Actresses Quotes

A lot of actresses like to repeat things over - and I don't once I've been there and done that. I like to see what the next thing is that comes along. — Kim Basinger

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

You want to take some responsibility for you choices so that it sets the groundwork for that next generation of actresses. — Nicole Kidman

I am one of the few actresses who isn't recognized by the way she looks. I'm recognized by the way I talk. — Joey Lauren Adams

Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods. — Teri Hatcher

As soon as an actress is past 40, they call her a grande dame. As long as I'm here in good health, I'm stable. — Jeanne Moreau

You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear. — Edith Head

My goal for Actress is to have it play more traditional theaters. — Robert Greene

There are fewer and fewer new roles for actresses as they get older. And that's not right. — Michelle Fairley

Do you think I'm going to be one of those flash-in-the-pan actresses? — Helen Slater

I've had some great times with actresses, but that's in a movie. — Clive Owen

I don't think I'm curvaceous. It's simply that most other actresses are really, stupidly tiny. — Hayley Atwell

I want to be able to follow the example of those extraordinary British actresses who move effortlessly from film to TV to theatre roles. — Cate Blanchett

I do think that there is an almost more old fashioned mentality to the way musical theatre people and actresses especially are treated. — Laura Benanti

Except for Preity Zinta, I haven't met a single secure actress in Bollywood. — Katrina Kaif

Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century. — Denzel Washington

I feel like most actresses kind of have issues in body dysmorphia. — Lindsay Sloane

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. — Anne Hathaway

I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears. — Bette Davis

I don't want to feel that I'm a singer or an actress - being able to say that those are just experiences is what I enjoy. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

I guess I became an actress because I didn't want to be myself. — Jean Arthur

I'd love to work on a real girl piece with some fabulous actresses. I feel like I've worked with so many men. — Kelly Reilly

I wanted to be a theater actress, and initially, I wanted to work in musical theater — Tavis Smiley

Maybe a certain amount of narcissism is as essential to an actress as muscles are to a football lineman. — Velda Johnston

There are not that many roles in comedies that are completely driven by a young actress. — Will Gluck

Actors and actresses make magic,' I said. 'They make things happen on the stage; they invent; they create. — Anne Rice

As you know, Hollywood loves to pigeonhole all the actors and actresses, and suddenly I got 're-pigeonholed' as an action actor. — Liam Neeson

I don't like theatrical actors and actresses. I like people that talk like real human beings. — Woody Allen

But I'm glad I'm not one of those actresses who is just so ready to open up for everyone. — Kristen Stewart

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

In the U.S., with very few exceptions, actresses older than 35 are simply discarded. — Amy Irving

I think it's incumbent on actresses to bring something else to the part which isn't in the script. — Natascha McElhone

As far as actresses go, I love Meryl Streep. — Jennifer Nettles

In one day, I got mistaken for three different actresses: Wendy Williams, Sherri Shepherd, and Star Jones. — Niecy Nash

As an actress - and as an actor, too, but it's worse for actresses - you constantly get picked apart for how you look. — Lizzy Caplan

As most actors/actresses, I don't like to watch my own movies, either, and I never look at the dailys while filming. — Cameron Bright

I like to think of myself as an actress, I think of going through all of the films as my kind of film academy, the way that I've learnt. — Emma Watson

Family issues and a failing career would be enough to consume most young actresses. — Jane Velez-Mitchell

Now every model wants to be an actress — Christy Turlington

I love being challenged physically, as an actress. — Julie Benz

If I only dated actresses, I'd be a very lonely man. — Joshua Jackson

I liked the idea of being an actress, but thought better of it. — Sara Cox

There are a lot of good actresses out there. — Benicio Del Toro

Automatically everybody thinks of me as an actress who is trying to sing. And if I weren't me I'd probably think the same thing. — Molly Ringwald

I admire actresses who are good to women. I don't like the ones who just don't like women. You can feel it. They're degrading themselves. — Sandra Bullock

That's my next journey - to be a great actress. — Chanel Iman

I've never understood the notion that actors and actresses should look great on-screen just because they're on-screen. That doesn't make sense to me. — Kate Winslet

Once an actress always an actress. — Dolores Hart

This is a culture filled with perfect images of women and perfect images of movie actresses, and most people can't live up to them. — Beeban Kidron

I think I'm a very intuitive actress. — Carice Van Houten

When I think about filmmakers and actresses that I have admired my whole life, I've admired their entire body of work. — Dakota Johnson

If I was not an actress, I would be a homeopathic doctor. — Lindsay Wagner

In England, with all due respect, we have some of the plainest actresses in the entire world as our greatest. — Minnie Driver

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

What actresses do today when they appear on the screen is what they did once upon a time for getting to appear on the screen. — George Burns

There are so many glamorous actresses, but you know what? In the real world, nobody looks like that. — Rebel Wilson

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. — Angelina Jolie

I don't know who the actresses all are. I've never heard of Kate but I'm sure she'll do fine. — Margot Kidder

You have actresses like Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, who have roles specially written for them. — Leslie Caron

I loved 'Truly Madly Deeply' and all those 1990s romcoms because you had great actresses like Juliet Stevenson and Emma Thompson starting out. — Helen George

Most female actresses will have a very difficult time being made unattractive. — Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

I'll always be figuring out what parts I want to play, because I want to play all parts. I'm a very hungry actress. — Kristen Bell

I admire actresses like Jennifer Lawrence, who says what she thinks. — Lily James

I am changing the notion that actresses can't have happy marriages — Mercy Johnson

When I was 8 years old, I knew what I was going to be - an actress. — Hattie McDaniel

I'd like to keep exploring comedy. I didn't necessarily think of myself as a comedic actress, but it's a lot of fun. — Mamie Gummer

My hope is that shows like 'Fresh Off the Boat' open the door for even more of those kinds of characters for Asian actors and actresses. — Randall Park

I have three lives: actress, model, producer. Sometimes I'm aware that there's a fourth life, which is somewhat neglected, which is living a bit. — Elizabeth Hurley

Most actors and actresses are performative as people. — Zoe Lister-Jones

I'm always slightly embarrassed to meet other actresses of my vintage. We have so little in common. They're all so dedicated. I find - so desperate. — Paulette Goddard

I must have seen more sunrises
than any other actress in the history of Hollywood — Ava Gardner

I'm an actress so the amount of rejection and commentary you get right to your face is pretty rough. — Melanie Griffith

If an actor or actress is recognizable, that changes our perception of them. — Nicolas Winding Refn

I tell you what really turns my toes up: love scenes with 68-year-old men and actresses young enough to be their granddaughter. — Mel Gibson

You know what makes me feel old? When I see girls who are 20-something, or the new crop of actresses, and think, Aren't we kind of the same age? — Jennifer Aniston

In LA, I'm twice the size- height and everything else- of most of the other actresses who are going for an audition. — Keira Knightley

I go out with actresses because I'm not apt to marry one. — Henry A. Kissinger

Now my uncle knew many of them [actresses] personally, and also ladies of another class, not clearly distinguished from actresses in my mind. — Marcel Proust

Actresses are kind of a little crazy. — Russell Simmons

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

There are lots of actresses I consider to be my icons, from Katharine Hepburn and Grace Kelly to Diane Keaton and Meryl Streep. — Blake Lively

People think actresses find public speaking easy, and it's not easy at all; we're used to hiding behind masks. — Jane Fonda

I'm going to become a real professional actress. — Ester Dean

I'm as interested in photographing the film crew as much as the actors and actresses. — Paul Walker

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. — Bruce Sterling

Not all actresses know how to express their looks, I think. For me, it's an on-again, off-again thing. I'm still struggling. — Rinko Kikuchi

I'm an actress, model and athlete, and I'd put athlete third on the list. — Serena Williams

I personally love Jennifer Lawrence. She's an amazing actress, but so young and fresh and youthful. — Maria Sharapova

I'm a big fan of Aamir Khan ... Among actresses, I like Aishwarya Rai. — Virat Kohli

I wouldn't say that I was an actress. I tried to be an actress. I really didn't have the gift. — Zoe Cassavetes

I'm sporting some really blonde hair because I live in Hollywood and I'm an actress. — Sarah Paulson

I'm the Magoo of actresses, very accident-prone. — Peta Wilson

Don't get married to an actress because they're also actresses in bed. — Roberto Rossellini

As an actress, I'm an emotional person. — Gugu Mbatha-Raw

I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that. — Taylor Swift

I was always wanting to learn and be one of those actresses who can actually hold a conversation as opposed to standing there looking pretty. — Michelle Trachtenberg

The truth is that the actresses who I look up to are either my age or a few years older or a lot older. — Judy Greer

There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material. — Meryl Streep

People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb. — Olivia Wilde

I sing as an actress. Whatever I'm singing about, I just become the story. — Dolly Parton