Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Actresses - Page 3

I love witches and magic and dress-up and make-believe.

I've learned that I can't have a packed work schedule and a packed social schedule and a packed personal life; I need to just have time to myself to sit and breathe and unwind.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy.

I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.

The biggest lessons I've learned in life have probably come from a bad situation, from an angry situation, even if I wasn't the one who was angry.

Shopping is a bit of a relaxing hobby for me, which is sometimes troubling for the bank balance.

When I'm relaxed, jeans and a shirt are my uniform.

Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you've lived well, your smile lines are in the right places, and your frown lines aren't too bad, what more do you need?

Make a choice: continue living your life feeling muddled in this abyss of self-misunderstanding, or you find your identity independent of it. You push for colour-blind casting; you draw your own box. You introduce yourself as who you are, not what colour your parents happen to be.

It's so important to keep a marriage alive with small treats and doing little things for each other. Just remembering to say nice things and to have listening time is vital. That ghastly phrase 'quality time' means taking three minutes to sit down and be still with someone rather than yelling over your shoulder as you rush out.

I am heat obsessed. I crave the heat in my bedroom.

Just do your best. I find that if I set that goal for myself and no one else, I feel good.

I have very short hair. It's the only cute haircut I think I've ever had.

Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown?

When you lose a spouse, you're a widow or widower; when you lose your parents, you're an orphan. When you lose a child, there's no word in the English language for that position, that place that you're left.

It's okay to lose. Losing teaches you something. Having to try and going through the trials and tribulations to actually overcome, to get there to win, to triumph, that's what makes life interesting.

There will always be ladies who lunch. Always. And apparently they live a long time.

Take a step back, evaluate what is important, and enjoy life.

When I was growing up, we didn't have much money. What was important in my house was to have food on the table, be happy, and have our family.

The ultimate dream in life is to be able to do what you love and learn something from it.

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. When you hear a song and you're acting it's incredible. But when you're singing a song and you're acting it's even more incredible.

I am the American Dream. I am the epitome of what the American Dream basically said. It said you could come from anywhere and be anything you want in this country. That's exactly what I've done.

And I'm a really happy person, I enjoy life. I think you see that on people. I think there's nothing more aging than misery.

Everyone has highs and lows that they have to learn from, but every morning I start off with a good head on my shoulders, saying to myself, 'It's going to be a good day!'.

As I get older I'm more and more comfortable being alone.

I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.

A magnetic personality doesn't necessarily indicate a good heart.

Freedom of being alone is intoxicating.

Trust your gut. You know yourself, so don't let somebody else tell you who you are.

I like the energy of live performance.

You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.

Having been a stunt girl for so long, a big part of my job, when being a stunt double, was to not just make the other person look as cool as they could, but also to act as support.

Life has sweetness to it and a beauty and a power that I wanted to celebrate.

I think the most important thing in life is self-love, because if you don't have self-love, and respect for everything about your own body, your own soul, your own capsule, then how can you have an authentic relationship with anyone else?

I have olive skin, so if I get pale, I look green. I have to tan.

It ends up being a terrible movie if you try and please everyone.

My belief is that communication is the best way to create strong relationships.

Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.

Curvy is something to be proud of.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

If you don't love what you are doing, it could be misery.

My husband is from Hawaii and his father who was also born in Hawaii was a teenager when Pearl Harbor happened, right before church and he ran up and got on the roof of his grandfather's house and watched the planes go over.

I wish there were two of me and 48-hour days so I could get everything done. But for me, I have to not try and think that everything has to be 100% perfect all the time and leave room for error. As long as my kids feel loved and a priority, everything really is secondary.

As I'm getting older, I'm really learning unconditional love and loyalty are extremely important.

Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.

The finest lesson I've learned with age is that all I need is a small team of comrades who inspire me, try not to judge me, and remind me when I'm judging myself.

There is something at work that's bigger than us. It's about having a trust in life and being at peace that things are happening the way they should. You do what you do as well as you can do it, and then you don't worry or agonize about the outcome.

It can only be true love when you enable your other half to be better, to be the person they're destined to be.

True elegance for me is the manifestation of an independent mind.

I'm a bit of a workaholic. When I feel like I'm not doing something, it drives me insane.

Even though you're growing up, you should never stop having fun.

I can sing 'Happy Birthday' to you in twelve different places, but one of them is going to make you feel a certain thing, maybe it's a vulnerability, maybe an innocence, maybe another way is sexy and soulful or bluesy whatever it is, but with singers, exploring keys, I think, is important.

My mom always says, 'If you don't believe in something, you'll lose yourself completely.'

My parents came here from Colombia during a time of great instability there. Escaping a dire economic situation at home, they moved to New Jersey, where they had friends and family, seeking a better life, and then moved to Boston after I was born.

The fruit of your own hard work is the sweetest.

A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.

My happy place is my bedroom. I love it.

I do recommend it for all girls, and boys, out there: put on a pair of fishnet stockings and find your inner sexiness!

To be yourself is truly a revolutionary act, and I think more and more people should try it, because it's gotten me a pretty cool life.