Actress Quotes

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
Marilyn Monroe

Money, Treat, Machine

First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.
Marilyn Monroe

Person, Trying, Maybe

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.
Marilyn Monroe

Exciting, Dreaming

When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress.
Marilyn Monroe

Started, Five, Wanting

I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity, and that includes all kinds of parts.
Marilyn Monroe

Integrity, Artist, Kinds

I'm looking forward to becoming a marvelous - excuse the word marvelous - character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.
Marilyn Monroe

Forward, Character, Word

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.
Marilyn Monroe

Great, Person, Wanted

Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.
Mae West

Success, Important

My sister wanted to be an actress, but she never made it. She does live in a trailer. She got halfway. She's an actress, she just never gets called to the set.
Mitch Hedberg

Live, Made, Wanted

Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.
W. C. Fields

Great, Husband, Show

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.
Katharine Hepburn

Famous, Learn, Wanted

I had no desire to be an film actress, to always play somebody else, to be always beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me.
Marlene Dietrich

Beautiful, Play, Big

There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them.
Marlene Dietrich

Soldier, Grateful, American

I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman.
Ingrid Bergman

Life, Woman, Anyone

Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress.
Ingrid Bergman

Love, Woman, Play

If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.
Tallulah Bankhead

Help, American, Audience

For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you're told you're too tall or you're too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You're rejected for your education, you're rejected for this or that and it's really tough.
Liam Neeson

Education, Successful, Game

I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it.
Bette Davis

Character, Become, Means

I think Edith Evans is the most marvelous actress in the world and she can look beautiful. People who aren't beautiful can look beautiful. She can look as beautiful as Diana Cooper, who was the most beautiful woman in the world.
Vivien Leigh

Beautiful, Woman, She

I never wanted to become an actress because I'd read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did.
Julie Walters

Great, Understand, Why

I am going to be a great actress.
Vivien Leigh

I'm not a film star, I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity.
Vivien Leigh

Life, Fake, Film

When I was at school at Paris, I had special lessons from Mademoiselle Antoine, an actress at the Comedie Francaise, and I was taken to every sort of play. I felt very grand.
Vivien Leigh

School, Play, Special

For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Success, She, Face

Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.
Samuel Goldwyn

Success, Give, Couple

Making pictures, for an actress, is like betting, for a gambler. Each time you make a picture you try to analyze why you won or lost.
Hedy Lamarr

Time, Lost, Why

If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude... I hope to make you use your imagination.
Hedy Lamarr

Hope, Her, Nude

Being a mother, singer and actress is a definite juggling act, but I don't think I would be comfortable any other way.
Christina Aguilera

Mother, Act, Singer

You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me. That's why films like Fight Club were so important to me because I think I confounded certain stereotypes and limited perceptions of what I could do as an actress.
Helena Bonham Carter

Angry, Fight, Important

Some actresses are just insane. I've never worked with a nasty actress - they're all absolutely delightful. But completely barking.
Daniel Radcliffe

Worked, Insane, Nasty

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