Quotes About Actress

The theater is where I belonged; I simply wanted to be an actress my whole life.

I'm just an instinctive actress, I've never had a lesson in my life.

So I won an Oscar. It's amazing. I've got that for the rest of my life for a performance I am proud of. It nearly killed me. I am really proud of the film. That's it, moving on.

As an actress, I get plenty of drama in my professional life. When I'm at home, I want a peaceful life.

Basically, I'm living the life of an actress in L.A. And I've recently had some pretty good fortune.

There are two things in life that I really wanted to do: be an actress, and to be in skin care, and I've gotten to do both of them.

If I wasn't an actress I'd want to be a writer or else find a job where I got to read books and watch movies all day, everyday, for the rest of my life.

It's a great time to be an actress at this point in my life.

When Dodsworth was released, in September 1936, just two months after the trial ended, Mary's performance together with that film's emotional ending would win her forgiveness and new admirers, and mark a turn in her career.

She was a great actress, and dammit—I want to see her on a goddam postage stamp!!

Imagine that the lines an actress reads are a river that runs calmly along the surface of the earth. Then imagine that the actress are the earth, and that under the earth is another river, a wilder one whose current leaps in the opposite direction, whose roar is muted. Every time the actress speaks her lines, she must offer a glimpse of the river that runs beneath: the mysterious churn of her consciousness, the lawlessness of a person's doubts or desires.

On the train back, Svetlana told me about a Serbian movie director who had been friends with her father in Belgrade. The director's wife, an actress, had gone to Paris to make a movie with a young French director. The French director had died tragically, by falling off a bar-stool. "They say it might have been suicide," Svetlana said.

A woman who aspires to be a leading movie or tv actress should learn first to giggle and chuckle a lot on every public talk and often for no reason.

When a male actor plays the villainous character in reel life, he might be a relatively good person in real life; but if an actress plays a negative shade in movie , then she might have got her that role just because of someone probably the producer or director.

The film was semi-autobiographical. Director Mahesh Bhatt based it on his relationship with actress Parveen Babi.

still remains the only film in Oscar history to receive four female acting nominations – two for best actress and two for best supporting actress.

I think I'm very much an entrepreneur, but I know I have the ability to start a company in a lot of ways than other people who are more qualified because I have this existing brand as an actress.

Gong Li is like the queen of movies.

I guess I've sort of always wanted to be an actress, except when I was five, which, I did want to be the Queen of England.

I've never wanted to be an actress. I came into the industry to be a filmmaker, but let us say fate had other plans for me. I don't want to be the next glamour queen.

Sometimes I look at Helen Mirren on stage and think, 'You really are the Queen.' You see people bowing to her at the stage door!

Just to be a part of anything that Queen Latifah is involved in is an honor, because she's such an amazing person and an amazing actress.

This crew member has managed to get this picture of me to the Queen who'd said that she loved me in 'The Durrells'! The real life Queen!

I was very excited and pleased when I got the opportunity to play Lisa Hayden's role. I saw the original version of 'Queen' and feel the role has so much to offer.