Actress Quotes

I felt, this is what I want to be in my life. I want to be an actress.

I was 21 years and 218 days old when I received the Academy Award for Best Actress. I had just stepped into an imaginary world that I'd seen at a distance for years.

I think when an actress marries she should leave the stage. She cannot be happy if she is married and remains on the stage. She must care more for her art or for her husband.

I would like to remain an actress, but am very anxious to direct and produce.

A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it.

I was out dancing with one actress or another. And that got press. Even when it didn't, the whole town knew I was a dancing fool, and since I couldn't very well dance with a man, they saw me dancing with a lady, and they assumed the rest.

I've been working as an actress since I was very young, and I know a lot of people who are actors who don't have to deal with having a persona... You know, if you look up the word persona, it isn't even real. The whole meaning of the word is that it's made up, and it's like I didn't even get to make up my own. It can be annoying.

So now I feel I'm lucky in the respect that I can sort of pick a little more carefully, which is tricky because as a black actress, there aren't that many roles to pick from.

There was no way I could live in Hollywood and not become an actress.

You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.

The last person they expected to connect with a screenplay was the comedic, blonde actress with the funny voice.

And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.

I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible.

When I was at school at Paris, I had special lessons from Mademoiselle Antoine, an actress at the Comedie Francaise, and I was taken to every sort of play. I felt very grand.

I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.

It was a lot of fun being a child actress. It suited me. I don't think it suits everybody, but I was in it because I had a passion, not because my parents wanted me to make money. If other kids want to do it, and they really like acting, go for it.

Irreversible is not glamorous at all. I try to do different things because I want to grow as an actress and I like to take risks.

The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.

No amount of skill on the part of the actress can make up for the loss of youth.

Honestly, I am not trying to discourage anyone from becoming an actress, but if you want to become one be prepared to face everything that comes - along with it.

It is so fantastic being an actress because you have the chance to be a thousand different people when you act.

I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.

I'd like to do a comedy with Emma Thompson. I admire her as an actress so much. I love her. And I didn't know it until recently that her whole career started in comedy.

It was a really fun idea to have a fashion label with my sister but I don't have an awful lot of time for it because my first love and job is to be an actress.

I loved working with Jamie Lee Curtis, and I felt she was a wonderful actress even that early in her career.

As a mother, you feel much more vulnerable. And when you're vulnerable, you're a much better actress.

I'm here not just as an actress but as a woman, an African-American, a granddaughter of Ellis Island immigrants, a person who could not have afforded college without the help of student loans and as one of millions of volunteers working to re-elect President Obama!

My mother told me never explain, never complain. Even as a young actress, I determined I would never give personal interviews, since they made me so uncomfortable.

An actress in a film starts every day with an hour and a half in front of a mirror, with hair and make-up and costumes.

There is no reason why marriage should necessarily compel an actress to forego her career.