Browsing Topic Best Actresses Quotes

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

Don’t settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had. We need to live the best that’s in us.

I love you because I love you, because it would be impossible not to love you. I love you without question, without calculation, without reason good or bad, faithfully, with all my heart and soul, and every faculty.

It’s all about hope, kindness and a connection with one another.

The more I think of it, the more I realize there are no answers. Life is to be lived.

Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.

Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.

I really believe that what I do as an actress is my God-given talent. This is my calling, not my career.

You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!

Where is it written that a smart woman can’t also be stacked?

I was lazy. I would have been a hell of a lot better actress had I taken it more seriously. I never had the proper respect for acting. Quite often, I learned my lines on the way to the studio.

I’m not attempting to be a role model but I accept that roles I’ve played put me in that position. I don’t feel a huge responsibility as an actress to put my young fan base first.

I love being in love.

Please don’t retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.

Hate crimes are the scariest thing in the world because these people really believe what they’re doing is right.

My favorite question is ‘What do you do?’ I’m like, ‘I’m a walking cliche: I’m a model and an actress.

I grew up on Bond, and it is part of my culture, especially in Britain. Just to be known as a Bond girl is an incredible thing for me, because some of my favorite actresses have been Bond girls, like Diana Rigg and Honor Blackman, and they have continued to work and be brilliant. I am honored and flattered to be called that, even though I don’t really think my character is Bond-girly, but I’m still going to be labeled as a Bond girl, which is completely brilliant.

When people say ‘You’re so beautiful’ it makes me want to kill myself! As an actress you want to be seen for what you do, for the characters you can play, otherwise I’d be a model

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

It [prejudice] is such a waste. It makes you logy and half-alive. It gives you nothing. It takes away.

I’m an actress, and I am Latina.

To be good is to be forgotten. I’m going to be so bad I’ll always be remembered.

I need a coffee to go with my coffee.

Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I’m actually overweight.

I’m not skinny for the wrong reasons. It’s not because I’m bulimic or anorexic or doing drugs. Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I’m actually overweight.

Ive felt the pressure of wanting to be known as a young actress rather than just Alisha from Misfits.

I love doing lesbian love scenes. Before I did my lesbian scenes in Gia, I talked to actresses who said love scenes are easier with another woman than a man. Bound’s Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly said they’d lie there and discuss the sale at Barney’s between takes.

Joan Crawford is a movie star. I am an actress.

It’s so easy and comfortable to lie to yourself. Success is to become who you are. I think Hollywood thinks in a totally different way. But I think that as a human being, and not only an actress, that’s really how you lead a successful life.

I started in London, as a kid. My mother knew I had sort of an inbred talent. She was an actress, so I inherited it from her. But I think I got a lot of it from my grandfather, who was a great politician.

Body language is essential for an actress, even if you don’t use your body in an athletic way. Just to be free, to use it like your voice. A body can be small and have incredible violence. A body talks.

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