Actresses Quotes - Page 30

• I think of myself as a journeyman actress. I will attempt almost anything that I think that I can bring off. It could be almost anything.

  Angela Lansbury

  Thinking, I Can

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• It's the idea that when you say 'actress', people think of an airy, floaty, no-brain person, which of course you can't be if you are an actor. It is an unfortunate word, which is why, for a time, I hung on to 'actor', because it just seemed more workmanlike, you know, like you say 'woman doctor' not 'doctoress'.

  Miranda Richardson

  Thinking, Doctors, Ideas

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• I've been in showbusiness all my life, but as an actress I have never been overly driven.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Driven

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• Now supposing I had the part of a young woman to give out, one that wanted some excellent acting. If I were to go to the stage for my actress I would have to take a matured woman, one who would act splendidly, but who would look too old for the requirements.

  D. W. Griffith

  Supposing That, Giving, Acting

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• I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to.

  Isabella Rossellini

  Mother, Competition, Want

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• At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.

  Tanith Lee

  Silly, School, Grew Up

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• Being an actress in Hollywood and being a celebrity tend to feed into one another, but just being a celebrity wouldn't really be interesting to me.

  Demi Moore

  Interesting, Hollywood, Just Being

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• It took a lot to get attention in my family. No wonder I'm an actress.

  Elisabeth Shue

  Attention, Wonder, My Family

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• I am admiring of my fellow peers, black filmmakers and black actors and actresses.

  Cuba Gooding, Jr.

  Black, Peers, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My mom was incredibly supportive when she found out that I wanted to be an actress, and that certainly made things easier and more fun.

  Morena Baccarin

  Mom, Fun, Supportive

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

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• My mom is an actress, but she never really pushed me into it, and it was never something I thought I would be doing. She was very happy I decided to, but she certainly doesn't offer me criticism because she knows I'd tell her to shut up! Nobody wants to hear that from their mum!

  Morena Baccarin

  Mom, Criticism, Would Be

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

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• I've joked that I would have either become schizophrenic or an actress, but as an actress you can do both.

  Carla Gugino

  Schizophrenic, Can Do

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. March 18, 2011.

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• I'd wanted to be an actress my whole life, that was my goal, that was all I cared about.

  Kristin Davis

  Goal, Whole Life, Wanted

  "Charlotte's web". Interview with Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2002.

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• I think that we're in a really amazing time, where there are really a lot of really fantastic female actresses and comedians. I imagine there's just a lot of opportunity for women to have powerful roles. Or it's just that there's more women writing TV. Women tend to maybe write strong women.

  Whitney Cummings

  Strong Women, Powerful, Writing

  "I Wrote The Jokes That People Assumed Men Would Write". Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com. September 15, 2011.

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• I can't imagine it if beauty was the only currency I used as an actress. It just doesn't interest me.

  Hayley Atwell

  Imagine, Currency, Used

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• I don't think I'm curvaceous. It's simply that most other actresses are really, stupidly tiny.

  Hayley Atwell

  Thinking, Tiny, Really Stupid

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• When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a ballerina. Not a dentist, like my father, or a homemaker, like my mother - and certainly not a writer, although I always loved to read.

  Judy Blume

  Mother, Growing Up, Father

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

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• I have a tendency as an actress in general to ground my characters. Even when doing outlandish characters, that's my instinct.

  Kate Burton

  Character, Instinct, Tendencies

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• I was lucky enough to be able to grow and mature in a natural way as an actress.

  Kate Burton

  Able, Way, Lucky

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• I always joke that I'm a British actress trying to break into Scandinavian TV.

  MyAnna Buring

  Trying, Tvs, Break

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• I know so many people who are so much better at it than I am, and I think I'm a goofier person rather than a serious, dramatic actress, so I probably belong in comedy.

  Paget Brewster

  Thinking, People, Serious

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• Even when I was young I wanted to be an actress.

  Troian Bellisario

  Young, Wanted

  Interview with Lauren Brown, www.seventeen.com. January 28, 2011.

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• It helps if you don't date other actors, but actresses are beautiful. How can you say no?

  Adam Brody

  Beautiful, Actors, Helping

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• I still love coming into work everyday after so many years working as an actress. I've been working more or less continuously and I find I have to really want to do the project to make it work because you have to put such an enormous amount of effort into it.

  Amanda Burton

  Years, Effort, Everyday

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• No, I always wanted to be an actress.

  Amanda Burton

  Wanted

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