Top 1200 Famous Actress Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

People sometimes say, 'Oh, you were a movie star,' and I'm like, 'No, I was a supporting actress.' I wasn't an A-list actress, and I'm fine with that. I'm proud of what I did in film.

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

I always wanted to be a good actress and a serious actress. I wasn't in the profession to, quote-unquote, meet the stars.

I didn't want to do a costume drama. It's a great thing to do, but I've done them, and I didn't want to do the same thing again. Of course, costume dramas can be from all different eras, but at the time, I just felt very sure that I didn't want to be boxed in as an English actress. I wanted to be an actress, rather than an English actress.

I'm in that comfortable niche where I'm not that famous and sometimes people do need to put a barrier between them and their followers. When you're real famous you need to do that but I'm not that famous so I don't need that kind of barrier.

My sister was an actress when I was a kid - she still is a successful stage actress in Sweden.

As an actress I knew I had to control my weight gain somehow as any director or producer would like to sign in a svelte actress.

My nana was an actress, my mom was an actress, and my sister, too. So because I was surrounded by it, it really came naturally.

I know it's a cliche but I never wanted to be famous. I don't believe anybody wants to be famous.

People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.

I didn't set out wanting to be an actress. That's not what I did. I didn't go to class striving to become an actress. I just basically - honestly, I didn't have anything else going.

Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.

This is why I became an actress. So that people will take care of me. To be an actress is a refuge. You are taken everywhere, stay in wonderful hotels, everyone looks after you.

I’m famous, but I’m not famous like freaking Brad Pitt or Jennifer Aniston.

I am one of the graduates of the William Morris famous, famous mail room from the '60s.

Anne Baxter was a very good actress, Donna Reid was great. You couldn't name an actress I wasn't crazy about.

One bulls-eye and you're rich and famous. The rich get more famous and the famous get rich. You're the talk of the town....The sense of so much depending on success is very hard to ignore, perhaps impossible. It leads to disproportionate anxiety and disproportionate relief or disappointment.

My dad was an actor and a writer; my mum was a drama teacher. My grandma was an actress. My aunt is an actress. My granddad was a cameraman. They would've been surprised if I wanted to be a dentist or something like that.

If I had to change one thing about my life, it would probably be, I wouldn't be famous. Because when you're famous it's so hard.

What is the difference between an actress over 50 and an actress with a disability? Nothing. They both can't find work.

I had no idea of being a star, all I knew was that I wanted to be a great actress, I wanted to work as an actress. So I thought the way I would be a great actress was to sing and dance first. Lay a foundation - get my foot in the door, and then undoubtedly, of course, I would be offered great roles as soon as I grew up enough to handle them.

Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.

I just take jobs that will have me. I'm an actress that works. I'm not an actress who's ever waited.

It's a huge compliment to be seen as a dramatic actress and not just a comic actress.

In the beginning, I didn't know if I was still a model, if I was an actress. I knew I wanted to be an actress, but it was so difficult to be believed.

My only goal is to be the best actress I can be. You have to give it everything. All I have as an actress is the revelation of my soul.

I always wanted to be famous because I thought that if I couldn't be good [at something], I'd be famous. I was never really good. I was just something different and I got to be famous for being different.

No doubt an actress has to do varied roles. But I don't want myself to be typecast as an actress who can only do off-beat ventures.

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.

I woke up famous for about a minute, then stopped being famous again.

There are so many third-rate people now who are more famous than people who should be famous, but sometimes people who could or should be famous are very boring, too.

I wouldn't say that I was an actress. I tried to be an actress. I really didn't have the gift.

When I was about to be famous, I feared it on a few levels. I feared it because I didn't want people to lump me in with those people who'd do anything to be famous. I didn't like the word 'celebrity.' I feared intrusion, you know? Make me famous, and suddenly you can go through my trash bins.

I'd say my happiest moment as an actress came when I learned I'd won the Look Magazine Best Supporting Actress Award for 1956 in The Killing.

I want to be really special, I want to be really good. It's not enough to be famous for me. Famous is empty so quickly, it's not what people think it is. It's wonderful, but if you're famous and you feel that you're an artist inside and everyone thinks you're just a celebrity, it's really painful.

The way to become famous fast is to throw a brick at someone who is famous.

Of course when I started, it's not because I was such a brilliant actress. I didn't know I was good. I thought I was really bad. I was very shy. I was 18 and dreaming of becoming an actress.

A lot of people are like, 'So you want to be famous.' And I'm like, 'No, I want to be good at my craft. I don't care about fame, I don't care if I even ever make it. As long as people know what I am as an actress in this business, I'm set for my career right now.'

If I'm going to be famous, I want to be famous for doing something good - having talent.

A lot of people are like, 'So you want to be famous.' And I'm like, 'No, I want to be good at my craft. I don't care about fame, I don't care if I even ever make it. As long as people know what I am as an actress in this business, I'm set for my career right now.

I have no interest in being famous. I just want to make famous photographs.

Yes. I am one of the graduates of the William Morris famous, famous mail room from the '60s.

Sometimes I'm fascinated with how famous my work could be while I'm not so famous.

I never wondered whether I should be a stage actress or a movie actress.

I've joked that I would have either become schizophrenic or an actress, but as an actress you can do both.

I wasn't going off to New York to be more famous than my father, but in retrospect, that certainly was driving me. He was famous in Philadelphia, but it was also really important to him to be famous. And to a certain extent, I got some of that, even though there were parts of it that horrified me.

I had wanted to become an actress, but in Cane Fork where I come, from being an actress meant the movies and Kim Novak. So I didn't try.

I ain't expect it. I just expected to be Chicago famous - 'hood famous. I ain't expect to be outside-of-Chicago famous.

I wanted to be famous. I guess I thought acting would make me famous.

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.

It's not a sport you get famous at. If I wanted to be famous, I would have stuck with hockey.

If it's just a pastime, keep doing it because it's relaxing and to blow off some steam. But if you're not sure if you want to do it, or you're thinking you can be famous, you shouldn't do it because you want to be famous. You have to do it because you love it and you want to play for people. And if that's what you want to do, then do it, but you can't go into it with that mindset of "we'll be in a band and we'll be famous."

I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.

We're in a horrible, repugnant place now where kids are told it's their right and due to be hugely famous. Not good at their job, not good at anything, just hugely famous. This is not sane. Little girls think they'll be famous if they have vast breast implants and might as well die if they don't.

I wanted to go hide. I wasn't looking to be more famous, I'm famous enough.

'Blanche' opened a new door for me without really making me more famous. 'Blanche' was a risk, but that is the only thing that excites me in this profession. The knowledge that I am an actress who takes risks lifts my soul.

I always felt that I was more of an actress than a - I can't tell a joke to save my soul, but that I was a comedic actress.

No matter how famous you are, there's always somebody more famous than you.

Why, when I was a child, I didn't say, as most children do, that I was going to become an actress. I felt that I was an actress and no one could have convinced me that I wasn't!

Some people may be famous for creating a pencil sharpener. I'm famous for my tits.