I wanted to be a professional singeractress, though I knew it would be hard.
Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight.
Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.
I'm just an instinctive actress, I've never had a lesson in my life.
What keeps me interested--and it always does--is how can she be a bad actress on film but a good one in reality?
The kiss. There are all sorts of kisses, lad, from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of them all, the kiss of an actress is the most unnerving. How can we tell if she means it or if she's just practicing?
Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.
At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger.
Someone once told me to "be a black belt at whatever you do. " In other words, don't just be good or okay - be the best you can be. Not only do I apply that to my work as an actress, but I also went out and got my black belt.
It delights me that I don't fit the stereotype of an actress.
In the U. S. , with very few exceptions, actresses older than 35 are simply discarded.
It's always a great day going to work with Ginnifer Goodwin; she's a fantastic actress and I learn so much from her.
My favorite actresses are Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts and Julie Andrews.
The only thing that I could think of to do was to be an actress.
I know Raft did have some genuine affairs with actresses.
As an English actress constantly playing Americans, you already had to step way out of your box in that way.
When women's parts are being written, they are more and more for under 30s who are nubile and beautiful. Actresses over 40 are finding very little happening.
No, I always wanted to be an actress.
I have a great admiration for English actors and actresses and have used them at every opportunity over the years, but now I won't have to import them to New York.
I don't really diet or anything. I'm miserable when I'm dieting and I like the way I look. I'm really sick of all these actresses looking like birds I'd rather look a little chubby on camera and look like a person in real life, than look great on screen and look like a scarecrow in real life.