Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil. — W. C. Fields
Christina Ricci is amazing, the most professional actor I think I've ever met. You can be chatting with her and when they call action, she's right there. — Lisa Kudrow
If two actors have an equal creative give and take between them, it translates beautifully on the screen. — Deepika Padukone
You can always pick out stage actors at the Oscars: they know how to walk. — Ian Mckellen
The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it. — Christopher Nolan
Everybody thinks about Bo Derek as being this extravagant looking lady but she is also a wonderful actress. — Wayne Rogers
There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen. — Bette Davis
It takes a smart brunette to play a dumb blonde. — Marilyn Monroe
People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else. — Bette Davis
Whatever good I have accomplished as an actress I believe came in direct proportion to my efforts to portray black women who have made positive contributions to my heritage. — Cicely Tyson
For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Being sexy is just one part of being a woman and an actress. But if the part calls for sexy... — Mariska Hargitay
An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything. — Whoopi Goldberg
I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting. — Lord Byron
I've always wanted to be a Meryl Streep or a Natalie Portman. I want to do all kinds of different movies, to be a chameleon. I don't want to limit myself. — Hayden Panettiere
Short Good Actresses Quotes
I’m just so glad that girl power is working in Hollywood. — Vivica Fox
You'll never see any two good actors approach a role in the same way. — Constantin Stanislavski
The best acting is instinctive. It's not intellectual, it's not mechanical, it's instinctive. — Craig MacDonald
The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart. — Bette Davis
I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress. — Valerie Bertinelli
Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite. — Ellen Terry
I think any actor worth their salt wants to show as much versatility as they possibly can. — Daniel Radcliffe
I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me. — Mary Tyler Moore
Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater. — Shirley Knight
Good Actresses Image Quotes
The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Actresses Quotes
You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count. — Nancy Reagan
Facials are my biggest beauty indulgence. Looking good is about having a good base. It's about taking care of your skin. — Halle Berry
I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't. — Marilyn Monroe
Persist to overcome. He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
The moment anyone tries to demean or degrade you in any way, you have to know how great you are. Nobody would bother to beat you down if you were not a threat. — Cicely Tyson
The more I think of it, the more I realize there are no answers. Life is to be lived. — Marilyn Monroe
It's fantastic because I've been living thousands of lives, not only my life. — Claudia Cardinale
Just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.
Don't settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had. We need to live the best that's in us. — Angela Bassett
It [prejudice] is such a waste. It makes you logy and half-alive. It gives you nothing. It takes away. — Dorothy Dandridge
In the dark times, if you have something to hold on to, which is yourself, you'll survive. — Whoopi Goldberg
I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life. — Elsie De Wolfe
Hollywood Actresses Quotes
I think it's even harder because I think as always, Hollywood is sort of glamour central for the world, and the entire world looks to it for not only entertainment, but the whole idea of the youth factor and youth being sold to our culture via young actors and actresses. — Anthony Michael Hall
Suddenly you're the mom, or you go from ... You're not an ingénue, you don't want to play an ingénue, but it's like that line in The First Wives Club [1996]: "There are only three ages for women in Hollywood: babe, district attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy." — Winona Ryder
This is hilarious. First, people say how so many actresses in Hollywood look anorexic, and now they are criticizing me for looking normal. Body images are too often adopted by young girls and women - thanks to what they are constantly being shown as being attractive. — Jennifer Lawrence
Never regret a day in your life: good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give lessons, and best days give memories.
Hollywood sold its stars on good looks and personality buildups. We weren't really actresses in a true sense, we were just big names - the products of a good publicity department. — Ann Sothern
Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request. — Bette Davis
Hollywood is about playing the game, and I can't think of any successful actresses who didn't play the game. There's a lot more renegades in the music business, from Patti Smith to Janis Joplin. — Madonna Ciccone
Whatever is good for you soul, do that.
In Hollywood, I'm obese. I'm considered a fat actress. I eat like a caveman. I'll be the only actress that doesn't have anorexia rumors! I'm never going to starve myself for a part. I'm invincible. I don't want little girls to be like "Oh, I want to look like Katniss, so I'm going to skip dinner!" — Jennifer Lawrence
I'm just a pack mule. I've played leads and I've played character roles. Any actress in Hollywood will tell you as your age climbs, the leads thin. — Marcia Gay Harden
You know, I had my mother and my father convincing me that he would be going back to Hollywood and he'd be back with the actresses and dating them and that he wasn't serious about me at all. So I had him saying one thing to me and my parents telling me something else. — Priscilla Presley
When you come from an environment that's military, and they don't stress that topic of aesthetics or beauty pageants and makeup, there are a lot of things you just don't have that city girls have. Or the country girl who goes to movies and dreams of going to Hollywood as an actress. — Pam Grier
Great Actors Quotes
Preparing a character is the opposite of building-it is a demolishing, removing brick by brick everything in the actor's muscles, ideas and inhibitions that stands between him and the part, until one day, with a great rush of air, the character invades his every pore. — Peter Brook
I'm living every ten-year-old boy's fantasy. The other day, Chris and I had this big scene where we had to pull out our guns, and I was thinking, 'Here we are in New York City - a place where every actor wants to be - and we are literally playing cops and robbers. How great is that?' — Mariska Hargitay
When the drama of history is over, Jesus Christ will stand alone on the stage. All the great figures of history ... will realize that they have been but actors in a drama produced by another. — Helmut Thielicke
Try no to resist the changes that come in your way. Instead, let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come? How Rumi Can Change Your Life?
An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox. — Francois Truffaut
The number one thing I am earnestly attracted to is intelligence. Writers are thus the pinnacle of intelligence. While actors are great and awesome, writers literally create new worlds from scratch. What is sexier than that? Personally, I don't know why every person out there isn't dating a writer. — Rachel Bloom
I like the sensibility of Australian film a lot and the crews are fantastic. Great characters, wonderful people and no line between - I think in Hollywood they have this line between actors and crew a lot, and that just didn't exist, which I really appreciated. — Barbara Hershey
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don't know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they are sitting there in silence. But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't. — Steve Coogan
My advice has always been to study the craft of acting if you want to be an actor. There are many great schools that teach acting. NYU being one of them. — Peter Facinelli
When I played Robin Hood, I knew the great role was Alan Rickman's and it didn't bother me. I always think that leading actors should be called the best supporting actors. — Kevin Costner
I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol. — Steven Seagal
To be good is to be forgotten. I'm going to be so bad I'll always be remembered. — Theda Bara
Most things don't work out as expected, but what happens instead often turns out to be the good stuff. — Judi Dench
When you're sad, you're not sad. You are merely oblivious to the good things in your life. There is always a crack of light in the darkness. Find it. — Dianna Agron
1. Find your own style and have the courage to stick to it. 2. Choose your clothes for your way of life. 3. Make your wardrobe as versatile as an actress. It should be able to play many roles. 4. Find your happiest colours - the ones that make you feel good. 5. Care for your clothes, like the good friends they are! — Joan Crawford
I now consider it a good day when I don't step on my boobs. — Joan Rivers
I figured as I got older, the good roles for women would be in the theatre. So 15 years ago I started building a Broadway career to try and develop the chops to be accepted as a great theatrical actress. — Kathleen Turner
As an actress, you go where the stories are. I don't really care where it's seen, at this point. I just want to tell good stories and do good roles that I haven't done before. — Winona Ryder
The good thing about being an actress is that it's very children-friendly. I can work for three months and then I can have six months off. And then I can work for six months and have six months off. — Gal Gadot
I think that when you're an actress, you have to think about what kind of a role model you're going to be. I hope that I'm a good role model for young girls. I'm not going to, if people still want me in their movies, I don't want to be one of these girls who goes around partying every night and is in rehab. I don't want to do that. — Saoirse Ronan
Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them? — Cate Blanchett
Well my taste wasn't very good when I first started out. But later, when I began to appreciate the art of acting, I would say the actress I most admire is Vanessa Redgrave. — Ellen Burstyn
There's always [on women's magazines] that great photo of the actress or model lifting up her shirt just to show you the bone structure and the six-pack of her own. It's almost like when horses are auctioned and they show you their teeth. 'Am I good enough?' — Janeane Garofalo
I work with Sally and I can see Sally doing that. She is very aggressive. Very fun loving and charming... and pushy in a very competitive way and a very healthy way and a very good actress. — Dabney Coleman
Its really good to have so distinctive a name as an actress. No one ever forgets it. My sister and brother are called Perdita and Rollo. Actually, my family calls me Hollyhocks. — Honeysuckle Weeks
Two of an actress's greatest assets are love and pain. A great actress, even a good actress, must have plenty of both in her life. — Katharine Hepburn
I was never an actress -- none of us kids at Metro were. We were just good to look at. — Ava Gardner
I want to do everything right now! This very minute. I am impatient, but yes I have goals. To be a real well-respected actress whom people know they can rely on to do a good job... whether they like me as a person or not! — Lynda Carter
Good actresses can often accomplish miracles, and it is possible to be someone you've never been or will be. But in a sitcom, there's no time. — Sayings
There’s something about Olivia de Havilland that has always set her apart from other actresses. Maybe it’s the combination of warmth, sensitivity and intelligence she conveys, or the way her good looks have always been further enhanced by the ever-present twinkle in her eyes or the wisdom you sense behind those orbs. — Robert Osborne
I think Miss Monroe as architecture is extremely good architecture, and she's a very natural actress, and a very good one. — Frank Lloyd Wright
I think the good thing about my face is it has always been expressive. With Botox that goes - not what you want as an actress. — Jane Seymour
The inability to listen and to depict in the countenance what others have said has spoiled many a good actress. — Julia Marlowe
There's a very small group of elite actresses who are my age, who people want to work with. It's not easy to get a good job with good actors. — Amanda Peet
I look to longevity. I just consider myself an actress and getting good roles. If being a 'superstar' gets me good roles, then that's a positive thing. But my goal isn't just to be a superstar. It's to act for a long time. — Penelope Ann Miller
In order to help those around you, and in order to even be a good actress and a good mother at the same time, you have to know your worth. — Shailene Woodley
The secret is to get a good cinematographer and a very good assistant director. If you get those and stay out of their way, and have good actresses, the script doesn't even have to be that extraordinary. — Lester Persky
When I was 14, a lot of people said, "She's such a good actress, she loves theater, she looks like a woman, she should consider moving to L.A. and trying to do this professionally." My parents were hesitant, but they would take me. — Emily Ratajkowski
I just want to do a good job with each role that I take and continue to better myself as an actress because that's what I love about this job... being able to act and work with so many different people on such a wide range of projects. — Emma Stone
There were many good actresses in my time like Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds, but I was the only dancer. — Leslie Caron
I love Joan Collins. She's a wonderful lady. She has such courage. She's such a good actress. — Robert Wagner
It's weird because here I am, an actress, representing - at least in some sense - an industry that places crushing standards on all of us. Not just young people, but everyone. Standards of beauty. Of a good life. Of success. Standards that, I hate to admit, have affected me. — Ellen Page
I'm an actress, I live in L.A., I work in Hollywood. But I've learned that if you're too skinny, they'll say something about it. If you're not skinny enough, they'll say something about it. I just try to feel good in my own skin as much as I can. — Jennifer Love Hewitt
It's also a question of finding good material and interesting roles. I'm not the only actress out there, and good parts just don't fall into your lap that easily. But I like most of the films I've made recently and so I'm pretty positive about the future. — Winona Ryder
Right now the music is more of a hobby since I'm making a good living as an actress. — Amy Jo Johnson
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. — Heather Hemmens
A lot of people are like, 'So you want to be famous.' And I'm like, 'No, I want to be good at my craft. I don't care about fame, I don't care if I even ever make it. As long as people know what I am as an actress in this business, I'm set for my career right now. — Chloe Grace Moretz
I just think that beautiful people don't have it as hard, you know? They just don't know what rejection's like. That's why super models aren't good actresses, because they don't need anything. If someone is beautiful and she's needy, she's probably had a terrible childhood. — Rob Schneider
I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs. — Imelda Staunton
I think every day there is some new actress comes out and inspires me to do something else... like Hilary Swank. After she did Boys Don't Cry, I felt this yearning to go out and be even half as good as she was. — Elizabeth Moss
Blythe Danner is somebody whose career I admire. She's a great actress and does good work, but also has a life of her own. I love my job but, at the end of the day, I want to come home and watch a movie and drink a bottle of wine with my husband. — Anna Faris
The three things I said when I came out of school were I want to work consistently, I want to do good work and I want to be paid fairly, and that's happened. But I didn't become an actress for the money. I do it for other reasons. — Angela Bassett
A lot of people are like, 'So you want to be famous.' And I'm like, 'No, I want to be good at my craft. I don't care about fame, I don't care if I even ever make it. As long as people know what I am as an actress in this business, I'm set for my career right now.' — Chloe Moretz
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