American Actress Quotes

Marilyn Monroe

Katharine Hepburn

Grace Kelly

Angelina Jolie

Bette Davis

Judy Garland

Meryl Streep

I've made forty-three pictures. Naturally I'm adorable in all of them.

Katharine Hepburn

As far as I can make out, women's friendships with each other are based on a gush of lies and pretty speeches that mean nothing. You'd think they were all wolves trying to seduce each other the way they flatter and flirt when they're together.

I was never happy in Hollywood. There, everything is distorted by the importance people give to money.

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.

Ethel Barrymore

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

Sarah Jessica Parker

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

Shirley MacLaine

I happen to believe you make your own destiny. You have to do the best with what God gave you... Life is a box of chocolates, Forrest. You never know what you're goin' to get.

Fashion has always been a little slow in accommodating large women.... We're not asking for philanthropy here. Wake up, we're fat, we like nice clothes, and we've got cash.

Well you know, I don't think I have never really seen a film of this genre, where the female characters' sex appeal sort of came second. I mean of course they're sexy characters. When you have a sexy secretary, or a girl swinging around by her ankles in a cat suit, you know that's innately sexy, but the fact is that these characters are intelligent. They're ambitious. They're motivated and calculated to some degree.

Scarlett Johansson

I wish I were supernaturally strong so I could put right everything that is wrong.

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 went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them. The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.

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

Then you don't know. You can't know what it feels like to meet a person and suddenly know without a doubt that the whole purpose of your life so far-every choice you made, every twist of fate along the way-was just a journey to get you to that person. My life started when I met Clea. Every minute without her is just killing time until we can be together again.

Wonder Woman is a lame superhero. She flies around in her invisible jet and her weaponry is a lasso that makes you tell the truth. I just don't get it.

We cannot break a law of eternal justice, however ignorantly, but throughout the entire universe will there be a jar of discord that will so trouble the divine harmonies that in the rebound we shall find each man his own hell! The sooner we arrive at this knowledge, the sooner we take the certainty to our souls, the sooner do our lives begin to assume the square allotted to us.

Charlotte Cushman

I was willing to pay any price including subservience to secure this love, hoping that with each piece of myself I gave up he would be so pleased that he, too, would be transformed.

Susan Strasberg

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.

I know that when I do get pregnant, I won't step one foot in the adult industry again.

By being loving to yourself, you are more kind and loving to others. I always felt, Oh, you're supposed to do everything for other people and not worry about yourself, but it's important to be kind to yourself, and then you are a more generous person overall.

What a holler there would be if people had to pay the minister as much to marry them as they have to pay a lawyer to get them a divorce.

This is a career about images. It's celluloid; they last forever. I'm a black woman from America. My people were slaves in America, and even though we're free on paper and in law, I'm not going to allow you to enslave me on film, in celluloid, for all to see.

Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.

A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded.

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