Actresses Quotes - Page 19

• There's always [on women's magazines] that great photo of the actress or model lifting up her shirt just to show you the bone structure and the six-pack of her own. It's almost like when horses are auctioned and they show you their teeth. 'Am I good enough?'

  Janeane Garofalo

  Horse, Teeth, Magazines

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• It's weird because here I am, an actress, representing - at least in some sense - an industry that places crushing standards on all of us. Not just young people, but everyone. Standards of beauty. Of a good life. Of success. Standards that, I hate to admit, have affected me.

  Ellen Page

  Crush, Good Life, Hate

  "Ellen Page Joins HRCF's Time to Thrive Conference". Youtube video, www.youtube.com. February 14, 2014.

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• You hear things like, ‘People shouldn’t know about your life because you’re creating an illusion on-screen.’ But I don’t see other actresses going to great lengths to hide their heterosexuality. That’s an unfair double standard.

  Ellen Page

  Creating, People, Heterosexuality

  "Reading Ellen Page’s Sexuality" by Marcie Bianco, www.indiewire.com. May 13, 2014.

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• I hate how box office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don’t see a box office failure blamed on men. I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that. I guess it’s because we live in a patriarchal society, where feminism is a dirty word.

  Ellen Page

  Hate, Dirty, Destiny

  "I don't want to sound like a piece of poop, but". Interview with Helen Pidd, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2008.

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• My whole life, when I was growing up, not one race has ever accepted me, ... So I never felt connected or attached to any race specifically. I had a very American upbringing, I feel American, and I don't speak Spanish. So, to say that I'm a Latin actress, OK, but it's not fitting; it would be insincere.

  Jessica Alba

  Growing Up, Latin, Race

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• Of all the actresses ... to me, only Faye Dunaway has the talent and the class and the courage it takes to make a real star.

  Joan Crawford

  Stars, Real, Class

  Roy Newquist, Joan Crawford (1980). “Conversations with Joan Crawford”

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• I'm not a great actress, and I never thought I was. But I happen to have something the public likes.

  Jean Harlow

  Likes, Happens

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• 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.

  Amanda Bynes

  Class, People, Different

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

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• I didn't choose the fact that I was gay, but I did choose whether to live my life as a gay woman-that was the terrifying thing for me. Especially being a gay actress.

  Portia de Rossi

  Gay, Scary, Facts

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

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• As an actress, I was trained to show emotion I did not feel, or no emotion at all.

  Gene Tierney

  Emotion, Shows, Feels

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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

  Gene Tierney

  Jobs, Titles, Description

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• As an actress, I'm drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I'm fortunate to have thoughts and feelings at my fingertips.

  Diane Keaton

  Feelings, Emotion, Form

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• I think Gina Rowlands is an amazing actress.

  Angela Sarafyan

  Thinking, Gina, Continuing To Grow

  "Q&A:'Breaking Dawn" costar Angela Sarafyan on finding her 'American Animal'". Interview with Matt Patches, www.mtv.com. May 18, 2012.

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• As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director.

  Joan Chen

  Acting, Want, Directors

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

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• I hope to be known as a chameleon actress, as someone who can play any part out there, and someone who can transform herself into any kind of character there is.

  Shannon Elizabeth

  Character, Play, Kind

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• When people say 'You're so beautiful' it makes me want to kill myself! As an actress you want to be seen for what you do, for the characters you can play, otherwise I'd be a model

  Eva Green

  Beautiful, Character, Play

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• I had never even thought I'd be an actress - I was supposed to be a lawyer. But the motivation is the same: when you act, you defend a role; you have to be convincing. It's the same career.

  Anne Parillaud

  Motivation, Careers, Roles

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• I think if I hadn't had the dance background, it would have been much harder as a kid to be like, 'I'm going to be an actress.' But you're involved with one area of the arts and other things interest you. It feels like an easier move.

  Dianna Agron

  Art, Moving, Kids

  "Dianna Agron On Set Interview I AM NUMBER FOUR". collider.com. October 11, 2010.

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• Where is the Scarlett Johansson superhero movie? I don't understand it, why is it taking so long for this? This woman clearly shows that people want to go see her in the movies. ‘Lucy,’ didn't it beat ‘Hercules’ by a lot opening weekend, when it was made for a lot less? She shows that she kicks ass, she's a great actress. ‘Under the Skin’ is an incredible film, and why are we still waiting for a go-ahead on a superhero movie starring Scarlett Johansson?
  To me, it's a no-brainer. You want to make money, put Scarlett Johansson in a superhero movie!

  Jessica Chastain

  Weekend, Long, People

  "Jessica Chastain Calls Out Hollywood, Marvel: ‘Where is the Scarlett Johansson Superhero Movie?’" by Jordan Zakarin, www.thewrap.com. August 27, 2014.

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• As an actress I just want to tell beautiful stories

  Marion Cotillard

  Beautiful, Stories, Want

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• Honestly, ever since I've been married, the part of a job as an actress where you have to kiss other people, I find totally bizarre.

  Leelee Sobieski

  Jobs, Kissing, People

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

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• I don't go to parties and all that. I don't think being seen or being in the right place is going to make me a better actress. I care about my work and try to do what's right in my heart.

  Sherilyn Fenn

  Party, Heart, Thinking

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

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• As an actress, you're already disregarded for a lot of the parts by the people who are setting up those shows. You don't need your agent to be doing the same.

  Tia Carrere

  People, Needs, Agents

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

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• I'm a big fan of 'Woody Allen' movies, so I like all the actresses in his movies like 'Diane Keaton' and Mia Farrow.

  Emily Perkins

  Fans, Mia, Woody

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

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• Some critics saw fit to say that I was a great actress. I thought that was a foolish, wicket thing to say because it put such an onus and such a responsibility onto me, which I simply wasn't able to carry.

  Vivien Leigh

  Responsibility, Able, Saws

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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