In the U.S., with very few exceptions, actresses older than 35 are simply discarded.

Right now the music is more of a hobby since I'm making a good living as an actress.

I wanted to be a theater actress, and initially, I wanted to work in musical theater

An actress, around 40, on television, that's where you get the most torture, I think.

At some point we have to stop and say, There's Marlee, not, There's the deaf actress.

I forget about the relationship between myself and any actress when working with her.

I'm as interested in photographing the film crew as much as the actors and actresses.

Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.

I'm sure it's there traced along my career. I'm sure it is in most actresses' careers.

To function as an actress, I have to be in love. I have to have that incentive to work.

I lost many a role to actresses who couldnt do the job one-hundredth as good as I could.

There are not that many roles in comedies that are completely driven by a young actress.

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

As an actress, I was never thin enough, never pretty enough. My boobs weren't big enough.

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

But I'm glad I'm not one of those actresses who is just so ready to open up for everyone.

Having been an actress before becoming a producer has helped, because I realize the needs

There is no reason why marriage should necessarily compel an actress to forego her career.

An actress once advised me, 'Make sure you do your own laundry - it will keep you honest.'

I'd like to break some new ground, maybe in TV presenting, rather than just be an actress.

Certain type of actresses get younger instead of older. I always say, 'Only ingenues age.'

And I love Jennifer Lawrence. She's a total fox. And such a good actress. It's ridiculous.

I think the reason I'm an actress is because I love playing kind of a more extreme people.

I have a theory that self-made, first-generation actresses don't feel entitled to success.

Obviously, I'm not a trained actress, and right now I'll come out and say I'm glad I'm not.

At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance.

I'm only realizing now that I was a child actress because I always took myself so seriously.

My talents fall within definite limitations. I am not as versatile an actress as some think.

I have just wanted to be an actress. That's always been my goal. I didn't want to be famous.

I love Joan Collins. She's a wonderful lady. She has such courage. She's such a good actress.

I don't like theatrical actors and actresses. I like people that talk like real human beings.

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

Being sexy is just one part of being a woman and an actress. But if the part calls for sexy...

If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.

I'm not an actress, you know. I don't know what's going on. And I'm supposed to be the villain.

I got all the schooling any actress needs. That is, I learned to write enough to sign contract.

Being an actress is to be in tune with the fantasies of a man. What woman never dreamt of that?

We used to have actresses trying to become stars; now we have stars trying to become actresses.

I don't want to be an actress, because I think that they have to be really pretty, and I'm not.

I think everyone's dream is to be an actress, but I never really thought it was going to happen.

I'm scared of rehearsals, I'm scared of doing all this because I don't feel like I'm an actress.

Being an actress hasn't made me insecure. I was insecure long before I declared I was an actress.

Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.

I'm pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.

You have actresses like Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, who have roles specially written for them.

I would say only be an actress if you genuinely feel the calling, because it's a tough profession.

I think it's incumbent on actresses to bring something else to the part which isn't in the script.

My hard work and excellent training entitled me to be a better actress than some of my competitors

Most of the people in Ghana wouldn't know me as an actress. They'd know me for my work at the U.N.

I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.

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