Actress Quotes

Maybe, it takes a brave man to be with a woman like me. In relationships, I don't look the other way, and dim my voice when I have something to say. I learned that I simply don't do well with huge egos, for I always see myself as his equal.

Mirtha Michelle

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.

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.

Producer Gail Patrick used me so much as a villain I finally told her, 'They'll know it's me the moment I show up!'

I used to live in a sewer. Now I live in a swamp. I've come up in the world.

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

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

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

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'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

I would say just be diligent and don't take no for an answer. It's not easy, and it took me a significant amount of time to get people to take me seriously or even consider me. I kept turning up and I just had a thick skin and didn't let it get to me when people rejected me. As long as you keep going and keep a positive attitude, it'll happen. It sounds generic, but I really believe in that.

You can't bring logic into this. We're talking about marriage. Marriage is like the Middle East. There's no solution.

Pauline Collins

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

Michelle Trachtenberg

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

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.

I go back and forth between [being a vegan and not being a vegan]. I try lots of different things. I really feel that you need to kind of listen to your body and what your body is telling you to eat. So I was a vegan for about two years. … Well, everything with being vegan and vegetarian is a really big commitment. You have to do what you feel is best and what you believe in and what your body is telling you that it needs. I really think everyone should do what's best for them, and what's best for me may not be best for someone else. But like I said, you just have to do what makes you feel good.

All mankind craves joy and dreads sorrow,
And as we each have just one life to live
Let us get the best that we can —
But pay for it with the best we can give.

Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson.

Mercedes McCambridge

We had so little to eat, we were freezing all the time, but the sheer joy of being able to act fed our souls.

Hana Maria Pravda

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

Isabella Rossellini

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.