I often feel like a character actress trapped inside the mean, aging Barbie's body.
At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.
Increasingly, it's actresses doing the big fashion advertising campaigns, and now there's no distinction between actresses and models.
I think Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they don't sell out to the new ones.
I'm not an actress, you know. I don't know what's going on. And I'm supposed to be the villain.
This practice of skinny actresses donning fat suits is essentially the new and acceptable blackface in Hollywood.
I didn't choose the fact that I was gay, but I did choose whether to live my life as a gay woman-that was the terrifying thing for me. Especially being a gay actress.
Actresses have more fear of being disliked. I, on the other hand, revel in it.
I hated the whole idea of being an actress. I used to throw up before every performance and cry afterward.
I want to be the only American actress who doesn't do any plastic surgery or anything. I think older faces are great.
There were many good actresses in my time like Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds, but I was the only dancer.
Irreversible is not glamorous at all. I try to do different things because I want to grow as an actress and I like to take risks.
As an actress, my ultimate goal is to create a universal experience in my acting.
Samantha Morton is one of the best actresses in the world.
Some actresses seem to thrive on chaos, and I've often wondered if they felt they had to be that way in order to perform well?
In my work as an actress and an activist, I've spent many years working with low income communities and people of color who don't always have a voice in our political process.
I think when it comes to Botox and surgery, actresses should do it or not do it, but be honest about their choices.
My hope is that shows like 'Fresh Off the Boat' open the door for even more of those kinds of characters for Asian actors and actresses.
There's a very small group of elite actresses who are my age, who people want to work with. It's not easy to get a good job with good actors.
The thing about acting is you don't want to let on how enjoyable it is or then everybody would want to become an actress. But it really is. It's a pleasure to go and exchange your identity.
Well, I was lucky in that my being an actress totally overshadowed my having some kind of a... legacy at Yale, so that was kind of great.
I'm a more mature actress now.
When you're an actor or actress in this business, usually the natural progression is to direct, but a lot of times, we don't get a chance to get to it. Myself, I really want to get into it. I want to be the person who eventually doesn't have to be in front of the camera.
You see these actresses who have had Botox or something else done, and it takes you out of the film.
My favorite actresses are Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts and Julie Andrews.
You have to ask yourself if you want to be the kind of actress who's interesting, or the kind of actress who's meant to play the pretty-but-uninteresting wife of a chubby guy on a network sitcom.
I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche.
There are so many talented actresses in Korea right now, but they're not seen because there aren't roles in which they can show their talents.
I didn't want to be an actress. I wanted to be a dentist, but you never know what life will bring you.
I'm very literate on policy. I'm very literate on the issues, and I'm an American first. I've been involved in politics long before I was an actress. I just happen to have a platform now. I just happen to have a voice.
My favorite actress is Marilyn Monroe.
I remember when I first started in the business, I lost a lot of friends. Some were jealous, some were annoyed at the fact that I was an actress.
As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director.
I'd like to do a comedy with Emma Thompson. I admire her as an actress so much. I love her. And I didn't know it until recently that her whole career started in comedy.
Kristen Bell is rare as an actress, because she's the type of actor who jumps out of a plane without a parachute - from a totally fearless place, which is really refreshing and inspiring.
I'm a student. I want to do better, and I want directors who can find the actress in me and be my teachers. I'm interested in the whole process of editing, post-production and direction.
