Quotes About Actress

I feel I am blessed. So many actresses went without doing a period film in their career, and I got a chance to do one in my first film.

If I could have lived as an actress in any period, it would have been the 1920s - I would have loved to have been part of that speakeasy era.

I am an actress, period.

I am an actress and acting is my passion... period!

I loved the challenge of being able to take a character who could be thrown away as 'crazy' and making her identifiable to the audience - also, to give her a vulnerability that people would cheer for.

As a mother, you feel much more vulnerable. And when you're vulnerable, you're a much better actress.

Vivien Leigh was a phenomenal actress, a very complicated woman, living on the edge of mental problems, haunted by demons and angels. And though I've never thought of myself like Marilyn Monroe, I was inspired by the tremendous risk she took - of being vulnerable.

I did things like Shampoo and Heaven Can Wait. I don't know what those films were about. The women I played in them were not very empowered.

Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.

I was a waitress years ago when I was first trying to become an actress, waiting tables in New York City.

I never pictured myself in California. I just thought I would be a character actress in New York on the stage. I never really had that stardom goal; I just wanted to be able to work as an actress and not as a waitress.

The great thing about 'Pretty Little Liars' is it shoots in Los Angeles where my home is, so I got to live at home and wake up in my own bed.

I sometimes have dreams that my assistant director is waking me up and trying to get me to the set.

You think of 'Outlaw Josey Wales,' you immediately think of the old Indian guy, Sondra Locke, the old lady with the glasses, beautiful old actress.

I was never looking back in regret. I never thought, Oh, why didn't I become an actress? or Why did I just go paddling along after John? I've always walked along right by his side, and he's always supported everything I do.

I wanted to be a theater actress, but I thought it would be easier to get to New York and the theater if I had a name than if I just walked the streets as a little girl from California.

I was studying my 'Bold and Beautiful' script the other day, lying in a hammock, when one of my Siberian tigers walked up and grabbed it out of my hand - she wanted to play. See - teeth marks!

I have never struggled for anything in my life because I never thought I will be an actress. Film just walked up to my house with 'Abodh.'

Actually, it wasn't on a set but we were on a shooting floor, we were doing the look test for 'The Sky Is Pink.' I walked on set and I saw Priyanka Chopra and I was like, 'What just happened?' Yeah, that was the first time I was smitten by all that she is and more.

I would even love to do a Bengali film if a good offer is made to me.

I have always wanted to work in a Bengali film.

I'd love to be Katherine Heigl's best friend in a movie!

My sister Raima, who is just a year older and my best friend too, is also an actress.

I'm often asked what it was like to have a famous mother. I always answer that I really don't know. I knew her first as my mother, and then as my best friend. Only after that did I understand that she was an actress, and with time that she was truly an exceptional actress.