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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I love being in love.

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

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 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.

When I first met Adèle I was like, ‘Wow, this girl has a strong character!’ She has something very free about her. I’m not used to it. Some actresses are too self-aware, they strike a pose. Adèle is a force of nature.

Actually, I started to become an actress because I met someone who was just a friend and I found his life wonderful, I thought, Oh my god, you can travel, you’re free, you can do what you want, you’re the boss. And then I met an actor and I was in love with him.

I’m a pretty girl who’s a model who doesn’t suck as an actress.

You have actresses like Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, who have roles specially written for them.

From the time I was very young, maybe five or six, I thought a lot about being an actress. I didn’t tell my friends about my ambitions, though, especially when I got older, because I thought they would not receive them well. I never talked about what I wanted to do.

You know, the hard thing about audiences not liking what a character does is that they sometimes take it out on the actor personally. That’s something that you know when you become an actor or actress, but it’s always hard to deal with when it actually happens.

As an actress, I get plenty of drama in my professional life. When I’m at home, I want a peaceful life.

As an actress, I think I really understand that stage where you think you are picking reality in order to feed the fiction, but it happens to be the contrary. It’s the fiction that suddenly feeds your reality. And you don’t know how it has been done. That’s the kind of magical transposition that is art.

I wanted to watch the women interacting with [Warren Beatty], which takes he chose, and how the actresses were reacting in scenes with him.

I may be the only actress in Hollywood who won’t need a face lift, because when I take off my makeup, I look so great compared to my characters!

Growing up, it was difficult to find role models I could relate too. Mass media told me to emulate sexy singers or sexy actresses. Jane Goodall was the closest thing I found to a woman I wanted to be like.

Honestly, ever since I’ve been married, the part of a job as an actress where you have to kiss other people, I find totally bizarre.

People in my hometown seldom called me piao liang, [beautiful] because my smaller eyes were a far cry from the wide irises of the most beloved television actresses.

The secret is to get a good cinematographer and a very good assistant director. If you get those and stay out of their way, and have good actresses, the script doesn’t even have to be that extraordinary.

I am an actress. I am not a movie star.

What the public expects to encounter in an actress passed 70 is the sum of her experience, not her beauty.

[Victoria Clark] is one of those people who has the rarest combination of gifts. I can put her in any classical play tomorrow because she such an extraordinary actress.

I love acting; I love movie sets and movies, but, at the same time, there’s something about the position of women in that world that frightens me a lot. I find it nearly inhuman to be an actress.

Marilyn was a great actress, not a dumb blond bombshell. She was very smart, very astute and a good businesswoman.

If you’re an actress, you’re always on one diet or another — it’s a way of life.

I’m 40 next year and I’m very well aware that where I am now, it becomes a bit of a wilderness for actresses.