1.
It's fantastic because I've been living thousands of lives, not only my life.
Claudia Cardinale
I'm privileged to have experienced an abundance of lives, not just my own.
2.
Hold your head high, and your middle finger higher.
Megan Fox
3.
To be good is to be forgotten. I'm going to be so bad I'll always be remembered.
Theda Bara
4.
I still love the people I’ve loved, even if I cross the street to avoid them.
Uma Thurman
5.
If only I'd known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.
Bette Midler
6.
You must not quote to me what I once said. I am wiser now.
Romy Schneider
7.
I suppose life is a little like that, isn't it, a message in a bottle pitched out to sea, to be carried by the winds and the tides, washing up on the beaches we could never imagine.
Gene Tierney
8.
I'm not a great actress, and I never thought I was. But I happen to have something the public likes.
Jean Harlow
9.
Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.
Carrie Fisher
10.
There are five stages in the life of an actor: Who's Mary Astor? Get me Mary Astor. Get me a Mary Astor type. Get me a young Mary Astor. Who's Mary Astor?
Mary Astor
11.
If I were really really ridiculously wealthy, I wouldn’t buy a mansion, just tiny apartments in every city I love.
Mara Wilson
13.
It was I who made Fellini famous, not the other way around.
Anita Ekberg
14.
There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.
Frances Farmer
15.
That’s why you call it a budget. You set it and you don’t budge.
Jennifer Morrison
18.
Everybody thinks about Bo Derek as being this extravagant looking lady but she is also a wonderful actress.
Wayne Rogers
19.
I will have one of the cleanest obits of any actress. I never did cheesecake like Ann Sheridan or Betty Grable. I just used my hair.
Veronica Lake
20.
I just feel incredibly lucky to be employed when there are so many actors and actresses who are not employed. That's why, you know, I sometimes feel desperate, in case I'm not going to be cast again.
Judi Dench
21.
Within the various acts of the ecodrama should be included scenes in which men's and women's roles come to center stage and scenes in which Nature 'herself' is an actress.
Carolyn Merchant
22.
I was hired to be an actress, not a personality for the press.
Grace Kelly
23.
The war is like an actress who is getting old. It's less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous. (1944)
Robert Capa
24.
I only ever wanted to be an actress, not a star.
Teresa Wright
25.
It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness.
Glenn Close
26.
It's important for me to be immersed in all cultures. I'm an actress.
Rachel
28.
If I wasn't an actress I would run a fortune 500 company.
Sela Ward
29.
Increasingly, stars are recruited from the ranks of professional models, with the result that today`s starlets are better dressed and better groomed than ever before, though it is doubtful if they are better actresses.
Rita Hayworth
31.
I wasn't born an actress, you know. Events made me one.
Jean Harlow
32.
Except for Preity Zinta, I haven't met a single secure actress in Bollywood.
Katrina Kaif
33.
Surround yourself with people who respect and treat you well.
Claudia Black
34.
It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.
Marilyn Monroe
35.
People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
Bette Davis
36.
Being sexy is just one part of being a woman and an actress. But if the part calls for sexy...
Mariska Hargitay
37.
The only other thing that interested me as a kid was being a bricklayer. So if I hadn't become an actress, I would probably be a bricklayer.
Nikki Cox
38.
An actress once advised me, 'Make sure you do your own laundry - it will keep you honest.'
Cate Blanchett
39.
I'm the seagull. No, that's not it. I'm an actress. That's it.
Anton Chekhov
40.
I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.
Natalie Dormer
41.
I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.
Dakota Fanning
43.
If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.
Tallulah Bankhead
44.
I finally feel like I'm becoming somebody. I really think like I can do something. I just know I'm going to be an actress. I want it so bad.
Anna Nicole Smith
45.
I always think of Meryl [Streep] for everything now. There really aren't many actresses around who are truly lucid the way she is.
Carrie Fisher
46.
The kiss. There are all sorts of kisses, lad, from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of them all, the kiss of an actress is the most unnerving. How can we tell if she means it or if she's just practicing?
Ruth Gordon
47.
If I only dated actresses, Id be a very lonely man.
Joshua Jackson
48.
Actresses have more fear of being disliked. I, on the other hand, revel in it.
Michael Douglas
49.
I didn't want to be an actress. I wanted to be a dentist, but you never know what life will bring you.
Sofia Vergara
50.
I didn't want to be an actress at all, or famous even. I certainly enjoy acting now, absolutely. Time will tell whether or not I enjoy fame.
Gabourey Sidibe