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I haven't done anything that can match up to what I learnt about myself as an actress and as a person or the friends that I made.
I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.
As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.
I look at being an actress as being like a mummy: You're bandaged up and preserved as soon as you start making other people money.
I always think of Meryl [Streep] for everything now. There really aren't many actresses around who are truly lucid the way she is.
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.
I love a lot of comedy actors and actresses like Kristen Wiig and Tina Fey and all those women who are really brilliant and funny.
Some actresses are just insane. I've never worked with a nasty actress - they're all absolutely delightful. But completely barking.
I was the first actress in the family, and I am still the only actress in the family. I shouldn't be saying it, but it slipped out!
Most of today's film actress are typical of a mass-production age: living dolls who look as if they came off an assembly line . . .
I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman.
I'm looking forward to becoming a marvelous - excuse the word marvelous - character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.
Monica Vitti is astonishingly mobile. Few actresses have such mobile features. She has her own personal and original way of acting.
When youre a young English person who wants to be an actress and you have dreams, you dream of being Vanessa Redgrave or Judi Dench.
I will have one of the cleanest obits of any actress. I never did cheesecake like Ann Sheridan or Betty Grable. I just used my hair.
...my least favorite actress of all time, Helena Bonham Carter. I find her lack of a neck very off-putting and especially her acting.
Making pictures, for an actress, is like betting, for a gambler. Each time you make a picture you try to analyze why you won or lost.
We've all seen great actors and actresses who are missing a certain chemistry. And it's not about getting along or not getting along.
It was my life, playing Juliet. From that moment on I was convinced I was going to be an actress. That was all I really wanted to do.
I think I'm a better comedic actress than I am a dramatic actress, but everybody believes I'm this dramatic actress and I'll take it.
As an actress, I have to be objective about myself. If I don't criticize myself, there are plenty who will do a find job of it for me!
Some people are suspicious of others who have more than one talent. I've had poets tell me to my face that an actress can't be a poet.
I was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up.
When you dance intensely, you are really aware of your physicality, and that's always great to have as a tool, when you're an actress.
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.
I had no interest in really becoming an actress or doing that kind of thing I just knew that I wanted to do something in making films.
I dont know what the secret to longevity as an actress is. Its more than talent and beauty. Maybe its the audience seeing itself in you.
There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them.
I think of myself as a journeyman actress. I will attempt almost anything that I think that I can bring off. It could be almost anything.
I have a surfboard that says 'Linda Hunt Choice TV Actress: Action.' I am an action star! I don't know what that is about, but I like it.
I have always admired and had enormous respect for Elizabeth Taylor. She was not only an incredible actress but an amazing woman as well.
I just don't want to be known as the actress who can sing. I want to be known as the singer who can act, too. It's great cross-promotion.
I admire actresses who are good to women. I don't like the ones who just don't like women. You can feel it. They're degrading themselves.
Molly Shannon such an interesting actress that portrays vulnerability and danger at the same time, because she seems brittle in that role.
You know, when you start, especially with me, I didn't really know I was going to be a movie actress. I thought I was going to do theater.
In order to help those around you, and in order to even be a good actress and a good mother at the same time, you have to know your worth.
I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'
I wanted to watch the women interacting with [Warren Beatty], which takes he chose, and how the actresses were reacting in scenes with him.
I used to get some ego thing out of saying I wasn't a star, just an actress. Forget it. I'm a star. I wanted it. I worked for it. I got it.
I finally feel like I'm becoming somebody. I really think like I can do something. I just know I'm going to be an actress. I want it so bad.
I didn't want to be an actress at all, or famous even. I certainly enjoy acting now, absolutely. Time will tell whether or not I enjoy fame.
One of the rules about being an actor or an actress is that you never diss other actors or actresses, particularly when you don't know them.
It's nice to represent a woman who can be bigger than what you see as a typical skinny actress - being funny and desirable at the same time.
Hollywood is portrayed in this super glamorous way, but when I see pictures of actresses going off the rails, it doesn't surprise me at all.
The only other thing that interested me as a kid was being a bricklayer. So if I hadn't become an actress, I would probably be a bricklayer.
I had never dreamt Id become an actress. It was destiny that put me in the right place at the right time and gave me the right opportunities.
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.
I think Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they don't sell out to the new ones
I listened to a lot of tapes of British theatre actresses and tried to learn from them. As Americans, we don't have such a gift with language.
There's nothing wrong with making little kids happy, but there's nothing wrong with wanting to be an adult actress. I mean a grown-up actress.