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Actress Quotes Part2
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ACTRESS QUOTES PART2 from some of the most notable Actresses who ever lived
Makes sure you check out Actress Quotes Part 1 as well!
ACTRESS QUOTES PART 2
I will never be satisfied. Life is one constant search for the betterment for me.
-- Jayne Mansfield
I'd rather go back to waitressing than play a character that I hate.
-- Julianna Margulies
I've been allowed to develop my own character, which I'm still working on.
-- Rue McClanahan
I love to work. I love to have complexity.
-- Mary McDonnell
I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.
-- Frances McDormand
I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
-- Bette Midler
I look to longevity. I just consider myself an actress and getting good roles. If being a 'superstar' gets me good roles, then that's a positive thing. But my goal isn't just to be a superstar. It's to act for a long time.
-- Penelope Ann Miller
Audiences are the same all over the world, and if you entertain them, they'll respond.
-- Liza Minnelli
An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
-- Marilyn Monroe
I want things to be the best they can be. I want greatness.
-- Demi Moore
Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
-- Mary Tyler Moore
Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it's not funny.
-- Julianne Moore
Everything I thought about acting and having a movie career has changed from what I thought when I started.
-- Rebecca De Mornay
I don't see my dancing or acting as two separate things. I don't define them separately, so I can't say one has helped the other, It's all the same thing. More than anything I love being on stage and performing.
-- Bebe Neuwirth
Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.
-- Catherine O'Hara
I'm an artist, and the need to get inside myself and be creative and be other people is a part of who I am. I don't imagine I'll abandon that completely.
-- Gwyneth Paltrow
After every movie, I always kick myself for the same things-didn't do enough, not enough variation, not enough interesting choices, too bland.
-- Robin Wright Penn
Somewhere along the line I made the switch and was able to look at the bight side rather than the dark side all the time. Now I look at everything I have and think how lucky I am.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer
If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
-- Mary Pickford
I like to think of myself as kind of a sculptor, only I sculpt people.
-- Kathleen Quinlan
Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.
-- Vanessa Redgrave
I'm an actor who hates dialogue and the present day and reality.
-- Christina Ricci
I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. Sometimes it's the absence of great teachers that shapes your life and being ignored can be just as good for a person as being lauded.
-- Julia Roberts
When two people love each other, they don't look at each other, they look in the same direction.
-- Ginger Rogers
If we are completely honest with ourselves, everyone has a dark side to their personalities.
-- Isabella Rossellini
There is so much more than that little space from 14 to 40. And if you cut that off and begin to believe that you are not good past a certain age, then you end up scared and insecure and afraid. That is definitely NOT beautiful.
-- Rene Russo
I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.
-- Susan Sarandon
You can never judge your characters. You have to love them, really care about them. You're never just playing a villain or the crazy lady.
-- Annabella Sciorra
I am most proud of my integrity and least proud of my cynicism.
-- Chloe Sevigny
You cannot do everything at once, so find people you trust to help you. And don't be afraid to say no.
-- Jane Seymour
You don't forget the movies, but you forget the details of them.
-- Sissy Spacek
I love being in the business I'm in-I do love being a part of a group of people that work well together. I love it when there's a connection.
-- Mary Steenburgen
Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.
-- Meryl Streep
One thing I've learned: You never know where life is taking you, but it's taking you.
-- Hilary Swank
And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating - and the levels of the communication that I've seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don't we have that here?
-- Emma Thompson
Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.
-- Uma Thurman
Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
-- Lily Tomlin
It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.
-- Lana Turner
Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.
-- Naomi Watts
I like exposing myself. There's not an awful lot that embarrasses me. I'm the kind of actress who absolutely believes in exposing herself.
-- Kate Winslet
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