I hated the whole idea of being an actress. I used to throw up before every performance and cry afterward.
One of the rules about being an actor or an actress is that you never diss other actors or actresses, particularly when you don't know them.
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.
I was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up.
I've been in showbusiness all my life, but as an actress I have never been overly driven.
At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger.
I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman.
I got all the schooling any actress needs. That is, I learned to write enough to sign contract.
Someone once told me to "be a black belt at whatever you do." In other words, don't just be good or okay - be the best you can be. Not only do I apply that to my work as an actress, but I also went out and got my black belt.
The shelf life of a movie actor or actress is so short, it's like milk.
Being an actress has something in common with being a housewife. They both look terribly easy to someone who hasn't done them. And the easier it looks, probably the better you are doing your job.
I never really thought about being an actress or being anything like that. I was always a bit scared as well because of the thing about models becoming an actress and all that.
Actresses are nightmares. I don't hang out with any of them. That's a problem with my profession. I try not to be like an actress.
Theres plenty of great independent films to do, but you cant support yourself making independent film as an actress.
I’d really love to be a versatile, chameleon-like actress, stretching myself a bit.
Someone I've always admired is Catherine O'Hara... I think she's one of the best actresses in the country, not only comedy. I just think she's just a step aside from everybody, she's just wonderful.
I'm a more mature actress now.
Some of the things I've seen a lot of my female-actress friends who are relatively famous receive - I've seen some hideous things. Like some really, really bad things... like, the FBI should be contacted immediately.
I loved working with Jamie Lee Curtis, and I felt she was a wonderful actress even that early in her career.
The second host that I had was an actress I didn't know named Susan St. James.
Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.
I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to be a model.
My favorite actresses are Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts and Julie Andrews.
I don't think actresses' lives in general are very good
I know Raft did have some genuine affairs with actresses.
