Top 460 Actress Quotes

Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.

Any actress – goodness, we’re lucky to be working. We all know that. There are few parts, a few good ones.

I’m not really a redhead, but I keep playing these redhead actresses. Which I don’t mind; I think it’s fun.

I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.

I always loved working as an actress, but I didn’t understand why I couldn’t just opt out of being famous. And then I realized you can, and I think I did. And eventually, I came to understand that you can do that and also keep working.

But the privileges that one has enjoyed and exploited can sometimes turn against you: nobody thinks of you as a director, you are always an actress.

I have a certain way of thinking where I see something, and I know that I want it and I make up my mind – and that’s pretty much all there is to it. It was like, This is what I want to do, and I’m going, and everything’s going to work out. I’m going to be an actress. There was no way around it.

I’m an actress. In this sense, my profession is less complex than that of a model. True, they’re into beauty in Hollywood, and it is age-related, but you can’t put a girl with hot lips and no wrinkles and say: ‘That’s the mother of a 14-year-old.’

I find that I’m just drawn to anything that’s going to challenge me as an actress. So, anything that’s going to help me grow.

I’d love to work with Rachel McAdams, because she’s a great actress.

When I started out, I didn’t have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

People go to the movies to watch a film and all they’re thinking about is the actress’s cellulite they saw in a magazine.

It’s tough advocating for trans visibility and not being pigeonholed as just a trans actress.

I’m just a pack mule. I’ve played leads and I’ve played character roles. Any actress in Hollywood will tell you as your age climbs, the leads thin.

Whether you’re an actress or someone who works in a bank, fitness should be one of your priorities.

It was considered that you were stepping down by doing television. I almost turned Cybill down because I so wanted to remain a theater actress.

It was a lot of fun being a child actress. It suited me. I don’t think it suits everybody, but I was in it because I had a passion, not because my parents wanted me to make money. If other kids want to do it, and they really like acting, go for it.

The best thing about being an actress is getting good concert tickets.

I’d have gone berserk if I hadn’t met Sargam Singh, an actress who soon became my wife. Within a year of our marriage our daughter Ameli was born. Sargam gave up her career to look after me and our daughter.

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

As a mother, you feel much more vulnerable. And when you’re vulnerable, you’re a much better actress.

I’m a theater actress. I love rehearsal. I could have six weeks of rehearsal and think it’s not enough. But on film, you don’t get that luxury.

I don’t like being compared to anyone or being in a class with someone. I’m a teen actress and therefore I’m competing against Hilary Duff. We’re different people like everyone else.

I always get told by women that they would love a daughter-in-law like me. That’s big, because not too many people seem to want their son to marry an actress!

I suppose that if I could have quit, I would have, because in those days I never wanted to be an actress, the acting was something to do while I waited for a chance to study writing and directing. But I guess I was just meant to be an actress. Because, here I am.

I felt, this is what I want to be in my life. I want to be an actress.

I lied to everybody. I lie very well, being an actress, naturally.

I am only an actress when they say, ‘action’ and I stop being an actress when they say, ‘cut’. I am a normal person outside of acting.

The only thing I like about being an actress is acting.

I don’t think I would ever have been able to be an actress had I not started at nine years old.

It’s definitely an exciting time to be an actress.

Whatever it is that I feel, I express it! I am free with my joy, my laughter, my pleasure, my pain, and I am blessed in that way as an actress that I can access those feelings within myself and not be ashamed to show whatever that is that’s appropriate for the character.

I did enjoy and take pride in my work as an actress, yet I’m bemused by suppositions that my life since has somehow been less fulfilling. That certainly is not the case. Rather the reverse.

Actresses are nightmares. I don’t hang out with any of them. That’s a problem with my profession. I try not to be like an actress.

Blythe Danner is somebody whose career I admire. She’s a great actress and does good work, but also has a life of her own. I love my job but, at the end of the day, I want to come home and watch a movie and drink a bottle of wine with my husband.

You can tell when an actor or actress cares about their work. It’s really clear.

I just thought acting would be something to help out with my student loans, but my first year as an actress, I made more money than my parents. That’s when I realized it could turn into a career. After that, I put everything I had into it.

I do not admire young actresses whose foreheads cannot move.

Like most female actresses, I am always aspiring to succeed and become a popular star, and my positive energy never dies out.

As far as developing a career as an actress, I think it’s a fine balance between trying to just work, and also be true to yourself.

I grew up loving actresses or actors who were very classy but who seemed a little bit mysterious because you couldn’t grasp what they’re really thinking.

I regard myself as an actress but, obviously, not in the Dame Judi Dench league. That isn’t a problem because I don’t think we are ever likely to be up for the same part!

Kelly Preston is a remarkable human being and a great dramatic actress. It was a privilege as a director to tap into this part of her. Rarely do I make a kind of spiritual connection with my cast. Kelly was a wonderful exception. She is truly very special and I adore her.

I love films that make me react emotionally and physically when you walk out of the cinema. Two of my favorite films however have got to be ‘The Tree Of Life’ and ‘The Piano Teacher,’ which also stars one of my favourite actresses Isabelle Huppert.

I think it’s actually a misperception that I am a comedic actress. I do more drama than comedy but very little of it has been seen. When you are in big funny movies and they do well and your little part in it kind of explodes people perceive you as a comedian.

I certainly think Halle Berry’s a wonderful role model. She’s a terrific stepmother and has shown that in so many beautiful ways and has made such enormous strides for women culturally and such great successes as an actress and philanthropist.

An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.

If I only dated actresses, I’d be a very lonely man.

Actresses have more fear of being disliked. I, on the other hand, revel in it.

An actress who has the gift of swaying the emotions of an audience, of compelling tribute of tears, or of moving the public to joyous merriment, cannot always be satisfied to set aside her whole career, in the work that she loves, simply because she is married.

Most of the top actors and actresses may be working in ten or twelve films at the same time, so they will give one director two hours and maybe shoot in Bombay in the morning and Madras in the evening. It happens.

People often ask me why I don’t take up more heroine-oriented roles. My question is, ‘Where are these roles?’ I really appreciate actresses who sign only films with meaty roles. However, there aren’t too many of them. The industry is simply male-dominated.

The road Cordelia has travelled, the journey she has taken up to now has been such a joy to play as an actress, because there have been so many chances to do so many different emotions.

It didn’t matter as much because I’m a singer, not an actress, but my face is more acceptable in a way now than when I first came on the scene, because I’m part black.

I think as a young actress, it’s very rare that you read something where you’re not either ‘the girl’ or there to serve some romantic purpose in a male dominated cast.

Hitch suggested a name actress to play Marion because the bigger the star the more unbelievable it would be that we would kill her.

I hated the whole idea of being an actress. I used to throw up before every performance and cry afterward.

I am the luckiest actress on the planet.

I’m a singer, a writer and an actress – when I find something that I feel good enough about doing.

The three things I said when I came out of school were I want to work consistently, I want to do good work and I want to be paid fairly, and that’s happened. But I didn’t become an actress for the money. I do it for other reasons.