20th-century Actress Quotes

Tennis is like a wonderful, longstanding relationship with a husband. Golf is a tempestuous, lousy lover. It's totally unpredictable, a constant surprise. But you can get so hooked on it.

I really wanted to go on Broadway but I was like - do I want to leave my dogs, my house and my friends for nine months? But then I thought, "Wait a second. If this wasn't being offered to me and I heard there was an audition I'd be desperate to have the job." When you're offered things, it makes it so much easier to be indecisive. And it's silly because you can pass on some really amazing things.

Alicia Silverstone

No Cricklewood girl would ever admit to being from there.

As long as there are girls, we need guy bands. However, in this day, it is not good enough to just sing great. You have to write, sing and play. We want it all.

I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. Don't try to make me into something I'm not. If you want someone to tiptoe down the Barkley staircase in crinoline and politely ask where the cattle went, get another girl.

Barbara Stanwyck

Anybody who's ever been broken up with, or had their heart stepped on or ripped out of them; you question everything you've based your whole life on. It's like, is anything real? Cause nothing 's more real than that, and now it's gone.

Kristen Stewart

I really like Shakespeare a lot. The characters that he writes for females, I think, are really great and a lot more compelling than what modern writers write, which is weird because they didn't have actresses then.

My father has always been supportive of my individuality.

I am really astonished at the number of violent acts.
I'm not saying that the movies created these situations, because there are a whole bunch of things.
But a lot of people in the movie industry tend to run and hide from it like ostriches. Movie industry people are definitely in denial right now, but you do become de-sensitized to violence when you see it on the screen so often.
Let's face it, violence exists for one reason in movies, and that's to get an effect, create an emotion, sell tickets.

Madeleine Stowe

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

Margaret Sullavan

Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.

I honestly don't understand the big fuss made over nudity and sex in films. It's silly. On TV, the children can watch people murdering each other, which is a very unnatural thing, but they can't watch two people in the very natural process of making love. Now, really, that doesn't make any sense, does it?

Richard is a very sexy man. He's got that sort of jungle essence that one can sense." (on Richard Burton)

Elizabeth Taylor

People in the Depression wanted something to cheer them up, and they fell in love with a dog, Rin Tin Tin, and a little girl.

Lindsay Doran goes round the table and introduces everyone - making it clear that I am present in the capacity of writer rather than actress, therefore no one has to be too nice to me.

"Ilsa" has been such a minor part of my career, that I find it amusing that some persons only know me for that association.

I had a very traditional background. My parents are neat people. I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place — Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I'm more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place.

I'm actually recording my second album now.... so I've just been recording and co-writing. The single should be coming out soon, but I feel it's pretty much 80 percent done. And, yeah, I'm excited about it. It's a lot more rock and edgier..

I want to be the poster girl for engineers and computer nerds.

Alessandra Torresani

I put out an ad in the classifieds: 'Wanted, superhero. I'm a damsel in distress'.

Michelle Trachtenberg

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

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 can't wait to be able to drive, but it's hard. Good driving doesn't really run in my family genes. My mother is possibly the worst driver ever.

Never burn bridges. Today's junior prick, tomorrow's senior partner.

Sigourney Weaver

For a long time I was ashamed of the way I lived. Did I reform, you ask? No. I'm not ashamed anymore.