Actresses Quotes - Page 39

• For some reason it gives people pleasure to equate the life of certain movie actors or actresses with their actual lives.

  Woody Allen

  People, Giving, Actors

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2001.

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• I like to think of myself as an actress, I think of going through all of the films as my kind of film academy, the way that I've learnt.

  Emma Watson

  Thinking, Way, Kind

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I enjoyed acting growing up; I did musical theater. I had a secret desire to be a television and movie actress, but it wasn't something I admitted to myself that I wanted to do, I guess.

  Amanda Schull

  Growing Up, Secret, Musical

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• If you’re an actress, you’re always on one diet or another — it’s a way of life.

  Leigh-Allyn Baker

  Way, Diets, Ifs

  "Detox Diets: The Scary New Skinny" by Janelle Brown, www.glamour.com. July 14, 2009.

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• We ask the public to believe that every time they see an actress or actor that they are a different person.

  Edith Head

  Believe, Different, Actors

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• You know what makes me feel old? When I see girls who are 20-something, or the new crop of actresses, and I think, Aren't we kind of the same age? You lose perspective. Or being offered the part of a woman with a 17-year-old child. It's like, "I'm not old enough to have a 17-year-old!" And then you realize, well, yeah, you are.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Girl, Children, Thinking

  "I see the new crop of actresses and think, 'Aren’t we the same age?' Jennifer Aniston admits losing perspective and 'feeling old'" by By Andrea Magrath, www.dailymail.co.uk. April 4, 2012.

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• The smouldering eroticism of great European actresses like Jeanne Moreau demonstrated to my generations women's archetypal mystery and glamour, completely missing from the totalitarian world-view of the misogynist Foucault. For me, the big French D is not Derrida, but Deneuve.

  Camille Paglia

  Views, Missing, Generations

  "Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders: Academe in the Hour of the Wolf". Camille Paglia, "Arion", Third Series, Volume 1, No. 2, Spring 1991.

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• I used to stay up very late at night, much later than I probably should have for such a youngster, and I used to watch very old black-and-white movies with, you know, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, but I remember watching them thinking 'I could do that'... Even though I wasn't inclined at all to actually become an actress. I mean, that wasn't something that was... in the stars for me, no pun intended.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Stars, Mean, Black And White

  Interview on Inside the Actors Studio, 2007.

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• Every time I do anything, I have to ask myself: Is it a good role, and is it right to do it? There may be sex or nudity or violence in the script, and then you have to say: Is it gratuitous just out to shock people? Or is it there because it has to be? If a role demands it, and it isn't gratuitous, I'll do it. It's my job, after all. I'm an actress.

  Julie Andrews

  Jobs, Sex, People

  News of the World, June 1986.

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• Actors always have to fight for the good parts. There are so few good roles written for women each year, and when one is written like this every actress in town covets the role.

  Halle Berry

  Fighting, Years, Roles

  "From the Grave to the Cradle". Western Mail, February 01, 2008.

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• I am changing the notion that actresses can’t have happy marriages

  Mercy Johnson

  Happy Marriage, Notion

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• Great lecturers seldom hesitate to use dramatic tricks to enshrine their precepts in the minds of their audiences, and at Yale perhaps Chauncey B. Tinker was the most noted. To read one of his lectures was like reading a monologue of the great actress Ruth Draper--you missed the main point. You missed the drop in his voice as he approached the death in Rome of the tubercular Keats; you missed the shaking tone in which he described the poet's agony for the absent Fanny with him his love had never been consummated; you missed the grim silence of the end.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Reading, Yale, Rome

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• That's when I asked her where was that actress She said "That was somebody else" And then I asked her why she looked so happy now She said "I finally like myself, at last I like myself.

  Harry Chapin

  Lasts, Said

  Song: Sequel

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• Coming from Ireland, its quite hard to do a startup because youre culturally so far away from what everyone else is doing. In the Bay Area, its much easier. Its the equivalent of an actor or actress moving to Hollywood.

  John Collison

  Moving, Hollywood, Bay Area

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• The studios have their list of five actresses and whether they're right or wrong for a role doesn't matter. It's how much money their last movie made.

  Sherilyn Fenn

  Roles, Matter, Lasts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think, on both sides of the camera or the novel: Distraction. I'm obsessed with: Can I get this actress or my third act to work? I'm distracted. I'm interested in that so I don't sit home and think, "Gee, life is meaningless. We're all going to die. The universe is pulling apart at breakneck speed."

  Woody Allen

  Home, Thinking, Sides

  "Filmmaking Woody Allen's way". Interview, www.stuff.co.nz. June 25, 2012.

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• I'm just an instinctive actress, I've never had a lesson in my life.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Lessons

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• AMC [All My Children] launched my career and changed my life. I got married there and had my baby there and made so many close friends. I am so sad that it is going away. It is a part of television history. Pine Valley is a part of America. It breaks my heart. That role taught me how to really be an actress. It introduced me to a man who gave me my daughter. That is something that I am eternally thankful for and will always be.

  Eva LaRue

  Daughter, Baby, Children

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• All of a sudden one day I was like, I'm good at this! Oh, man! People are not giving me jobs because they feel sorry for me! I am an actress. I am a singer. I am a performer. That's what I do! Once I started giving myself a little credit, the whole world opened up.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Jobs, Sorry, Men

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• I don't think I ever said, "I want to be an actress." But for Halloween, I dressed up as a movie star from when I was seven to when I was twelve. The costume was always a long dress, with makeup, and my hair curled, and jewelry on. And the movie star was always Jenny McCarthy. So right there you could see a little pattern.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Stars, Halloween, Makeup

  FaceBook post by Jenny McCarthy from Mar 19, 2012

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• The great writers like Chekhov know that tragedy and laughter are just a few steps from each other ... but it took me a long time as an actress to learn that. Actually Arthur Miller taught me in the Seventies. We were making a CBS TV drama of his play Playing for Time about Auschwitz but the characters were laughing. It was a big insight for me to realise that that was what's called gallows humour, in this case worse than the gallows, that humans need to laugh and make jokes in order to survive.

  Vanessa Redgrave

  Laughter, Drama, Character

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• I was pretty impressed during the opening of one of my shows, when the five-year-old daughter of a well-known movie actress took a running jump at one of my paintings, like she was diving into a swimming pool. I preferred to treat her impulse as a compliment rather than insult. Sadly she hurt herself more than the painting.

  James Nares

  Daughter, Running, Hurt

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• Remember picture books are the closest form of writing to a poem. Even though they don't have to rhyme, they must be poetic. They must be written so the worst actress can read with comfort and expression.

  Kirby Larson

  Book, Writing, Expression

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• in Divorce American style, there was the discomfort of seeing one of the beautiful wasted actresses of the screen, Jean Simmons. Her suggestions of sensibility - what she embodies - were too fine for the world of that movie. Her presence made the movie she was trapped in seem uglier.

  Jean Simmons

  Beautiful, Divorce, Style

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• I was always wanting to learn and be one of those actresses who can actually hold a conversation as opposed to standing there looking pretty.

  Michelle Trachtenberg

  Conversation, Standing There, Looking Pretty

  Interview with Nicki Gostin, MSNBC, March 11, 2005.

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