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Quotes by Actress

"You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?"
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Charlotte Gainsbourg
"You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?"
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"Night time really is the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone is asleep."
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Catherine O'Hara
"Night time really is the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone is asleep."
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"If a man is truly in love, the most beautiful woman in the world couldn't take him away. Maybe for a few days, but not forever."
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Eva Gabor
"If a man is truly in love, the most beautiful woman in the world couldn't take him away. Maybe for a few days, but not forever."
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"I'm trying to find a man to share my life with, but it's not been easy. I'm a 35-year-old woman with two small children."
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Nicole Kidman
"I'm trying to find a man to share my life with, but it's not been easy. I'm a 35-year-old woman with two small children."
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"People were always able to look at Bettie Page and see what they needed her to be and she gave them that permission to do so. So in that way she's a feminist but I don't think she was ever trying to be."
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Gretchen Mol
"People were always able to look at Bettie Page and see what they needed her to be and she gave them that permission to do so. So in that way she's a feminist but I don't think she was ever trying to be."
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"It's actually harder to write a fun song."
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Taryn Manning
"It's actually harder to write a fun song."
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"I spent 10 years in New York doing theater."
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Kristen Johnston
"I spent 10 years in New York doing theater."
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"If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!"
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Kate Beckinsale
"If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!"
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"Winning is not just a moment of glory, it's a journey of peaks and valleys.Perseverance Matters!Winning is a habit.Small wins matter!Winning is an attitude.Mindset Matters!Winning is a choice.Hard work matters!Winning is your responsibility.Winning matters!"
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Farshad Asl
"Winning is not just a moment of glory, it's a journey of peaks and valleys.Perseverance Matters!Winning is a habit.Small wins matter!Winning is an attitude.Mindset Matters!Winning is a choice.Hard work matters!Winning is your responsibility.Winning matters!"
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"People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries."
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Victoria Abril
"People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries."
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"My view is quite simple. When your dog pees on the carpet, you do not give away your dog. You say, This dog is special. I have to teach him not to pee on the carpet. I feel exactly the same way about men. They need to be taught things."
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Jacqueline Bisset
"My view is quite simple. When your dog pees on the carpet, you do not give away your dog. You say, This dog is special. I have to teach him not to pee on the carpet. I feel exactly the same way about men. They need to be taught things."
Men,
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"I think the show has sort of given me a name in this business and allowed a lot of people the opportunity to see what I can do, and it's just sort of like a sweet starting point."
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Shiri Appleby
"I think the show has sort of given me a name in this business and allowed a lot of people the opportunity to see what I can do, and it's just sort of like a sweet starting point."
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"I've lost my faith in science."
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Bette Davis
"I've lost my faith in science."
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"I haven't really had that many opportunities to play "lead" so I guess I jumped at the chance. I have also never done any "sci-fi" projects and thought it might be fun."
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Julie Bowen
"I haven't really had that many opportunities to play "lead" so I guess I jumped at the chance. I have also never done any "sci-fi" projects and thought it might be fun."
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"The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time."
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Stella Adler
"The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time."
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"Babies act out when they're hungry, cold, tired. They do this for survival."
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Marilu Henner
"Babies act out when they're hungry, cold, tired. They do this for survival."
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"I don't think you ever think that you have made it but I did take a look at myself one day and think back to when I was a little girl and it was nice to know that I had at least made it this far."
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Sharon Stone
"I don't think you ever think that you have made it but I did take a look at myself one day and think back to when I was a little girl and it was nice to know that I had at least made it this far."
Day,
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"It was weird because I was pregnant, throughout that so it was weird being a pregnant witch. I was in a really bad mood but luckily, because I sleep with the director, he just sort of scheduled me so I only had to do it two nights."
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Helena Bonham Carter
"It was weird because I was pregnant, throughout that so it was weird being a pregnant witch. I was in a really bad mood but luckily, because I sleep with the director, he just sort of scheduled me so I only had to do it two nights."
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"I lived in Vancouver, where they film so many things. So it gave me a good shot at it."
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Sarah Chalke
"I lived in Vancouver, where they film so many things. So it gave me a good shot at it."
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"Going to New York to do whatever - show business - it just seemed fun. It seemed fun to go to the big city and meet all kinds of different people and maybe be famous. It was just exciting. So I wasn't scared."
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January Jones
"Going to New York to do whatever - show business - it just seemed fun. It seemed fun to go to the big city and meet all kinds of different people and maybe be famous. It was just exciting. So I wasn't scared."
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"The one thing I never questioned about my mother was whether she loved me."
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Lorna Luft
"The one thing I never questioned about my mother was whether she loved me."
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"I don't want to be stinky poo poo girl, I want to be happy flower child."
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Drew Barrymore
"I don't want to be stinky poo poo girl, I want to be happy flower child."
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"When I started, I knew I didn't fit any visual that anyone was going to lie down and take their clothes off about. Work doesn't come to me; I go out and look for it."
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Whoopi Goldberg
"When I started, I knew I didn't fit any visual that anyone was going to lie down and take their clothes off about. Work doesn't come to me; I go out and look for it."
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"My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel."
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Roseanne Barr
"My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel."
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"Being a Southern person and a blonde, it's not a good combination. Immediately, when people meet you, they think of you as not being smart."
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Reese Witherspoon
"Being a Southern person and a blonde, it's not a good combination. Immediately, when people meet you, they think of you as not being smart."
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"I started acting in my parents living room when I was five years old."
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Megan Gallagher
"I started acting in my parents living room when I was five years old."
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"I remember doing the sex scene in Red Rock West. I had to kiss Nic Cage and then look like I was going down on him. And he couldn't do anything - he just had to lie there."
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Lara Flynn Boyle
"I remember doing the sex scene in Red Rock West. I had to kiss Nic Cage and then look like I was going down on him. And he couldn't do anything - he just had to lie there."
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"In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the kid who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three."
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Julianna Moore
"In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the kid who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three."
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"I am the least intimidating person. I think I would have done better in my career if I were a little more intimidating. Even the maid who comes to work for me once a week has found out that she can just trample over me... I'm a Cancer! We are not ferocious people."
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Karen Black
"I am the least intimidating person. I think I would have done better in my career if I were a little more intimidating. Even the maid who comes to work for me once a week has found out that she can just trample over me... I'm a Cancer! We are not ferocious people."
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"It's wonderful to be part of a family that cares so much about others."
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Marta Kristen
"It's wonderful to be part of a family that cares so much about others."
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"Sometimes decisions get made and it ends up being God doing for you what you couldn't do for yourself."
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Charisma Carpenter
"Sometimes decisions get made and it ends up being God doing for you what you couldn't do for yourself."
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"We are all trying to balance our careers and children and give as much of ourselves and our time to them. You work and have a husband, and projects, and friends. It is a balancing act."
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Kelly Preston
"We are all trying to balance our careers and children and give as much of ourselves and our time to them. You work and have a husband, and projects, and friends. It is a balancing act."
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"I love all of his movies. I love all his movies. I love Tom."
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Katie Holmes
"I love all of his movies. I love all his movies. I love Tom."
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"The people that watch or buy music or listen to TV, I don't think they separate the two as much as the people that are in charge of the production of it."
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Tina Yothers
"The people that watch or buy music or listen to TV, I don't think they separate the two as much as the people that are in charge of the production of it."
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"Time to open up a new chapter in life, and to explore a larger centre."
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Lillian Russell
"Time to open up a new chapter in life, and to explore a larger centre."
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"I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma."
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Eartha Kitt
"I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma."
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"What I'd really like to do is do a film or two a year and then do theater in New York the rest of the year."
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Piper Perabo
"What I'd really like to do is do a film or two a year and then do theater in New York the rest of the year."
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"Look at all the marriages that have been wonderfully successful where fellows finished their army service and came home to go to college on G.I. bills and their wives worked."
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Marta Kristen
"Look at all the marriages that have been wonderfully successful where fellows finished their army service and came home to go to college on G.I. bills and their wives worked."
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"They had to match blood type and meet all sorts of things I don't know about."
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Shelley Fabares
"They had to match blood type and meet all sorts of things I don't know about."
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"Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home."
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Loretta Young
"Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home."
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"Casey Affleck is a really good friend of mine. I know Casey a lot better than I know Ben, even though Ben and I have worked together a lot."
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Liv Tyler
"Casey Affleck is a really good friend of mine. I know Casey a lot better than I know Ben, even though Ben and I have worked together a lot."
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"I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college."
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Gwyneth Paltrow
"I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college."
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"I took acting and elocution lessons, to get rid of my Sicilian accent."
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Maria Grazia Cucinotta
"I took acting and elocution lessons, to get rid of my Sicilian accent."
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"Theatre is more exciting in the sense that you can actually see the audience in the eye. You know there are no takes and retakes. You have one chance to do your job... and you better do it well!"
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Christine Lahti
"Theatre is more exciting in the sense that you can actually see the audience in the eye. You know there are no takes and retakes. You have one chance to do your job... and you better do it well!"
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"I got an internship with the casting director of The Girl Next Door. I would hold the clipboard and help them in their casting sessions and get them lunch."
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Olivia Wilde
"I got an internship with the casting director of The Girl Next Door. I would hold the clipboard and help them in their casting sessions and get them lunch."
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"I went to the premiere of The Detective with Sinatra, and perhaps people jumped to conclusions. He was very protective towards me and never came on to me sexually."
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Jacqueline Bisset
"I went to the premiere of The Detective with Sinatra, and perhaps people jumped to conclusions. He was very protective towards me and never came on to me sexually."
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"The job of an actor is the same in all of them, really. I mean, you're just creating a character that you hope people will believe, so it doesn't make that much of a difference really."
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Rosamund Pike
"The job of an actor is the same in all of them, really. I mean, you're just creating a character that you hope people will believe, so it doesn't make that much of a difference really."
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"The world is changing and the physical barriers are down now. It's time for the emotional barriers to go down. And what better place to start than school?"
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Laura San Giacomo
"The world is changing and the physical barriers are down now. It's time for the emotional barriers to go down. And what better place to start than school?"
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"But if I had to do it, handle money, then I think I could be responsible, yes."
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Soundarya
"But if I had to do it, handle money, then I think I could be responsible, yes."
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"I've always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land."
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Eartha Kitt
"I've always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land."
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