20th-century Actress Quotes

Studios weren't banging on my door to offer me parts... And I thought, well how am I ever going to make movies that speak to my heart and to my values?

At his birthday party:

I got to the celebration early and pretty soon some friends pulled me into a back area and said Perform something! and there was this wig and dress lying there. I told them Well, I don't do that sort of thing. I don't dress like a woman… While they were trying to talk me into it another friend ran in and yelled Do something and I mean fast! There are over four hundred people out there! You'd better hurry up Foozie! I was dumbfounded, four hundred people!? So, I thought why not and replied, That's Miss Foozie to you! and that's how it all started.

Julie won a scholarship to Harvard. Graduated with honors and received another scholarship to Boston University Medical School. Julie became a medical doctor, alas, losing her medical license to a terrible addiction to heroin. As an ex-addict, she now manages Autoworld Go Carts in West Covina, California. She has the highest score on PacMan... Go Julie!!!

Deborah Foreman

There are a few secrets to keeping your psyche intact over such a long career. The first, love people and stay beside them.

Wonder Woman is a lame superhero. She flies around in her invisible jet and her weaponry is a lasso that makes you tell the truth. I just don't get it.

I believe in loyalty. When a woman reaches a certain age she likes, she should stick with it.

I wish I were supernaturally strong so I could put right everything that is wrong.

Women's liberation as a movement makes some valid points. But in the final analysis, it doesn't matter who wears the pants — as long as there's money in the pockets.

As for my feelings toward "Over the Rainbow", it's become part of my life. It is so symbolic of all dreams and wishes that I'm sure that's why people sometimes get tears in their eyes when they hear it.

It's about getting the kids up and fed, getting one to school, getting the other down for a nap, going to the grocery store, picking one up from school, getting the other one down for another nap, cooking dinner... I live my life at these two extremes. I'm either a full-time stay-at-home mom or a full-time actress

Jennifer Garner

I don't want to say I'm envious of any other woman's body. It's a bad myth to perpetuate. Women have enough trouble liking themselves.

Just because you donate sperm does not make you a father. I don't have a father. I would never give him the credit or acknowledge him as my father.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

I think they look upon me as an old child, because I'm so little.

He's just really unlikely as a hero — which makes him so brilliant, I think, because he's like this mad professor.

To call him a dog hardly seems to do him justice, though inasmuch as he had four legs, a tail, and barked, I admit he was, to all outward appearances. But to those who knew him well, he was a perfect gentleman.

Hermione Gingold

It had been drilled into us that when an audience pays to see a performance, it is entitled to the best performance you can give.Nothing in your personal life must interfere, neither fatigue, illness, nor anxiety--not even joy.

I am not an African American. I'm not from Africa. I'm from New York. My roots run a whole lot deeper than most of the people who don't have anything in front of the word American. I can trace my family tree back to the Mayflower. We may not have been on it, but we were under it, and that counts too.

Whoopi Goldberg

There are times when you come across somebody that's really impressive, someone that's got a proper living and really does make a difference to people's lives. Then I do feel a bit of a wanker, admitting I'm an actress. That's hard to say to someone who may be making a difference. But I don't know how I could change things.

It seems strange that everyone I'm writing about was very famous.... Didn't I ever find anyone interesting who was not famous? Actually, no, I didn't.

Louis B Mayer created a situation that was just like a very big family, but with love and loyalty for everyone.

Kathryn Grayson

On my mother's side I'm Polish-Jewish, and on my father's side I'm Scottish puffin.

Me and my brother used to spend a lot of time at music festivals, running away from skinheads. Then my brother became a skinhead... I used to get excruciatingly, mind-numbingly dull guitar lessons from my father: tonic, subdominant, dominant. Yeah, but how do I play it? Tonic, subdominant, mediant. This is a seventh. Great, how do I play it?

Sienna Guillory

I'm not the youngest person at the table anymore. I'm not the young precocious one. I feel like I'm engaging with people in a different way now. I am a woman. I'm treated with respect, as an equal.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

No, I don't think they're obsessive, they're just dedicated.

Alyson Hannigan

We've all done things we shouldn't, it's just I did stuff at college, when nobody knew about it, so I'm not a saint. … I wasted time doing self-destructive things but it didn't work. I found out you can only dance on so many tabletops. I got that all out of my system and now I'm healthy and I'm grounded.