Quotes About Actresses

#1. I always felt that Bette Davis was one of the great screen actresses who never really got her due - she won two Oscars, but the last was in 1938, and that was really before all the great work that she did.

Robert Osborne

#2. My mom and grandmother were actresses, and I knew I was going to do this since I was super young. I would put on shows at my grandparents' house and sing 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' in the living room. I was in drama club and chorus, and I knew every word to 'Grease.'

Zoe Kravitz

#3. I'm from a generation of fantastic actresses. It's a big pool of really wonderful actresses, and so many of them we never even get to see on the screen anymore.

Karen Allen

#4. I don't understand how some of these young actresses are wearing such provocative, editorial items, when they haven't even established a career yet. It's hard to see past that. I'm not so sure that's smart in the long run.

Allison Williams

#5. I like Valentino a lot - they never use actresses in their campaigns.

Emma Watson

#6. I was always wanting to learn and be one of those actresses who can actually hold a conversation as opposed to standing there looking pretty.

Michelle Trachtenberg

#7. Growing older is not such a big deal for me, despite the fears that older actresses have in Hollywood. When I hit 40, for example, I didn't feel 40 - or whatever that is supposed to feel like.

Halle Berry

#8. I haven't had a lot of experience with glamour. I've never had to mask myself, as many now not-so-young actresses have had to do. Female actors in that regard have a different lot in life than male actors.

Melissa Leo

#9. In the U.S., with very few exceptions, actresses older than 35 are simply discarded.

Amy Irving

#10. There's still a bit of a problem, in that so many leading English roles are taken by American or French actresses.

Joely Richardson

#11. And they didn't have to get into a lot of legal speak or talk ER terms, they were real people. I think that's why so many actresses were attracted to it. And it was just about problems that you could identify with so much, right off the bat.

James Denton

#12. A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.

Maisie Williams

#13. I've been told before, and I tend to believe it, I'm not like most actresses out there.

Moira Kelly

#14. 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

#15. As actresses, our schedules are really wonky and we work weird hours. For me, personally, I watch pretty much everything on Netflix, and I watch all the episodes in a row, when I can. I don't really watch much of any live TV anymore, and I feel like a lot of people are doing that now.

Laura Prepon

#16. Grace Kelly, Rita Hayworth and Sofia Lauren are my style inspirations. In terms of modern day actresses who I find inspiring, I love Emma Stone, Rooney Mara, Kirsten Dunst and Evan Rachel Wood. They aren't afraid to take risks and make edgy.

Carly Steel

#17. Natalie Portman is one of my favorites, and Jodie Foster. Those two are amazing actresses.

Alexa Vega

#18. My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.

Sally Kirkland

#19. I know some actresses who used to be older than me who are now younger than me - I don't know how they do it.

Jane Asher

#20. I am not interested in being a Barbie doll and turning myself into a sausage for the next 20 years. I want to follow actresses like Helen Mirren and Judi Dench who have lines on their faces and aren't afraid of playing their age.

Kim Cattrall

#21. My favorite actresses are Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts and Julie Andrews.

Dakota Fanning

#22. I wanted to work with Cate Blanchett. She is one of the five greatest movie actresses of her generation.

Alec Baldwin

#23. People are obsessed with actresses being hairless, fatless Barbie dolls.

Gaby Hoffmann

#24. Even actresses that you really admire, like Reese Witherspoon, you think, 'Another romantic comedy?' You see her in something like 'Walk the Line' and think, 'God, you're so great!' And then you think, 'Why is she doing these stupid romantic comedies?' But of course, it's for money and status.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#25. Do you know how many plastic surgeries are done to the actors and actresses in Hollywood?

Joseph Jackson

#26. You always hear actresses talk about how unromantic it is to act a love scene or a sex scene - which it is. You're doing it with all these lights on and cameras flying around and people on the set.

Sheryl Lee

#27. I found it hugely insulting that people believed I'd go so far out of my way - living with Playmates, vacationing with actresses, showing up at nightclubs - to act out a lifestyle that would amount to a charade. If I was gay, I'd be gay all the way.

Mike Piazza

#28. People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.

Olivia Wilde

#29. I never want to lie about my age. If I look around at the actresses I admire, they are all women who have not fought growing older, but embraced it and been proud of it - women like Sophia Loren or Audrey Hepburn.

Penelope Cruz

#30. As you know, Hollywood loves to pigeonhole all the actors and actresses, and suddenly I got 're-pigeonholed' as an action actor.

Liam Neeson

#31. I'd like to be the role model to teach other people who have Down's syndrome to be actors and actresses and to be themselves and not try to be a big shot.

Chris Burke

#32. Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him.

Catherine Deneuve

#33. The studios have their list of five actresses and whether they're right or wrong for a role doesn't matter. It's how much money their last movie made.

Sherilyn Fenn

#34. I'm one of the only actresses in Los Angeles who has never waited tables - yet - and I'm so terrible at holding trays. When we shot the 'Vampire Diaries' pilot, I totally spilled water all down Nina Dobrev, and she had to get her hair and make-up redone.

Kayla Ewell

#35. Cate's absolutely spellbinding. She was like that just eating a sandwich. I knew at the time I was privileged, but since she's become God's gift to actresses I realise exactly how lucky I was.

Emily Blunt

#36. I've never been difficult to anybody or with anybody on a picture. Especially when you're in that nice status of hierarchy of actors and actresses who get to approve directors. Because once you make that choice, it's my belief that the director's boss.

James Caan

#37. Culture changes because of musicians and actors and actresses. There's a responsibility there. You may ignore the responsibility. You may choose to be a bad role model. But, you are a role model nonetheless.

Kirk Cameron

#38. You're a smaller fish in the U.S. There's just so many more TV shows, and actors, and actresses. Where as in the U.K. you're in a much smaller market there.

India De Beaufort

#39. At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger.

Jacqueline Bisset

#40. Sure I faced the troubles and challenges that most actors and actresses face until they get noticed, but I was always confident of myself and my capabilities.

Christine Lahti

#41. So many Hollywood actresses become successful and then just keep on going - they miss out on having a partner and a baby and end up lonely.

Jaime Pressly

#42. I've been on 'Days' since I was 16, and being surrounded by such thin, gorgeous actresses made me so insecure and self-conscious.

Alison Sweeney

#43. I love doing lesbian love scenes. Before I did my lesbian scenes in Gia, I talked to actresses who said love scenes are easier with another woman than a man. Bound's Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly said they'd lie there and discuss the sale at Barney's between takes.

Angelina Jolie

#44. I really want to work with Tom Hardy. Christian Bale and Russell Crowe are also on my list. Those are my top three actors. As far as actresses go, Kate Beckinsale, because she's so smokin' hot.

Ryan Guzman

#45. You know what I would love? I would love to be one of those actresses who can come out with a film or come out with a new commercial without the world knowing about it.

Farrah Fawcett

#46. If I only dated actresses, I'd be a very lonely man.

Joshua Jackson

#47. There are actresses who build themselves, and then there are actresses who are built by others. I want to build myself.

Jennifer Lawrence

#48. I have a few other films in my life where I'm not attached and for a long time it was too complicated. Now it's starting to change because other actresses actually want to work with me, which is great.

Julie Delpy

#49. I think it's incumbent on actresses to bring something else to the part which isn't in the script.

Natascha McElhone

#50. Someday hopefully it won't be necessary to allocate a special evening to celebrate where we are and how far we've come ... someday women writers, producers and crew members will be so commonplace, and roles and salaries for actresses will outstrip those for men, and pigs will fly.

Sigourney Weaver

#51. All of my favorite actresses are comedians at heart: Shirley MacLaine and Madeline Kahn, Diane Keaton and Debra Winger. And they are all amazing dramatic actresses, but everything they do is funny.

Casey Wilson

#52. When I went back to New York with somewhat of a name, they didn't want movie actresses.

Gloria Stuart

#53. Women over 35 have great stories, and the actresses are there, but you can't get the movies made.

Bonnie Bedelia

#54. From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.

Olivia Wilde

#55. I'm always so impressed with these actresses with their perfect make up and hair and sometimes I'm very aware that I'm not like that. But I don't think I can do things any other way. I would be wearing a disguise if I started to apply that stuff.

Clemence Poesy

#56. gymnasts retire at 20, cricketers at 34, actresses at 32, actors at 75, salesmen at 50, other employees at 58 or 60 years, and doctors and lawyers when their bodies do not listen to their minds. Of course, one class beats them all - politicians retire at 90!

P.V. Subramanyam

#57. I don't know why people think child actresses in particular are screwed up. I see kids everywhere who are totally bored. I've never been bored a day in my life.

Jodie Foster

#58. Most actresses are always running late - I'm no exception.

Holland Roden

#59. Actresses are such very dull people off the stage. We are only delightful and brilliant when we are doing what we are told to do. Off stage we are awful chumps.

Edith Evans

#60. I love a lot of these older actresses, like Cicely Tyson, who played Kunta Kinte's mother in 'Roots.' She was really great, and I like seeing her because every movie she plays, she plays a strong character. As a kid, she was really inspiring to me.

Keke Palmer

#61. I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest. The experience of working there is something of a battleground, a great one, but complicated. I think there's a deep connection for having survived that workplace.

Ana Gasteyer

#62. Certain type of actresses get younger instead of older. I always say, 'Only ingenues age.'

Elaine Stritch

#63. In LA, I'm twice the size- height and everything else- of most of the other actresses who are going for an audition.

Keira Knightley

#64. Hopefully I'll get to make another movie, so we'll see. But modeling - all the actresses are taking everything over now, with all the modeling endorsements and magazine covers.

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

#65. I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.

Imelda Staunton

#66. I saw an awful lot of actresses, and some of them, you thought should be hospitalized. [They] should certainly eat a hamburger, for godsake.

Peter Webber

#67. There's always going to be a part of me that worries about not looking as slim as other actresses.

Kate Winslet

#68. The industry has died as far as modeling has gone, and I'll tell you why. Magazines are featuring the Halle Berrys and Sarah Jessica Parkers, all the actresses. Makeup companies are featuring all the celebrities. All the models have died.

Janice Dickinson

#69. You have actresses like Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, who have roles specially written for them.

Leslie Caron

#70. There are lots of actresses I consider to be my icons, from Katharine Hepburn and Grace Kelly to Diane Keaton and Meryl Streep.

Blake Lively

#71. The fact of the matter is that we're all aging, and there's this stigma that older actresses don't work as much as younger actresses, and I don't think that's true anymore.

Jewel Staite

#72. I think I have broken the mould that actresses have to be extremely thin on screen. All those who are making my weight an issue just prove that people are jealous. These are people who have nothing to do in life except to stare at their computer screens and make comments on us.

Sonakshi Sinha

#73. I guess I don't have the cut-throat ambition that some other actresses have. I don't know how good that is for my career, but I know how good that is for me as a person. And to me, that's much more important.

Summer Phoenix

#74. I'm not drawn to actresses, but I have no rules about that. I just want to be around positive people. The toughest thing will be to find a girl who will be prepared to live in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the country. I don't think L.A.'s the place to find one.

Travis Fimmel

#75. I was thinking, who of the English actresses in the last 30 or 40 years have achieved as much as I have?

Joan Collins

#76. I'm not skinny for the wrong reasons. It's not because I'm bulimic or anorexic or doing drugs. Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight.

Lindsay Lohan

#77. The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.

George Bernard Shaw

#78. There's a difference between actresses of color and actresses not of color. If you look at how big my movies are.

Regina King

#79. You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.

Edith Head

#80. I wanted to start with a very small role, to get my feet wet. I'm sure I'm not as good or as experienced as other actresses, but everybody has to start somewhere.

Claudia Schiffer

#81. I just have always been so interested in the way actors and actresses present themselves to the world because I think it is very important and it affects the way people see you as an actor.

Allison Williams

#82. Cameras love pretty girls and craggy, old character men more than they can take craggy, old character women. But that's what's always happened. Work out how you can fit into it, and make that work. There are never going to be millions of parts for older actresses because there never were.

Joanna Lumley

#83. What's great about New York is that there are a lot of theater actors and actresses, who are trained actors, that they bring onto the show. They're so talented, in such a weird, quirky and ominous way. And it's great to be able to work with new faces, too.

Natalie Zea

#84. You know, everyone says, 'Modeling and acting are so similar' ... they say, 'It's so natural for models to become actresses because they use the camera.' I don't think of it in that way.

Gisele Bundchen

#85. A lot of actresses I've worked with recently have done so much Botox their faces don't look real anymore. If you freeze everything on your face, you can't emote.

Jane Seymour

#86. I don't like theatrical actors and actresses. I like people that talk like real human beings.

Woody Allen

#87. In Spain, actresses work until they are old. That's my plan.

Penelope Cruz

#88. I actually love actresses who look like they feel really natural. I like Patricia Clarkson, Laura Linney, Frances McDormand. Those are actresses where the second they show up on screen you're like, oh my gosh, this movie just got so much better.

Anna Kendrick

#89. I do not admire young actresses whose foreheads cannot move.

Kathleen Turner

#90. As an actress - and as an actor, too, but it's worse for actresses - you constantly get picked apart for how you look.

Lizzy Caplan

#91. I was looking at these actresses sort of sitting around under umbrellas, people bringing them cold drinks and I was like, 'That looks so much easier than what I'm doing' and I was so wrong.

Katie McGrath

#92. I couldn't be a director because I couldn't put up with the actors. I don't have the patience. Why, I'd probably kill the actors. Not to mention some of the beautiful actresses.

Spencer Tracy

#93. When Shana Alexander interviewed me for Life magazine in 1952, she gave up after 4,000. At one time or another, I've worked for every studio in Hollywood, for almost every director with most of the actors and actresses.

David Sharp

#94. I'm a big fan of Aamir Khan ... Among actresses, I like Aishwarya Rai.

Virat Kohli

#95. I'm one of the best actresses. One day I will win an Oscar.

Bai Ling

#96. I have a great admiration for English actors and actresses and have used them at every opportunity over the years, but now I won't have to import them to New York

Woody Allen

#97. Good actresses can often accomplish miracles, and it is possible to be someone you've never been or will be. But in a sitcom, there's no time.

Patricia Richardson

#98. I'm one of those few actresses who works all the time, and even though I haven't done a show that literally puts me on some kind of map - as in, that's how I'm known and that's how I'll always be known - I'm very lucky.

Rena Sofer

#99. I don't see myself as having to compete with younger actresses; I don't feel that.

Annette Bening

#100. I love films that make me react emotionally and physically when you walk out of the cinema. Two of my favorite films however have got to be 'The Tree Of Life' and 'The Piano Teacher,' which also stars one of my favourite actresses Isabelle Huppert.

Alicia Vikander