Actress Quotes

I like being an actor, I think it's fun. It's kind of silly, it's like Barbie dreamhouse all the time. It's crazy, that's my job!

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.

Another train will come. Why rush? Why worry? Why go crazy? Another train will come. And sure enough, another train going my way was pulling into the station. My bad mood evaporated. I entered the car smiling, certain that there would be more missed trains in my life, more closed doors in my face, but there would always be another train rumbling down the tracks in my direction.

Esmeralda Santiago

All the French speak French - even the children. Many Americans and Britishers who visit the country never quite adjust to this, and the idea persists that the natives speak the language just to show off or be difficult.

Olivia de Havilland

"Oh where, and Oh! where is your Highland laddie gone?" "He's gone to fight the French, for King George upon the throne, And it's Oh! in my heart, how I wish him safe at home!"

Dorothea Jordan

I have never seen daily soaps as I was always more attracted to reality shows, its thrills and adventures. It is sheer luck that I got a chance to be part of this show

I want to reach people and express myself. You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate. You have to put up with people projecting their own ideas, attitudes, misunderstanding you. But it's worth being a public fool if that's all you can be in order to communicate yourself.

If you're a woman who doesn't know how to write, you're going to cry every night. But if you do, no problem.

If a chemical drug like Viagra is accepted by society and by the world to ignite desire, then what is the problem with my audio-visual drug called cinema which ignites desire? Both are basically doing the same thing!

Mallika Sherawat

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

Lazy people always work harder than anyone else; they're so eager to get through and lie down again.

Dagmar Godowsky

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

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

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.

Anybody who's ever been broken up with, or had their heart stepped on or ripped out of them; you question everything you've based your whole life on. It's like, is anything real? Cause nothing 's more real than that, and now it's gone.

Kristen Stewart

I really like Shakespeare a lot. The characters that he writes for females, I think, are really great and a lot more compelling than what modern writers write, which is weird because they didn't have actresses then.

My father has always been supportive of my individuality.

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

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

Everything is easier in France. We pay more taxes, but the hospitals don't kill you.

Kristin Scott Thomas

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 point is that we have no control. The point is that there are no guarantees, that we never know what's going to happen in life, but we can't give up. The point is that, fallible as we all are, we have to keep trying, we have to keep reaching out to others.

Richard is a very sexy man. He's got that sort of jungle essence that one can sense." (on Richard Burton)

Elizabeth Taylor

Beautiful women seldom want to act. They are afraid of emotion and they do not try to extract anything from a character that they are portraying, because in expressing emotion they may encourage crow's feet and laughing wrinkles. They avoid anything that will disturb their placidity of countenance, for placidity of countenance insures a smooth skin.

Laurette Taylor

People in the Depression wanted something to cheer them up, and they fell in love with a dog, Rin Tin Tin, and a little girl.