Actress Quotes

You can turn just about any simple act into a practice of mindfulness, and it will nurture and nourish you; it will start your day off in a positive way.

Mariel Hemingway

I'll go to my grave remembering the tears and laughs I didn't get.

In order to get to the fruit of the tree, you have to go out on a limb.

Shirley MacLaine

Basil: May I ask what you were hoping to see out of a Torquay bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeeste sweeping majestically…

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.

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.

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.

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

I never did theatre or took classes, which I think has helped me. I just had instincts and they were right.

Jennifer Lawrence

You learned that it was easy frighteningly easy to get lost in someone else's life accommodating him and stop being yourself. You learned to be wary about falling in love. And you learned that someone who loved you could stop loving you for some dark reason and even though that was bruising you were more resilient than you knew. Eventually you would get over it more or less.

I hope there's a tinge of disgrace about me. Hopefully, there's one good scandal left in me yet.

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.

When I listen to this rock and roll and look at you kids, I don't think it's a whole lot different than the Charleston and the Varsity Drag.

Cultivating a generous spirit starts with mindfulness. Mindfulness, simply stated, means paying attention to what is actually happening; it's about what is really going on.

I guess a film in which I didn't end up in bed, in the sea, or in a hot tub, would have the same appeal as a Clint Eastwood movie in which nobody got shot.

Your medicine is your poison is your medicine is your poison and there is no end but madness.

Here's a little tip for you. If you don't like being called a murderer, don't kill people.

Fortunately I am not the first person to tell you that you will never die. You simply lose your body. You will be the same except you won't have to worry about rent or mortgages or fashionable clothes. You will be released from sexual obsessions. You will not have drug addictions. You will not need alcohol. You will not have to worry about cellulite or cigarettes or cancer or AIDS or venereal disease. You will be free.

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

Keira Knightley

Obviously I think I've been very lucky, to start off with such a good break, and to have a film that not only was a hit but where I didn't have to compromise … in terms of doing a mindless movie — it was also a movie, for me as an actor which was very fulfilling…

True elegance is for me the manifestation of an independent mind.

Isabella Rossellini

Loneliness is like an early frost. Let us be among the seedlings that survive.

No, I don't have a boyfriend, [...] I don't want one.

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.

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