20th-century Actress Quotes

Marilyn Monroe

Audrey Hepburn

Katharine Hepburn

Grace Kelly

Eva Perón

Angelina Jolie

Marlene Dietrich

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Katharine Hepburn

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

Ideally, couples need three lives; one for him, one for her, and one for them together.

Jacqueline Bisset

My grandmother taught me that accomplishments meant less than what you left behind. I started to ask myself what impact my comedy would have on people's lives. And that changed my act. I got cleaner. I stopped talking about generic stuff like airplane peanuts and started speaking the truth about my gift.

Sherri Shepherd

This thing called love was a total mystery to me, but the vagaries of passion and despair that accompanied each devotion kept my life in high drama.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Lazy people always work harder than anyone else; they're so eager to get through and lie down again.

Dagmar Godowsky

Your medicine is your poison is your medicine is your poison and there is no end but madness.

Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.

Acting is not a profession of competing with other actors, but rather a vocation of sharing with fellow human beings.

Marjo-Riikka Makela

Jesus... said - long before his followers had established churches and a priesthood - 'I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.' This Way is the life of the Spirit. To follow it entails no necessity for places (all places are holy ground), no priesthood, since every man becomes a priest unto God...

Esmé Wynne-Tyson

After co-star Lauren Bacall had said that Kidman was not an acting legend, but rather a beginner:

I telephoned Lauren and thanked her for saying that. She always calls it like it is and that's a reality check I adore.

It's important for me to find different things and prove I can do them. […] Someone told me that inside all actors are many sleeping princesses, and each time we do a role, one of those princesses wakes up. Inside us there is everything. We just have to look for it.

Monica Bellucci

My grandmother had a picture of herself as a close-lipped, silent, reserved individual without curiosity, who never asked personal questions. Actually, of course, she was a talkative, jolly, interminably curious woman, who loved people, and who enjoyed the personal details of their lives almost as much as they did themselves.

I have been taking stock of my 50 years since I left Wichita. How I have existed fills me with horror for I failed in everything. Spelling, arithmetic, writing, swimming, tennis, golf, dancing, singing, acting, wife, mistress, whore, friend, even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of not trying. I tried with all my heart.

We were never organized readers who would see a book through to its end in any sory of logical order. We weave in and out of words like tourists on a hop-on, hop-off bus tour. Put a book down in the kitchen to go to the bathroom and you might return to find it gone, replaced by another of equal interest. We are indiscriminate.

We never ever do nothing nice and easy. We always do it nice and rough. Spoken introduction to a recording of "Proud Mary" (1971) I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I am not old yet!

I love to cook. I spend weekends reading cookbooks-it's really my relaxation.