous star, who goes anywhere and crowds follow her ... and yet she's a disciplined actress and she's down to Earth and cool. I can't say enough good things about her.
Greg Kinnear
#94. Don't get married to an actress because they're also actresses in bed.
Roberto Rossellini
#95. Bette Davis taught Hollywood to follow an actress instead of the actress following the camera, and she's probably the best movie actress there's ever been.
Elaine Stritch
#96. I'm sort of like a T. rex in the world of female actresses. Every time a job is finished, I look at my car and think, 'Could I live in it?'
Lena Headey
#97. I am changing the notion that actresses can't have happy marriages
Mercy Johnson
#98. I'm an actress so the amount of rejection and commentary you get right to your face is pretty rough.
Melanie Griffith
#99. Beautiful actors are learning what beautiful actresses like Charlize Theron discovered a while ago - that they get taken more seriously when they trash the same beauty that got them taken seriously to begin with.
Steve Erickson
#100. I'm a huge movie buff, so I'm a fan of a lot of actors and actresses.
Jared Gilman
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