Actress Quotes

Marilyn Monroe

Audrey Hepburn

Katharine Hepburn

Grace Kelly

Eva Perón

Angelina Jolie

Sarah Bernhardt

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

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

I did not use paint. I made myself up morally.

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

Katharine Hepburn

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

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.

Ethel Barrymore

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.

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

When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn't she behave like a nice man?

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.

In show business the saying seems too often true: it isn't enough to succeed; someone else must fail.

Oh please... As a standup, I tried to change the world. As an entertainer, I try to entertain. And as a lesbian, I try to pick up the prettiest girl in the room. Not necessarily in that order.

I want to reach people and express myself. You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate. You have to put up with people projecting their own ideas, attitudes, misunderstanding you. But it's worth being a public fool if that's all you can be in order to communicate yourself.

I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.

People get real comfortable with their features. Nobody gets comfortable with their hair. Hair trauma. It's the universal thing.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Well you know, I don't think I have never really seen a film of this genre, where the female characters' sex appeal sort of came second. I mean of course they're sexy characters. When you have a sexy secretary, or a girl swinging around by her ankles in a cat suit, you know that's innately sexy, but the fact is that these characters are intelligent. They're ambitious. They're motivated and calculated to some degree.

Scarlett Johansson

I love acting because it's my heart. I love playing characters. When I get on the set, something snaps in me, something different. It's what I was meant to do. I love working with other actors, I love working with directors, and I love creating something. From the DP [director of photography] to the director and the actors—and even down to the catering—you know, it's just a family.

This is a career about images. It's celluloid; they last forever. I'm a black woman from America. My people were slaves in America, and even though we're free on paper and in law, I'm not going to allow you to enslave me on film, in celluloid, for all to see.

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.

Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.

Without even saying anything, just his eyes... It's not like he forces you to do it, but the power that he has, it's something in his spirit. It's almost like intangible and kind of magical. He has an energy that kind of lifts you. Any doubt that you had is just gone. You just do it – it's really simple. It was so easy to work with him.

I wanted to have a voice, and it was okay if I wasn't going to be so famous or so rich. And this the one thing I learned: How do you recognize what's your true dream and what is the dream that you are dreaming for other people to love you? … The difference is very easy to understand. If you enjoy the process, it's your dream. … If you are are enduring the process, just desperate for the result, it's somebody else's dream.

If I were an animal, I would be a fish or a bird. It's the peace and beauty of ocean, the silent language of it. It seems like a womb, protective. The sky too. I love all colors, but blue mainly, because it's transparent like the water and the sky.

Nastassja Kinski

I was so enchanted with the open possibilities and the power of being able to choose my part. Who was the child now? I decided I'd be a Japanese businessman because it would be less predictable. Even when I was alone, I was so filled with excitement and laughter at the thought of my task. This was joyful children's play!