American Actress Quotes

As long as there are girls, we need guy bands. However, in this day, it is not good enough to just sing great. You have to write, sing and play. We want it all.

I grew up as a tomboy. I was always barefoot, running races with the guys on the block, climbing trees, and beating kids up.

We may have doubts, but we control the present. We always have the choice to move forward with hope and confidence.

I was caught in a private cycle of sadness and the only conceivable relief I could find was in the telling.

It seems strange that everyone I'm writing about was very famous.... Didn't I ever find anyone interesting who was not famous? Actually, no, I didn't.

This moment is so much bigger than me. This moment is for Dorothy Dandridge, Lena Horne, Diahann Carroll. It's for the women that stand beside me, Jada Pinkett, Angela Bassett, Vivica Fox. And it's for every nameless, faceless woman of color that now has a chance because this door tonight has been opened.

Let me encourage you to continue to wait with faith. God may not perform a miracle, but he is trustworthy to touch you and make you whole where there used to be a hole

Interviewer: What advice do you have for kids who want to follow your footsteps?
Julianna: In what sense? My footsteps as Stephanie, or as an actress? Either way I would encourage kids to make good choices, don't get forced into things due to peer pressure, lead a healthy and safe life, and excel in the things you love. You can be great at anything, as long as you like doing it.

Julianna Rose Mauriello

I think cooking completes you as a woman. … I woke up one morning and said, I can't do this [eating meat] to myself anymore. I didn't feel good. I was constipated all the time. … I used to live to eat. Now I eat to live.

Hollywood men are a lot of phony balonies.

At his birthday party:

I got to the celebration early and pretty soon some friends pulled me into a back area and said Perform something! and there was this wig and dress lying there. I told them Well, I don't do that sort of thing. I don't dress like a woman… While they were trying to talk me into it another friend ran in and yelled Do something and I mean fast! There are over four hundred people out there! You'd better hurry up Foozie! I was dumbfounded, four hundred people!? So, I thought why not and replied, That's Miss Foozie to you! and that's how it all started.

We have developed this unbelievable ability to deny. We have to. If we didn't, we'd go crazy.

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.

Fortunately I am not the first person to tell you that you will never die. You simply lose your body. You will be the same except you won't have to worry about rent or mortgages or fashionable clothes. You will be released from sexual obsessions. You will not have drug addictions. You will not need alcohol. You will not have to worry about cellulite or cigarettes or cancer or AIDS or venereal disease. You will be free.

"Ilsa" has been such a minor part of my career, that I find it amusing that some persons only know me for that association.

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

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

My grandmother taught me that accomplishments meant less than what you left behind. I started to ask myself what impact my comedy would have on people's lives. And that changed my act. I got cleaner. I stopped talking about generic stuff like airplane peanuts and started speaking the truth about my gift.

Sherri Shepherd

Without even saying anything, just his eyes... It's not like he forces you to do it, but the power that he has, it's something in his spirit. It's almost like intangible and kind of magical. He has an energy that kind of lifts you. Any doubt that you had is just gone. You just do it – it's really simple. It was so easy to work with him.

Getting the pretty back is about getting back in touch with your essential self: the part of you that knows what you really want.

Look, I'm not thrilled that perfect strangers get to have an opinion about me or feel like they know me, but I have enough perspective to know they don't know me, and I do have a life and I don't live it for other people.… My reality is very different from what everyone read. The problem is because I did get myself in a lot of trouble, I didn't get to do the kind of work that maybe I should have been doing, so it became confusing who I really am and what I am really about … It's totally fucking strange to me that people took a lot of that fucking stuff seriously. … It's not their fault that they don't know me personally. Who's got the time?

I have never found in a human being loyalty that is comparable to a dog's loyalty.

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.

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

Shouldn't everything you do matter if you're bothering at all? Not to hold on when it's over, that's the trick.