I think it was really crucial that the actress was age appropriate. There are films, such as An Education, where that wasn't the case, and I think that really affects how you receive what you're watching.
I admire Cate Blanchett and Kate Winslet. I like a lot of comedians. I like Cameron Diaz - she's funny and has a very light spirit. That's quite rare nowadays. There are many actresses I admire.
Claire Danes is lovely and a really great actress.
I always want to be an actress.
I'd like to break some new ground, maybe in TV presenting, rather than just be an actress.
I'm not gonna become Ann Bancroft or Meryl Streep and have all the burden that being a "serious actress" entails.
I don't want to feel that I'm a singer or an actress - being able to say that those are just experiences is what I enjoy.
I've never been the kind of actress that just likes to show up and say my lines. I'm fascinated by what the crew does.
That’s my next journey - to be a great actress.
Just to be working again as an actress and possibly doing TV would just be great. It's not about how big the role is.
Film has always been hard for me, I'm basically a stage actress. I never felt comfortable in front of the camera.
...my least favorite actress of all time, Helena Bonham Carter. I find her lack of a neck very off-putting and especially her acting.
We ask the public to believe that every time they see an actress or actor that they are a different person.
The primary job for women in Hollywood is still super-attractive actress. That is the most high-profile women's job in Hollywood.
Even though I am in this weird position of being a semi-recognizable screenwriter, which isn't that common, at the same time, I'm not an actress. I'm pretty isolated.
Rosemary Rodriguez directed on Rescue Me for us, and I love her. She's fantastic with actresses and she's got a great sense of humor. That was a huge thing for me.
The second host that I had was an actress I didn't know named Susan St. James.
I'm an actress, not a celebrity.
I'm a more mature actress now.
I'm the seagull. No, that's not it. I'm an actress. That's it.
I have three lives: actress, model, producer. Sometimes I'm aware that there's a fourth life, which is somewhat neglected, which is living a bit.
I got to work with Jennifer Tilly, she was amazing. Such, such a smart actress.
I must have seen more sunrises than any other actress in the history of Hollywood
I was never an actress -- none of us kids at Metro were. We were just good to look at.
A set of Bollywood actresses are coming through Dallas soon in a live tour; I'd pay a lot to see them, but alas, I'm fully booked elsewhere.
People think actresses find public speaking easy, and it's not easy at all; we're used to hiding behind masks.
When you're an actor or actress in this business, usually the natural progression is to direct, but a lot of times, we don't get a chance to get to it. Myself, I really want to get into it. I want to be the person who eventually doesn't have to be in front of the camera.
The rehearsal time is almost my favourite part of being an actress, particularly if you're working on a play that hasn't been done before.
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.
I've been in showbusiness all my life, but as an actress I have never been overly driven.
I'm a huge movie buff, so I'm a fan of a lot of actors and actresses.
The industry has died as far as modeling has gone, and I'll tell you why. Magazines are featuring the Halle Berrys and Sarah Jessica Parkers, all the actresses. Makeup companies are featuring all the celebrities. All the models have died.
When youre a young English person who wants to be an actress and you have dreams, you dream of being Vanessa Redgrave or Judi Dench.
What keeps me interested--and it always does--is how can she be a bad actress on film but a good one in reality?
Why, when I was a child, I didn't say, as most children do, that I was going to become an actress. I felt that I was an actress and no one could have convinced me that I wasn't!
What I like about being an actress is that it keeps you feminine. Being a director and producer makes you manly and very masculine and I don't like that quality in a woman. But I'll do it when the film is very close to me.
I just take jobs that will have me. I'm an actress that works. I'm not an actress who's ever waited.
I long for the day where we don't have to talk about our age as actresses,
It was really fun being in Tara's trailer, working on my lines. Tara is such an amazing actress. She's so good at what she does. I learned a lot from watching her.
I always felt that I was more of an actress than a - I can't tell a joke to save my soul, but that I was a comedic actress.
[Victoria Clark] is one of those people who has the rarest combination of gifts. I can put her in any classical play tomorrow because she such an extraordinary actress.
Actresses are mental on the whole. But I think I'm pretty normal.
My ambition is to become one of those actresses that is like a chameleon that you don't recognize.
I don't see myself being an actress forever.
Joan Crawford is a movie star. I am an actress.
Evil people you never forget them. And that's the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
I'd love to be in a period drama - that's my obsession. But being a mixed-race actress, there aren't so many roles you're right for.
Ive felt the pressure of wanting to be known as a young actress rather than just Alisha from Misfits.
I'd love to work with Michelle Williams. I think that she's incredible. She's such a great actress and I love her.
In the U.S., with very few exceptions, actresses older than 35 are simply discarded.
And I don’t want to turn actress. I want to do both. I wouldn’t have built the confidence to do acting if I didn’t model.
You see these actresses who have had Botox or something else done, and it takes you out of the film.
I've had some great times with actresses, but that's in a movie.
I sing as an actress. Whatever I'm singing about, I just become the story.
Every pound for a woman in the real world is seven pounds for an actress.
I finally feel like I'm becoming somebody. I really think like I can do something. I just know I'm going to be an actress. I want it so bad.
I don't want to be a great actress. I want to be a sexy movie star.
I don't think actresses' lives in general are very good
Security has no place in the life of an actress.
I call myself a comic.But I started as an actress. I did plays since I was 5.
Don't associate me with comedy. And please don't say actress. I would never call myself any of those things. I hate it when people call me that.
In high school ethics, they went around and asked what everyone thought their classmates were qualified to do. For me, everyone said actress. But to me it was very much if it happens, it happens.
There's nothing wrong with making little kids happy, but there's nothing wrong with wanting to be an adult actress. I mean a grown-up actress.
[ Working Meryl Streep] I just felt like I was shaving years off my discovery as an actress to realize, "Okay, that's what this feels like."
I don't feel comfortable doing movies. It's not what I trained to do. I trained to be a theater actress. You put me on a stage in front of 2,000 people, I know what to do.
Шn Hollywood actresses say they can't go above a size 6. I think everybody is operating in this huge bubble of fear. I don't think the world will come crashing down on you if you're a size 8.
Now every model wants to be an actress
Sometimes I'll watch an old movie on television and, once in a while, one of mine, such as April Showers, will come on and I'll watch it. And you know something? I'm always amazed at what a lousy actress I was. I guess in the old days we just got by on glamour.
Being an actress hasn't made me insecure. I was insecure long before I declared I was an actress.
I think Gina Rowlands is an amazing actress.
I very seldom said no, and I was aided and abetted by my husband, who realized that the one thing I could do was to be a very good actress, by his note.
I really wanted to go back to the theater, the live theater. That was the thing I had never had a chance to do, even though I had trained to be a stage actress.
I'm a huge fan of Jessica Lange and 'American Horror Story.' I would love to work with her. She's been one of my favorite actresses for a while.
When I first became an actress, I expected to do regional and classical theater; I just love the whole creative process.
I'm only realizing now that I was a child actress because I always took myself so seriously.
One thing I've noticed is that I can tell when a young actor or a young actress is going to become a huge star. Everybody else will say, "Oh come on, Michelle Pfeiffer, are you kidding?" and I'm pretty much always right about that.
There's something really special for a young person to sit in an audience and discover somebody, and it's rare to do because so much of a movie's economics are based on pre-existing actors or actresses.
My favorite actresses are Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts and Julie Andrews.
There's a kind of amateurishness among French actresses, but I don't share that completely.
That's when I asked her where was that actress She said "That was somebody else" And then I asked her why she looked so happy now She said "I finally like myself, at last I like myself.
Charlize Theron and Cate Blanchett are very good actresses.
What actresses do today when they appear on the screen is what they did once upon a time for getting to appear on the screen.
Never in my life have I ever even thought about anything else [ being anything other than an actress].
I'd wanted to be [an actress] all my life.
I think I have the only parents in the world who would not have said something against become an actress.
I don't like acting and I never have liked acting and I never wanted to be an actress.
That's the beauty of being an actress, is that you hopefully get to have different roles and really stretch yourself. This is really what I've been working for a while. I've been in the business for a minute, and it's an opportunity like this that I've been really working towards.
In government, one actress is enough.
Going out with other actors is never good; actresses are neurotic, and actors are horrendous egotists.
My agent called me and said, "You have an audition for James Bond. They're looking for the girl." And I told him, "Listen, it's all in English. I'm not an actress. I'm not going to go." He thought I was kidding with him.
As an actress, I was never thin enough, never pretty enough. My boobs weren't big enough.
Ever since I started as an actress, just to catch up on some money, but not having an income for three years was tricky.
I didn't choose to be an actress
I'll always be this once-famous actress nobody recognizes... because of a nose job.
I want to keep growing and I want to be an actress for as long as I can.
You can tell when an actor or actress cares about their work. It's really clear.
I want to be an actress, not a personality.
As far as actresses go, I love Meryl Streep.
There are actresses who build themselves, and then there are actresses who are built by others. I want to build myself.
I wanted to be a professional singer/actress, though I knew it would be hard.