Actresses Quotes - Page 20

• I think when an actress marries she should leave the stage. She cannot be happy if she is married and remains on the stage. She must care more for her art or for her husband.

  Billie Burke

  Art, Husband, Thinking

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• There is no reason why marriage should necessarily compel an actress to forego her career.

  Billie Burke

  Careers, Reason Why, Should

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• I think I'm a better actress for having friends and interests outside the theatre. I wouldn't want to live my life surrounded by other actors all the time.

  Penelope Keith

  Thinking, Theatre, Actors

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• I'll always be this once-famous actress nobody recognizes... because of a nose job.

  Jennifer Grey

  Jobs, Noses, Famous Actress

  "Let's Get Nosy: Who's Had a Nose Job in Hollywood?", www.foxnews.com.

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• I like to look like a person. It drives me crazy when you see women in movies playing teachers, and they have biceps. It totally takes me out of the movie. I start thinking, Wow, that actress playing this part really looks great!

  Emma Stone

  Teacher, Crazy, Thinking

  "Emma Stone: Riot Girl" by Jessica Pressler, www.elle.com. June 8, 2011.

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• Believe me, when an actress is told that her very name is synonymous with bad acting, she's had it.

  Piper Laurie

  Believe, Names, Acting

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• I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

  Frances McDormand

  Stars, Character, Simple

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

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• I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson - character actresses who have something to say. I also said that I loved Madeline Kahn and Jessica Lange.

  Rachael Harris

  Love, Character, Careers

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

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• I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened, and then I went to L.A. and an agent said, 'I think you belong in commercials and TV.' So I did that and got some opportunities that I absolutely love.

  Rachael Harris

  Love, New York, Opportunity

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

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• I'd like to work with any actress from whom I can learn-one who has had many experiences with many directors and is willing to share some of her knowledge with me.

  Fred Savage

  Directors, Share, Willing

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

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

  Abbie Cornish

  Hollywood, Body, Unusual

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• I know, I pick up the roles other actresses don’t want [laughs]. When there’s movies where there are two sisters and one’s the uglier sister, there’s always no actress that wants to go for it. I’m like, why not! They’re the best roles!

  Rebel Wilson

  Two, Laughing, Roles

  "‘Bachelorette’ Funny Lady Rebel Wilson: 'I pick up the roles other actresses don’t want'". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. August 15, 2012.

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• Well, I was lucky in that my being an actress totally overshadowed my having some kind of a... legacy at Yale, so that was kind of great.

  Jordana Brewster

  Yale, Legacy, Lucky

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

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

  Shelley Duvall

  Needs, Becoming, Realizing

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• I would point out that I'm an actress for a reason! If I were popular in high school, I would have considered another career because I wouldn't have been alone in my room, making up other characters for myself. I definitely had growing pains. The popular kids didn't want anything to do with the girl who was starting the drama club.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Girl, Pain, Drama

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• And while I might not always agree with the viewpoint I have to portray, because I play a district attorney, as an actress I can always tell myself that my character is trying to take the moral high ground.

  Lara Flynn Boyle

  Character, Moral High Ground, Play

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

  Loni Anderson

  Theater, Whole Life, Wanted

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• I became super claustrophobic with Hollywood. I don't like Hollywood. I don't like what it represents. I think that Hollywood is great if you're an actor, actress, established. But for reality people or what people perceive as reality, it's tough. People are constantly discrediting everything you put on camera.

  Brody Jenner

  Reality, Thinking, People

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• Being an actress is the sublimation of feminity.

  Monica Bellucci

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

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• I'm not a movie star. I'm just an actress

  Monica Bellucci

  Stars, Movie Star

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• Irreversible is not glamorous at all. I try to do different things because I want to grow as an actress and I like to take risks

  Monica Bellucci

  Risk, Trying, Different

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• Occasionally, on screen, Barbara [Stanwyck] had a wary, watchful quality about her that I've noticed in other people who had bad childhoods; they tend to keep an eye on life because they don't think it can be trusted. After her mother was killed by a streetcar, she had been raised in Brooklyn by her sisters, and from things she said, I believe she had been abused as a child. She had lived an entirely different life than mine, that's for sure, which is one reason I found her so fascinating. I think her early life was one reason she had such authenticity as an actress, and as a person.

  Robert Wagner

  Mother, Children, Believe

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

  Robert Wagner

  Courage, Wonderful, Wonderful Lady

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• Every actress has to face the facts there are younger, more beautiful girls right behind you. Once you've gone beyond the vanity of the business, you'll take on the tough roles.

  Jean Simmons

  Beautiful, Girl, Vanity

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

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• As an actress, I was never thin enough, never pretty enough. My boobs weren't big enough.

  Felicity Huffman

  Enough, Bigs

  "Felicity Huffman is sitting pretty" by William Keck, usatoday30.usatoday.com. November 21, 2005.

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