Actress Quotes

“I have too many fantasies to be a housewife.... I guess I am a fantasy.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.”
― Billie Holiday

“It just goes to show that if you tell a woman her only skill is to be desirable, she will believe you.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“This became a credo of mine...attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.”
― Bette Davis

“Betsy liked to read her stories aloud and she read them like an actress. She made her voice low and thrillingly deep. She made it shake with emotion. She laughed mockingly and sobbed wildly when the occasion required.”
― Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown

“I would give a million bucks to have seen my mother say "cute shoes" to naked Ashley Judd.”
― Brian Fies

“ 'Reedlike, that’s what Hedy Kiesler is, sweet and reedlike, and when she wants to talk to you she doesn’t lean over your shoulder and arch herself out behind like a debutante....She leans back from you [and] takes a good look in your eyes and a firm grip on your name before she will allow herself to say a word.' ”
― Richard Rhodes, Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World

“While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.”
― Gilda Radner

“You have to find fun in everything you do.”
― Aaliyah

“Nothing's more depressing than having everything and still be sad.”
― Janet Jackson

“Sexy to me is being relaxed and intimate with yourself.”
― Halle Berry

“Music - It's primal and it's visceral...It's about coming to life.”
― Madonna

“Fulfillment comes from good work, when people appreciate what I do, and it moves them. That kind of attention I really love.”
― Elizabeth Shue

“I knew I belonged to the public and the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.”
― Norma Jean Baker (Marilyn Monroe)

“The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.”
― Pamela Anderson

“Teens are dealing with the same problems now in the 90s as they did in the 70s. The only real difference is the clothes we wear.”
― Mila Kunis

“A smile is so sexy, yet so warm. When someone genuinely smiles at you, it's the greatest feeling in the world.”
― Mandy Moore

“I've learned you can make a mistake and the whole world doesn't end. I had to learn to allow myself to make a mistake without becoming defensive and unforgiving.”
― Lisa Kudrow

“I say what I think and I stand behind what I say.”
― Gwyneth Paltrow

“Success is not a destination that you ever reach. Success is the quality of your journey.”
― Jennifer James

“I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase.”
― Jennifer Aniston

“Women are so unforgiving of themselves. We don't recognize our own beauty because we're too busy comparing ourselves to other people.”
― Kelly Osbourne

“When I think about any of the missteps in my life that I've made, all of which I'm grateful for, it's because I just so wanted to be truly seen and heard for who I am and was afraid I wasn't or wouldn't be.”
― Kerry Washington

“Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!”
― Fannie Flagg

“Life is unpredictable. Just find the person that you trust completely. That was very hard for me, and it took a long time, so I'm very grateful for him."
(referring to her husband Andrew W.K., 2025)”
― Kat Dennings

“The best actors are able to escape their egos. For their egos are their labels, how they are defined in society, and they are not easy to escape.”
― Jack Freestone

“Any girl can be glamourous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.”
― Hedy Lamarr

“The duty of an actress is to act.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Actors are interpreters of art; they are not creators of art.”
― Jack Freestone

“Why is it always the actors? When they reach a certain age and level of fame, they feel compelled to lecture society on who to vote for, which army to support in a foreign war, how to raise your children, the need to inject yourself with an experimental drug for the good of the people? Them and a few cult-controlled musicians. You rarely see a famous painter or a sculptor feeling the need to lecture people in this way. Is it because actors are not creators of art but simply interpreters of it and they need to fill some empty void in their egos? I don’t want my favourite creators lecturing me on subjects which should be left to me and my own personal choice just as I do not want my favourite actors doing the same. And then when something like Covid comes along and there are massive breaches of human rights where are the actors then? Their mouths are zipped closed. For to speak out on such real topics where the public may need and welcome their voices would mean their instant cancellation, and they would soon lose their precious fame. With the recent decline of respect for actors globally it may be time for the lecturing types to pull those plywood sticks out from their asses.”
― Jack Freestone