top of page

Quotes by Actress

"There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important as we make them sometimes."
Quote_1.png
Marguerite Moreau
"There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important as we make them sometimes."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
44
"No not really, it is just like real life. Not everyday you are happy and not everyday you are sad."
Quote_1.png
Dakota Fanning
"No not really, it is just like real life. Not everyday you are happy and not everyday you are sad."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
44
"In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?"
Quote_1.png
Leslie Caron
"In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?"
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
44
"Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it."
Quote_1.png
Liv Tyler
"Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
44
"Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image."
Quote_1.png
Cameron Diaz
"Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
44
"People always like things that seem exotic."
Quote_1.png
Jane Birkin
"People always like things that seem exotic."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
44
"Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured."
Quote_1.png
Jasmine Guy
"Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
44
"Life has brought me work to do on myself these past two years."
Quote_1.png
Isabelle Adjani
"Life has brought me work to do on myself these past two years."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
44
"Yes, I do get recognized in public. It's pretty nice."
Quote_1.png
Aisha Tyler
"Yes, I do get recognized in public. It's pretty nice."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
44
"Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened."
Quote_1.png
Patricia Richardson
"Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
44
"It's funny that all these goths paint their faces with such white make-up and that is the actual colour of my skin, I am that pale!"
Quote_1.png
Kelly Osbourne
"It's funny that all these goths paint their faces with such white make-up and that is the actual colour of my skin, I am that pale!"
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
44
"All that schooling never prepares you for the reality of life."
Quote_1.png
Juliette Lewis
"All that schooling never prepares you for the reality of life."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
44
"It definitely puts a strain on family life - I miss them like mad. Being a working mother I've been juggling house and career from day one. I want to hold out for telly for the second half of the year."
Quote_1.png
Louise Jameson
"It definitely puts a strain on family life - I miss them like mad. Being a working mother I've been juggling house and career from day one. I want to hold out for telly for the second half of the year."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
44
"Maybe my way of communicating through sign made me more in tune with my body and how it moved. Who knows? I just know when I saw a stage for the first time, I wanted to be on it."
Quote_1.png
Marlee Matlin
"Maybe my way of communicating through sign made me more in tune with my body and how it moved. Who knows? I just know when I saw a stage for the first time, I wanted to be on it."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
44
"I know I am at the end. I shall never get better, dear."
Quote_1.png
Lillie Langtry
"I know I am at the end. I shall never get better, dear."
End,
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
44
"Words impress me. If a man can speak eloquently and beautifully to me, I just melt on the floor."
Quote_1.png
Catherine Zeta-Jones
"Words impress me. If a man can speak eloquently and beautifully to me, I just melt on the floor."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
44
"Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard."
Quote_1.png
Toni Collette
"Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
44
"You play a part, and as soon as a movie is over and the camera stops, you go home and you're not really responsible for what you've done."
Quote_1.png
Nastassja Kinski
"You play a part, and as soon as a movie is over and the camera stops, you go home and you're not really responsible for what you've done."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
44
"I didn't need the insurance. I do it again if my DP tells me it didn't look good in the camera or if the actors didn't hit their marks. But if everything was working why do it again?"
Quote_1.png
Debbie Allen
"I didn't need the insurance. I do it again if my DP tells me it didn't look good in the camera or if the actors didn't hit their marks. But if everything was working why do it again?"
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
44
"Instead of focusing on that circumstances that you cannot change - focus strongly and powerfully on the circumstances that you can."
Quote_1.png
Joy Page
"Instead of focusing on that circumstances that you cannot change - focus strongly and powerfully on the circumstances that you can."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
44
"I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater."
Quote_1.png
Jill Clayburgh
"I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
44
"There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now."
Quote_1.png
Angelina Jolie
"There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
44
"It always surprised me that I was getting acting work."
Quote_1.png
Mary Lynn Rajskub
"It always surprised me that I was getting acting work."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
44
"When you are young and healthy, it never occurs to you that in a single second your whole life could change."
Quote_1.png
Annette Funicello
"When you are young and healthy, it never occurs to you that in a single second your whole life could change."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
44
"Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans."
Quote_1.png
Candice Bergen
"Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
44
"I love giving gifts and I love receiving them. I really like giving little kids extravagant gifts. You see their little faces light up and they get excited. If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands."
Quote_1.png
Gina Gershon
"I love giving gifts and I love receiving them. I really like giving little kids extravagant gifts. You see their little faces light up and they get excited. If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
44
"I asked Frank what he remembered most about working with Jackie. He said, 'Apart from the fact that he always called me Francis, I always felt like I was going to a party, instead of work. It was such a blast.'"
Quote_1.png
Audrey Meadows
"I asked Frank what he remembered most about working with Jackie. He said, 'Apart from the fact that he always called me Francis, I always felt like I was going to a party, instead of work. It was such a blast.'"
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
44
"I'm not all that big on rides. I sort of like bumper cars but I don't really go to Disneyland all that much unless if have nieces and nephews or people to take."
Quote_1.png
Anjelica Huston
"I'm not all that big on rides. I sort of like bumper cars but I don't really go to Disneyland all that much unless if have nieces and nephews or people to take."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
44
"There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy."
Quote_1.png
Sally Field
"There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
44
"Alone in the car with my social life all before and behind me, I was suspended in the beautiful solitude of the open road, in a kind of introspection that only outdoor space generates, for inside and outside are more intertwined than the usual distinctions allow. The emotion stirred by the landscape is piercing, a joy close to pain when the blue is deepest on the horizon or the clouds are doing those spectacular fleeting things so much easier to recall than to describe."
Quote_1.png
Rebecca Solnit
"Alone in the car with my social life all before and behind me, I was suspended in the beautiful solitude of the open road, in a kind of introspection that only outdoor space generates, for inside and outside are more intertwined than the usual distinctions allow. The emotion stirred by the landscape is piercing, a joy close to pain when the blue is deepest on the horizon or the clouds are doing those spectacular fleeting things so much easier to recall than to describe."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
44
"When you're constantly looking for things from other people, you're not looking within yourself."
Quote_1.png
Sandra Bernhard
"When you're constantly looking for things from other people, you're not looking within yourself."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
44
"I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say."
Quote_1.png
Ingrid Bergman
"I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
44
"When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent."
Quote_1.png
Lorna Luft
"When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
44
"I think I'm learning to be bolder in my career choices and be more confident in my personal life. I haven't always felt very secure as an individual, but now I feel I certain confidence and sense of self that gets me through the day a lot better than before."
Quote_1.png
Winona Ryder
"I think I'm learning to be bolder in my career choices and be more confident in my personal life. I haven't always felt very secure as an individual, but now I feel I certain confidence and sense of self that gets me through the day a lot better than before."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
44
"That was really cool. I got to kiss a little boy. I was 7 and he was 10, and his name is Thomas Curtis. He was the first boy I've ever kissed in my entire life and he was three years older than me."
Quote_1.png
Dakota Fanning
"That was really cool. I got to kiss a little boy. I was 7 and he was 10, and his name is Thomas Curtis. He was the first boy I've ever kissed in my entire life and he was three years older than me."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
44
"First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people."
Quote_1.png
Tea Leoni
"First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
44
"I got quite bored when I was hanging in the air. I want to do it without a parachute next."
Quote_1.png
Rhona Mitra
"I got quite bored when I was hanging in the air. I want to do it without a parachute next."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
44
"When you walk away from a really wonderful job like that, you start messing with everyone's priorities. It's like you're dissing them."
Quote_1.png
Sherry Stringfield
"When you walk away from a really wonderful job like that, you start messing with everyone's priorities. It's like you're dissing them."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
44
"I was really glad to meet Jane Clark because it did give me an insight. I couldn't imagine what kind of woman she was. I was hugely impressed by her energy, straightforward nature and enthusiasm for life."
Quote_1.png
Jenny Agutter
"I was really glad to meet Jane Clark because it did give me an insight. I couldn't imagine what kind of woman she was. I was hugely impressed by her energy, straightforward nature and enthusiasm for life."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
44
"You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances."
Quote_1.png
Maggie Gyllenhaal
"You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
44
"I put myself on the line with my truth and my sexuality. That is my choice. My choice."
Quote_1.png
Anne Heche
"I put myself on the line with my truth and my sexuality. That is my choice. My choice."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
44
"Now I listen to all kinds of music except rap, which all sounds the same to me."
Quote_1.png
Moira Kelly
"Now I listen to all kinds of music except rap, which all sounds the same to me."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
44
"There's no way I set out to be a certain kind of symbol - the way I dress is the way I am, the way I live my life."
Quote_1.png
Pamela Anderson
"There's no way I set out to be a certain kind of symbol - the way I dress is the way I am, the way I live my life."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
44
"I try to keep my head on straight and take nothing for granted."
Quote_1.png
Anna Faris
"I try to keep my head on straight and take nothing for granted."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
44
"I think women have an innate ability to be intuitive with people that they truly love, but they have to trust that inner voice, and I think it is there. I think we are more intuitive than men."
Quote_1.png
Andie MacDowell
"I think women have an innate ability to be intuitive with people that they truly love, but they have to trust that inner voice, and I think it is there. I think we are more intuitive than men."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
44
"I was in constant demand, in my professional life and my personal life."
Quote_1.png
Hedy Lamarr
"I was in constant demand, in my professional life and my personal life."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
44
"I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience."
Quote_1.png
Barbra Streisand
"I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
44
"When two people love each other, they don't look at each other, they look in the same direction."
Quote_1.png
Ginger Rogers
"When two people love each other, they don't look at each other, they look in the same direction."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
44
"The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind."
Quote_1.png
Stella Adler
"The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
44
"It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me, it's a natural thing."
Quote_1.png
Cate Blanchett
"It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me, it's a natural thing."
Share on Facebook_Black.png
Share on X_edited.png
Painting Icon
44
bottom of page