Actresses Quotes - Page 27

• I may be the first actress to admit that beauty doesn't hold you back. I think beauty is a gift that you have to make the most of. I've worked hard at trying to look my best.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Thinking, Trying, Looks

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• It's hard in L.A. not to go out, it gets lonely. Being an actress is lonely, and I never want to be alone. I hate sleeping alone.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Lonely, Hate, Sleep

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

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• My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in the blanks for anybody else, you know what I mean?

  Amy Adams

  Jobs, Mean, Reason

  "An interview with Amy Adams". Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. January 8, 2003.

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• I think that when you're an actress, you have to think about what kind of a role model you're going to be. I hope that I'm a good role model for young girls. I'm not going to, if people still want me in their movies, I don't want to be one of these girls who goes around partying every night and is in rehab. I don't want to do that.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Girl, Party, Thinking

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• Someday hopefully it won’t be necessary to allocate a special evening to celebrate where we are and how far we’ve come…someday women writers, producers and crew members will be so commonplace, and roles and salaries for actresses will outstrip those for men, and pigs will fly.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Men, Pigs, Special

  "'Women In Hollywood' draws stars". www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 7, 2008.

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• I am a super-confident writer, and as a joke writer and as an actress, I'm like, 'I want to go head-to-head with every person.' I am an Indian woman and I'm a kind of double minority in this world.

  Mindy Kaling

  Minorities, World, Want

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• Here's what I advise any young struggling actress today: The important thing is to develop as a woman first, and a performer second. You wouldn't prostitute yourself to get a part, not if
  you're in the right mind. You won't be happy, whatever you do, unless you're comfortable with your own conscience.

  Lucille Ball

  Struggle, Mind, Important

  Lucille Ball (1997). “Love, Lucy”, p.46, Penguin

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• I don't suppose that hard work, discipline, and a perfectionist attitude toward my work did me any harm. They are a big part of my makeup today, as any of my co-workers will tell you. And when life seemed unbearable, I learned to live in my imagination, and to step inside other people's skins- indispensable abilities for an actress.

  Lucille Ball

  Attitude, Hard Work, Makeup

  "Love, Lucy" by Lucille Ball, (pp. 9-10), 1996.

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• What's awful about being famous and being an actress is when people come up to you and touch you. That's scary, and they just seem to think it's okay to do it, like you're public property.

  Winona Ryder

  Thinking, People, Scary

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love theatre - it's where I started - and I've directed a play myself. I'm not sure if I want to direct a film, but certainly, as an actress, I'm always thinking, 'Surely this must be my last film.'

  Cate Blanchett

  Thinking, Play, Theatre

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• I think the reason I'm an actress is because I love playing kind of a more extreme people.

  Melissa McCarthy

  Thinking, People, Kind

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• It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress... period.

  Christine Lahti

  Ghouls, Careers, Choices

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• I never want to lie about my age. If I look around at the actresses I admire, they are all women who have not fought growing older, but embraced it and been proud of it - women like Sophia Loren or Audrey Hepburn.

  Penelope Cruz

  Lying, Age, Looks

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• As an actress, I really love people like Anna Magnani and Debra Winger. I also think there is nobody better than Meryl Streep.

  Penelope Cruz

  Thinking, People, Anna

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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.

  Ellen Page

  Hate, Men, Office

  "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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• Being an actress isn't as fun as it may seem. If I don't love something, I stop doing it. I don't love acting anymore, so I've stopped doing it.

  Amanda Bynes

  Fun, Acting, May

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• It's a new low for actresses when you have to wonder what is between her ears instead of her legs.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Ears, Legs, Wonder

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• I find it difficult to explain, but I'm quite ashamed of being an actress.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Ashamed, Difficult

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• I am first and foremost an actress of Indian origin.

  Freida Pinto

  Firsts, Indian

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• Wayne Wang, the director, really helped me become a more mature actress. When I first started filming, I was really over the top. He just helped bring me down and make me real. That was really wonderful, a really wonderful experience. Also, what I learned about filming is it takes forever. I mean, there are so many different angles and shots. I mean, it just takes forever.

  AnnaSophia Robb

  Real, Mean, Forever

  "An Interview with AnnaSophia Robb, 11-Year-Old Star of 'Because of Winn-Dixie'". Interview with Rebecca Grace, catholicexchange.com. March 18, 2005.

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• There are so many glamorous actresses, but you know what? In the real world, nobody looks like that.

  Rebel Wilson

  Real, Looks, World

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• When I was just a kid, growing up in Brooklyn, I was constantly making home videos with my family – real silly high-concept productions like, 'Attack of the Killer Handkerchief.' I guess I knew even then that I wanted to be an actress.

  Lana Parrilla

  Growing Up, Real, Silly

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• What I do for a living means that people look at me. As an actress, you are scrutinized. You are not just dealing with your looks privately, you are on display. I have never been 100 percent comfortable in my own skin. I go through different phases. But I don't feel beautiful all the time, no.

  Sophia Myles

  Beautiful, Mean, People

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

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• Because I never set out to be an actress, I always feel so lucky and grateful. There are so many people who are really desperate to be stars, and it was completely the opposite for me - I fell into it.

  Sophia Myles

  Stars, Grateful, Opposites

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• As an actress, I think it’s important to look back and realize that we aren’t always quite as original as we think we are. There’s this grand, textured history for us over the last 100 years of incredible writers, directors, and performers.

  Natalie Dormer

  Thinking, Years, Important

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