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.

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

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

When I'm with a man, my work takes second place — all I really want to do is get through the day so I can rush home to be with him. That's because my man is the most important part of my life.

It has been said, "History is written by the victors." I take this to mean we can make ourselves victorious by writing, and then rewriting our own stories. In a country and culture so dominated by media, by the manipulation of words and stories, telling the tales of people whose stories historically have not been told is a radical act and I believe an act that can change the world and help rewrite history.

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.

It seems to me that the most fundamental mistake most parents make with children is to expect them to be grateful. Children are never grateful.... The 'sacrifices' you made were not for them, they were for you.

I believe that we're as happy in life as we make up our minds to be.

You can make the most brilliant thing in the world, and that 'if you build it, they will come' thing isn't true. That's because you need a marketing budget. Everything is propaganda..

Jessica Mae Stover

Because I'm a performer I can justify and sometimes sell the things about me that offend and shock the conventional world. I need to live life in the fast lane. I need to do things to excess. I need to go over the edge. I have an obligation to experience the things most people can't experience. The taboos. The things you're not supposed to know or do. That's part of my job. That's why I do it. I would probably do it anyway.

Elizabeth Ashley

There's always someone to tell you you have to. Wrong. Don't. Rather, spend time finding out who you really are. Work on being more of that. A lot better than the futile gotta change treadmill, which never really ends.

No, I don't think they're obsessive, they're just dedicated.

Alyson Hannigan

Dr Ruth says we women should tell our lovers how to make love to us. My boyfriend goes nuts if I tell him how to drive.

I think they look upon me as an old child, because I'm so little.

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

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

Please be at peace father,
I'm at peace with you,
bitterness isn't worth clinging to,
after all the anguish we've all been through.

Throughout the journey of my life, I have maintained a strong faith in the power of the human spirit to overcome adversity. I deeply believe in one's own positive will to overcome even the most daunting challenges.

My mother said it was simple to keep a man, you must be a maid in the living room, a cook in the kitchen and a whore in the bedroom. I said I'd hire the other two and take care of the bedroom bit.

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's taken me a lifetime to get here. I'm not going anywhere.

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

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

Michelle Trachtenberg

I think what he went through as a child was very heavy. He never got over his mother leaving his father, and following her mother to Florida, to an area that was very different, and losing his father. When he was seven years old, this was a very sensitive boy, who was wide-eyed and trusting, and not knowing how to protect himself at all.