A Quote by Angie Dickinson

I wouldn't want to be known only as a sex symbol. I wanted to be known as an actress equally or even more so.

Angie Dickinson

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Angie Dickinson
American - Actress
Born: September 30, 1931

Sex appeal is a good thing for commercial cinema. Though I can't sit at home and consider myself a sex symbol, it is for people to do so. I want to be known as an interesting actor.

Randeep Hooda

I don't want to be known as an item dancer. I want to be known as an actress only.

Nargis Fakhri

I don't want to be known as a sex symbol. There's a great stigma that goes with that tag. I want to be a Sam Elliott.

Sam Elliott

I was groomed as a so-called sex symbol, a rival to Marilyn Monroe, and from then on, whenever my picture appeared in paper, it was 'sex kitten,' 'sex symbol,' 'sex goddess,' 'sex pot.' I've accepted it, and I'm flattered, but in some ways, it's been a hindrance to me because I haven't been able to be taken seriously as an actress.

Mamie Van Doren

I just don't want to be known as the actress who can sing. I want to be known as the singer who can act, too. It's great cross-promotion.

Mandy Moore

I love to be known as a sex symbol.

Pooja Bedi

I don't want to be known as just an actress. I want to be known as an entertainer and entrepreneur.

Marsai Martin

The most difficult thing in the world is to start a career known only for your looks, and then to try to become a serious actress. No one will take you seriously once you are known as the pretty woman.

Penelope Cruz

I don't really want to be known as just the puppet girl or just a singing ventriloquist. I want to be known as the performer, singer, ventriloquist, actress, Broadway star, all of it. I want do it all.

Darci Lynne Farmer

I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol.

Steven Seagal

The movement of search can only be from the known to the known, and all that the mind can do is to be aware that this movement will never uncover the unknown. Any movement on the part of the known is still within the field of the known.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

I'm a sex symbol. Is that wild? It blows me away. I mean, I've always known it, I just figured nobody else did.

Dusty Hill

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Powerful is our need to be known, really known by ourselves and others, even if only for a moment.

Carl Rogers

Friends are all souls that we've known in other lives. We're drawn to each other. Even if I have only known them a day, it doesn't matter. I'm not going to wait till I have known them for two years, because anyway, we must have met somewhere before, you know.

George Harrison

Journalists often ask me: "Aren't you sorry that after all the work you've done, you're best known as Magneto and Gandalf?" But that's what I've always wanted - not to be known as myself. I want to draw attention to the characters.

Ian Mckellen

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