Actresses Quotes

Actresses get stupid questions asked of them all the time, like, ‘How do you stay sexy?’ or ‘What’s your sexiest quality?’ All these ridiculous things you would never ask a man.

When two characters or two actresses are together for a while there is bound to be chemistry developing.

I love a lot of comedy actors and actresses like Kristen Wiig and Tina Fey and all those women who are really brilliant and funny.

If you've looked at all the glamour magazines lately, all the covers are actresses. If they are on those covers, they are going to try to emulate models. That's just the way it is.

That's why I'm an actress - escaping into a world.

I think I can be beautiful with all the little stuff done, and I can be ugly. A lot of attractive actresses can't be ugly.

It delights me that I don't fit the stereotype of an actress.

I'm not an actress, you know. I don't know what's going on. And I'm supposed to be the villain.

There are hits and misses, and as an actress, we are mentally ready for all that.

I am going to be a great actress.

I'd like to work with any actress from whom I can learn-one who has had many experiences with many directors and is willing to share some of her knowledge with me.

As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life.

To function as an actress, I have to be in love. I have to have that incentive to work.

I know so many people who are so much better at it than I am, and I think I'm a goofier person rather than a serious, dramatic actress, so I probably belong in comedy.

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.

A lot of actresses are doing incredible work right now, playing real women, complicated women. I don't feel despairing at all. And I'm more looking with hope for something fascinating.

I really want to try to become a great actress when I get older and continue to do what I'm doing now.

We used to have actresses trying to become stars; now we have stars trying to become actresses.

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.

I mean, the actors that I admired were Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, an actress named Barbara Harris. And Greta Garbo. They were great actors.

Hollywood sold its stars on good looks and personality buildups. We weren't really actresses in a true sense, we were just big names - the products of a good publicity department.

I think to be an amazing actress, you have to be present, you have to be in the moment and not thinking about other things.

Making pictures, for an actress, is like betting, for a gambler. Each time you make a picture you try to analyze why you won or lost.

I am definitely not like the hottest young actress, the most beautiful or whatever. I have my own thing going.

I only began to sing because I couldn't get a job as an actress.

That's why I'm an actress, to do something completely opposite from myself

Everybody smokes! Models, actresses, everyone! Don't they realize that it's gross? I understand it's an addiction, but it still pains me to see my friends do it.

My advice to actresses is don't worry about your looks. The very thing that makes you unhappy in your appearance may be the one thing to make you a star.

My talents fall within definite limitations. I am not as versatile an actress as some think.

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

Any actress who appears in public without being well-groomed is digging her own grave.

I find it difficult to explain, but I'm quite ashamed of being an actress.

I was one of those kids who wanted to do everything, I wanted to be a marine biologist, an actress, a writer, an environmentalist, an activist.

Having this other career in music made me work harder as an actress. It's made me more professional.

As an actress, there's nothing worse than not knowing your cues.

Actresses are nightmares. I don't hang out with any of them. That's a problem with my profession. I try not to be like an actress.

I feel I've made the transition from model to actress, but I'm not that secure about it. Lauren Hutton, Jennifer O'Neill - we all know that a few films don't mean all that much.

I had very little confidence in myself as an actress.

I never really thought about being an actress or being anything like that. I was always a bit scared as well because of the thing about models becoming an actress and all that.

Being an actress has something in common with being a housewife. They both look terribly easy to someone who hasn't done them. And the easier it looks, probably the better you are doing your job.

I just don't want to be known as the actress who can sing. I want to be known as the singer who can act, too. It's great cross-promotion.

Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be cool with it.

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

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

Everyone is entitled to my opinion

The shelf life of a movie actor or actress is so short, it's like milk.

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.

I'm writing a novel about two actresses who go to New York, because that's what I know about. One has lost touch with reality, disappears and is picked up by a man.

Dealing with these emotions as an actress is like being a boxer put into the ring.

Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight.