Ingenue Quotes

I spend a lot of time at my son's school and I really wanted to do a movie that the kids could see. The good thing about being my age and not having to be the ingenue anymore is that I get to be a mom. I get to have kids in my movies. (Virginia Madsen)

In my fantasies, I always wanted to play the ingenue, but in reality, in my bones, I am so used to playing the grandmother that I don't feel safe or even sure that I can do it.

Camryn Manheim

I think of myself more as a character actor than that ingenue leading lady, who started out something like Michelle Pfeiffer, or Jessica Lange. I'm a bit quirkier than that.

Joan Allen

Onstage, I was never the ingenue.

Kristen Johnston

Not that it was Twiggy's fault, but the ubiquity of her image created a sense in young women that to be stylish meant to be skinny, flat-chested with an ingenue face and straight hair.

Susie Orbach

There's been a tremendous amount of growth. An actress is not expected to continue to play her ingenue roles, you know, I've written myself roles to grow into gracefully, but there is no growing into gracefully in the pop world. Basically the reason I'm so unruly in this business is because I never wanted to be a human jukebox.

Joni Mitchell

When you say you're 40, you can't call yourself an ingenue any more.

Molly Ringwald

I've never wanted to be the ingenue. Now that I'm getting into my forties, I think my time as a woman has arrived; I think I might have a new moment in my career. I have that drive left - just for a little while.

Debi Mazar

I've always had a crush on Anne Murray, since I was like 9 years old. But no, [Ingenue]'s not about her.

Anne Murray

I was never, ever the ingenue. The young, innocent lead was just not me.

Anna Chancellor

I was never the ingenue, so hopefully that'll make it easier to age and still work. I know a lot of actors who are really dissatisfied with where they're at even though some of them are huge stars and I feel like, 'Oh, my God, you're at the top.' Something interesting will come. It always does. I have faith. (Hope Davis)

I could never play the ingenue, the girl next door or the very successful young doctor. That would be a bore.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

I was never an ingenue. I've always just been a character actor. When I was younger, it was a real problem, because I was never pretty enough. It was hard, not just for the lack of work, but because you have to face up to how people are looking at you.

Kathy Bates

For me to want to be an actor was an improbable idea. I wasn't beautiful or pretty in any conventional way. I wasn't an ingenue at 22. But I was always certain of it and certain of its power. I felt the power when I went to the theater at 9, 10, 12 and 14.

Linda Hunt

I can't be an ingenue forever, and I wouldn't want to be.

Lea Salonga

I'm not afraid to play my age. I never was. I've never been an ingenue. I like getting older.

Maria Bello

I guess I've never really had a great desire to be a leading lady, or be seen as an ingenue.

Melanie Lynskey

I couldn't get any of the ingenue roles when younger because at 5 feet 9 inches with a deep voice I was always too... genue. My career has completely happened since I was 29.

Olivia Williams

I come from the theater, and I've done a lot of character work in the theater, but Hollywood stuff in film and TV, they've been more leading lady/ingenue type roles.

Sanaa Lathan

I'm trying to show I'm a trained actress - I can transform myself into different characters. I'm not just an ingenue.

Ming-Na Wen

I couldn't be an ingenue today, because the business has changed. I remember when you could dress for a premiere just by putting on a cute top. Now you have to be perfect and fabulous in every way, or you're ridiculed. (Julia Roberts)

I was never the ingenue or the pretty girlfriend of Tom Cruise in a movie. I didn't have that career, so I don't have to compete on that level.

Jodie Foster