There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.
You can tell when an actor or actress cares about their work. It's really clear.
I'm not really an actress.
An actress, around 40, on television, that's where you get the most torture, I think.
There are a lot of French actresses who just hate me now. I've made enemies.
Any actress will tell you - it's really hard. If you're not an A-list Hollywood movie star, if you're in the middle, there are people who assume you wouldn't do certain things without even asking you, when actually you probably would. And there are people who always think you are busy doing something else.
Any actress will tell you, when you've been given a starring role in the initial run of a show, you want to be getting the standing ovations every night, not just on review night.
I've been told if you're an actress you can't sing, if you're a dancer you can't act, you can't do theatre and be respected if you've done a TV soap, you can't have a No. 1 record. All these different things they've told me I can't do, but I wanted to do them, so I've done them.
Vivien Leigh was a phenomenal actress, a very complicated woman, living on the edge of mental problems, haunted by demons and angels. And though I've never thought of myself like Marilyn Monroe, I was inspired by the tremendous risk she took - of being vulnerable.
It was a really fun idea to have a fashion label with my sister but I don't have an awful lot of time for it because my first love and job is to be an actress.
I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche.
And I love Jennifer Lawrence. She's a total fox. And such a good actress. It's ridiculous.
Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.
I'm one of the best actresses. One day I will win an Oscar.
I feel like I'm the most forgiven actress I can think of, probably because of this short memory people have!
When I was doing comedy in New York, before I was in movies, I was never known as the deadpan actress. I was just a comedienne.
I have a lot of fun playing a model on television, and I love being an actress. I don't think I could ever handle that world.
I was constantly, always and forever, trying to perform the musical 'Annie' for anyone who would listen, and I have a terrible singing voice. It was the first thing that made me think I wanted to be an actress.
I know plenty of actresses in their early thirties who look amazing, although there's that old saying: 'Ladies get older, men get more distinguished.
My mother wanted to be a teacher when she was young, and my father didn't approve of it, so she fought very hard to become one. And she did it. So when I said I wanted to become an actress, my mother was very supportive. She always said to me, 'There's no such thing as 'can't.
My grandmother was an actress too. In the thirties and forties she was under contract with Universal Studios. Crazy credits, lots of them. My dad was also under contract with Universal Studios. And my first film was shot on the same stage they both worked on at Universal.
If you're an actress and even one person knows your name, you're lucky.
Just to be working again as an actress and possibly doing TV would just be great. It's not about how big the role is.
Actresses are mental on the whole. But I think I'm pretty normal.
My ambition is to become one of those actresses that is like a chameleon that you don't recognize.
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