Quotes About Actress

Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.

In the creative arts you draw a special power. The discipline required is awesome to be an actor or an actress, to be really good, not just another one waiting tables.

Elizabeth Taylor. In her heyday, she was amazing.

The last person they expected to connect with a screenplay was the comedic, blonde actress with the funny voice.

'Chasing Amy' was an amazing role, but then after that, I went and did 'Big Daddy' and you're the girlfriend or you're the best friend. I wasn't getting the Nicole Kidman roles.

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

I'm a huge fan of Steve Martin. He's hilarious, but he has this depth to him and this way of dealing with the difficult things in life with a sense of humor that I think has helped me as an actress.

Maggie Smith is an amazing woman, and not as serious in real life.

Ultimately, it's not your job, as an actress, to satisfy people's expectations or image of who you should be. Even in your life, you are just who you are.

I think of myself more as a director than as an actress. But I do like to perform and express myself in different ways, and I'll keep on doing so, provided I can find interesting roles.

I became an actress to provoke people and move people and to tell the stories.

As far as I know, Vera Miles had a terrible time with Hitchcock, and she wanted to get out of the contract. He didn't let her. She did 'Psycho,' and I believe, if you look at 'Psycho,' there isn't one close up of Vera, not one. After that, she would never even speak about him to anyone.

Shower scenes are great. Janet Leigh never took a shower again in her life after 'Psycho'.

If I had not become an actress, I would be a journalist or a psychologist: I like to analyze the mind and be involved in political moments that change history.

I'm in the public eye, so I have a responsibility as an actress to my generation. I think that's what acting's all about.

I have, obviously, a very complex relationship with the more industrial side of filmmaking and the machinery that can take an actor or an actress and create something so bamboozling and monumental and fathomless in terms of publicity hits.

I wouldn't define myself as the girl from 'Pulp Fiction.'

I don't quite fit in in like a pure dramatic thing, but I still think of myself sometimes as sort of a dramatic actress.

I didn't really get into acting until halfway through college. Once I graduated I pursued it professionally, but it wasn't like I was always an actress.

I'd love to be an award-winning, commercial successful actress! I would love to push myself to the limits as an actress and experiment with playing really interesting women.

I think Charlize Theron is just as good when she is looking really pretty in a movie as when she gains 10 pounds and puts on a nose. I applaud her - good for her that she doesn't care. But she's just as good, whether she's pretty or not.

Felicity Huffman is just flawless; she's above and beyond TV and movies and this Earth.

I've always been fond of Winona Ryder.

I want to be an Actress that is forced to change in order to play certain characters or tell stories. I don't want to just play a version of myself.