Quotes About Actress

I want to play Miss Adelaide in 'Guys and Dolls.' Really badly.

We're just so self-conscious. However much we try not to be, on some level, especially as a woman and an actress, you have so much pressure when it comes your hair and the bags under your eyes and your skin.

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

I'm friends with Elizabeth Banks - she's a great actress but not actressy at all. She's very cool. I adore her.

When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.

I carry about eight lip balms: Burt's Bees, Rosebud Salve, Eos.

And then the idea of a portrait, of any person, placed over your heart, forever, seemed irresistible. How was it that we didn't walk around with every person who mattered tattooed on us forever? And then Jun Do remembered that he had no one that mattered to him, which was why his tattoo would be of an actress he'd never seen, taken from a calendar at the helm of a fishing boat.

Jun Do remembered that he had no one that mattered to him, which was why his tattoo would be of an actress he'd never seen, taken from a calendar at the helm of a fishing boat.

I felt very patriotic playing a New York City cop.

Obviously, I pay for the fact I was an actress once. But it was a job like any other, because I never did anything scandalous.

Oftentimes, in fact I think this is to my fault, I look at usually scripts as a whole. I should probably pay more attention to the character that I'm going to play and what they do.

You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles. Does that make sense?

You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles.

I do get clocked in the street. People say, 'You're an actress, aren't you?' But they don't know my name. Nine times out of 10, they don't know what I've been in.

I think it's actually a misperception that I am a comedic actress. I do more drama than comedy but very little of it has been seen. When you are in big funny movies and they do well and your little part in it kind of explodes people perceive you as a comedian.

I am very much a product of commercial cinema in Tollywood, and people ask me why I don't do masala films in Hindi. I am very eager to do them, but somehow I am perceived as a serious actress here.

I don't think I'm the best-looking actress around. I'm not Katrina Kaif; she is stunningly beautiful. There are some roles that might need a beautiful girl, and there would be a doubt in a director's mind whether he should cast me. But that perception will change with time. I'd like to believe actresses look better with experience.

I'm not insecure. Give me a good role, and I'll perform even for a multi-starrer with half a dozen other heroines!

Brie Larson's performance in 'Room' was pretty incredible.

I'd never played a cop before, and this particular role with what she is going thru, especially during the first season, covering her alcoholism to her on the job performance, was a great opportunity for me as an actress.

I am a big fan of Sakshi Tanwar. I love her as a performer.

The critics noticed me as a performer only with 'Dor.'

As an actress, I think it's important to look back and realize that we aren't always quite as original as we think we are. There's this grand, textured history for us over the last 100 years of incredible writers, directors, and performers.

I really enjoy theater. Performing live onstage is helping me to grow as an actress.