After the last screening [of "Selling Isobel" ] an 18-year-old girl came up to me and said, "Oh my God, I'm so naïve. " I said, "No, you're not, you're just young. " And she's so grateful for having seen it, because she's an actress and from now on she's going to take a friend with her to auditions and let her mom know exactly where she's going. That's a job done right there.
I am an actress and acting is my passion. . . period!
My mom was incredibly supportive when she found out that I wanted to be an actress, and that certainly made things easier and more fun.
I have the desire to work as an actress, but I have no ambition to be a star.
Being an actress is to be in tune with the fantasies of a man. What woman never dreamt of that?
I played football when I was little. I didn't want to be an actress at all, I wanted to be a majorette in an Australian circus. That was my ambition.
I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to be a model.
You know, the French remind me a little bit of an aging actress of the 1940s who was still trying to dine out on her looks but doesn't have the face for it
I don't see myself being an actress forever.
But I remember the morning after The Mask of Virtue-which is the first play I did at the West End-that some critics saw fit to be as foolish as to say that I was a great actress. And I thought, that was a foolish, wicked thing to say, because it put such an onus and such a responsibility onto me, which I simply wasn't able to carry. And it took me years to learn enough to live up to what they said-for those first notices. I find it so stupid. I remember the critic very well, and have never forgiven him.
I don't think I ever said, "I want to be an actress. " But for Halloween, I dressed up as a movie star from when I was seven to when I was twelve. The costume was always a long dress, with makeup, and my hair curled, and jewelry on. And the movie star was always Jenny McCarthy. So right there you could see a little pattern.
I think I've wanted to be an actress since the day I was born. I even asked my parents for an agent for my seventh birthday!
Demi Moore is a terrific woman and a hell of an actress.
The only other thing that interested me as a kid was being a bricklayer. So if I hadn't become an actress, I would probably be a bricklayer.
I grew up as a child actress, not a child star. I was an actress - big difference.
I used to do plays and some television commercials when I was younger. I guess my mom's being an actress got me interested in that, but music definitely took its place.
I've never been the kind of actress that just likes to show up and say my lines. I'm fascinated by what the crew does.
I was your typical struggling actress. I went to every audition, took a million acting, dancing and singing lessons and spent years wondering where my next meal was coming from.
I wasn't one of those girls who always dreamed of being an actress. I went to a normal school and then these film auditioners turned up when I was nine. Then I just fell into this whirlwind.
I only began to sing because I couldn't get a job as an actress.