Actresses Quotes - Page 16

• If I wasn't an actress I'd want to be a writer or else find a job where I got to read books and watch movies all day, everyday, for the rest of my life.

  Amber Benson

  Jobs, Book, Everyday

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

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• A professionally trained actress should be a better liar, wouldn't you think? But no. I am pathetically underachieved in that area. I can think of a great lie. I'm plenty imaginative. But before the words are even out of my mouth, there's a weird tickle of unease in my armpits, a horsefly of guilt lands on the back of my neck, and before I can stop myself, that gassy little bubble of truth belches out.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Liars, Lying, Thinking

  Kristin Chenoweth (2009). “A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in Stages”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• Trust me, baby, you weren’t that good. I was just a better actress than you were actor. (Zephyra to Stryker) Ew! No offense, Mum, I don’t want to know who you’ve slept with. Kill the sexual bantering and him before I go deaf from it. (Medea)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Baby, Actors, Want

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• What keeps me interested--and it always does--is how can she be a bad actress on film but a good one in reality?

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Reality, Doe, Film

  Bret Easton Ellis (2010). “Imperial Bedrooms”, p.43, Pan Macmillan

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• My cat is not insane, she's just a really good actress.

  P. C. Cast

  Cat, Insane

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• The Burgess sisters arrived together. Tara and Lainie do a little bit of everything. Sometimes dancers, sometimes actresses. Once they were librarians, but that is a subject they will only discuss if heavily intoxicated.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Dancer, Together, Littles

  FaceBook post by Erin Morgenstern from Mar 25, 2013

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• ...my least favorite actress of all time, Helena Bonham Carter. I find her lack of a neck very off-putting and especially her acting.

  Edward Gorey

  Acting, Necks, All Time

  Edward Gorey (2001). “Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews”, Houghton Mifflin

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• Teenage girls, please don’t worry about being super popular in high school, or being the best actress in high school, or the best athlete. Not only do people not care about any of that the second you graduate, but when you get older, if you reference your successes in high school too much, it actually makes you look kind of pitiful, like some babbling old Tennessee Williams character with nothing else going on in her current life. What I’ve noticed is that almost no one who was a big star in high school is also big star later in life. For us overlooked kids, it’s so wonderfully fair.

  Mindy Kaling

  Girl, Funny Inspirational, Stars

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)”, p.31, Three Rivers Press

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• That’s what she was, Joanna felt suddenly. That’s what they all were, all the Stepford wives: actresses in commercials, pleased with detergents and floor wax, with cleansers, shampoos, and deodorants. Pretty actresses, big in the bosom but small in the talent, playing housewives unconvincingly, too nicey-nice to be real.

  Ira Levin

  Real, Nice, Wife

  Ira Levin (1972). “The Stepford Wives: A Novel”, Random House Incorporated

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• 1. Find your own style and have the courage to stick to it. 2. Choose your clothes for your way of life. 3. Make your wardrobe as versatile as an actress. It should be able to play many roles. 4. Find your happiest colours - the ones that make you feel good. 5. Care for your clothes, like the good friends they are!

  Joan Crawford

  Fashion, Good Friend, Play

  Joan Crawford (2017). “My Way of Life”, p.79, Graymalkin Media

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• I'm an actress, I live in L.A., I work in Hollywood. But I've learned that if you're too skinny, they'll say something about it. If you're not skinny enough, they'll say something about it. I just try to feel good in my own skin as much as I can.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Beauty, Feel Good, Skins

  "Cover Model: Jennifer Love Hewitt!". Interview with Claire Trageser, womensrunning.competitor.com. September 13, 2013.

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• I finally made up my mind I wanted to be an actress and I was not going to let my lack of confidence ruin my chances.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Mind, Acting

  Marilyn Monroe, Roger G. Taylor (1983). “Marilyn Monroe in her own words”, Putnam Pub Group

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• My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress. I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But, my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve!

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Learning, Clothes

  Marilyn Monroe, Ben Hecht (2006). “My Story”, p.64, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I'm trying to find myself as a person, sometimes that's not easy to do. Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do. The best way for me to find myself as a person is to prove to myself that I am an actress.

  Marilyn Monroe

  People, Trying, Acting

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• My advice to actresses is don't worry about your looks. The very thing that makes you unhappy in your appearance may be the one thing to make you a star.

  Estelle Winwood

  Stars, Worry, Advice

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• Acting is glamour but writing is hard work, so I'm going to be an actress.

  Jacqueline Susann

  Motivational, Hard Work, Writing

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• Wife-Mother-Actress-Author The world will remember.

  Eve Arden

  Mother, Tombstone, Wife

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• What the public expects to encounter in an actress passed 70 is the sum of her experience, not her beauty.

  Leslie Caron

  Experience, Encounters, Her Beauty

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• I found it hugely insulting that people believed I'd go so far out of my way - living with Playmates, vacationing with actresses, showing up at nightclubs - to act out a lifestyle that would amount to a charade. If I was gay, I'd be gay all the way.

  Mike Piazza

  Gay, People, Insulting

  Mike Piazza (2014). “Long Shot”, p.262, Simon and Schuster

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• Many years ago I remember a famous actress explaining to me with perfect seriousness that before making an entrance she always stood aside to allow God to go on first. I can also remember that on that particular occasion He gave a singularly uninspired performance.

  Noel Coward

  Funny, Humorous, Years

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• I don't want my dad to say, 'My daughter is an actress on a TV show.' I want him to say, 'My daughter cares about people.' I would love to know that I'm a role model in Hollywood.

  AnnaLynne McCord

  Daughter, Mother, Dad

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Helen Hunt

  Mother, Daughter, Three

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• We've never had nannies. We've had great grandparents, great support from family, and the kids have been on every set: they've seen me play Gollum, King Kong, Captain Haddock, the lot. They totally get it, and they want to go into the business. Ruby, my daughter, is very keen to become an actress.

  Andy Serkis

  Daughter, Mother, Kings

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• Singer and actress Gertrude Lawrence once overheard an assistant describing the beauty of a coat she knew she could never even dream of affording. Having ascertained the exact shop, coat and price, Ms. Lawrence returned from her lunch break wearing that coat, apparently in order to flaunt and emphasize her greater purchasing power and, by inference, her superior status.

  Sheridan Morley

  Dream, Order, Lunch Break

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• I've never really seen myself as an actress. I told myself, 'I'm not going to get a job where I need to put on makeup, or one that I need to do my nails.' I hate the idea of putting on makeup, then removing it.

  Ann Kok

  Jobs, Hate, Makeup

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