Actresses Quotes - Page 25

• I've been very lucky. I wanted to be an actress, but I didn't really have the drive to sell myself. Fortunately I had a terrific agent in New York who kept me going from job to job.

  Blythe Danner

  Jobs, New York, Lucky

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• It's so nice after 10 years as a blond actress in Hollywood to have people let you do smart things.

  Emily Procter

  Nice, Smart, Years

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• The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique.

  Minna Antrim

  Beautiful, Pride, Moral

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• There was no way I could live in Hollywood and not become an actress.

  Eva Gabor

  Hollywood, Way

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• No one but Gene Tierney could have played 'Laura.' There was no other actress around with her particular combination of beauty, breeding, and mystery.

  Vincent Price

  Mystery, Genes, Laura

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• If I could change anything about Garden State, it would be to cast somebody else for the female lead. Natalie just isn't really that good of an actress. Especially when compared to me. Just watch the two of us, it's light and dark. I am by far the better Jew.

  Zach Braff

  Dark, Garden, Light

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• I have the desire to work as an actress, but I have no ambition to be a star.

  Ally Sheedy

  Stars, Ambition, Desire

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• I don't believe athletes should be role models. . . . We're a one-shot deal, one in a million, so we should be the least likely role models. . . . I think one of the problems in society today is that we don't stress education enough, because we glorify athletes, actors and actresses.

  Charles Barkley

  Education, Stress, Believe

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• I was your typical struggling actress. I went to every audition, took a million acting, dancing and singing lessons and spent years wondering where my next meal was coming from.

  Cassandra Peterson

  Struggle, Years, Dancing

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

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• You know what's the worst part about being an actress? It's the pressure to look gorgeous all the time and to behave perfectly. But I'm not perfect, nobody is.

  Preity Zinta

  Perfect, Looks, Pressure

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

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• I actually made an effort to reject acting, to shove it out of my body, because I didn't want my kids to have an actress as a mother-to have, like, a silly person.

  Lisa Kudrow

  Mother, Stupid, Silly

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• I look to longevity. I just consider myself an actress and getting good roles. If being a 'superstar' gets me good roles, then that's a positive thing. But my goal isn't just to be a superstar. It's to act for a long time.

  Penelope Ann Miller

  Long, Goal, Roles

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• I don't have any regrets. When I quit college and moved to Los Angeles to become an actress, it was so that I would not look back and have any regrets.

  Amy Weber

  Regret, College, Looks

  "Amy Weber ...bikini babe". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• I'd say my happiest moment as an actress came when I learned I'd won the Look Magazine Best Supporting Actress Award for 1956 in The Killing.

  Marie Windsor

  Awards, Looks, Magazines

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• I always wanted to get into the horror genre. I like scary movies. I want to go to the fan shows and sign posters with my head hanging by a thread like a B-movie actress.

  Illeana Douglas

  Horror Genre, Scary, Want

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• The subjective actress thinks of clothes only as they apply to her; the objective actress thinks of them only as they affect others, as a tool for the job.

  Edith Head

  Jobs, Thinking, Clothes

  EDITH HEAD (1959). “The Dress Doctor”

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• To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the air, they make art impossible. It is not drama that they play, but pieces for the theatre. We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air; the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner.

  Eleanora Duse

  Art, Drama, Air

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• I go out with actresses because I'm not apt to marry one.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Marriage

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• This was an actress who, for twenty years, had the world at her feet. She kicked it away, and the ball rolled out of her reach.

  James Agate

  Women, Years, Feet

  James Agate (1940). “Ego 4: yet more of the autobiography of James Agate”

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• It was scary, and I knew what it was like to be an unemployed actress again.

  Hunter Tylo

  Scary, Unemployed

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• Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress

  Joyce Cary

  Mean, Artist, Law

  Joyce Cary (1957). “THE HORSE'S MOUTH”

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• I studied painting and sculpting at school and became an actress by mistake .... I've had many lovers and still have romances. I am very spoiled. All my life, I've had too many admirers.

  Gina Lollobrigida

  Mistake, School, Romance

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• There’s something about Olivia de Havilland that has always set her apart from other actresses. Maybe it’s the combination of warmth, sensitivity and intelligence she conveys, or the way her good looks have always been further enhanced by the ever-present twinkle in her eyes or the wisdom you sense behind those orbs.

  Robert Osborne

  Eye, Olivia, Looks

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• I'm a huge movie buff, so I'm a fan of a lot of actors and actresses.

  Jared Gilman

  Fans, Actors, Huge

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• I loved being at the studio (20th Century-Fox). After all, I started at 15, and I grew up there. But there comes a time when an actress stays too long in the same place. People get used to having you around, and they can`t think of you in a different light.

  Jeanne Crain

  Thinking, Light, Long

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

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