Actresses Quotations | Page 2

Before I did 'How I Met Your Mother,' I was not considered a comedic actress.

I tend to be a lazy actress, unless I'm pushed.

Being an actress wasn't a plan at all, so what's happened to me is very strange. Life isn't very normal, even though I'm still very much a normal girl. I ride the subway, I ride the bus, and all of that.

You know, when you start, especially with me, I didn't really know I was going to be a movie actress. I thought I was going to do theater.

I never wanted to become an actress because I'd read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did.

I am only an actress when they say, 'action' and I stop being an actress when they say, 'cut'. I am a normal person outside of acting.

No, I always wanted to be an actress.

I am an actress and acting is my passion... period!

Actresses have more fear of being disliked. I, on the other hand, revel in it.

I haven't ever felt I've had to divide my 'actress' life from the rest of my life.

I wanted to become a model and an actress.

I always wanted to be an actress. I couldn't imagine being anything else.

I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols, they were just doing their jobs.

Hollywood will accept actresses playing ten years older, but actors can play ten years younger.

I made up my mind to be an actress when I was 4 years old.

I'm a video game fan. I played them before I became an actress.

You know, the hard thing about audiences not liking what a character does is that they sometimes take it out on the actor personally. That's something that you know when you become an actor or actress, but it's always hard to deal with when it actually happens.

I don't want my tombstone to say actress. I want it to say human being.

Alison Lohman is an amazing actress. I was so proud to work with her.

I love Joan Collins. She's a wonderful lady. She has such courage. She's such a good actress.

Anne Baxter was a very good actress, Donna Reid was great. You couldn't name an actress I wasn't crazy about.

I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart.

I knew I wanted to be an actress when I was 9 years old.

I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman.

The great actresses and actors receive awards for great roles in great films.

I hope to have a career like Jodie Foster, going from child to adult actress.

There was no way I could live in Hollywood and not become an actress.

You have to be a model and multifaceted, but there's not a lot of ways for a model to be multifaceted because the actresses took all the covers.

What we need is more women writers, writing for older women. There are some actresses who have production companies and create their own material, and I truly admire that

But I would say maybe just from an actress's perspective, probably 'Woman Under the Influence' is the best movie of all time. The style of filmmaking and the performances... you don't feel like you're watching a film.

I have a theory that self-made, first-generation actresses don't feel entitled to success.

Really skinny actresses make me hungry - I see them and think, Honey, you need to eat!

Even when I was young I wanted to be an actress.

My favorite question is 'What do you do?' I'm like, 'I'm a walking cliche: I'm a model and an actress.

I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.

I was the first actress in the family, and I am still the only actress in the family. I shouldn't be saying it, but it slipped out!

You know what's the worst part about being an actress? It's the pressure to look gorgeous all the time and to behave perfectly. But I'm not perfect, nobody is.

There are a lot of French actresses who just hate me now. I've made enemies.

I am first and foremost an actress of Indian origin.

I hope I'm thought of as not just a showbiz personality, but as someone who has lived a life and who has hopefully made a contribution to something along the way - someone who is a human being as well as an actress.

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 regard myself as an actress but, obviously, not in the Dame Judi Dench league. That isn't a problem because I don't think we are ever likely to be up for the same part!

As an actress I just want to tell beautiful stories

Good actresses can often accomplish miracles, and it is possible to be someone you've never been or will be. But in a sitcom, there's no time.

I hated the whole idea of being an actress. I used to throw up before every performance and cry afterward.

There are lots of moments that are great for an actress.

I had a happier experience of the city as an actress than I had had as a model.

You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.

For me, as an actress, being a dancer has helped me. I've done it with my feet bloody.

I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to be a model.

I'm one of the best actresses. One day I will win an Oscar.

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

And I love Jennifer Lawrence. She's a total fox. And such a good actress. It's ridiculous.

I'd wanted to be an actress my whole life, that was my goal, that was all I cared about.

There are hits and misses, and as an actress, we are mentally ready for all that.

The only other thing that interested me as a kid was being a bricklayer. So if I hadn't become an actress, I would probably be a bricklayer.

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

An actress must never lose her ego -- without it she has no talent.

There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them.

I am an actress, I earn money, I am well-known. I don't think it is altruism to become engaged in humanitarian work. It's the least one can do.

I've never been a model, I was an actress for like a minute, but I've always been a writer. That's where I'm going to stay.

There were many good actresses in my time like Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds, but I was the only dancer.

It is something actresses need to go through and I think they look forward to being naked in a movie. I don't know why, but it is something you need to exhaust from yourself

At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger.

I just feel incredibly lucky to be employed when there are so many actors and actresses who are not employed. That's why, you know, I sometimes feel desperate, in case I'm not going to be cast again.

Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be cool with it.

As a mother, you feel much more vulnerable. And when you're vulnerable, you're a much better actress.

If I wasn't an actress I would run a fortune 500 company.

I don't like being compared to anyone or being in a class with someone. I'm a teen actress and therefore I'm competing against Hilary Duff. We're different people like everyone else.

What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being.

Having been an actress before becoming a producer has helped, because I realize the needs

I made a conscious decision back then that I would rather be the best actress who ever lived than the most famous one.

I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'

For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.

I like working with actresses, and I like women a lot, not for obvious reasons, but just in that that theres so much about what they bring to the scene that keeps it so interesting. Their instincts are so different, and they never explain them to you.

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.

It helps if you don't date other actors, but actresses are beautiful. How can you say no?

I just know I'm going to be an actress. I want it so bad.

I didn't want to be an actress at all, or famous even. I certainly enjoy acting now, absolutely. Time will tell whether or not I enjoy fame.

An actress spends a lifetime observing people. You build up a mental library. No, not a library. Make that a repository.

At some point we have to stop and say, There's Marlee, not, There's the deaf actress.

I am definitely not like the hottest young actress, the most beautiful or whatever. I have my own thing going.

I'm from a generation of fantastic actresses. It's a big pool of really wonderful actresses, and so many of them we never even get to see on the screen anymore.

I never wanted to be a model. I never wanted to be a serious actress. I started off doing comedy. I did a stand-up comedy camp at the Laugh Factory, and I started out on Nickelodeon.

I don't know if I see myself as an actress for the rest of my life.

I'm a trained actress and I can do it, but I think that you have to prove yourself

Sure I faced the troubles and challenges that most actors and actresses face until they get noticed, but I was always confident of myself and my capabilities.

I do not admire young actresses whose foreheads cannot move

The theater is where I belonged; I simply wanted to be an actress my whole life.

I worked before I had my daughter, enough for three actresses.

Most of the people in Ghana wouldn't know me as an actress. They'd know me for my work at the U.N.

I'm pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.

The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title

Some of the things I've seen a lot of my female-actress friends who are relatively famous receive - I've seen some hideous things. Like some really, really bad things... like, the FBI should be contacted immediately.

I mean, the actors that I admired were Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, an actress named Barbara Harris. And Greta Garbo. They were great actors.

I think being an actress is more how to cope with the fact that you can't do anything else than to express a talent. It's a way of being untalented for anything

I think the reason I'm an actress is because I love playing kind of a more extreme people.

Another thing that's pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica Lange had to make herself look really bad to prove that she had amazing talent.

If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot

That's why I'm an actress, to do something completely opposite from myself