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I want to get past the Playboy image and really develop myself as an actress, a dancer and a singer.
I didn't want to be an actress. I wanted to be a dentist, but you never know what life will bring you.
I'm proud of my wrinkles. They give my face character. As an actress, you mess with that at your peril.
The truth is that the actresses who I look up to are either my age or a few years older or a lot older.
All that some actresses want is for people to take them seriously instead of caring about how they look.
I really believe that what I do as an actress is my God-given talent. This is my calling, not my career.
I think part of maturity as an actress comes from their experience in getting married and having children.
Most of the actresses I have worked with have started their career in South and then shifted to Bollywood.
I hated the whole idea of being an actress. I used to throw up before every performance and cry afterward.
This war is like an actress who is getting old. It is less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous.
I'm not really a redhead, but I keep playing these redhead actresses. Which I don't mind; I think it's fun.
Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.
First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.
There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material.
I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.
I'm a real freedom fighter. I'm not a pretend freedom fighter. I stand up for other actresses, other people.
I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life.
People think actresses find public speaking easy, and it's not easy at all; we're used to hiding behind masks.
I'm friends with Elizabeth Banks - she's a great actress but not actressy at all. She's very cool. I adore her.
When I got 'Family Ties', I wasn't even thinking about being an actress. I thought I might become a window dresser.
Diana Vishneva is not only a magnificent dancer but a magnificent actress - no one works harder or understands more.
Angelina Jolie was always a Method actress. She'd been nominated for Golden Globes before she ever did 'Tomb Raider.'
You see, I was never a big fan of contemporary movies because they always make actresses and actors look too perfect.
If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude... I hope to make you use your imagination.
I love a challenge. And I love defying limitation, gender stereotypes, and people's expectations of me as an actress.
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 not a film star, I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity.
At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger.
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.
I love actors, but I really love actresses, and I really love actresses whose work touched and informed my coming-up years.
The industry looks for white actors and actresses, but it's not the same for black actors. We have to really put the work in.
Some actresses seem to thrive on chaos, and I've often wondered if they felt they had to be that way in order to perform well?
Soundarya was always respected, and she is looked at in a certain way that I always would like to be looked upon as an actress.
As you know, Hollywood loves to pigeonhole all the actors and actresses, and suddenly I got 're-pigeonholed' as an action actor.
Catherine Tate was a proven comedy actress from a comedy background with great taste. I knew her work, and was an incredible fan.
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 am constantly trying to push my boundaries and break the mould that has been made for leading actresses, and it is such great fun.
Honestly, ever since I've been married, the part of a job as an actress where you have to kiss other people, I find totally bizarre.
As a brunette, I had previously been this serious actress. Then I became a blonde and got to play a completely different, comic role.
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.
Growing up, I never thought about becoming an actress because I never saw deaf people in TV or movies. I didn't think it was possible.
I feel I am blessed. So many actresses went without doing a period film in their career, and I got a chance to do one in my first film.
Becoming an actress takes a lot longer than being a star. I don't want to be a star. I want to be an actress. I want to build a career.
After the release of movies like 'Chidambarathil Oru Appasamy' and 'Amirtham,' I was branded as an actress who can do only homely roles.
I think of myself as a journeyman actress. I will attempt almost anything that I think that I can bring off. It could be almost anything.
Well, I was lucky in that my being an actress totally overshadowed my having some kind of a... legacy at Yale, so that was kind of great.
A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part.
If I could have lived as an actress in any period, it would have been the 1920s - I would have loved to have been part of that speakeasy era.
I mean, the actors that I admired were Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, an actress named Barbara Harris. And Greta Garbo. They were great actors.