American Actress Quotes

I've never acted my age and I never will. It's just the way I've always been.

Mamie Van Doren

I felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had experienced complete fulfillment in something that had nothing to do with me being in the spotlight.

Patricia Heaton

Genius is the talent for seeing things straight. It is seeing things in a straight line without any bend or break or aberration of sight, seeing them as they are, without any warping of vision. Flawless mental sight! That is genius!

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

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.

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

I don't believe in the institution of marriage, for me. If you love somebody and have a commitment that is strong and spiritual, then I just don't think a piece of paper makes any difference. I'm part of that whole school of thought that says when homosexuals can get married, maybe I'll start opening my mind to it.

Loneliness is like an early frost. Let us be among the seedlings that survive.

Of course he [Dante] was a genius, wasn't he – like Shakespeare? … He and Dante seem to have known everything … known what would always be true … Wonderful, I imagine that we're going to find that this is full of quotations.

Often I've wondered what it takes for this to happen. And now I know. It takes effort and grace.

Phylicia Rashad

They call me the Joan of Arc in the family, and they're always saying, 'Mother's off on another one of her things. She's off fighting the world. She's off tilting at her windmills. But once they came to see the play, I think they understood what all those months [of study and rehearsal] had been about. I sat down with them at one point and told them I'd never finished anything in my life, although I'd started an awful lot of things. I said whether the play was a success or a failure didn't make any difference. What was important was that I finished it, because that element of not finishing projects is a failure in my character. And I think they understood that.

Pat Carroll (actress)

I love to cook. I spend weekends reading cookbooks-it's really my relaxation.

So far I've always kept my diet secret but now I might as well tell everyone what it is…Lots of grapefruit throughout the day and plenty of virile young men.

Angie Dickinson

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

Maybe art couldn't survive it if was sponsored by the government. Maybe art always had to be subversive.

Lisa Goldstein (actress)

Tennis is like a wonderful, longstanding relationship with a husband. Golf is a tempestuous, lousy lover. It's totally unpredictable, a constant surprise. But you can get so hooked on it.

It's my nature to go around in high spirits most of the time and then to collapse.

Margaret Sullavan

Dr. King said he had a dream that WE would get to the promised land.Well, we're here. We just have to live it. Through hard work and service to our fellow man, we can have it. In America, there is enough to go around.

I knew her when she didn't know where her next husband was coming from.

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 in love. I believe in hard times and love winning. I believe marriage is hard. I believe people make mistakes. I believe people can want two things at once. I believe people are selfish and generous at the same time. I believe very few people want to hurt others. I believe that you can be surprised by life. I believe in happy endings.

Just as you maintain your home, your car, your garden, you should look after your greatest gift: your body.

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

I have platonic relationships with my guy friends. There's some friends that I've kissed or whatever, but it was always just once.

Alyson Michalka

I never did theatre or took classes, which I think has helped me. I just had instincts and they were right.

Jennifer Lawrence