People sometimes say, 'Oh, you were a movie star,' and I'm like, 'No, I was a supporting actress.' I wasn't an A-list actress, and I'm fine with that. I'm proud of what I did in film.
I refused to be filmed getting off a bus twice. The director said, 'I'm an award-winning director. Please do it', and I said, 'I never thought I'd say this, but I'm an award-winning actress with a bad leg, and if your film depends on seeing me get in and out of a bus, we're in trouble.'
An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.
I'm more of a homebody type. I don't want to look like I want to be in the public eye. I didn't become an actress to be famous.
I've done a lot of serious roles, but they're, like, independent, so it's harder for them to come out. The big ones have been comedies, but I would love to get a big drama to let people see the other side of me, that I am a serious actress.
I think I'm a very intuitive actress.
The thing about Canadian women is that they seem less likely to bring up that they're Canadian. You here less about Canadian actresses than actors, I don't know why.
I'm a big fan of Aamir Khan... Among actresses, I like Aishwarya Rai.
All through my life, I didn't really consider my eyes at all, and then I became an actress. It's great, I guess. They're just in my face, and one is green and one is blue. It's different, and I'm definitely a proponent of being different in any way you can in life, so I guess if you're born a bit different that's a good thing.
I said, 'I'll give myself two years. If I can't support myself as an actress within two years, then I'll go back to choreography.'
'Jab We Met' is the reason why I have become an actress.
Thinking back on it, I just really didn't have very many role models to look up to when it came to Asian actresses. And in that way, when I would see an Asian onscreen, it would be a secondary-type thing, and that's kind of how I ended up viewing myself in the world: as secondary.
Any actress will tell you, when you've been given a starring role in the initial run of a show, you want to be getting the standing ovations every night, not just on review night.
I didn't want to be an actress when I was younger - not even when I was older, to tell you the truth.
As an actress, I really love people like Anna Magnani and Debra Winger. I also think there is nobody better than Meryl Streep.
I had no idea 'L.A. Law' would be so mega. I knew it was a big show, but I was just one actress in a group of many good, award-winning actresses.
As a little girl, I got to meet Audrey Hepburn, who took my face in her hands and suddenly make me want to be an actress.
If they made films in Palm Beach, actors and actresses would be much better dressed.
I like Valentino a lot - they never use actresses in their campaigns.
I always saw myself as a stage actress, and that was the reason I wanted to act, but very slowly, I've changed.
There are so many glamorous actresses, but you know what? In the real world, nobody looks like that.
I went into dancing but damaged my knees so decided to become an actress instead.
Because I'd done 30 plays or so at Oxford, I thought that I was an actress anyway because that's what I was doing!
I just know I'm going to be an actress. I want it so bad.
In England, with all due respect, we have some of the plainest actresses in the entire world as our greatest.
I wanted to be a classical actress. I plodded along. I went to junior college in San Francisco, I was in a Repertory Company. My hero was Eva Le Gallienne, who was a great theater actress at the turn of the century who created her own company, and she wrote these hilarious autobiographies at the time.
My parents have always given me whatever I wanted. Took me to the ballet, the opera, museum exhibitions. I was always surrounded by art. It's their fault I've become an actress.
I am always friendly with my co-actors and even other actresses, too.
I am an actress first, a singer second.
All that some actresses want is for people to take them seriously instead of caring about how they look.
I knew I wanted to be an actress when I was 9 years old.
'Sara' was the first film project I worked on as an actress; it's a short film.
I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
I like people with a good sense of humor, like Jennifer Aniston. She is amazing and is a great actress.
Being an actress in China, I'm actually a very lucky actress... Especially now that Chinese movies are becoming more diverse with more viewers overseas.
I didn't aspire to be just a celebrity; I aspired to be an actress... I always wanted to be respected as someone who knew their craft.
