Actress Quotes

We never ever do nothing nice and easy. We always do it nice and rough. Spoken introduction to a recording of "Proud Mary" (1971) I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I am not old yet!

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.

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.

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.

Finding a good bus driver can be as important as finding a good musician.

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

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'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

The most important lesson in managing our careers as we get older: Sometimes staying the game is as simple as not leaving the room.

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

Jane Hall (actress)

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

Michelle Trachtenberg

The tightrope of love swings back and forth, forever tied between the tree of anxiety and the tree of fear. Like life, it holds a constant reminder that death must be overcome...

Goliarda Sapienza

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 drank to be funny, or sexy. I drank because I was afraid or happy or sad, and I drank for anything that required emotional commitment.... I had chosen a profession that thrives on insecurity, and is never far from some source of social intercourse that involves alcohol or drugs.

Lynda Bellingham

The main problem in marriage is that, for a man, sex is a hunger—like eating. If a man is hungry and can't get to a fancy French restaurant, he'll go to a hot dog stand. For a woman, what's important is love and romance.

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

We are beautiful, imaginative and gifted people, and we owe it to ourselves and to our future generations to restore, to recreate this beauty. We must begin building cultural centers where we can enjoy being free, open and black, where we can find out how talented we really are, where we can be what we were born to be, and not what we were brainwashed to be.

Barbara Ann Teer

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.