Actress Quotes - page 36

I cannot absorb living in a world where I have an Oscar for best actress and Denzel doesn't have one for best actor. (Julia Roberts)

I just knew that was what I wanted to do. I was going to perform as a singer; I was going to perform as a dancer, and I was, you know, going to do movies and be an actress. I was going to do it or die trying. That's what my life was.

Jennifer Lopez

I feel I want to grow as an actress and be better. I want to progress as a singer and songwriter, and produce movies and everything. So there'll be no time when I feel I've done it all.

Jennifer Lopez

I was always a singer and a dancer, and I always wanted to be an actress. For me, it's all just one thing.

Jennifer Lopez

I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time making decisions based on someone else's idea of our happiness - what will make you a good citizen or a good wife or daughter or actress. Nobody says, 'Just be happy - go be a cobbler or go live with goats.'

Sandra Bullock

Well, Rhoda was, I think, the last actress that we saw. There had been so many wonderful actresses who were close, really close. But there was no magical epiphany.

Mary Tyler Moore

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

Being a mother, singer and actress is a definite juggling act, but I don't think I would be comfortable any other way.

Christina Aguilera

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

It is very important for an actor or actress to look around at everything and everyone and never forget about real life.

Sophia Loren

I'm an actress. It's my passion. (Sophia Loren)

When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a ballerina. Not a dentist, like my father, or a homemaker, like my mother - and certainly not a writer, although I always loved to read.

Judy Blume

I have always admired and had enormous respect for Elizabeth Taylor. She was not only an incredible actress but an amazing woman as well.

Lindsay Lohan

This is what I asked for, and in this day and age that's what actually goes on. But what hurts me the most is that I work just as hard as any other actress around my age, like Scarlett Johansson, but I just don't get the opportunities that they get because people are so distracted by the mess that I created in my life.

Lindsay Lohan

I am an actress first, a singer second.

Grace Jones

Claire Danes is lovely and a really great actress.

Charlie Cox

I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity, and that includes all kinds of parts.

Marilyn Monroe

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.

Marilyn Monroe

I'm trying to find myself as a person, sometimes that's not easy to do. Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do. The best way for me to find myself as a person is to prove to myself that I am an actress.

Marilyn Monroe

When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress.

Marilyn Monroe

My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress. I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But, my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve. (Marilyn Monroe)

I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.

Barbra Streisand

I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.

Barbra Streisand

My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.

Barbra Streisand

When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women In some ways we're as committed to the old madonna-whore dichotomy as ever. And the madonna stays home, feeding the baby behind the blinds, a vestige of those days when for a lady to venture out was a flagrant act of public exposure.

Anna Quindlen

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