All Quotes

As an actress - and as an actor, too, but it's worse for actresses - you constantly get picked apart for how you look.
‐‐ Lizzy Caplan

As an actress and comedienne, I'm a huge fan of he theatre and the Tricycle in Kilburn is my favourite in London. I dragged my kids to a performance of 'Twelfth Night' there, where they handed out pizza. Who knew that all it takes to get children interested in Shakespeare is a snack?
‐‐ Arabella Weir

As an actress, as you get older, you find yourself in a situation where you play mothers or women who are hoping to be mothers.
‐‐ Natalie Dormer

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

As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.
‐‐ Martha Plimpton

As an actress, I always felt like the people you met on set were interchangeable with the people you met on other sets - the grips, the gaffers, the actors, the directors - everybody steps into their role.
‐‐ Brooke Adams

As an actress, I am always interested in the new writers.
‐‐ Donna McKechnie

As an actress I feel that if you start to impose your own inhibitions, then you are not doing your job.
‐‐ Sienna Miller

As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director.
‐‐ Joan Chen

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

As an actress, I have put myself out there as an independent black woman, a single mom, a go-getter, a hustler who isn't afraid to survive.
‐‐ LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

As an actress, I have to be objective about myself. If I don't criticize myself, there are plenty who will do a find job of it for me!
‐‐ Loretta Young

As an actress I just want to tell beautiful stories.
‐‐ Marion Cotillard

As an actress, I learned a long time ago that there is a lot of this business that is just out of my hands. All I can really focus on is going to work every day and doing my best.
‐‐ Megan Hilty

As an actress, I'm constantly watching different shows and films and am always gathering information and inspiration for characters and techniques to make my performances the best they can be.
‐‐ Rachel G. Fox

As an actress, I'm drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I'm fortunate to have thoughts and feelings at my fingertips.
‐‐ Diane Keaton

As an actress, I never went to film school, and I think if I had gone to film school, I would have started with a great advantage. If you have a strong intent to do anything in life, you can do it, but it always helps to have formal training.
‐‐ Preity Zinta

As an actress, I really love people like Anna Magnani and Debra Winger. I also think there is nobody better than Meryl Streep.
‐‐ Penelope Cruz

As an actress I take roles I find interesting.
‐‐ Emma Watson

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.
‐‐ Natalie Dormer

As an actress, I think there is always a political consciousness there.
‐‐ Juliette Binoche

As an actress, I was trained to show emotion I did not feel, or no emotion at all.
‐‐ Gene Tierney

As an actress, if you find inspiration through my work, then my job is complete.
‐‐ Masiela Lusha

As an actress, it appeals to me because I love the idea of playing those in-between moments, the sort of behavioral stuff that one might not normally see.
‐‐ Julia Louis-Dreyfus

As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.
‐‐ Rachel Weisz

As an actress, one of the perks is having access to ridiculously expensive clothing and prancing around on the red carpet. Who wouldn't want to have fun with that?
‐‐ Becki Newton

As an actress, our hours can be grueling, and like any mother that has a career or job, it is difficult. Balancing spending time with your child in the morning and after they come home from daycare/school before is the key.
‐‐ Kym Whitley

As an actress people always tease me like: if there's anything you can do to make yourself unattractive you will do it.
‐‐ Amy Adams

As an actress, the joy of being able to play the three sides of any woman, which are the glamour, the pragmatic and the one not to be messed with, is pretty glorious.
‐‐ Victoria Smurfit

As an actress, there's nothing worse than not knowing your cues.
‐‐ Kristin Davis

As an actress, there were so many months, years even, when I didn't get work, when I wanted to quit.
‐‐ Mariska Hargitay

As an actress we don't beat one another. It's whoever's right for the part.
‐‐ Juliette Binoche

As an actress, weekends can be spent working, but my husband, Ryan, works regular hours as an analytics manager for L'Oreal.
‐‐ Katherine Kelly

As an actress you can participate, you can be a co-author, help the director. But I always wanted to be able to make the big decisions.
‐‐ Valeria Golino

As an actress, you have to give your character a life, a history, and make it full and rich for yourself.
‐‐ Cara Buono

As an actress, you have to keep yourself fresh and new.
‐‐ Jaime Winstone

As an actress, you know there are limitations on what you can do creatively.
‐‐ Michelle Yeoh

As an actress, you never know when you're going to work again - and there's so much dependency on working.
‐‐ Alia Shawkat

As an actress, you're already disregarded for a lot of the parts by the people who are setting up those shows. You don't need your agent to be doing the same.
‐‐ Tia Carrere

As an actress, you're part of what the director is creating, and as a model, you're representing a designer's vision.
‐‐ Lou Doillon

As an actress, you're perpetually about to be unemployed. That fear - when you have two parents who worked 9-to-5 jobs and went through periods of being unemployed - is real. Those were not welcome times in my childhood.
‐‐ Anna Kendrick

As an adolescent, I was bitter and angry, and I definitely put up these walls.
‐‐ Peter Dinklage

As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.
‐‐ Charles de Gaulle

As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn't really have the nerve to sing my songs on stage, and nobody else was doing them. I decided to do them in disguise so that I didn't have to actually go through the humiliation of going on stage and being myself.
‐‐ David Bowie

As an adolescent, I went to charm school, where I learned to pour tea and relate to boys, which, as I recall, meant giving them the pickle jar to unscrew, whether it was too hard for me or not.
‐‐ Sue Monk Kidd

As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.
‐‐ Umberto Eco

As an adolescent, Spider-Man was what got me through tough times in terms of being a skinny kid.
‐‐ Andrew Garfield

As an adopted person, once you find out about that 'other' side of yourself, it's almost like you find out who you really are.
‐‐ Marcus Samuelsson

As an adoptive parent myself of foster children, I have seen firsthand the glaring problems of the system currently facing this Nation.
‐‐ Dennis Cardoza

As an adult (after college) and as an artist I thought about what was real, what sustained me - it was Christian Science. I was using that when I didn't know it. Saying yes to the Light and your better instinct.
‐‐ Alfre Woodard