Quotes About Actress

I love Cate Blanchett: she takes risks, but is still refind.

I love Jennifer Hudson! She is so lovely on screen. She is so buoyant and youthful off screen as much as on.

Part of me would love to have been a leading lady because there's a lot of glamour that goes with that and a lot of applause, but I've been very blessed.

I love playing an alien.

I would love to do a really cool romantic comedy, perhaps with Hugh Grant. I think he is brilliant. That's the kind of film I love to go to see. I love 'girls' films.

I would love to someday do a play. I did one when I was very young in San Francisco, where I grew up. A girl can dream.

I'd love to be in a period drama - that's my obsession. But being a mixed-race actress, there aren't so many roles you're right for.

I love sitting in the makeup trailer and getting my makeup done in 15 minutes as opposed to an hour and a half.

My daughter, Asia, has been in many of my movies. I love working with her. In the beginning, I was not supportive of her being an actress, but now I think she is fantastic.

What keeps me interested--and it always does--is how can she be a bad actress on film but a good one in reality?

A jolly feel good film with Vadivelu playing the comedian along with Rajni at his humourous best is 'Chandramukhi.'

I've got a massive actor girl crush on Carey Mulligan, so I'd love to be buddies with her. She just oozes this joyful, natural innocence and always brings a nice emotional depth to her character.

I play a character every day of my life, and I don't want to play a character as myself. They can judge me as an actress, not as a person. I'm not a spokeswoman for Anna.

When we went to Judy Davis and said, 'We want you to play Judy Garland in the mini-series 'Life With Judy Garland,' she was shocked, but we just had an instinct about her.

I watch a lot of U.S. comedy, shows such as 'Eastbound & Down' and 'Veep.' I love Julia Louis-Dreyfus and her character in that show.

Julia Roberts is a favorite. Everybody loves her in the Hollywood community. The public adores her.

I grew up watching Julia Roberts and Gwyneth Paltrow. I dreamed of working in the arts.

There are so few roles out there. And even if it is a film that could be led by a black actress, how many times is that film going to get funded? Let's just be real. But it's not just black people. It's Asians, it's Hispanic people if you're not Salma Hayek. It's hard. It's hard to get films funded.

There's just something extraordinary about that Selma Hayek.

Kate Mara is actually one of my really good friends.

Diane Keaton was a big role model for me.

My husband was actually very keen that I would become a Bond girl.

A filmmaker chooses an actress keeping the best interest of the film in mind. If he doesn't cast you, it doesn't mean there's a personal agenda. Change is constant, and if you have agreed to be part of this industry, you will have to go with the change. The films and filmmakers, even the audience has changed.

I didn't want to be known as the reality-show star trying to be an actress, so I kept a lot of the failed auditions to myself.