Actresses Quotes - Page 28

• One of the rules about being an actor or an actress is that you never diss other actors or actresses, particularly when you don't know them.

  Joan Collins

  Actors, Knows

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• I read the books and I really, really wanted to play the part. I started kundalini yoga, kickboxing and running, and completely changed my diet. I felt I wanted to undergo what was necessary for the part. I love a challenge. And I love defying limitation, gender stereotypes and people’s expectations of me as an actress.

  Gwendoline Christie

  Running, Yoga, Book

  "Game of Thrones' Gwendoline Christie shreds Brienne of Tarth for super-seductive photo shoot" by Claire Rutter, www.mirror.co.uk. November 13, 2014.

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• I think audiences, producers and directors included, develop crushes on actors (actresses in particular) and then lose interest and move on to the next one.

  Julia Stiles

  Crush, Moving, Thinking

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

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• I already feel a bit annoyed at myself for writing screenplays. It's a bit, I don't know, model-singer-dancer-actress that went to a posh school. There's something too weirdly predictable about it.

  Emily Mortimer

  Writing, School, Dancer

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• I'm an actress and a singer and I'm also a Christian. We're not all crazy right-wingers. I just want to be like Jesus, forgiving and loving and nonjudgmental, accepting of everyone even if they don't agree.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Christian, Jesus, Crazy

  "Talented and old school" by Retta Blaney, natcath.org. July 1, 2005.

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• I don't like acting and I never have liked acting and I never wanted to be an actress.

  Elsa Lanchester

  Acting, Wanted

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• I said, 'I'll give myself two years. If I can't support myself as an actress within two years, then I'll go back to choreography.'

  Khandi Alexander

  Years, Two, Giving

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• I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'

  Tamsin Egerton

  Littles, Horrible, Bloody

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• As a performer, you can't just sit around waiting for the phone to ring. You have to write and develop projects for yourself, because casting people aren't always going to see you the way you want to be seen. Write a one-person show, shoot a short film, do plays, whatever - activity breeds activity. No one's interested in a stay-at-home actress.

  Wendi McLendon-Covey

  Home, Writing, Phones

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

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• My real difficulty was to become a normal person again, after having been a movie actress for so long. For me, at the time I was living in New York and Hollywood, a normal person was someone who made movies.

  Grace Kelly

  New York, Real, Long

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

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• I only ever wanted to be an actress, not a star.

  Teresa Wright

  Stars, Wanted

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm from a generation of fantastic actresses. It's a big pool of really wonderful actresses, and so many of them we never even get to see on the screen anymore.

  Karen Allen

  Generations, Wonderful, Pool

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

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• I'm such a fan of Shailene Woodley, so I'm super excited to see all her stuff. She's an awesome actress.

  Zoey Deutch

  Fans, Stuff, Excited

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• I am an actress and acting is my passion... period!

  Christine Lahti

  Passion, Acting, Periods

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• It was really fun being in Tara's trailer, working on my lines. Tara is such an amazing actress. She's so good at what she does. I learned a lot from watching her.

  Carson Daly

  Fun, Doe, Lines

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• I think if you work as an actress and are supposed as a character to be in love with some actor, then to some extent you do have to be in love with him.

  Dorothy Stratten

  Character, Thinking, Actors

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• I really always felt that I was going to be an actress. I had a lot of confidence in the fact that I would do well from a very early age. I didn't know how tough the business is.

  Susan Lucci

  Confidence, Age, Facts

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• I remember feeling that Michael was extremely sensitive when it came to that moment. Most directors are and they usually rely, at least in my experience, on the actress to take over. And Michael is a gentleman.

  Madeleine Stowe

  Feelings, Gentleman, Experience

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• So now I feel I'm lucky in the respect that I can sort of pick a little more carefully, which is tricky because as a black actress, there aren't that many roles to pick from.

  Rachel True

  Respect, Black, Lucky

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• I wanted to be an actress. In college I was a serious feminist and very political. I was determined to get one thing out of my career and that was respect. I didn't want money. I didn't care about fame.

  Christine Lahti

  College, Careers, Feminist

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• I was never looking back in regret. I never thought, Oh, why didn't I become an actress? or Why did I just go paddling along after John? I've always walked along right by his side, and he's always supported everything I do.

  June Carter Cash

  Inspirational, Regret, Paddling

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• I don't want my tombstone to say actress. I want it to say human being.

  Laurie Holden

  Tombstone, Want, Headstone

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

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• I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That’s what makes me interested in them, that they didn’t present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.

  Imelda Staunton

  Jobs, Idols, Adore

  "Vera Drake: Imelda Staunton about Mike Leigh". Interview with Emanuel Levy, emanuellevy.com. February 9, 2005.

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• As women, we often think we have to be all things to all people, all at the same time. As a wife, mother, actress and businesswoman, I definitely feel the pressure to perform well in all areas.

  Niecy Nash

  Mother, Thinking, People

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• Do you think I'm going to be one of those flash-in-the-pan actresses?

  Helen Slater

  Thinking, Flash

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