Actresses Quotes

It's fantastic because I've been living thousands of lives, not only my life.

Hold your head high, and your middle finger higher.

To be good is to be forgotten. I'm going to be so bad I'll always be remembered.

I still love the people I’ve loved, even if I cross the street to avoid them.

If only I'd known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.

You must not quote to me what I once said. I am wiser now.

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.

I'm not a great actress, and I never thought I was. But I happen to have something the public likes.

Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.

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?

My ambition is to be happy.

If I were really really ridiculously wealthy, I wouldn’t buy a mansion, just tiny apartments in every city I love.

It was I who made Fellini famous, not the other way around.

There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.

That’s why you call it a budget. You set it and you don’t budge.

Any obsession is dangerous.

I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.

Everybody thinks about Bo Derek as being this extravagant looking lady but she is also a wonderful actress.

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.

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.

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.

I was hired to be an actress, not a personality for the press.

The war is like an actress who is getting old. It's less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous. (1944)

I only ever wanted to be an actress, not a star.

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.