Film has always been hard for me, I'm basically a stage actress. I never felt comfortable in front of the camera.

I'm not gonna become Ann Bancroft or Meryl Streep and have all the burden that being a "serious actress" entails.

When I was straight, I had the courage and energy to become an actress. I owe my career to my will to stop using.

I'd love to work with Michelle Williams. I think that she's incredible. She's such a great actress and I love her.

I always wanted to be a model, never an actress. I would see children in ads and stuff and wanted to be like them.

You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.

In Spain, actresses work until they are old. That's my plan.

I always considered myself the world's worst actress.

I just know I'm going to be an actress. I want it so bad.

Evil people you never forget them. And that's the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.

I never wondered whether I should be a stage actress or a movie actress.

I don't think actresses' lives in general are very good

The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title

I hope the English-speaking world can see that I'm not only an Israeli actress.

When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress.

In Sweden, only exceptional actresses get major film parts.

I am not an actress. I can only play me - on and off the screen.

I'm not a great actress, and I never thought I was. But I happen to have something the public likes.

An actress must never lose her ego -- without it she has no talent.

I always wanted to be an actress. I couldn't imagine being anything else.

There was no way I could live in Hollywood and not become an actress.

It is so fantastic being an actress because you have the chance to be a thousand different people when you act.

You see these actresses who have had Botox or something else done, and it takes you out of the film.

I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.

I'd wanted to be an actress my whole life, that was my goal, that was all I cared about.

My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.

My ambition is to become one of those actresses that is like a chameleon that you don't recognize.

There's a kind of amateurishness among French actresses, but I don't share that completely.

That's why I'm an actress, to do something completely opposite from myself

Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him.

As an actress we don't beat one another. It's whoever's right for the part.

I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.

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

Show me an actress who isn't a personality and I'll show you a woman who isn't a star.

I can't imagine it if beauty was the only currency I used as an actress. It just doesn't interest me.

As an actress, there were so many months, years even, when I didn't get work, when I wanted to quit.

What the public expects to encounter in an actress passed 70 is the sum of her experience, not her beauty.

I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.

I was the youngest of five, and I think my mother always knew I was meant to be an actress.

As an actress, I was trained to show emotion I did not feel, or no emotion at all.

First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.

After all the work I've done, why should I suddenly be treated as a bona fide actress?

My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.

I went through the process of auditioning like every other struggling actress in this town.

I'm not always the nicest person to meet, because I forget very easily that I'm an actress when I'm not working.

It's a new low for actresses when you have to wonder what is between her ears instead of her legs.

I'm a size 8, and I feel proud of that, because it's healthy. I've never felt compelled to be a skinny actress.

There were many good actresses in my time like Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds, but I was the only dancer.

I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical 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.

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