20th-century Actress Quotes

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

Kathryn Grayson

I knew it had the potential to be something special right away. It was like meeting somebody that I've just known where you just recognize one another. It was so disproportionate, the level of emotion we were experiencing to the time we had spent together.

I am afraid it is a non-starter. I cannot even use a bicycle pump.

When asked whether she uses e-mail

Dr Ruth says we women should tell our lovers how to make love to us. My boyfriend goes nuts if I tell him how to drive.

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.

Comedians on the stage are invariably suicidal when they get home.

Elsa Lanchester

I have never seen daily soaps as I was always more attracted to reality shows, its thrills and adventures. It is sheer luck that I got a chance to be part of this show

The whole of time would not be long enough to tell you of my joy in being married to you. Joy is not measured just by lovely things: the birth of babies, the song of birds heard together, the fun of holidays — the lyrical-love of lying with you. Joy is to be found, too, in the relief after pain shared, in the good news following bad, in the knowledge of greater closeness after disaster.

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.

Fashion has always been a little slow in accommodating large women.... We're not asking for philanthropy here. Wake up, we're fat, we like nice clothes, and we've got cash.

Stockholm Syndrome is what it is called when you begin to identify with your captors.... They get nicer every day that they don't kill you.

People believe in you more after you've won an Oscar.

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

Jennifer Aniston

There's something so muffled about the way you experience things. It's as if you were trying to slip through life unchanged.

Kathleen Turner

The stage might be the only place I really feel at home. I like the greasepaint, the lights, the romance of it all.

Women who do not opt out of demanding professional positions are more likely to opt out of demanding family obligations.

Barbara Kellerman

I thought 'I can't be an actor, I can't'. Then this film came up and it was like someone saying to me, 'You can, don't give up'.

Keisha Castle-Hughes

I think it caught on because the stories that these four girls have individually in the book are extremely relatable. They're very real teenage experiences. I think the friendship between the four girls is something that is more realistic than a lot of the relationships we see between girls in movies lately. A lot of the time it's like backstabbing or petty or superficial. I think most girls' relationships are real friendships like these. I don't think they're that much more dramatic.

My life has been one long descent into respectability.

Mandy Rice-Davies

I want to become a sweet wife, like when my husband comes back home from work, I want to encourage him kindly and warmly.

Satomi Ishihara

Another train will come. Why rush? Why worry? Why go crazy? Another train will come. And sure enough, another train going my way was pulling into the station. My bad mood evaporated. I entered the car smiling, certain that there would be more missed trains in my life, more closed doors in my face, but there would always be another train rumbling down the tracks in my direction.

Esmeralda Santiago

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.

The daughter of British actors Sybil Thorndike and Lewis Casson, answering a phone call:

They're not in. Daddy is reading Shakespeare Sonnets to the blind and Mummy's playing Shakespeare to the lepers.

So far I've always kept my diet secret but now I might as well tell everyone what it is…Lots of grapefruit throughout the day and plenty of virile young men.

Angie Dickinson

Occasionally if you do something extraordinary, the crew responds with spontaneous applause, but that's very rare.

Claudia Christian