20th-century Actress Quotes

I do feel one learns more from one's failures than from one's successes,

When I'm with a man, my work takes second place — all I really want to do is get through the day so I can rush home to be with him. That's because my man is the most important part of my life.

Show me a woman content with her figure and I'll show you a seven-year-old girl. Everybody else is engaged in the war against flab.

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he's a baby.

The trouble with the theater is that it's no longer a way of life for an audience. It's just a way to kill an evening.

If the person with whom I connect happens to be a female, that's just the way it is. That's what makes my wheels turn.

Kristanna Loken

During that time, he asked me for my phone number, which I gave to him. Later that evening, he invited me to his room. I said I didn't feel right going alone, so two other women came with me. In the penthouse suite, I met Donald again. When we entered the room he grabbed each of us tightly in a hug and kissed each of us on the lips without asking for permission. He was wearing pyjamas. [...] Donald then asked me "What do you want?" "How much?"

I feel that you reach a certain age and then things start to jell. My sense of self is stronger. I'm getting bolder in my old age. After I hit forty, you couldn't mess around with me so much anymore.

No Cricklewood girl would ever admit to being from there.

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

I don't know where to begin with that one... the final episode is… appalling.

It's hard no matter where you come from. You have your own struggles.

Shraddha Kapoor

All the French speak French - even the children. Many Americans and Britishers who visit the country never quite adjust to this, and the idea persists that the natives speak the language just to show off or be difficult.

Olivia de Havilland

It's important to me that I don't get trapped in the whole teen scene because I feel that you can get lost in those kind of movies, and they aren't really about the actors; they're about the selling of the concept, and how much money it makes. So I just try to choose the scripts that have the best characters for myself, or would be the most challenging, or fun.

It always makes me laugh when people ask why anyone would want to do a sitcom in America. If it runs five years, you never have to work again.

They say an actor is only as good as his parts. Well, my parts have done me pretty well, darling.

Barbara Windsor

First of all, let's get one thing straight: fitness and exercise aren't the same thing. You can exercise without getting fit, but you can't get fit without exercise.

It's my nature to go around in high spirits most of the time and then to collapse.

Margaret Sullavan

People have told me it's like Touched by an Angel on acid. I think that's a good description.

Caroline Dhavernas

Ask any girl what she'd rather be than beautiful, and she'll say more beautiful.

I knew her when she didn't know where her next husband was coming from.

Models are the physical mirror of femininity. They should come in all sizes, shapes, and ages, and now they do. If my two careers mean anything, it's that.

I've heard them lilting, at the ewe milking.
Lasses a' lilting, before dawn of day;
But now they are moaning, on ilka green loaning;
The flowers of the forest are a' wede away.

My family would soon tell me if I was getting above my station. I love what I do, I love my job, but I also like to go home and lead a normal life. … I like to go to the gym, go shopping and do normal things, and it's totally unnecessary to not value people working around you. It's down to good manners, really.

I can now see that our needs meshed perfectly: my need to be swept away by a man, to be held securely and adored by a man, and his need to find the girl who would be pliable and receptive to his idea of a couple, who wouldn't question his unspoken authority. I don't mean he wanted a mouse—and he knew very well he wasn't getting one.