Actress Quotes - page 35

I had always wanted to be an actress. I went to summer theater camp from kindergarten on up until high school, and always had the leads in all the plays - even though they were at the YMCA - but it was something I always wanted to do. (Chloë Sevigny)
When I told my mother that I wanted to be an actress, she said, you can't live here and do that, and so I moved out. I was determined to prove her wrong because she was so sure that I was going to go astray. And that's the juice that kept me going. View quote
Cicely Tyson
No amount of skill on the part of the actress can make up for the loss of youth. View quote
Ellen Terry
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, theyve forgotten that, and they leave going, Wow - what an amazing play. View quote
Kevin Spacey
I'm trying to show I'm a trained actress - I can transform myself into different characters. I'm not just an ingenue. View quote
Ming-Na Wen
I regard myself as an actress but, obviously, not in the Dame Judi Dench league. That isn't a problem because I don't think we are ever likely to be up for the same part! View quote
Kelly Brook
As a brunette, I had previously been this serious actress. Then I became a blonde and got to play a completely different, comic role. View quote
Loni Anderson
As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty. View quote
Martha Plimpton
My mother had been an actress and we came from that world in New York, the theater world and the downtown sort of theater scene, and so I guess we didn't really have what you'd call like a Hollywood kind of life at all. View quote
Martha Plimpton
Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress. View quote
Kate Atkinson
I think I'm the only 65-year-old actress in Los Angeles who hasn't had plastic surgery, so somebody's gotta play the old-lady parts! (Jane Elliot)
I mean, I think that - as an actress, in particular, I'm basically a fool, and I see the world upside down. View quote
Anna Deavere Smith
I met with Hitchcock when I was a very, very young actress just starting out and he was making 'Frenzy' in London and I was sent along to meet with him. He was very, very unimpressed with me and I have to say, I was rather unimpressed with him - but only because I was an arrogant, ignorant young actress. View quote
Helen Mirren
All you have to do is to look like crap on film and everyone thinks you're a brilliant actress. Actually, all you've done is look like crap. View quote
Helen Mirren
I've always found as an actress that the best thing to do in film or TV or theater is just to lose yourself in it. Think of the story, the character, the worlds we're in, and forget everything else. View quote
Helen Mirren
I am not an actress. I can only play me - on and off the screen. View quote
Brigitte Bardot
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. View quote
Natalie Portman
Some actresses are just insane. I've never worked with a nasty actress - they're all absolutely delightful. But completely barking. View quote
Daniel Radcliffe
As an actress I take roles I find interesting. View quote
Emma Watson
Being an actress, I find myself people-watching and I can be quite shy. View quote
Emma Watson
I wasn't one of those girls who always dreamed of being an actress. I went to a normal school and then these film auditioners turned up when I was nine. Then I just fell into this whirlwind. (Emma Watson)
Hermione is so close to who I am as a person that I've never really had to research a role. I'm literally rediscovering what it means to be an actress. View quote
Emma Watson
The most difficult thing in the world is to start a career known only for your looks, and then to try to become a serious actress. No one will take you seriously once you are known as the pretty woman. View quote
Penélope Cruz
I was 11 when I first said I wanted to become an actress, and everyone looked at me as if I had said I wanted to go to the moon. View quote
Penélope Cruz
As an actress, I really love people like Anna Magnani and Debra Winger. I also think there is nobody better than Meryl Streep. View quote
Penélope Cruz