Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Actresses - Page 18

People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.

When it comes down to it, I'm just a girl who wears those five-finger weird toe shoes.

Spoiled is when humans put their pet's comfort before their own.

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel.

The secret of using makeup for fashion is to have fun with it. When people see that you are playful, that's attractive. Sometimes people apply makeup because they have bags under their eyes or because they don't feel good, and that just reads 'insecure.'

I'm not a depressive, but I certainly have mood swings. It's an occupational hazard, I would say, and I'm glad I'm in the occupation I'm in.

As a teenager, you're still discovering who you are, what your life is about, and who you want to be as a person. It's very intense.

Teenagers only have to focus on themselves - its not until we get older that we realize that other people exist.

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

Confidence is everything in this business.

Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

I don't smoke, don't drink much, and go to the gym five times a week. I live a healthy lifestyle and feel great. I can run a marathon, you know.

Life is full of risks anyway; why not take them?

I live without regrets. There are certain things I have done, mistakes that I made, that I would change, but I don't regret them at all, because I've learnt from them.

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

I'm a peace-maker, I can fit into a lot of situations. I'm pretty easygoing. I have a lot of patience.

What's the good of Twitter if you can't tweet cute... Twitter's so silly. I tweet about my rabbit a lot.

No family is sane, is it?

Don't try to squeeze into a glass slipper. Instead, shatter the glass ceiling.

I burp, I fart. I'm a real woman.

I have very high standards for every part of life - my work, my relationships, food, love. I can't just pretend.

Comedy is tragedy - plus time.

Look at the number of cop shows and lawyer shows and forensics shows... I think there could be room for two quite different examinations of the same political office.

I am naturally slim, actually thin. So, for years I have been trying to get some curves. I tried eating food that would increase my weight, but I only ended up putting fat around my stomach. So, now I have made peace with my body.

It looks like I'm just gonna keep getting really, really happy and sad and embarrassed and excited and disappointed for the rest of my life, so let's just do that.

If we can see past preconceived limitations, then the possibilities are endless.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'

I'm a person who perseveres. You know, you fall down, you get up.

Women are like ovens. We need 5 to 15 minutes to heat up.

I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a light bulb in a world of moths. That is what the manic state is like.

Whatever happens, who cares.

I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.

I really don't have a type. I never had a type. If I could put them all together, it's, like, the most different grouping. So I love when guys are funny. I love guys that are funny and goofy and over the top. And you know, I really like personality.

It's often out of my own insecurity. If I'm picky, it's for that reason. I want to be able to bring my best to the table. So if I'm not connecting to something, then I'm not gonna hold up my end of the bargain, and that's really embarrassing.

You can't snap your fingers, and suddenly half of Congress is women.

Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.

I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.

Speed bumps, I was thinking, you know, you're driving along, everything's OK, and then there's a speed bump to go, 'Slow down.' Go over it real slowly, and you hit the pedal, and you keep going, and I just thought it was kind of a nice metaphor for life.

If I'm going to have baked goods in the morning, the rule is that I have to make them myself.

If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by.

When you're writing a screenplay, it's like you're dreaming the film for yourself again and again and again until it becomes almost like a memory before you make it.

I'm a trained actress and I can do it, but I think that you have to prove yourself.

I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.

If you feel well and happy, your face will reflect this, but if you are down in the dumps and having a miserable time, your face will soon show this, too. In fact, you get the face you deserve by the time you're forty, and one of the keys to looking and feeling younger is being active.

I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time making decisions based on someone else's idea of our happiness - what will make you a good citizen or a good wife or daughter or actress. Nobody says, 'Just be happy - go be a cobbler or go live with goats.'

I trained for months to figure out how to ride a motorcycle. I have kind of a major fear of them. I have a major fear of going at fast speeds without any kind of protection, no helmet, an actor on the back with no helmet. I felt very afraid to do it. I love that I did it and overcame the fear and was able to do that.

Don't try to be young. Just open your mind. Stay interested in stuff. There are so many things I won't live long enough to find out about, but I'm still curious about them. You know people who are already saying, 'I'm going to be 30 - oh, what am I going to do?' Well, use that decade! Use them all!

I love that topic, the whole relationship thing, and I think that's why I love all this stuff, the Jane Austen stuff.

I'm human, I'm not perfect. I make mistakes all the time, but I guess my job is to keep those mistakes to myself, which I'm already fine doing and just try to be the best I can be for those kids.

It's always nice when people appreciate your work because it means you've affected them, which is great. And so that feels good.

This is my costume. I'm a homicidal maniac. They look just like everyone else.

If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.

Work wise, as a stunt woman, I enjoy telly - or TV - because - and, as an actor - I kind of enjoy the urgency of it. I enjoy the problem-solving that's happening. Right now, we don't have time to rehearse for hours. And, if something goes wrong, we don't have time to shoot something else for four days until we sort it out.

I've always dreamt of having some sort of undercover job. I think it's probably the coolest thing in the world, but ultimately a very lonely life.

The beauty of age is we grow, we learn. We have more wisdom. And as much as the youth-glorifying Hollywood would like us to believe, it's nothing. They're wrong.

Don't let loneliness drive you back into the arms of someone who doesn't give a damn about you.

I've always been a private person, and I've always valued my private life.

I never underestimate the power of hot rollers for your hair and eyelash curlers for your eyelashes.

I don't think it's true that blondes have more fun... Trust me, it is not true!