Scratch an actor and you'll find an actress.
As an actress we don't beat one another. It's whoever's right for the part.
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.
As an actor, I'm attracted to drama; as a director, it's humor - because it's the story of my life, and I can't be that serious about it. Being alone is a big theme in all my movies, both as a director and as an actress.
When I was young, I was always telling my parents and telling everybody that I was going to be a singer and an actress when I grew up. I took classes. I was in dance lessons. I took singing lessons. I was in the plays. I took acting lessons. I did different things that continued to keep me ready for this opportunity and ready for all the things that are happening now.
What's awful about being famous and being an actress is when people come up to you and touch you. That's scary, and they just seem to think it's okay to do it, like you're public property.
I'm a Native American actress.
It's important for me to be immersed in all cultures. I'm an actress.
I don't want to feel that I'm a singer or an actress - being able to say that those are just experiences is what I enjoy.
I always wanted to be an actress. I couldn't imagine being anything else.
Delphine Seyrig is a very proper woman, from high society. She's from the Ferdinand de Saussure family, the structuralist. Old money. Swiss. Protestant. They were that type of well-educated people who could recognize a good artist before others, and she was like that. Even if it was against something inside her. Tell me one actress in 1972 in France, except Delphine, at her level, who would love Hôtel Monterey. No one.
I haven't ever felt I've had to divide my 'actress' life from the rest of my life.
The thing I always thought of myself as was an actress. I never thought: I want to be. It was always: I am.
I'm sporting some really blonde hair because I live in Hollywood and I'm an actress.
I'm an actress, primarily. I love to write poetry. I've been writing poetry since I was 12 years old.
I've always been business-minded. I worked in corporate America before becoming an actress and knew that acting wasn't the end but a means to an end. It gave me the platform and the exposure I needed to do my philanthropic work. It also gave me the financial security to focus on my other businesses, start new businesses, and even help other people start businesses.
Alison Lohman is an amazing actress. I was so proud to work with her.
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.
Campaigning actress ASHLEY JUDD refuses to 'breed' with her racing star husband DARIO FRANCHITTI while there are starving children in the world. . . . She says, 'It's unconscionable to breed with the number of children who are starving to death in impoverished countries. '
When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress.