20th-century Actress Quotes

Marilyn Monroe

Audrey Hepburn

Katharine Hepburn

Grace Kelly

Eva Perón

Angelina Jolie

Marlene Dietrich

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.

I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.

I've made forty-three pictures. Naturally I'm adorable in all of them.

Katharine Hepburn

I was never happy in Hollywood. There, everything is distorted by the importance people give to money.

As far as I can make out, women's friendships with each other are based on a gush of lies and pretty speeches that mean nothing. You'd think they were all wolves trying to seduce each other the way they flatter and flirt when they're together.

Keeping books on charity is capitalist nonsense! I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts.

I like films that rest in the memory so I try and choose parts which have some kind of social or emotional force. For me, being an actress is not just a profession but a profession of faith.

Isabelle Adjani

You cannot afford to confine your studies to the classroom. The universe and all of history is your classroom.

I was so surprised at being born that I didn't speak for a year and a half.

I learned the hard way that just as I no longer have to save anyone, neither do I have to be saved.

I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was 'home.

The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain

Jennifer Aniston

I'm going to have cute boobs 'til I'm 90, so there's that. I'll have the best boobs in the nursing home. I'll be the envy of all the ladies around the bridge table.

Christina Applegate

How many women do we know who were continually kissed by Clark Gable, William Powell, Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy and Fredric March? Only one: Myrna Loy... And to meet whom did Franklin D. Roosevelt find himself tempted to call off the Yalta Conference? Myrna Loy. And to see what lady in what picture did John Dillinger risk coming out of hiding to meet his bullet-ridden death in an alley in Chicago? Myrna Loy, in Manhattan Melodrama.

I can't imagine topping this. Really. I can't imagine doing like Little House on the Prairie gone wrong or something. I really think this will be it.

I believe that we're as happy in life as we make up our minds to be.

I am quite surprised, that with all my work, and some of it is very, very good, that nobody talks about The Miracle Worker. We're talking about Mrs. Robinson. I understand the world... I'm just a little dismayed that people aren't beyond it yet.

It's unlikely I'll ever submit to a psychiatrist's couch. I don't want some stranger prowling around through my psyche, monkeying with my id. I don't need an analyst to tell me that I have never had any sense of security. Who has?

Tallulah Bankhead

It's not easy, though, singing upside down in a headstand on a raised platform with your unfettered breasts hitting you in the chin.

Adrienne Barbeau

When asked if she has any hope for animals in the future:

No. The industrialization of the rearing and death of animals takes away all my hope of it ever improving.

Brigitte Bardot

It has been said, "History is written by the victors." I take this to mean we can make ourselves victorious by writing, and then rewriting our own stories. In a country and culture so dominated by media, by the manipulation of words and stories, telling the tales of people whose stories historically have not been told is a radical act and I believe an act that can change the world and help rewrite history.

I sort of ended up in Los Angeles by accident. And it was sort of terrible to be jostled into this position of a fame-hungry starlet. Which is so honestly not me! In fact, I could use a bit more of that because I am such a hermit! So I allowed myself to get really bothered.

Kate Beckinsale

I, like every other stupid American, assumed the kangaroos would meet us at the airport and they would want to hug us as much as we wanted to hug them.