Actress Quotes

Marilyn Monroe

Audrey Hepburn

Katharine Hepburn

Grace Kelly

Eva Perón

Angelina Jolie

Sarah Bernhardt

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

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

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

Katharine Hepburn

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Ethel Barrymore

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

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

It's not easy, though, singing upside down in a headstand on a raised platform with your unfettered breasts hitting you in the chin.

Adrienne Barbeau

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 can't even really tell a joke. I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work but it ain't easy.

A remembrance can mean nothing to the one remembered; it can only remind the ones left behind how little they did while you were still alive.

Sandra Bernhard

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

There is definitely a fuck-you quality to the characters I choose.

Keira Knightley

I happen to believe you make your own destiny. You have to do the best with what God gave you... Life is a box of chocolates, Forrest. You never know what you're goin' to get.

You have a wonderful child. Then, when he's thirteen, gremlins carry him away and leave in his place a stranger who gives you not a moment's peace. You have to hang in there, because two or three years later, the gremlins will return your child and he will be wonderful again.

Jill Eikenberry

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

Women make up more than half of the world's population and potential, so it is neither just nor practical for their voices, for our voices, to go unheard at the highest levels of decision-making.

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex

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

Jennifer Aniston

It really is strange the way I work for success but when I get there cannot appreciate it. I enjoy the road to success and the struggle — even when it gets hard. But when I achieve my goal, I feel suddenly and totally stressed. Only in retrospect can I begin to enjoy the moment and admit just how great it was.

Sarah Brightman

The good thing is that I have always had wonderful people around me. It's dangerous when you start earning a lot of money and you become famous when you are too young.

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