If I hadn't been a model, I couldn't have become a movie actress.
If an actor or actress is recognizable, that changes our perception of them.
As a human being, Joan Crawford is a great actress.
I think it's incumbent on actresses to bring something else to the part which isn't in the script.
Before I read the script [The Following], I saw the schedule, and imagine how confusing that was. I thought it was intriguing. I'm an actress. Even if it's, by proxy, all about me, I'm all for it. It was all about me, but I didn't have to show up, so it was great.
I did indulge myself in a lot of history reading, to inform myself as to who the real woman was. As far as other actresses’ portrayals, though, I tried to stay clear. It muddles your process, I find.
I would say only be an actress if you genuinely feel the calling, because it's a tough profession.
Automatically everybody thinks of me as an actress who is trying to sing. And if I weren't me I'd probably think the same thing.
Hollywood is portrayed in this super glamorous way, but when I see pictures of actresses going off the rails, it doesn't surprise me at all.
As an English actress constantly playing Americans, you already had to step way out of your box in that way.
I do think that, at one time, being an actress was the equivalent almost of being a prostitute. It garnered roughly the same respect. That's changed a lot, thank goodness.
I forget about the relationship between myself and any actress when working with her.
I looked at a lot of photos from Hollywood in the '20s, photographs of silent movies being filmed all over the world which are very specific and very evocative. Berenice, the lead actress, is my wife. She really followed the same path with me.
I am not one of those actresses who loves acting.
When you dance intensely, you are really aware of your physicality, and that's always great to have as a tool, when you're an actress.
I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.
I feel like a character actress - it's where I'm comfortable.
There are a lot of French actresses who just hate me now. I've made enemies.
Every actress hopes to play a wide range of characters because not often you dont.
In Sweden, only exceptional actresses get major film parts.
I'm an actress, primarily. I love to write poetry. I've been writing poetry since I was 12 years old.
Any actress will tell you, when you've been given a starring role in the initial run of a show, you want to be getting the standing ovations every night, not just on review night.
I've been told if you're an actress you can't sing, if you're a dancer you can't act, you can't do theatre and be respected if you've done a TV soap, you can't have a No. 1 record. All these different things they've told me I can't do, but I wanted to do them, so I've done them.
As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.
Demi Moore is a terrific woman and a hell of an actress.
