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My sister has decided to become an actress too. It has ruined the close-knittedness of our family life.
If only I'd known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.
I'm such a fan of Shailene Woodley, so I'm super excited to see all her stuff. She's an awesome actress.
A lot of the actresses who were around when I started, I don't know where they are. Comics stick around.
I wanted to work with Cate Blanchett. She is one of the five greatest movie actresses of her generation.
I am one of the few actresses who isn't recognized by the way she looks. I'm recognized by the way I talk
Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him.
You have to be the best of whatever you are, but successful, cool actresses come in all shapes and sizes.
I was always a singer and a dancer, and I always wanted to be an actress. For me, it's all just one thing.
There were many good actresses in my time like Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds, but I was the only dancer.
Frequently my life has been likened to a Greek tragedy, and the actress in me cannot deny that comparison.
What the public expects to encounter in an actress passed 70 is the sum of her experience, not her beauty.
I've joked that I would have either become schizophrenic or an actress, but as an actress you can do both.
I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.
I hated the whole idea of being an actress. I used to throw up before every performance and cry afterward.
Everybody thinks about Bo Derek as being this extravagant looking lady but she is also a wonderful actress.
The thing I always thought of myself as was an actress. I never thought: I want to be. It was always: I am.
Actresses feel immense pressure to keep up. Nobody wants someone who doesn't know how to market themselves.
First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.
I mean, most actresses can't host and most hostesses can't act, and that's the general rule in the industry.
I loved working with Jamie Lee Curtis, and I felt she was a wonderful actress even that early in her career.
There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material.
There are some roles you just don't say 'no' to. Those compass points: you get them so rarely as an actress.
I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.
I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
As an English actress constantly playing Americans, you already had to step way out of your box in that way.
I know some actresses who used to be older than me who are now younger than me - I don't know how they do it.
As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life.
Anne Baxter was a very good actress, Donna Reid was great. You couldn't name an actress I wasn't crazy about.
I'm 40 next year and I'm very well aware that where I am now, it becomes a bit of a wilderness for actresses.
If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum.
I am happy as happiness goes, for a woman who has so many memories and who lives the lonely life of an actress
People think actresses find public speaking easy, and it's not easy at all; we're used to hiding behind masks.
I hate these actresses-pretending-to-be-lesbians movies. To me, that's just as prurient as a bad violent movie.
What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being.
I'm a size 8, and I feel proud of that, because it's healthy. I've never felt compelled to be a skinny actress.
It is so fantastic being an actress because you have the chance to be a thousand different people when you act.
While being called beautiful is extremely flattering, I would much rather be noticed for my work as an actress.
The inability to listen and to depict in the countenance what others have said has spoiled many a good actress.
There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.
The war is like an actress who is getting old. It's less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous. (1944)
I'm not always the nicest person to meet, because I forget very easily that I'm an actress when I'm not working.
What keeps me interested--and it always does--is how can she be a bad actress on film but a good one in reality?
When I was straight, I had the courage and energy to become an actress. I owe my career to my will to stop using.
When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.
I'm not gonna become Ann Bancroft or Meryl Streep and have all the burden that being a "serious actress" entails.
Film has always been hard for me, I'm basically a stage actress. I never felt comfortable in front of the camera.
I'd love to work with Michelle Williams. I think that she's incredible. She's such a great actress and I love her.
There's not an awful lot that embarrasses me. I'm the kind of actress that absolutely believes in exposing myself.
Marilyn was a great actress, not a dumb blond bombshell. She was very smart, very astute and a good businesswoman.