Actresses Quotes - Page 13

• An actress once advised me, 'Make sure you do your own laundry - it will keep you honest.'

  Cate Blanchett

  Honest, Laundry

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• If screenwriters have to kill off a female character, they love to give her cancer. We've seen so many great actresses go down to the Big C: Ali MacGraw, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Debra Winger, Susan Sarandon.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Cancer, Character, Giving

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• I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time making decisions based on someone else's idea of our happiness - what will make you a good citizen or a good wife or daughter or actress. Nobody says, 'Just be happy - go be a cobbler or go live with goats.'

  Sandra Bullock

  Daughter, Thinking, Ideas

  "She's Strong, She's Sexy, She's Sandra Bullock". Interview with Anne Fletcher, www.glamour.com. May 31, 2009.

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• I never really thought about being an actress or being anything like that. I was always a bit scared as well because of the thing about models becoming an actress and all that.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Becoming, Scared, Wells

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. October 5, 2004.

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• You know, everyone says, 'Modeling and acting are so similar'... they say, 'It's so natural for models to become actresses because they use the camera.' I don't think of it in that way.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Thinking, Acting, Cameras

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• When actresses jump on the anti-Iraq bandwagon, they often combine down-home momism with an ignorance of Islamist intent which is truly awesome.

  Julie Burchill

  Home, Ignorance, Iraq

  "Suffer little children? Give me a break". www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2008.

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• An actress who has the gift of swaying the emotions of an audience, of compelling tribute of tears, or of moving the public to joyous merriment, cannot always be satisfied to set aside her whole career, in the work that she loves, simply because she is married.

  Billie Burke

  Moving, Careers, Tears

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• I mean, most actresses can't host and most hostesses can't act, and that's the general rule in the industry.

  Brooke Burke

  Mean, Host, Industry

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• Part of me relates to Perez Hilton because he's an outcast. I don't have a lot of friends who are actresses. They're catty, and they'll cut you down. I like that Perez is proud of who he is and doesn't care what anybody thinks.

  Amanda Bynes

  Cutting, Thinking, Lots Of Friends

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• I've never been difficult to anybody or with anybody on a picture. Especially when you're in that nice status of hierarchy of actors and actresses who get to approve directors. Because once you make that choice, it's my belief that the director's boss.

  James Caan

  Nice, Choices, Boss

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• I definitely don't want to be one of those athletes who turns into a cheesy actress.

  Gina Carano

  Athlete, Cheesy, Want

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• The shelf life of a movie actor or actress is so short, it's like milk.

  Graydon Carter

  Actors, Milk, Shelves

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• You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me. That's why films like Fight Club were so important to me because I think I confounded certain stereotypes and limited perceptions of what I could do as an actress.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Fighting, Thinking, Perception

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• I want to do everything right now! This very minute. I am impatient, but yes I have goals. To be a real well-respected actress whom people know they can rely on to do a good job... whether they like me as a person or not!

  Lynda Carter

  Jobs, Real, People

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• I am no size zero or super-thin Hollywood actress. I am built for men who like women to look like women.

  Kim Cattrall

  Zero, Men, Hollywood

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I first wanted to be an actress after seeing a play - not a movie.

  Kim Cattrall

  Movie, Play, Vision

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• I'm not a personality actress. I never have been. I have been a character actress.

  Kim Cattrall

  Character, Personality, Has Beens

  "Kim Cattrall on her post-'Sex and the City' career. Plus, an exclusive look at her new butter ad". Interview with Stephan Lee, www.ew.com. May 16, 2011.

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• When I went to Los Angeles right after high school, I got some acting jobs, and I never, ever wanted to be an actress! Public speaking and acting make me want to vomit. But I have never been nervous singing. When it comes to public speaking, I stumble on my words, sweat, and pull at my clothes.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Jobs, School, Sweat

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• I blame my grandmother for encouraging me to become an actress.

  Joan Collins

  Grandmother, Blame, My Grandmother

  "Joan Collins: My family values". Interview with Angela Wintle, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2013.

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• Certainly there are dozens of over-50 actresses who look great: Sophia Loren, Susan Sarandon, Ursula Andress, Stefanie Powers, Raquel Welch, Barbara Eden, Joanna Lumley, Linda Gray - the list is endless, and these are just the actresses! I have many friends in their 60s, 70s and 80s, not in the limelight, but who all look absolutely stunning.

  Joan Collins

  Eden, Lists, Looks

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• I've never chased fame. I came into this business to be a theatre actress. I was nine when I first appeared on stage. But I can't say I would turn my back on fortune. I'm someone who enjoys the benefits of money.

  Joan Collins

  Theatre, Benefits, Nine

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The most difficult thing in the world is to start a career known only for your looks, and then to try to become a serious actress. No one will take you seriously once you are known as the pretty woman.

  Penelope Cruz

  Women, Careers, Pretty Woman

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was 11 when I first said I wanted to become an actress, and everyone looked at me as if I had said I wanted to go to the moon.

  Penelope Cruz

  Moon, Firsts, Said

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• In Spain, actresses work until they are old. That's my plan.

  Penelope Cruz

  Spain, Plans

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm only realizing now that I was a child actress because I always took myself so seriously.

  Claire Danes

  Children, Realizing

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