1154 Actress Quotes for You to Enjoy

When I left the house to become an actress, my mother literally flung her body across the door and said, 'You're killing me!' It was a very strict household. That can be okay, but there was also no nourishment, either. Loretta Swit

As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life. Loretta Young

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It's hard to get older as an actress. You see a lot of people, especially in L.A., chasing youth. Lori Loughlin

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I think many actresses want to be famous and want to be the prettiest, and that wasn't my trek. I was thinking, 'I gotta get out of here... how do I get out of here?' I like acting, but I like directing more. Lori Petty

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I think if I weren't an actress, I might have made a halfway decent attorney! I like the way they think. Lorraine Toussaint

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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. Lou Doillon

As an actress, you're part of what the director is creating, and as a model, you're representing a designer's vision. Lou Doillon

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It all happened so fast: I went from regular girl, an actress trying to make it in Hollywood, to a Cabinet spouse in one of the most polarizing administrations ever. It was overwhelming. Louise Linton

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Challenge America grants go to the towns and hamlets of this sprawling country, where big touring companies will rarely go, and major actors, actresses, writers and artists may never appear in person. Louise Slaughter

I only cast the actors and actresses I fall in love with - truly having an emotion for them, an anticipation and enthusiasm when seeing them - and I believe that my emotional confidence in them blends into chemistry. It's always been like that, and I hope I won't be wrong in the future. Luca Guadagnino

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Before Ricky Gervais came along, I was a jobbing actress and perfectly content if a little unfulfilled: I'd just done an advert for Imodium. That year, 1999, I auditioned for four parts. 'The Office' was the only one I got. What its success gave me was freedom of choice. Lucy Davis

The acting part of me is not me. The music side is who I really am and what I want to talk about. It'll be hard for people to differentiate those different sides but I think it's possible. Once the music is out there, people will start to realize how serious I am about it rather than, 'Oh god, another actress making an album.' Lucy Hale

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