Actresses Quotes - Page 25

Film has always been hard for me, I'm basically a stage actress. I never felt comfortable in front of the camera.

I used to search and search for that actor or actress who's exactly what's in my head. But you have to realize you have to cast whoever's super talented and super funny, and then the character has to become at least partially theirs.

You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.

At least I'm not playing other people for a change. It's a very odd place to be... I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.

[Victoria Clark] is one of those people who has the rarest combination of gifts. I can put her in any classical play tomorrow because she such an extraordinary actress.

I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.

My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.

I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.

Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.

What I like about being an actress is that it keeps you feminine. Being a director and producer makes you manly and very masculine and I don't like that quality in a woman. But I'll do it when the film is very close to me.

When I was doing comedy in New York, before I was in movies, I was never known as the deadpan actress. I was just a comedienne.

I tend to be a lazy actress, unless I'm pushed.

I got to work with Jennifer Tilly, she was amazing. Such, such a smart actress.

Why, when I was a child, I didn't say, as most children do, that I was going to become an actress. I felt that I was an actress and no one could have convinced me that I wasn't!

When I first became an actress, I expected to do regional and classical theater; I just love the whole creative process.

There's nothing wrong with making little kids happy, but there's nothing wrong with wanting to be an adult actress. I mean a grown-up actress.

I knew I wanted to be an actress when I was 9 years old.

I always wanted to be an actress. I couldn't imagine being anything else.

I look at being an actress as being like a mummy: You're bandaged up and preserved as soon as you start making other people money.

I listened to a lot of tapes of British theatre actresses and tried to learn from them. As Americans, we don't have such a gift with language.

I really wanted to go back to the theater, the live theater. That was the thing I had never had a chance to do, even though I had trained to be a stage actress.

I very seldom said no, and I was aided and abetted by my husband, who realized that the one thing I could do was to be a very good actress, by his note.

I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest. The experience of working there is something of a battleground, a great one, but complicated. I think there's a deep connection for having survived that workplace.

It's definitely like being in some weird sorority. I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest.

Don't associate me with comedy. And please don't say actress. I would never call myself any of those things. I hate it when people call me that.