A Quote by Joan Rivers

My career is as an actress. I am an actress playing a comedienne.

Joan Rivers

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Actress Am Career Playing

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Joan Rivers
American - Comedian
June 8, 1933 - September 4, 2014

I'm not a comedienne. I'm an actress.

Pam Dawber

I think I'm a better comedic actress than I am a dramatic actress, but everybody believes I'm this dramatic actress and I'll take it.

Taraji P. Henson

I'm basically an actress, not a comedienne, and if something comes along that appeals to me, I'll do it.

Valerie Harper

Bette Davis taught Hollywood to follow an actress instead of the actress following the camera, and she's probably the best movie actress there's ever been.

Elaine Stritch

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 sort of consider myself a comedic actress, not a comedienne. I think it's different. You know, I'm not a stand-up or anything, but playing into comedic situations is sort of where, I think, my strength lies.

Zooey Deschanel

It's bad enough that I'm an actress that wants to be recognized as an actress. Instead, I am known for doing game shows.

Betsy Palmer

It was my childhood dream to become an actress, and I've worked hard to get to this stage. So I am enjoying the life of an actress.

Nidhhi Agerwal

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.

Aubrey Plaza

I'd love to be an award-winning, commercial successful actress! I would love to push myself to the limits as an actress and experiment with playing really interesting women.

Preity Zinta

I am only an actress when they say, 'action' and I stop being an actress when they say, 'cut'. I am a normal person outside of acting.

Paz Vega

I am a character actress. Well, let's say, I am a leading character actress who does interesting, odd parts.

Imelda Staunton

I am as attached to my career as a producer as I was to my career as an actress.

Saira Banu

I never want to pigeonhole myself or get typecast. I'm looking forward to my career and showing all of my range as an actress, and I'm looking at other mediums, too. I'm a theater actress first. And I cannot wait to return to the stage.

Samira Wiley

My job as the actress playing Hanna Schmitz, as the actress playing any part, is to understand the character, and to ultimately love the character. And I did love Hanna, absolutely, because I understood her as profoundly as I did at the end of the day.