At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger.
If you're an actress and even one person knows your name, you're lucky.
I'm one of those actresses that really enjoys staying home with my children. To be told you've got to get to work, it is just unbelievable what it does to you.
It was a sort of organic thing. I never went, 'I must be an actress.' I thought, 'I think I could do this. I think I could be good at this.' I would just get sort of hungry when I read something I thought I can do well, whether it was in books or in scripts or if I saw a certain movie. It sort of happened quite naturally.
I can finally say I'm a professional actress.
Security has no place in the life of an actress.
If you didn't know that I am an actress, I don't think you could tell from my lifestyle. I cook and cook and cook. I like to be with my daughter. She's 16, so of course I bore her.
As an actress, I was trained to show emotion I did not feel, or no emotion at all.
When people find out you're an actress, they Google you.
There are a lot of French actresses who just hate me now. I've made enemies.
I like being mysterious as an actress.
People don't come to New York out of resignation. They come here with a dream. Mine was to be an actress.
Of course, I will continue acting. I just need to dispel the Telugu and Tamil cinema's insecurities about married actresses. I don't know about others. But I am not going anywhere after marriage.
If you're an actress, you're always on one diet or another - it's a way of life.
We were the laughingstock of that first season... It was with great relish several years later that I received a TV Guide award for favorite actress on television.
Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight.
Of course when I started, it's not because I was such a brilliant actress. I didn't know I was good. I thought I was really bad. I was very shy. I was 18 and dreaming of becoming an actress.
Right now the music is more of a hobby since I'm making a good living as an actress.
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.
As an African American actress, there are people who have been staples in my life that opened a door that I can walk through. I hope that I can have that impact.
This is why I became an actress. So that people will take care of me. To be an actress is a refuge. You are taken everywhere, stay in wonderful hotels, everyone looks after you.
For me, as an actress, being a dancer has helped me. I've done it with my feet bloody.
I spent hours on the internet looking at how glamorous actresses winked and how they would put their hand on their waist, and I was told to look at how they would walk in a room and how her body takes place of everything.
I've always thought of myself as more of a character actress. I've tried to do different things, but I've always been under the radar and that's how I like it. I've been really blessed to work this long and I just hope I continue to get better and better and better and better.
It was a really fun idea to have a fashion label with my sister but I don't have an awful lot of time for it because my first love and job is to be an actress.
I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman.
First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.
Marilyn was a great actress, not a dumb blond bombshell. She was very smart, very astute and a good businesswoman.
My daughter wants to do yoga with me and wants to be in the theater thing, and I can't tell her, 'Don't be an actress.' My son loves guitar and loves to be in a band and wants his iTunes downloaded with all this old-school hip-hop so he understands where hip-hop came from.
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.
The actresses I most admire are Cameron Diaz and Sofia Vergara. They're amazing comedic actresses and also gorgeous. That's the direction I'd like my career to go in.
Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it's just an illusion.
When an actress is younger, she likes to lower her age, but when she is older, she likes to add to her years.
I am not interested in being a Barbie doll and turning myself into a sausage for the next 20 years. I want to follow actresses like Helen Mirren and Judi Dench who have lines on their faces and aren't afraid of playing their age.
I've joked that I would have either become schizophrenic or an actress, but as an actress you can do both.
I wasn't born an actress, you know. Events made me one.
