Actress Quotes

It doesn't matter who you love, it's that you love. Who cares if men marry men or women marry women? In San Francisco you don't care, and I applaud that. And I applaud Mayor Newsom for being so brave.

First and foremost, I'm a feminist. And basically that stems from a strong belief that all people and creatures deserve equal opportunity, rights and respect.

The entire repertoire of our life experiences can be accessed and activated from the body in movement …every part and function of the body can also be understood as metaphors for the expression of our being

I don't think childhood is everything it's cracked up to be. Some people have this idyllic vision of childhood as this innocent, wonderful time, or it's this time when you're a free spirit. I don't think that's true; I think it's stressful. And kids are cruel.

Don't think of shopping for clothes as shopping. Think of it as hunting.

Jane Hall (actress)

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

Isabella Rossellini

Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning.... I have played my life as a comedy rather than the tragedy many would have made of it.

I'm sure for some people saying they're bisexual feels less scary than making a statement that they're gay. For me, it's not really an issue because I'm someone who believes being bisexual is actually a thing. It's not made up. It's not a lack of decision. It's not being greedy or numerous other ignorant things I've heard at this point. For a bisexual, it's not about gender. That's not the deciding factor for who they're attracted to.

I didn't think I was going to be a person who other people knew, whose name was recognizable.

Sarah Jessica Parker

So I do the test, and we do this scene, and it's the scene at the end where I throw dishes, and so I threw some dishes... and 'Cut!'... And I look around, and there's blood everywhere, because I broke a plate or something, and they're all checking me — 'Oh my God, she cut herself' — and couldn't find any cut, and then I look, and I realise. I see Al's hand is bleeding. And I cut Al Pacino, in my screen test. I think then he liked me. I think that was actually the turning point.

Michelle Pfeiffer

I would follow my mother around the kitchen watching and trying to find any way to help. One of the first dishes my mother taught me to make was hollandaise sauce. Though she always served it with broccoli, I soon realized it was equally delicious with asparagus, artichokes, or any other vegetable.

I want Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D played at my funeral. If it isn't I shall jolly well want to know why.

Sybil Thorndike

She sat down in a weed patch, her elbows on her knees, and kept her eyes on the small sterious world of the ground. In the shade and sun of grass blade forests, small living things had their metropolis.

People always assume if you're vegetarian you can just live on cheese and meanwhile cheese is awful for your body even if tastes so good. I'm a massive animal lover too. Being vegan has been so good for me. I've never felt better.

We were never organized readers who would see a book through to its end in any sory of logical order. We weave in and out of words like tourists on a hop-on, hop-off bus tour. Put a book down in the kitchen to go to the bathroom and you might return to find it gone, replaced by another of equal interest. We are indiscriminate.

I'd like it if people thought I was Jewish-looking.

Natalie Portman

How can you close your eyes and say this has nothing to do with me? I'm not speaking about politics. Politics is a terrible thing. Everyone wants power.

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

I can't change you and you can't change me, but together we can work to change the world.

The world has improved mostly because unorthodox people did unorthodox things. Not surprisingly, they had the courage and daring to think they could make a difference.

I am afraid it is a non-starter. I cannot even use a bicycle pump.

When asked whether she uses e-mail

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

Shirley MacLaine

My father has always been supportive of my individuality.

Knowing how they were sleeping on a dirt floor at that very moment, while I had a soft pillow under my head, made me feel incredibly guilty.

AnnaSophia Robb

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