In government, one actress is enough.
I haven't ever felt I've had to divide my 'actress' life from the rest of my life.
I wanted to become a model and an actress.
Ive always loved musical films; I find them really thrilling and exciting; it was part of what made me want to be an actress, that feeling of being really transported.
I just don't want to be known as the actress who can sing. I want to be known as the singer who can act, too. It's great cross-promotion.
I wasn't even prepared to be an actress. I was 17 when I came out of high school, and suddenly became Miss World and then I became an actress.
Many years ago I remember a famous actress explaining to me with perfect seriousness that before making an entrance she always stood aside to allow God to go on first. I can also remember that on that particular occasion He gave a singularly uninspired performance.
I'm not used to being asked what I want to talk about. That's why I'm an actress. Get told what to do, stand on the mark, say your words, wear this, look this way, look that way.
I'd love to be in a period drama - that's my obsession. But being a mixed-race actress, there aren't so many roles you're right for.
My daughter Cosma is a very popular actress in Germany. She also organizes these wonderful open-air parties. She has a wonderful teacher, she's very smart. And I sometimes perform at her festivals.
Alison Lohman is an amazing actress. I was so proud to work with her.
I know I am known for flesh-flashing, but I am an actress, too.
One of the rules about being an actor or an actress is that you never diss other actors or actresses, particularly when you don't know them.
I'm a theater actress and I thrive on working with other actors, and you can't be even a smidge bad, when you're acting with Charlie [Sheen]. He's just so natural, so present and so good that you have to step up to his level, or else.
Why, when I was a child, I didn't say, as most children do, that I was going to become an actress. I felt that I was an actress and no one could have convinced me that I wasn't!
I may be the only actress in Hollywood who won't need a face lift, because when I take off my makeup, I look so great compared to my characters!
I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L. A. , with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche.
I think Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they don't sell out to the new ones
The acting was first. As a teenager I was an actress; and then I came back as a singer.
I never planned on being an actress, just as I never planned on being a model. I went to law and international-relations school. It wasn't my direction. It kind of happened to me. And because it wasn't my dream when I started, I wasn't starstruck.