I personally love Jennifer Lawrence. She's an amazing actress, but so young and fresh and youthful.

And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.

There are a lot of great actresses out there. You learn to appreciate each one for what they offer.

I just take jobs that will have me. I'm an actress that works. I'm not an actress who's ever waited.

Having this other career in music made me work harder as an actress. It's made me more professional.

I'm an actress so the amount of rejection and commentary you get right to your face is pretty rough.

Basically, I'm living the life of an actress in L.A. And I've recently had some pretty good fortune.

Actresses generally arent allowed to have haircuts, because short hair isnt considered as versatile.

Ive felt the pressure of wanting to be known as a young actress rather than just Alisha from Misfits.

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

I'm an actress, primarily. I love to write poetry. I've been writing poetry since I was 12 years old.

Going out with other actors is never good; actresses are neurotic, and actors are horrendous egotists.

My favorite question is 'What do you do?' I'm like, 'I'm a walking cliche: I'm a model and an actress.

I didn't want to be an actress. I wanted to be a dentist, but you never know what life will bring you.

I really want to try to become a great actress when I get older and continue to do what I'm doing now.

If only I'd known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.

My sister has decided to become an actress too. It has ruined the close-knittedness of our family life.

As an actress I feel that if you start to impose your own inhibitions, then you are not doing your job.

I wanted to work with Cate Blanchett. She is one of the five greatest movie actresses of her generation.

A lot of the actresses who were around when I started, I don't know where they are. Comics stick around.

I'm such a fan of Shailene Woodley, so I'm super excited to see all her stuff. She's an awesome actress.

You have to be the best of whatever you are, but successful, cool actresses come in all shapes and sizes.

I am one of the few actresses who isn't recognized by the way she looks. I'm recognized by the way I talk

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

I was always a singer and a dancer, and I always wanted to be an actress. For me, it's all just one thing.

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

I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.

Frequently my life has been likened to a Greek tragedy, and the actress in me cannot deny that comparison.

The thing I always thought of myself as was an actress. I never thought: I want to be. It was always: I am.

Everybody thinks about Bo Derek as being this extravagant looking lady but she is also a wonderful actress.

Actresses feel immense pressure to keep up. Nobody wants someone who doesn't know how to market themselves.

There are some roles you just don't say 'no' to. Those compass points: you get them so rarely as an actress.

I mean, most actresses can't host and most hostesses can't act, and that's the general rule in the industry.

I loved working with Jamie Lee Curtis, and I felt she was a wonderful actress even that early in her career.

There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material.

As an English actress constantly playing Americans, you already had to step way out of your box in that way.

I know some actresses who used to be older than me who are now younger than me - I don't know how they do it.

I'm 40 next year and I'm very well aware that where I am now, it becomes a bit of a wilderness for actresses.

As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life.

Anne Baxter was a very good actress, Donna Reid was great. You couldn't name an actress I wasn't crazy about.

People think actresses find public speaking easy, and it's not easy at all; we're used to hiding behind masks.

I am happy as happiness goes, for a woman who has so many memories and who lives the lonely life of an actress

If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum.

While being called beautiful is extremely flattering, I would much rather be noticed for my work as an actress.

The inability to listen and to depict in the countenance what others have said has spoiled many a good actress.

What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being.

I hate these actresses-pretending-to-be-lesbians movies. To me, that's just as prurient as a bad violent movie.

What keeps me interested--and it always does--is how can she be a bad actress on film but a good one in reality?

There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.

The war is like an actress who is getting old. It's less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous. (1944)

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