Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Actresses - Page 2

I grew up in the Ukraine 'til I was about 7, and then I moved to L.A.

If you feel glamorous, you definitely look glamorous.

I think when you're doing good work, you don't necessarily need to be validated.

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.

A woman has many faces as she goes through her life. It's like we need more than one hair-do. We have many, many changes in the evolution of our lives. We have, we learn, and we grow; we view life differently, and life views us differently.

It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

Clay can be dirt in the wrong hands, but clay can be art in the right hands.

If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.

I'm always interested in relationships between women. I'm always interested in how women relate to each other, whether it's a family relationship or it's a friend relationship. That's such uncharted territory in cinema.

I did karate for years and years and years.

Your body is a vehicle of your emotions and a vehicle of feelings and a vehicle of whatever you need to get done in life. And you've got to take care of that vehicle.

Old age is no place for sissies.

Do you have to have a reason for loving?

I was raised Catholic, but then I discovered Buddhism, and I used to have a boyfriend who was a Scientologist, and they are all good religions that help people. As far as I'm concerned, you can have all three religions at once and it's okay!

Smell the roses. Smell the coffee. Whatever it is that makes you happy.

There's no bad consequence to loving fully, with all your heart. You always gain by giving love.

Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.

It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.

I like my money right where I can see it... hanging in my closet.

When I was growing up, I was so fascinated by Mel Blanc and all of the different voices that he did for 'Looney Tunes' and watching Robin Williams record voice-over for the genie in 'Aladdin.' It always seemed to be a major honor - something you have to earn. Like people trust you when they want to have you there without seeing you.

Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.

I tell myself that if I start to listen to these people and start to let them decide how I should behave and what I should do, then this is not my life - it's theirs.

I need to see my own beauty and to continue to be reminded that I am enough, that I am worthy of love without effort, that I am beautiful, that the texture of my hair and that the shape of my curves, the size of my lips, the color of my skin, and the feelings that I have are all worthy and okay.

My dream role would probably be a psycho killer, because the whole thing I love about movies is that you get to do things you could never do in real life, and that would be my way of vicariously experiencing being a psycho killer. Also, it's incredibly romantic.

When you take care of yourself, you're a better person for others. When you feel good about yourself, you treat others better.

The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.

My mother is the sort of a person who has no boundaries and no filter. She also has a big ego, but it's a very unique one. And I grew up with lots of artists in an environment where conformity and the norm were totally not what anybody was after.

I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.

Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.

I decided if you're lucky enough to be alive, you should use each birthday to celebrate what your life is about.

My brother was listening to his transistor radio. He kept switching the earpiece from one ear to the other, which I thought was his idea of a joke. 'You can't do that,' I said. 'You can only hear out of one ear.' 'No, I can hear out of both,' he answered. And that was how I discovered I was deaf in my right ear.

I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

I believe your reality is what you make it, what you choose to see, and what you choose to allow yourself to do. There are possibilities all around you - magic all around you - no matter what situation you're in.

My favorite things often have a story behind them and are usually handmade or discovered at a flea market.

People see me as cute, but I'm so much more than that.

My very best friend died in a car accident when I was 16 years old. That was the hardest blow emotionally that I have ever had to endure. Suddenly, you realize tomorrow might not come. Now I live by the motto, 'Today is what I have.'

But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake.

I like for jewelry to tell a story and to be able to talk about what I'm wearing. That's more important to me than a name, brand, or label.

'Everything happens for a reason' is something that we have to tell ourselves all the time, because it's good to have the idea that something good is around the corner.

Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.

I always pack a travel snack bag. You don't want to get stuck without snacks no matter where you go!

I do like not knowing where I'm going, wandering in strange woods, whistling and following bread crumbs.

Nature is my church. The wind in the trees and the bugs and the frogs. All those things are comfort to me.

I can't stop moving. I'm like this weird insect. I can't sit still in real life.

I wanted to be a drag queen so badly. I'll bet I still own more wigs than any drag queen - I love me a wig.

Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.

I'm so lucky to have the opportunity to work with some directors and some actors I wouldn't have dared to think I would work with one day.

It's never a done deal until it's a done deal.

Music is what our feelings sound like.

You may not be thinking about politics, but politics is thinking about you.

I don't usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it's true - I'm scary.

I'm currently single, so I want to have fun! As for what guys need to do to date out of their league, it's all about the swagger. If you have confidence, you can get pretty much any girl.

I'm a little quirky, a little offbeat, and I'm certainly not a classic beauty.

Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.

My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life.

I feel like I'm going backwards, actually, as I get older. I'm regressing. I feel more and more like a kid, which is kind of a fun feeling.

I actually have this fantasy of giving up my cell phone.