Actresses Quotes

I very seldom said no, and I was aided and abetted by my husband, who realized that the one thing I could do was to be a very good actress, by his note.

I really wanted to go back to the theater, the live theater. That was the thing I had never had a chance to do, even though I had trained to be a stage actress.

I listened to a lot of tapes of British theatre actresses and tried to learn from them. As Americans, we don't have such a gift with language.

I'm a huge fan of Jessica Lange and 'American Horror Story.' I would love to work with her. She's been one of my favorite actresses for a while.

I look at being an actress as being like a mummy: You're bandaged up and preserved as soon as you start making other people money.

I knew I wanted to be an actress when I was 9 years old.

I always wanted to be an actress. I couldn't imagine being anything else.

There's nothing wrong with making little kids happy, but there's nothing wrong with wanting to be an adult actress. I mean a grown-up actress.

When I first became an actress, I expected to do regional and classical theater; I just love the whole creative process.

Why, when I was a child, I didn't say, as most children do, that I was going to become an actress. I felt that I was an actress and no one could have convinced me that I wasn't!

I got to work with Jennifer Tilly, she was amazing. Such, such a smart actress.

I tend to be a lazy actress, unless I'm pushed.

When I was doing comedy in New York, before I was in movies, I was never known as the deadpan actress. I was just a comedienne.

Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.

I'm one of the best actresses. One day I will win an Oscar.

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

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

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

[Victoria Clark] is one of those people who has the rarest combination of gifts. I can put her in any classical play tomorrow because she such an extraordinary actress.

At least I'm not playing other people for a change. It's a very odd place to be... I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.

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

Film has always been hard for me, I'm basically a stage actress. I never felt comfortable in front of the camera.

At the Academy Award Dinners all the actors and actresses in Hollywood gather around to see what someone else thinks about their acting besides their press agents.

What keeps me interested--and it always does--is how can she be a bad actress on film but a good one in reality?

I started out as a lousy actress and have remained one.

A lot of young actresses have a hard time combining a reasonable love life with a career.

I mean, most actresses can't host and most hostesses can't act, and that's the general rule in the industry.

A set of Bollywood actresses are coming through Dallas soon in a live tour; I'd pay a lot to see them, but alas, I'm fully booked elsewhere.

Molly Shannon such an interesting actress that portrays vulnerability and danger at the same time, because she seems brittle in that role.

I just take jobs that will have me. I'm an actress that works. I'm not an actress who's ever waited.

I think I'm a very intuitive actress.

I always felt that I was more of an actress than a - I can't tell a joke to save my soul, but that I was a comedic actress.

I don't see myself being an actress forever.

I'm not always the nicest person to meet, because I forget very easily that I'm an actress when I'm not working.

I long for the day where we don't have to talk about our age as actresses.

That’s my next journey - to be a great actress.

Claire Danes is lovely and a really great actress.

I'm not gonna become Ann Bancroft or Meryl Streep and have all the burden that being a "serious actress" entails.

I'd like to break some new ground, maybe in TV presenting, rather than just be an actress.

I always want to be an actress.

Going out with other actors is never good; actresses are neurotic, and actors are horrendous egotists.

It's a great time to be an actress at this point in my life.

I am an actress and acting is my passion... period!

If I had made it in cheerleading, I would have never been an actress.

Now every model wants to be an actress

Security has no place in the life of an actress.

I'm only realizing now that I was a child actress because I always took myself so seriously.

There's a kind of amateurishness among French actresses, but I don't share that completely.

There are very few actresses who can grow old and still get exciting parts... I think it's very important for me to have wider horizons, rather than just waiting for calls.

Actresses are so spoilt - we have someone who does our hair for us on set, so we don't know how to do it ourselves in real life. I know how to wash my hair and brush my teeth, but that's about it!