Actress Quotes

“I have too many fantasies to be a housewife.... I guess I am a fantasy.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.”
― Billie Holiday

“It just goes to show that if you tell a woman her only skill is to be desirable, she will believe you.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“This became a credo of mine...attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.”
― Bette Davis

“I’m not going to let my insecurities keep me from having a good time. I think that if you don’t loose your self-consciousness, you can’t really be present in a situation. For example, if you’re at The Louvre, but you’re thinking about how much you hate your jeans, you’re not really at The Louvre. So in your memory, when you look back, you’re always going to be like, “I was wearing those jeans I hated”. And you’re not going to remember anything else.”
― Christina Ricci

“Betsy liked to read her stories aloud and she read them like an actress. She made her voice low and thrillingly deep. She made it shake with emotion. She laughed mockingly and sobbed wildly when the occasion required.”
― Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown

“I would give a million bucks to have seen my mother say "cute shoes" to naked Ashley Judd.”
― Brian Fies

“ 'Reedlike, that’s what Hedy Kiesler is, sweet and reedlike, and when she wants to talk to you she doesn’t lean over your shoulder and arch herself out behind like a debutante....She leans back from you [and] takes a good look in your eyes and a firm grip on your name before she will allow herself to say a word.' ”
― Richard Rhodes, Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World

“The only time I'll be caught dancing is in the end zone after scoring a touchdown.”
― Nicole Heart, The Spunky Girl & Her Popular Player

“To Lina Poletti, actresses were like verbs as yet unconjugated: they contained in themselves the heady potential for any deed, any command, any future. It was by their brave hands that an object would bear its action.”
― Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho

“This year I turn 40, still single, but filled with a sense of wholeness and completeness that I have never felt before. I am unafraid to chase my passions, pursue my dreams, and conquer even the tallest of mountains.”
― Yvonne Padmos

“As an actor you could hardly be accused of disappearing into the background."
"But acting isn't about being noticed or showing off; it's about observation." A man had said that to her once at the stage door. She'd been leaving after a theatre session, buzzing still with the high of performance, and he'd stopped her to say how much he'd enjoyed it. "You've a great talent for observation," he'd said. "Ears, eyes, and heart, all at once.”
― Kate Morton, The Secret Keeper

“Kelvinist and Calvinist, schoolgirlishly light-hearted, she stood out in Manhattan like a Welsh miner at a bar mitzvah.”
― John Osborne, Looking Back: Never Explain, Never Apologise

“Like most actors, she was hysterical when unemployed and resentful when appearing every night to full houses. She also entertained the common belief that a writer is only working when he can be seen head down at his desk. Why are you drinking/dreaming/farting/fornicating instead of making typewriter noises?”
― John Osborne, Looking Back: Never Explain, Never Apologise

“I am not the actress, but that is my real name.”
― Jodi Foster, Forgotten Burial: A Restless Spirit s Plea for Justice

“Building on beauty... seems to me the worst thing any girl can do.”
― Thelma Todd

“The potential for your artistry when truly tapped, will evoke certain specific reactions in the body, such as temperature change, a flight or fight response and even a change in saliva production. If you can commit to your craft this deeply, the level of specificity and authenticity of your performance will scale new heights.”
― Murisa Harba Durrant, Acting With Energy: Creating Brilliance Take After Take

“4. Who cares if you can nail your performance once. I want you to be able to do it over and over, as you would on set when they move from the master shot to the medium shot to the close up and then do the same thing again in the turnaround. That would be impressive to me.  ”
― Murisa Harba Durrant, Acting With Energy: Creating Brilliance Take After Take

“Who cares if you can nail your performance once. I want you to be able to do it over and over, as you would on set when they move from the master shot to the medium shot to the close up and then do the same thing again in the turnaround. That would be impressive to me.  ”
― Murisa Harba Durrant, Acting With Energy: Creating Brilliance Take After Take

“In acting, talent is a euphemism for the ability to pretend … convincingly.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Being yourself is the simplest role of an actor”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“It’s a beautiful thing to be in Hollywood... the feeling of it... that classical glamour never dies.” She walked to the closet and back to the bed. “The actress lives a beautiful life once at a certain level... when her sink has a view and her phone calls aren’t rejections anymore, but producers, offices, playhouses in London, a director pitching his sacred screenplay. The food gets healthier, people around you are more positive... driving in traffic is even different because your car is nice, and the music you normally hate sounds different when life works... when you get the furniture you want... And mentors pass down movie posters from their mentors—so Hepburn never really dies. You keep it in your home... there’s room for everything... I treasure letters from other artists... studio invitations... Being a woman in Hollywood is entirely different than a man’s experience. All the time, by everyone, for everything, a woman is wanted... dinners... so many dinners... so many scripts lying around the room, in the sun... the people you have yet to meet... it’s not about fame—I do not care for the public praise... but what is truly compelling is when you make it big, you finally understand why there are palm trees in this city... Los Angeles suddenly turns on. Like a bulb you thought disliked you and would never light. But it lights. Of course, one must put the cocktail down, leave the house, and make more movies. But this is to say, the after hours are nice. When the camera is off and I return home, I get to love what is left.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, A Happy Ghost

“Life is sweet when the whisky's sour.”
― Jazz Egger

“Acting awards may come and go, but the impact of my investigative work on the lives of others is everlasting.”
― Yvonne Padmos

“I'll sing without singing lessons because it brings me happiness. We should pursue joy, not just perfection. I share my love for singing with the world, even without professional training. Like climbing mountains, it doesn't matter if I reach the top with or without lessons - the view is just as beautiful from where I stand.”
― Yvonne Padmos

“The amusing thing about porn is that often the best heterosexual females are in fact lesbians, and the best lesbians are heterosexuals. That should tell us something about the acting abilities of females.”
― Jack Freestone

“Celebrities who are cult owned and controlled are empty shells who have achieved nothing by themselves in their lives.”
― Jack Freestone

“Actors read lines and change their facial expressions.”
― Jack Freestone

“[About Lady M and Macbeth] I mean, they've got what they've wanted--they've fought for this: he's King, she's Queen. But somehow the gap between them is widening and widening. Where there was once passion and conspiracy and closeness, suddenly--whoosh--it's gone. She's looking at someone who she doesn't know any more. He's away--miles away. Oh God.”
― Brendan O'Hea, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

“Status is created by other people's attitude towards you. Titania has a retinue and it's the people around her that give her the status. It's like--was it Tyrone Guthrie who said it to Ian Holm when he was playing Henry V? 'Don't let anyone come within four feet of you.' It's all to do with how other people act in relation to you. That's what gives you the power.”
― Brendan O'Hea, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent