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.
I love being challenged physically, as an actress.
I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time making decisions based on someone else's idea of our happiness - what will make you a good citizen or a good wife or daughter or actress. Nobody says, 'Just be happy - go be a cobbler or go live with goats. '
I just want to do a good job with each role that I take and continue to better myself as an actress because that's what I love about this job. . . being able to act and work with so many different people on such a wide range of projects.
I was one of those kids who wanted to do everything, I wanted to be a marine biologist, an actress, a writer, an environmentalist, an activist.
I finally made up my mind I wanted to be an actress and I was not going to let my lack of confidence ruin my chances.
The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.
When I grow up, I want to be an actress. But I want to be a legend of something.
I was the first actress in the family, and I am still the only actress in the family. I shouldn't be saying it, but it slipped out!
My mother had been an actress and we came from that world in New York, the theater world and the downtown sort of theater scene, and so I guess we didn't really have what you'd call like a Hollywood kind of life at all.
I'm a middle child, which is probably why I chose to be an actress. I needed the attention. I've got one older sister and a younger brother.
I guess I was an early method actress. I would go to a quiet part of the sound stage with my mother. I wouldn't think of anything sad, I would just make my mind a blank. In a minute I could cry.
For me, it's a compliment to be compared with Marilyn, the unforgettable actress, the most beautiful one of all. But, curves aside, we have very little in common.
I first wanted to be an actress after seeing a play - not a movie.
I know a lot of people who are 12 and doing things they shouldnt be doing. Whether youre an actress or a singer, its always the sexier ones that are selling more tickets or selling more albums.
You absolutely feel, as a black actress, that you've got to ride the wave because there's just so few roles. I hate to play that card, but it's the truth. There's not a lot of roles.
Now every model wants to be an actress
I'm not a method actress.
Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.
I was a Scientologist before I was an actress, and I've always felt people are not only content with whatever religion I have, but are always interested.