Actresses Quotes - Page 23

• I actually work at my craft, and I actually want to be the best in my category, and I want to be a true actress. And a lot of people just want fame, and there's a huge difference.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Differences, People, Crafts

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

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• I always want to be an actress.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Want

  "Chloe Moretz Exclusive Interview LET ME IN; Plus Updates on EMILY THE STRANGE, HUGO CABRET, HICK and THE RUT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 4, 2010.

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• You dont grow up in a town of 700 thinking youre going to be an actress. I loved doing [school] plays, but it was just something to keep me busy.

  Michelle Monaghan

  Growing Up, School, Thinking

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• I think I've wanted to be an actress since the day I was born. I even asked my parents for an agent for my seventh birthday!

  Shoshannah Stern

  Thinking, Parent, Agents

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• I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.

  Ruben Blades

  Mother, Kids, Singing

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• I think the actresses who are really successful are comfortable in their own skins and still look human.

  Emma Watson

  Successful, Thinking, Skins

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• I consider myself an actress first, a dancer second, and a singer third. Why? Because the dancer needs a reason to move-that's the actor informing the dancer. So I worked on my acting and gradually developed a singing voice.

  Liza Minnelli

  Moving, Voice, Dancer

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• I know of few actresses who have this incredible talent for communicating with a camera lens. She would try to seduce a camera as if it were a human being.

  Philippe Halsman

  Trying, Cameras, Lenses

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• The terrifying thing in my life is that I am just an actress. And I have to keep pushing it and getting approval, approval, approval or I don’t think I’m worth two cents. And I am starting to get over it, thank God. And I’m just sad because I don’t have many years left and I wish I had a longer space of time to think that Elaine Stritch is okay.

  Elaine Stritch

  Thinking, Years, Two

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• Bette Davis taught Hollywood to follow an actress instead of the actress following the camera, and she's probably the best movie actress there's ever been.

  Elaine Stritch

  Cameras, Hollywood, Taught

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• Katey Sagal, you are an incredible actress. You worked on ‘Married with Children,’ the show that changed comedy, ‘Sons of Anarchy,’ the show that took comedy to a whole new level and ‘8 Simple Rules,’ the show that killed John Ritter.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Children, Son, Simple

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• The actress I had the most fun working with was Alex Kingston. It was a fun relationship to play because it was a combination of occasional sexual harrassment with genuine affection. She's such a terrific actress and such a lovely person.

  Paul McCrane

  Fun, Play, Lovely

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• I was always a character actress and never a sex symbol. Even when I was the leading lady, I was a character actor.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Sex, Character, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes in the afternoon sky the moon would pass white as a cloud, furtive, lusterless, like an actress who does not have to perform yet and who, from the audience, in street clothes, watches the other actors for a moment, making herself inconspicuous, not wanting anyone to pay attention to her.

  Marcel Proust

  Moon, White, Clothes

  Marcel Proust (2003). “Swann's Way”, Viking Press

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• Elizabeth Taylor is, in my opinion, the greatest actress in film history. She instinctively understands the camera and its nonverbal intimacies. Opening her violet eyes, she takes us into the liquid realm of emotion, which she inhabits by Pisces intuition. Richard Burton said that Taylor showed him how to act for the camera. Economy and understatement are essential. At her best, Elizabeth Taylor simply is. An electric, erotic charge vibrates the space between her face and the lens. It is an extra-sensory, pagan phenomenon.

  Camille Paglia

  Eye, Film History, Space

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.16, Vintage

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• The inability to listen and to depict in the countenance what others have said has spoiled many a good actress.

  Julia Marlowe

  Inability, Spoiled, Said

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• Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.

  Bette Davis

  Mother, Years, Experience

  1962 Advertisement placed in the Hollywood trade papers.

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• I began dancing when I was just 5, and I never really wanted to become an actress because its what every other model does.

  Patricia Velasquez

  Dancing, Doe, Wanted

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• No amount of skill on the part of the actress can make up for the loss of youth.

  Ellen Terry

  Loss, Skills, Youth

  Dame Ellen Terry (1908). “The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections”

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• Growing older is not such a big deal for me, despite the fears that older actresses have in Hollywood. When I hit 40, for example, I didn't feel 40 - or whatever that is supposed to feel like.

  Halle Berry

  Hollywood, Example, Growing

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• It's definitely an exciting time to be an actress.

  Lisa Nicole Carson

  Exciting

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• She was an absolute genius as a comedic actress, with an extraordinary sense for comedic dialogue. It was a God-given gift. Believe me, in the last fifteen years there were ten projects that came to me, and I'd start working on them and I'd think, 'It's not going to work, it needs Marilyn Monroe.' Nobody else is in that orbit; everyone else is earthbound by comparison.

  Billy Wilder

  Believe, Thinking, Years

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• I'd love to see more women working as directors and producers. Today it's almost impossible to do it unless you are an actress or writer with power. I wouldn't hesitate right this minute to hire a talented woman if the subject matter were right.

  Ida Lupino

  Directors, Matter, Today

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

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• I personally love Jennifer Lawrence. She's an amazing actress, but so young and fresh and youthful.

  Maria Sharapova

  Young, Jennifer

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• My son was staying with me, and we got up to watch it, just before they announced supporting actress, he came up and put his arm around me. I think it was like, 'Either way, mom, I still love you.' But then it was funny because I saw it. I saw my picture, and I heard them announce it, but I had to ask him, 'Did I really see that?' I wasn't sure I was seeing it, but he assured me that yes, I was nominated for the Academy Award. We just sort of cried a little bit.

  June Squibb

  Mom, Love You, Son

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